F1 Seasons: 1957 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

1957 was Fangio's last World Championship. He won it with a 15 point advantage over Moss. Musso was third, 24 points back, and Hawthorn finished fourth, 27 points adrift.

Answer: Maserati

Fangio left Ferrari after only a season and returned to Maserati. Having lost Fangio, Ferrari's best placed driver was Luigi Musso, third in the Championship table.

Vanwall's lead driver was Stirling Moss, second in the Championship, while Connaught scored a fourth place in their last Grand Prix (in Monaco), by Stuart Lewis-Evans, who then moved to Vanwall.

Answer: Tony Brooks

Brooks was running second behind Jean Behra's Maserati when he was called into the pits to hand over his car to his team leader Moss (who was leading before he retired). Moss would also win in the Pescara GP and the Italian GP. The other wins went to Juan Manuel Fangio (in Argentina, Monaco, France and Germany) and Sam Hanks, who, in an Epperly-Offenhauser, entered by George Salih, won the Indianapolis 500.

Salvadori and Lewis-Evans were Vanwall's other drivers, although Salvadori also drove for BRM and Cooper in this season, while Lewis-Evans drove for Connaught before moving to Vanwall. In 1957, Hawthorn was driving for Ferrari.

Answer: Stuart Lewis-Evans

Lewis-Evans had pole for the last Grand Prix of the season. Brooks and Salvadori had no poles in 1957 and Moss had 2, but they were not his first poles.

World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio had 4 poles in 1957, while Pat O'Connor, in Chapman S. Root's Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser, started the Indy 500 from the front of the grid.

Answer: Jim Rathmann

Jim Rathmann, driving an Epperly-Offenhauser, entered by Lindsey Hopkins, finished second, but secured the Indy 500 fastest lap. Hanks won, O'Connor finished eighth and Bryan was third. The other fastest laps went to Stirling Moss (3), Juan Manuel Fangio (2), Luigi Musso and Tony Brooks (1 each).

Answer: Masten Gregory

Gregory, driving a Maserati for Scuderia Centro Sud, had a third and 2 fourth places on his way to sixth in the table (six places ahead of Lewis-Evans). Brooks (a British driver) and Schell were not rookies, just like Russo, who only drove F1 races in Indianapolis.

Answer: BRM

BRM copied most other works teams (like Vanwall) in using their own engines. Climax made engines for the Cooper cars, while Alta engines equipped the Connaughts.

Answer: Eugenio Castellotti

Castellotti became one of Ferrari's main contenders after Juan Manuel Fangio left for Maserati. He died in a test at Modena Aeroautodromo, after he was thrown out of his car when it hit a concrete stand. Musso and Perdisa were two of his teammates, as De Portago (a Spanish driver) who died less than two months after Castellotti, in the Mille Miglia. De Portago's accident led to the end of that legendary race, since it killed him, his co-driver and 11 spectators.

Answer: They were racing Formula 2 cars, that weren't eligible for Championship points

Barth, Naylor, Beaufort, Marsh and five other drivers started the race in F2 cars, to boost the grid numbers (there were only 15 Formula One cars). The races were separate, though, and drivers in F2 cars couldn't score World Championship points, even if they were sharing the track witk F1 drivers at the same time.

Answer: I have never driven that quickly before in my life and I don't think I will ever be able to do it again

Fangio kept his cool during the botched pit stop, calmly drinking water while his team scrambled to get him out on the track. His win is considered one of the best drives ever and he really couldn't expect to repeat it in the future, since he was already 46 at the time.