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[2F-001]

Yes; obviously way too easy for this forum!

So, over to you Henk to raise the bar a bit…

:-)

[Henk Vasmel]

There recently was a discussion about drivers with at least 3 Z’s in their names. This made me curious about other letters too, so I checked all drivers who ran at any F1/F2/Indy WC race (including practice), using their normally used names, so Jackie Stewart and not John Young Stewart to give an example. The noblemen in the list would be runaway winners, if we could find the exact full names.

 

It turns out that the letters Q, X and Y and also the J don’t even score 3, all others do, except V which needed Syd Van Der Vijver who never got further than a DNA.

 

My question now, which letter of the alphabet scores highest (yes, more than 3) and who is the single driver who scores that number.

[ensign14]

Ottorino Volonterio with six o's?

[D28]

Andrea de Adamich has 4 As, if that is what you seek. But, quite a few Italian names have 4 letters the same

 

Luigi Chinetti , Luigi Villoresi etc.

And   Didier Pironi

 

Gilles Villeneuve has 4 Ls as well as 4 Es

Edited by D28, 05 October 2016 - 00:32.

[Ray Bell]

Let's not forget Ignazio Giunti...

Does anyone have all the vowels in alphabetical order?

[D28]

4 letters the same is just too common.

How about 5 Rs     Roberto Guerrero

[2F-001]

Ray Bell, on 05 Oct 2016 - 00:49, said:

Does anyone have all the vowels in alphabetical order?

Jackie Pretorius has them all - but not in order.

[Tim Murray]

I don't think anyone can match the great Ottorino's six o's, but here are a few more 'fivers' to go with Guerrero:

Emmanuel de Graffenried, Bernie Ecclestone, Neville Lederle, Ernie Pieterse, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi, Noritake Takahara, Michael Bleekemolen, Eddie Cheever, Pierluigi Martini, Alessandro Nannini & Christian Fittipaldi.

[Glengavel]

Ray Bell, on 05 Oct 2016 - 00:49, said:

Let's not forget Ignazio Giunti...

Does anyone have all the vowels in alphabetical order?

 

Don't know, but does Teo Fabi have the largest vowel-to-consonant ratio?

[Henk Vasmel]

While I was sleeping, Ensign14 came up with the correct answer, Ottorino Volonterio has 6 O's

Over to you.

[ensign14]

OK then.  Which NASCAR superstar retired with a career record of 8 starts, 6 top tens, 5 top fives and 1 win?

[D28]

I think with such a short career he must be an outsider, someone only running lucrative super speedway races.I'll guess Mario Andretti.

[ensign14]

No, not Andretti.

[Michael Ferner]

Just to clarify, because in my eyes nobody can be a "superstar" with only eight starts in a series that runs between 50 and 100 dates a year: is that a NASCAR superstar and we are looking for a race record in a different series, or is this a superstar from a different series and this is his NASCAR record?

[ensign14]

This particular legend never raced anywhere else.

[Collombin]

I know NOTHING about NASCAR so this might be a very stupid guess - Marty Robbins?

[john winfield]

I too know nothing about NASCAR, but what the heck.  Lightning McQueen?

[Collombin]

My final guess, which I am more hopeful of, is that monkey - Jocko Flocko? I know he had 1 win.

[john winfield]

E.B., on 08 Oct 2016 - 08:34, said:

My final guess, which I am more hopeful of, is that monkey - Jocko Flocko? I know he had 1 win.

 

I never knew about him! What a star. How disappointing that FIA regulations, and cockpit design, limit the involvement of wildlife in modern Formula One.

[Collombin]

Wild? He was absolutely livid.

[ensign14]

E.B., on 08 Oct 2016 - 08:34, said:

My final guess, which I am more hopeful of, is that monkey - Jocko Flocko? I know he had 1 win.

 

It was indeed Jocko.  Until he did a Bobby Isaac and demanded he get out of the car - now - his career was positively stellar. 

