Hungarian Grand Prix quiz
OK here’s 20 questions on the Hungarian Grand Prix for all you trivia buffs.
Post your answers below – but no cheating!
1. Who was Hungary’s only F1 driver? (Bonus point for correct spelling!)
2. And which teams did he race for in his career?
3. Who set the fastest lap in last year’s race?
4. The 21 Hungarian Grands Prix from 1986-2006 were all held at the Hungaroring. Which three other circuits also held the same race every year in this time?
5. Damon Hill famously lost the 1997 race on the last lap. Who was the other British driver on the podium?
6. Nelson Piquet won the first Hungarian Grand Prix. Who was leading the championship after that race?
7. Who was disqualified for having an underweight car last year?
8. Which three drivers scored their first victories at the Hungaroring?
9. In which year did the Hungarian Grand Prix hit the two-hour time limit?
10. Which driver twice started the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position but never won it?
11. Who finished on the podium for the first time in 1994?
12. Who was the Hungarian driver that won the first ever Grand Prix at Le Mans in 1906?
13. And what car did he drive?
14. What calamity have both Nigel Mansell and Fernando Alonso suffered at the Hungaroring?
15. Who did Kimi Raikkonen crash into in last year’s race?
16. Which team achieved its first fastest lap at the Hungaroring in 1991?
17. Which four active drivers have won the Hungarian Grand Prix?
18. For which year’s race were turns three, four and five straightened out?
19. Where did Nigel Mansell start from when he won the 1989 race?
20. Who led every lap in the 1990 race?
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1. Zsolt Baumgartner
2. Jordan and Minardi
3. Felipe Massa
4. Imola, Monza and Hockenheim
5. Johnny Herbert
7. Robert Kubica
8. Damon Hill, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso
11. Jos Verstappen
15. Vitantonio Liuzzi
17. Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Kimi Raikkonen and Rubens Barrichello
18. 1989
19. 12th
20. Thierry Boutsen
6. Well, it must have been Prost, Senna, Piquet or Mansell – but I don’t think that’s close enough. I’ll put Prost in as my first guess.
10. Felipe Massa
9. 1988(?) – I think there was one year when there were changes made to the track that made it too slow, but I wasn’t watching F1 in the late 1980s…
12. The snappily named Frederic Szisz.
13. A Renault
14. A wheel fell off due to the nut being inserted incorrectly at their respective pit stops
16. For some reason, I feel like I should know this one… …it’s not Jordan by any chance?!?
4. Monaco, Monza, Montreal… Didn’t Imola also have this distinction?
6. I’d guess Mansell.
10. He was on pole here twice, so it wasn’t Massa. I guess Prost.
16. Yup, it was Jordan. I think it was even Gachot who did it.
The rest are right, methinks.
11.Phillip Aliott – Mclaren deputising for Hakkinien
14. Both have lost a race win due to a lose wheel nut – Mansell 87 Alonso 2006
1. Zsolt Baumgartner
2. Jordan/Minardi
3. de la Rosa?
4. Monte Carlo/Silverstone/Monza
5. Johnny Herbert
6. Mansell?
7. Robert Kubica
8. Damon Hill/Alonso/Button
9. 1990?
10. ?
11. Jos Verstappen
12. ?
13. ?
14. Wheel came off the car
15. Liuzzi
16. Jordan
17. Alonso/Button/Raikkonen/Barrichello
18. ?
19. 12th
20. Thierry Boutsen (wet race)