Motorports trivia/quiz

Who are the 2 missing drivers, and why ?

It's Reutteman and Hunt, and I think it's due to poor organization of the Grand Prix?

That's a bit vague

Carlos Reutemann and James Hunt because someone was killed?

Hunt had to catch a flight, guess Reutemann had the same reason, not sure.
E: Reutemann wasnt there because his teammate Gilles Villeneuve has somersaulted into the crowd and killed 2 people.

James Hunt also left due to the incident where a marshal and photographer was killed from flying debris.

The Japanese coverage is on the YouTubes. They even show the scene of the accident. Mercifully, they blur out certain bits of it

Name the year and the track

Teemu Toikka wrote:

Hunt had to catch a flight, guess Reutemann had the same reason, not sure.
E: Reutemann wasnt there because his teammate Gilles Villeneuve has somersaulted into the crowd and killed 2 people.

Right, with Teemu and Alessio, you got the full story

Another who's missing and why !

Jason you should post this in the "name the track" topic

The car is the Pat Clancy Special, so I guess it's Indy 1948 ?

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Jason you should post this in the "name the track" topic

Offsides, number 19, offense. 5 yard penalty, repeat 1st down.

Frank Verplanken wrote:

The car is the Pat Clancy Special, so I guess it's Indy 1948 ?

Jason White wrote:

Offsides, number 19, offense. 5 yard penalty, repeat 1st down.

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Teemu Toikka wrote:

Hunt had to catch a flight, guess Reutemann had the same reason, not sure.
E: Reutemann wasnt there because his teammate Gilles Villeneuve has somersaulted into the crowd and killed 2 people.

Right, with Teemu and Alessio, you got the full story

Another who's missing and why !

Jacarepagua 1981, Jones being sulky because Reutemann didn't let him win

Vettel was not the first to ignore team orders

In the late 70's, René Arnoux bet Gilles Villeneuve that nobody could go through a particular corner flat out. Later on in the practice session, Villeneuve's Ferrari came back on a tow truck, badly wrecked. Villeneuve, smiling, said to Arnoux : "Well you were right, I tried..."

Where did that happen ?

I'm tempted to say Eau Rouge but I don't think Villeneuve would have survived that in those cars

BTW ... Villeneuve

Wasn't Spa, Villeneuve never raced on that track, at least in Formula One

It was Watkins Glen. Not sure which corner..

Paul M Jones wrote:

It was Watkins Glen. Not sure which corner..

You win sir

What did Stirling Moss do at the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix to hand Mike Hawthorn the World Championship?

I think he told the crowd or the marshalls not to help him getting his car back on track or he would have been disqualified and would have lost the championship that way.

I thought it was he defended Hawthorne to the official's after the race so he didn't get disqualified for someone helping Hawthorne move his car, because if it had been left where it was it would have been more dangerousor something

Richard Coxon wrote:

I thought it was he defended Hawthorne to the official's after the race so he didn't get disqualified for someone helping Hawthorne move his car.

Well done!

Mike Hawthorn was disqualified for receiving a push start. Stirling went to the stewards to protest that Mike wasn't even on track and hadn't done anything wrong. Mike was reinstated and handed him the 1 point needed to win the World Championship.