Who am I - IV

[FB]

My middle name is the same as the surname of a recent F1 WDC.

 

[teabagyokel]

Is it Jim Raikkonen Clark? No, Jim Hamilton Clark is more likely?

 

[FB]

Interesting guess TBY, did Jim Clark have a middle name? Anywho, 'taint him.

 

[Brogan]

I know this one but I won't have time to do Who Am I V this week so I'll keep it to myself

 

[teabagyokel]

FB, I haven't got a clue. I'm guessing that the middle name is not Raikkonen or Schumacher, leaving Hamilton and Alonso as the most likely options!

 

[FB]

Clue 2: I am member of a fairly exclusive F1 club as I drove a car which bore my name.

 

[teabagyokel]

Brabham?

 

[teabagyokel]

Bruce McLaren?

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

I think I know who it is, but i cheated so im not gunna say

was putting names i know of drivers i knew had teams into wiki,

 

[cider_and_toast]

Chris Amon?

Tried to go a little left field with this one.

 

[FB]

No one right so far so clue 3 - I made my debut in F1 in 1977 as a "rent-a-driver" for Hesketh.

 

[cider_and_toast]

The only two teams I can think of named after drivers post 77 were Prost and Rebaque. Prost never drove his own car but I know Hector Rebaque built a psuedo Lotus 79 which he drove and failed to qualify in either later 78 or late 79 (I can't remember which?) So my next guess is that:

Hector Rebaque?

 

[FB]

Well done C_A_T, it is indeed Hector Alonso Rebaque. He ran Lotus cars in his own team but eventually had Penske build a car for him (partly designed by John Barnard according to one article I read) which, strangely, looked a lot like the Lotus 79! It ran for 3 whole races.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Ha ha, Cheers FB.

I didn't get it from the Hesketh link but when you gave the date I tried to work out who ran cars under their own name, who had started racing after that date.

Of course there was also a link to the greatest team that there ever was

Incidently, I believe Hector was the last private racer in F1.

Right, Time to go away and come back with Who am I - V.

 

[Brogan]

Nice one c_a_t.

I'm going to claim a "virtual" win for that one as I knew it from the 1st clue

That's what comes of researching 59 years of F1 data

 

[cider_and_toast]

Cheers Bro, I never new the Alonso link. Very funny that.