December Quiz answers

James Calado's Ferrari at Sebring in 2017.

These are the answers to the questions on our sister blog Rouenlesafx.blogspot.com.  If you didn't see the questions click here.

When scoring be generous - for instance score a point for Dijon even if you didn't write the full answer of Dijon-Prenois.

1.   French Grand Prix Circuits since 1950.

Reims-Gueux 1pt

Rouen-les-Essarts 1pt

Charade, Clermont Ferrand 1pt

Bugatti, Le Mans 1pt

Paul Ricard 1pt

Dijon-Prenois 1pt

Magny Cours 1pt

Alain Prost won at three of these circuits 3 points (the last three on this list).  1981 at Dijon, 1983 and other years at Paul Ricard, 1993 at Magny Cours.

2.  Name the car driven by 4 World Champions.

Lotus 56  5pts   It was of course initially a 1968 Indy Car and then in 1971 as the 56b entered F1.  Graham Hill's only race in it was the 1968 Indy 500.  Jim Clark was killed before the Indy 500 but tested at Indy earlier in the year.  Mario Andretti raced in the car at the final USAC round at Riverside in 1968.  He actually drove three different cars in this event but one was a 56.  Emerson Fittipaldi came 8th at Monza in the Lotus 56b in the1971 Italian GP.

The other drivers who raced a 56 or 56b were:

Joe Leonard 1pt (1968 Indy 500 and USAC races)

Art Pollard 1pt (1968 Indy 500 and USAC races)

Reine Wisell 1pt (1971 British GP and Oulton Park Spring Cup)

Dave Walker 1pt (1971 Dutch GP)

Mike Spence who was killed testing a Lotus 56 at Indy also drove the car but like a number of others (eg Greg Weld, Lee Roy Yarborough, Lloyd Ruby, John Miles) never raced it.

3. Who was second in the 1952 Monte Carlo Rally and the 1956 Tour de France Automobile?

Stirling Moss   5pts.

Sunbeam   1pt (Monte Carlo Rally - Sunbeam Talbot 90)

Mercedes-Benz (Tour de France Automobile - Mercedes-Benz 300SL)

I don't know of any Rally that Moss won but feel free to correct me.

4.  Who has won the 12 Hours of Sebring and the F1 Championship in the same year?

Phil Hill 2pts  (he won both in 1961)

Juan-Manuel Fangio 2pts (he won both in 1956 and 1957)

Juan-Manuel Fangio 1pt (he was the driver to do this twice)

Ferrari 1pt (Phil Hill's car in the 1961 12  hours of Sebring)

Ferrari 1pt (Fangio's car in the 1956 12 hours)

Maserati 1pt (Fangio's car in the 1957 12 hours) 

John Surtees came third at Sebring in his Championship year (1964) having won at Sebring the previous year, so bad luck if you guessed Big John!

5.  Who has won a World Championship Grand Prix and the 24 hours of Daytona?

Fernando Alonso 1pt (Daytona in 2019)

Juan Pablo Montoya 1pt (Daytona in 2007, 2008 and 2013)

Thierry Boutsen 1pt  (Daytona in 1985)

Pedro Rodriguez 1pt  (Daytona in 1970 and 1971)

Jo Siffert 1pt  (Daytona in 1968)

Lorenzo Bandini 1pt  (Daytona in 1967)

Ickx, Andretti, Gurney and Phil Hill won at Daytona when it wasn't a 24 hour race so don't count - sorry!

6.  Name the car from its winning drivers.

Ford C100 5pts

DRM 1pt (Ludwig in 1982 at Hockenheim and Nurburgring))

Thundersports 1pt (Kennedy and Crawford together at Donington in 1983)

The Ford C100 wasn't the most successful of cars but Zakspeed developed it into the Zakspeed C1/8 and it won the 1984 Interserie Championship in the hands of Klaus Niedzwiedz, but by then it wasn't entered as a Ford C100 so no points for knowing that!

