The Constructors' Quiz

[teabagyokel]

1. Jim Clark won every Lotus victory from 1962 to the start of 1968. Graham Hill was the next man to win for them, but who won Lotus' last victory before Clark's first?

Before Jim

Innes Ireland at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen

2. Which constructor has won the most races of the teams that have had all their wins from a single driver?

One man team

Matra, 9 wins, all Jackie Stewart

3. Which constructor has won the most races of the teams that have had all their wins in a single year?

Annus memorabilis

Brawn GP, 8 wins, all 2009

4. The constructors with a single win in F1 are:

Kuzma [WC Indy 500], Porsche, Eagle, _______, Penske, Shadow, Stewart, BMW Sauber, Toro Rosso

Who is missing?

Blank filling

Hesketh

5. Which constructor has the most one-twos of the teams that have had all their one-twos from the same pair of drivers?

Two man team

Red Bull, 8, all Seb 'n' Mark

6. Which constructor had most poles without ever winning a race?

Saturday tops

Toyota with 3 [USA, Jpn 2005; Bhr 2009]

7. Since January 2007, how many times has a McLaren not driven by Lewis Hamilton sat on pole?

Lewisteria

3, Alonso (Monaco, Monza 2007 - an unusual combination!), Kovalainen (Silverstone 2008)

8. Which team won the only Grand Prix they ever lead?

Lead once, win once

Penske and John Watson at the Osterreichring in 1976

9. Who set the first fastest lap in a Jordan?

They only got 2

Bertrand Gachot at the 1991 Hungarian GP! The other was Fisi in 1997!

10. Other than Mercedes, which constructor had a more than 30 year gap between entering one Grand Prix and their next?

Long wait

Honda from 1967 to 2006, 578 Grand Prix missed!

773 GPs passed between Mercedes entry in the 1955 Italian Grand Prix and the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix. They technically replaced Juan Manuel Fangio with Michael Schumacher!

 

[MCLS]

3, question 7 threw me off as i interpreted it as after 2007

 

[teabagyokel]

Fixed!

 

[MCLS]

Good stuff

 

[Galahad]

Oof, toughie. 3.

 

[Pyrope]

3 also. One of those quizzes where I'm sure I ought to have scored more, but unfortunately my brain tends to default to historical data and forget to consider the last five years! Surprising how many of those records were for occasions in the latter half of the noughties.

 

[GeoCucc]

well, 4 for me

 

[siffert_fan]

A miserable 2 for me. And I guessed at the second

Spoiler

(Matra) as they were entered by Tyrell, while Matra entered their own 12 cylinder cars as a separate team [/spolier]

 

[teabagyokel]

A miserable 2 for me. And I guessed at the second

Spoiler

(Matra) as they were entered by Tyrell, while Matra entered their own 12 cylinder cars as a separate team

That's not a guess, that's a reasoned conclusion based on sound knowledge!

 

[FB]

A miserly 3 - should have done better Didn't claim a point for Q2 even though the answer is above...

Edit - fixed

 

[Bushi]

3. I thought the answer to question 4 was

Spoiler

Honda

 

[gethinceri]

0/10. Brilliant.

 

[teabagyokel]

Bushi,

Q4

Their 2006 incarnation only won once, but they won twice in the 1960s.

Gethin, you are not the first, and you won't be the last!