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Italian GP Quiz - The Answers

So how much did you know about all things Italian? Let us know how you got on below.

Wednesday 4 September 2013 14:10, UK

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So how much did you know about all things Italian?

5) Which Italian team picked up their maiden victory at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix?
Toro Rosso. 6) And who was driving for them that day?
Sebastian Vettel. 7) Who is the only Scandinavian to win the race?
Sweden's Ronnie Peterson - 1973, 1974, 1976. 8) Since 1990, only three drivers have won the Italian Grand Prix and the Drivers' Championship in the same season. Can you name them?
Ayrton Senna - 1990, Michael Schumacher - 2000 and 2003, Sebastian Vettel - 2011. 9) An Italian won the first three runnings of the race, but since then how many times have the crowd seen a home victor?
Once - Ludovico Scarfiotti for Ferrari in 1966. 10) Can you name Italian who took victory in the inaugural race and with it the 1950 Drivers' Championship?
Giuseppe "Nino" Farina driving for Alfa Romeo. 11) Which driver won his final Formula 1 race at Monza in 1999?
Heinz-Harald Frentzen for Jordan. 12) What bizarre incident forced Gerhard Berger out of the 1995 race when Ferrari were running one, two?
The TV camera fell off team-mate Jean Alesi's car and destroyed the Austrian's suspension. 13) In what year was the closest finish in F1 history recorded at the Italian GP?
1971 - just 0.01 seconds separated Peter Gethin and Ronnie Peterson. 14) How much time separated the top five drivers in the race? (to the nearest tenth)
0.61 seconds. 15) Aside from the Italian GP, what two other GPs have been held on Italian soil?
The San Marino GP and the Pescara GP. Let us know below how you got on.

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