7.  Who has won a World F1 Championship, the 24 hours of Le Mans and a Coupe des Alpes?

Mike Hawthorn 5pts (1952 Coupe des Alpes - he finished 9th  but with no penalties)

Sunbeam Talbot 1pt (a Sunbeam Talbot 90)

Stirling Moss, Vic Elford, Lucien Bianchi and many others also won a Coupe des Alpes but didn't meet the other criteria.  I believe the 1952 Alpine was Hawthorn's only rally but feel free to correct me.

8.  Seven drivers to score points in a Cooper Maserati in 1966 or 1967.

Jochen Rindt 1pt (second in the 1966 Belgian GP)

Jacky Ickx

Richie Ginther 1pt (5th in the 1966 Belgian GP)

John Surtees 1pt  (winner of the 1966 Mexican GP)

Jo Siffert 1pt (4th in the 1966 US GP for Rob Walker)

Jo Bonnier 1pt (6th in the 1966 Mexican GP in his own car)

Pedro Rodriguez 1pt (winner of the 1967 South African GP)

Jacky Ickx 1pt   (sixth on his F1 debut at the 1967 Italian GP)

I have noted each driver's best position, not all their scores.

9. 1990 World Championship F1 Grand Winners.

Ayrton Senna 1pt (six wins and the Championship)

Alain Prost 1pt (five wins and second place in the championship)

Nelson Piquet 1pt (the final two GP of the year)

Nigel Mansell 1pt (the Portuguese GP)

Thierry Boutsen 1pt  (the Hungarian GP)

Riccardo Patrese 1pt (the San Marino GP)

McLaren-Honda 1pt (Senna)

Ferrari 1pt (Prost)

Benetton-Ford 1pt (Piquet)

Ferrari 1pt  (Mansell)

Williams-Renault 1pt  (Boutsen)

Williams-Renault 1pt  (Patrese)

10.  The last ten F1 GP winners for Ferrari.  (based on their last win)

Sebastien Vettel 1pt   (2019 Singapore GP)

Felipe Massa

Charles Leclerc 1pt   (2019 Italian GP)

Kimi Raikkonen 1pt  (2018 US GP)

Fernando Alonso 1pt  (2013 Chinese GP)

Felipe Massa 1pt  (2008 Brazilian GP)

Michael Schumacher 1pt  (2006 Chinese GP)

Rubens Barrichello 1pt  (2004 Chinese GP)

Eddie Irvine 1pt  (1999 Portuguese GP)

Jean Alesi 1pt  (1995 Canadian GP)

Gerhard Berger 1pt   (1994 German GP)   

If your list was the last ten drivers to join the list of Ferrari GP winners, delete Berger (1987 Japanese GP) and add Alain Prost  1 pt (1990 Spanish GP).   You can't have both Prost and Berger on your list.

11.   2010 World Championship F1 GP winners.

Sebastien Vettel 1pt   (5 GP wins and the World Championship)

Mark Webber

Mark Webber 1pt  (4 GP wins and third in the Championship)

Lewis Hamilton 1pt  (3 GP wins)

Jenson Button 1pt  (2 GP wins)

Fernando Alonso 1pt   (5 GP wins and runner-up in the Championship)

Red Bull-Renault 1pt (Vettel)

Red Bull-Renault 1pt (Webber)

McLaren-Mercedes 1pt (Hamilton)

McLaren-Mercedes 1pt (Button)

Ferrari 1pt (Alonso)

12.  Four British WEC Champions.

Allan McNish 1pt  (2013 World Endurance Drivers Champion)

Mike Conway

Anthony Davidson 1pt  (2014 World Endurance Drivers Champion)

Mike Conway 1pt (2019-2020 World Endurance Drivers Champion)

James Calado 1pt  (2017 World Endurance GT Drivers Champion)

Audi 1pt   (McNish)

Toyota 1pt  (Davidson)

Toyota 1pt  (Conway)

Ferrari 1pt  (Calado)

In terms of British manufacturers, only Aston Martin have won, doing so in 2019-20 in the GT category but no points for this as their winning drivers were Danish.

Maximum total possible score is 100.   If you scored 65 or over - very well done!   Hope you did at least reasonably well and scored over 50.  Let me know if you think I made any mistakes in the comments.