F1 & Motorsport Quiz — 10 Free Questions

Question 1

Which accident, the deadliest in motorsport history, occurred when a car launched off the back of another near the pits during an endurance race in France, disintegrated in the crowd, and killed the driver and more than 80 spectators?

Question 2

Which is the premier single-seater championship in the United States, with a schedule that mixes street circuits, permanent road courses and high-speed ovals, and whose blue-riband event is the Indianapolis 500?

Question 3

Which Brazilian driver won three Formula One titles in the 1980s, two with Brabham and one with Williams, and was at the centre of a bitter four-way rivalry with Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and his compatriot Ayrton Senna?

Question 4

Which British driver won seven Formula One world titles, level with the all-time record, and holds the records for race wins, pole positions and podium finishes, having taken his first championship on the last corner of the last race of 2008?

Question 5

Which driver from Monaco, racing for Ferrari, took a run of pole positions and two wins in his first full season in 2019, and in 2024 finally won his home Grand Prix, run on the streets where he grew up, at the sixth attempt?

Question 6

What element of Formula One has been changed more than a dozen times since 1950, at various eras counting only a driver's best results, awarding eight for a win, then ten, and since 2010 giving 25 to the winner and points down to tenth place?

Question 7

Which practice was permitted in Formula One from 1994 to 2009 and then banned, on cost and safety grounds, so that since 2010 every car must start the race with all the fuel it will use and races turn entirely on tyre strategy?

Question 8

What is the name for the curved titanium bar, introduced across single-seater racing in 2018, that arcs over the cockpit from a central pillar in front of the driver to protect the head from debris, wheels and barriers?

Question 9

Which Dutch driver won four consecutive Formula One world titles from 2021 to 2024 with Red Bull, and first entered the sport at 17, becoming the youngest race winner ever on his debut for the senior team the following year?

Question 10

What is the name for the high-performance road car, driven by a professional, that comes onto the track after an accident to lead the field slowly, bunched up nose to tail, with overtaking forbidden, until the hazard is cleared?

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About F1 & Motorsport

Motor racing has been a professional sport for over a century, and its pinnacle, Formula One, is one of the most watched annual series in the world. This quiz covers Formula One and the wider world of motorsport in eighty questions. Each describes a driver, a team, a circuit, a technical term, an event, an official or a rule, and asks you to name it from four choices, then explains what it is and the record or the row attached to it. Every answer is a single name chosen from four, so nothing rests on remembering lap times or points totals, and the questions are written to be followed whether or not you watch the racing.

The first pack is the essentials: what Formula One is; the seven-time champions Hamilton and Schumacher; Senna, Verstappen, Fangio, Vettel and Prost; the team Ferrari; the great circuits Monaco, Monza, Spa and Silverstone; the constructors' title; pole position; the flap called DRS; the pit stop; the flag code; the safety car; and the 24-hour race at Le Mans.

The second pack widens out. More drivers, Lauda and Hunt, Stewart and Clark, Mansell, Alonso, Raikkonen, the two Hills, Rosberg, Leclerc, Moss, Andretti. The teams and the people behind them, Red Bull, Mercedes, McLaren, Williams, the designers Newey and Chapman, the dealmaker Ecclestone, Enzo Ferrari, the governing FIA. The technology, ground effect, the turbo era, the cockpit halo, parc ferme. And the other great series and races, the Indianapolis 500, NASCAR and the Daytona 500, the World Rally Championship, Formula E, MotoGP, the Isle of Man TT and the fearsome old Nurburgring.

The third pack is history, safety and scandal: the first champion Giuseppe Farina; the 1955 Le Mans disaster; the black 1994 season; Ford's war with Ferrari at Le Mans; the fixing affair called Crashgate and the espionage case called Spygate; the disputed 2021 title decider; the commentator Murray Walker; the Triple Crown; the HANS device and the points system; refuelling; the near-total absence of women; the 2022 cars' bouncing, called porpoising; sprint races and dirty air; the rally champion Sebastien Loeb and the banned Group B monsters; the Dakar Rally; and Australia's Bathurst 1000. Because a photograph of a car, a driver or a famous circuit almost always gives the answer away, images are used only where a neutral scene does not, and every figure has been checked. A few things people half-remember get corrected: that the Daytona 500 opens NASCAR's season rather than closing it; that refuelling was allowed only for a 16-year window and has been banned since 2010; that only one woman has ever scored a Formula One point; and that Graham Hill, not any modern star, is the only man to have won the Triple Crown of Monaco, Indianapolis and Le Mans.