Single question quiz - winner poses the next question

[teabagyokel]

Prost
Ide
Patrese
Sato
Panis
Mansel
Nakano
Irvine
Heidfeld
Piquet
??????????????

Is this something to do with being sacked mid-season, or missing half the season for whatever reason?
If so, I'm going to have a stab at Pedro de la Rosa...

 

[Vortex]

nope

 

[siffert_fan]

Sorry to backtrack quite a bit, but Purley wasn't the only George Medal winner in F1. The late, great Mike "the Bike" Hailwood also won the award for saving Reggazoni in 1973.

 

[Jos the Boss]

bruno senna? taking the same theme as tby

 

[Vortex]

fraid not no

 

[jez101]

Quick clarification, which Piquet?

Is there a Williams connection? Drivers who tested for them but made debuts for someone else?

You are having quite a day puzzling us all. The mirror image threw me on the circuit one and this time its the japanese pay drivers

 

[Vortex]

Quick clarification, which Piquet?

Is there a Williams connection? Drivers who tested for them but made debuts for someone else?

You are having quite a day puzzling us all. The mirror image threw me on the circuit one and this time its the japanese pay drivers

Haha yeah thanks.

Ok an answer to your question on Piquet and a clue: Either! Nelson Piquet, Jr or Snr it doesn’t matter!

 

[jez101]

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you are doing my head in

You clue would suggest that the sequence is more to do with the name(s) than anything else. There are not too many other things in common between Nelson (3 times world champion) and Nelson (3 times in q3?). Ide was famous for having his superlicense removed after causing Albers to crash. He is next to Prost... How many times have Ide and Prost been in the same sequence????

Then you go and throw a couple of midfielders like Panis, Patrese, Irvine and Heidfeld... Tell me is the order important in this sequence?

 

[Jos the Boss]

all achieved their best preformance 3 times?

 

[Vortex]

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you are doing my head in

You clue would suggest that the sequence is more to do with the name(s) than anything else. There are not too many other things in common between Nelson (3 times world champion) and Nelson (3 times in q3?). Ide was famous for having his superlicense removed after causing Albers to crash. He is next to Prost... How many times have Ide and Prost been in the same sequence????

Then you go and throw a couple of midfielders like Panis, Patrese, Irvine and Heidfeld... Tell me is the order important in this sequence?

Maybe youre on to something jez!

 

[jez101]

I am stuck in a Vortex!


I am onto something with names, yes?

Is the order of the sequence important?

 

[jez101]

Got it! You sneaky so and so...!

The answer is any one of a number, including... Alberto Ascari, Andrea de Cesaris, Anthony Davidson, Alan Jones, Ayrton Senna...

 

[teabagyokel]

Explain your sequence so the rest of us can work it out... (please!)

 

[Vortex]

haha, hey jez, how did you get all those drivers? it is only one driver.
but yes youre onto something with the names and the order is important.
hmm, i was going to give clues that would more or less give it away today but i think jez is about to figure it out, he is ohhh so close.

 

[jez101]

I can't just tell you, tby. I want you to feel that same sense of satisfaction that I feel right now

The sequence listed

Alain Prost
Yuji Ide
Riccardo Patrese
Takuma Sato
Olivier Panis
Nigel Mansell
Shinji Nakano
Eddie Irvine
Nick Heidfeld
Nelson Piquet
Ayrton Senna

...could just have easily been

Ayrton Senna
Yannick Dalmas
Robert Kubica
Timo Glock
Olivier Beretta
Nico Rosberg
Sebastian Vettel
Elio de Angelis
Nino Faria
Norberto Fontana
Ayrton Senna

If you get it, you can do the next question because if I do, it will probably be some statistical dead end that will kill the thread, or be such a stupidly easy question you would wonder why I bothered!

 

[Vortex]

well done jez! hahahaha

 

[teabagyokel]

Vortex, you are a cunning bugger...

 

[Vortex]

Vortex, you are a cunning bugger...

lol

 

[Fenderman]

Doh! Now I Do Feel like a dummy

 

[teabagyokel]

If you get it, you can do the next question because if I do, it will probably be some statistical dead end that will kill the thread, or be such a stupidly easy question you would wonder why I bothered!

Thanks!

Right, here's another sequence of drivers:

• Morbidelli
• Herbert
• Wurz
• Diniz
• Diniz
• Zonta
• Panis
• Panis
• __________
• Panis
• Villeneuve
• Webber
• Vettel
• Barrichello
• Kubica
• Hulkenburg

I suppose the mark is more for why, but who fits into this pattern?