F1 World Champions Trivia Quiz

Answer: Farina

Giuseppe Farina won the first official World Championship in 1950 driving an Alfa Romeo. He had started racing in 1932. After WWII he drove a Maserati, winning the 1948 Monaco Grand Prix, then rejoined Alfa two years later and won three Grands Prix. He was killed in a road accident on his way to the French Grand Prix in 1966.

Answer: 2003

Schumacher broke Alain Prost's record of fifty-one Grand Prix victories in 2001, and secured his seventh World Championship title at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix. He equalled Fangio's record of 5 world titles in 2002 and took his 6th in 2003.

Answer: Alberto Ascari

Alberto was the son of Antonio Ascari, who drove for Alfa Romeo until his death in the French GP at Montlhery in 1925. Alberto won every championship Grand Prix race in which he drove in 1952 driving for Ferrari, and also won the title in 1953.

Answer: False

Prost won his World Championships in 1985, 1986 and 1989 with McLaren, and 1993 with Williams. He would have won in 1990 had not Senna crashed into him in the Japanese Grand Prix, taking him out of the race.

Answer: Phil Hill

Driving for Ferrari, he won the Belgian and Italian Grands Prix to take the title in 1961 by a point from Wolfgang von Trips, who was killed in the Italian Grand Prix.

Answer: Jackie Stewart

Sir Jackie Stewart started in F1 in 1965, and won his World Championships in 1969, 1971 and 1973. He retired from driving and started his own team, Stewart Grand Prix, which was sold to Ford in 2000 to become Jaguar Racing.

Answer: Great Britain

Twelve World Championships were won by British drivers; Brazil was next with eight, then Argentina with five. Italy only won three, and Germany two, counting 1999 as the last year of the twentieth century.

The drivers were:
Britain: Mike Hawthorn ('58), Graham Hill ('62 & '68), Jim Clark ('63 & '65), John Surtees ('64), Jackie Stewart ('69, '71, '73), James Hunt ('76), Nigel Mansell ('92), Damon Hill ('96);
Brazil: Emerson Fittipaldi ('72 & '74), Nelson Piquet ('81, '83 & '87), Ayrton Senna ('88, '90, '91);
Germany: Michael Schumacher ('94, '95);
Argentina:Juan-Manuel Fangio ('51, '54, '55, '56, '57);
Italy: Giuseppe Farina ('50), Alberto Ascari ('52, '53).

Answer: James Hunt

Hunt was disqualified from the 1976 British Grand Prix after using his spare car in the restart of the race.

Answer: 1957

He accomplished this with only twenty-four Grands Prix wins. He retired from F1 in 1958 and died in 1995.

Answer: 1967

He drove for Brabham until 1968, when he joined McLaren, but never repeated his 1967 success. He suffered a fatal heart attack during the Bathurst 1000 sports car race in Australia at age 56.