[Collombin]

Only once in WDC history has a driver led at least one lap of every race in the season.

Who and when?

[Tim Murray]

Jim Clark 1963?

[Collombin]

Tim Murray, on 08 Oct 2016 - 10:30, said:

Jim Clark 1963?

Nearly, but his battery issues at Watkins Glen scuppered that.

[Richard Jenkins]

Senna 88

[Collombin]

Richard Jenkins, on 08 Oct 2016 - 10:46, said:

Senna 88

Surprisingly fell at the very first hurdle.

[Charlieman]

Graham Hill 1962?

[Collombin]

Charlieman, on 08 Oct 2016 - 12:43, said:

Graham Hill 1962?

All but one - the British GP.

[JtP2]

Stirling Moss in 59?

[Charlieman]

Expletive! Expletive deleted!

 

Is it a Hill?

[Collombin]

JtP2, on 08 Oct 2016 - 18:18, said:

Stirling Moss in 59?

No, he led most races but not all.

[Collombin]

Charlieman, on 08 Oct 2016 - 18:29, said:

Is it a Hill?

Might be, let's wait and see.

[Tim Murray]

Jackie Stewart 1969?

[Collombin]

Didn't have to wait long!

Well done Tim, JYS in 1969 it is.

[Tim Murray]

Thanks E.B.

What links the following drivers?

Giancarlo Baghetti; Jo Bonnier; Vittorio Brambilla; Peter Gethin; Jean-Pierre Jabouille; Pastor Maldonado; Lodovico Scarfiotti

(and no others)

[Charlieman]

You have to make up the connection.

[ensign14]

The only time they stood on a World Championship F1 podium was on the top step?

[Tim Murray]

Spot on, Ens. Over to you.

[ensign14]

First edition of David Hodges' A-Z of Racing Cars.

 

Which Formula 1 marque is missing?

[Henk Vasmel]

I couldn't find the entry for Scirocco. Especially sad as I drive a VW Scirocco. Have to sell it now.

[ensign14]

That'll do, I can think of another one looking at it as well.

 

Over to you.  )

[Michael Ferner]

I need to sell my Opel Astra - it's not in the Hodges book, either.

[ensign14]

Is that a Formula 1 marque?

[Henk Vasmel]

Michael Ferner, on 09 Oct 2016 - 08:52, said:

I need to sell my Opel Astra - it's not in the Hodges book, either.

Astra is in Sports Racing Cars of the Fifties And Sixties. No connection Either 

[Henk Vasmel]

Let's go to Sportscars. A simple question (because I can't think of a difficult one):

Porsche entered 2 917's for the first race of that type. Only one started the race. Who were the drivers for the DNS one. And why was it not just a straightforward DNS?

[2F-001]

It could be that nobody else wanted to drive it.

Without digging out a race report I can only guess at which pairing it might have been - but it was likely a regular works pair who could actually start the race in a more 'sorted' 908 (I think the other 917 only lasted a lap or three).
I'll take a stab at the all-German crew, Stommelen and Herrmann...

[Henk Vasmel]

2F-001, on 09 Oct 2016 - 14:41, said:

It could be that nobody else wanted to drive it.

Without digging out a race report I can only guess at which pairing it might have been - but it was likely a regular works pair who could actually start the race in a more 'sorted' 908 (I think the other 917 only lasted a lap or three).
I'll take a stab at the all-German crew, Stommelen and Herrmann...

Some good ideas, but unfortunately incorrect.

[TennisUK]

ensign14, on 08 Oct 2016 - 22:11, said:

First edition of David Hodges' A-Z of Racing Cars.
 
Which Formula 1 marque is missing?

1Malaysia F1 (or whatever it was called)?

[D28]

I will guess Jo Siffert and Rolf Stommelen since they were involved in testing the car.

[Henk Vasmel]

D28, on 09 Oct 2016 - 18:58, said:

I will guess Jo Siffert and Rolf Stommelen since they were involved in testing the car.

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