F1 & Motorsport Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which Formula One team, owned by an energy-drink company and based in Milton Keynes in England, grew out of the former Jaguar squad and won consecutive drivers' titles from 2010 to 2013 and again from 2021 to 2024?

Question 2

Which endurance race, held since 1923 on a part-public-roads circuit in western France, sends teams of drivers taking turns in one car to cover as much distance as possible in a single day and night, with the winner being whoever completes the most laps?

Question 3

Which British commentator was the excitable, rapid-fire voice of televised Formula One for more than half a century, famous for enthusiastic slips of the tongue that fans lovingly collected, such as 'unless I'm very much mistaken... and I am'?

Question 4

Which motorcycle event, run since 1907 on closed public roads over a 37-mile mountain course on a small island in the Irish Sea, is widely regarded as the most dangerous race in the world, with more than 260 competitor deaths in its history?

Question 5

Which English circuit, laid out on the runways and perimeter roads of a disused Second World War airfield, hosted the very first race of the Formula One World Championship in May 1950 and has held the British Grand Prix for most years since?

Question 6

What is the name for the type of Formula One engine in use since 2014, a 1.6-litre turbocharged V6 combined with two electric motor-generators that recover energy from braking and from the exhaust turbine and redeploy it for extra power?

Question 7

What is the name for the top class of international single-seater motor racing, whose world championship has run every year since 1950, contesting a series of Grands Prix around the world in open-wheel, open-cockpit cars?

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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.