F1 & Motorsport Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which Italian driver won the very first race of the Formula One World Championship, the 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, in an Alfa Romeo, and went on to take that first title, becoming the sport's inaugural World Champion?

Question 2

Which French driver won four Formula One world titles between 1985 and 1993, nicknamed the Professor for a calculating style that nursed tyres and fuel and made winning look undramatic, and whose feud with a McLaren team-mate defined the era?

Question 3

Which British engineer is regarded as the greatest aerodynamic car designer in Formula One history, having drawn title-winning machines for Williams in the 1990s, McLaren around 2000 and Red Bull in the 2010s and 2020s, before leaving for Aston Martin in 2024?

Question 4

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 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

Which long, fast circuit in the hills and forests of the Belgian Ardennes is famous for a steep uphill left-right sweep taken almost flat out called Eau Rouge, and for a microclimate that can leave one part of the lap soaked while another stays dry?

Question 7

What is the name for the aerodynamic principle, exploited by the Lotus cars of the late 1970s and revived by the 2022 rules, of shaping the underside of a racing car into tunnels so that fast-moving air beneath it sucks the whole car down onto the track?

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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.