Belgian GP Quiz - The Answers
Thursday 30 August 2012 09:25, UK
So how did you get on with our latest fiendish examination of your Formula 1 knowledge?
So how much did you know about all things Belgian? It's time to reveal all...
Here's all the answers you need... 1. Who has won the Belgian GP the most times?Michael Schumacher, on six occasions. 2. The answer to question one became the most successful driver, surpassing Alain Prost's record of 51 wins, in what year at Spa?
2001. 3. Which legend of the sport won the first ever F1 Grand Prix at Spa in 1950?
Juan-Manuel Fangio. 4. Name the two World Champions on the current grid who have never won the Belgian GP?
Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button. 5. Michael Schumacher clinched his record-extending seventh World Drivers' title at Spa in 2004, but which driver beat him to the race victory on that day?
Kimi Raikkonen. 6. Name the two years since the turn of the century when the Belgian GP was not held?
2003 and 2006. 7. Why was Lewis Hamilton stripped of his Spa win in 2008?
Stewards judged Hamilton had re-passed the Ferrari Kimi Raikkonen too soon after cutting the chicane at the end of the lap and handed the McLaren driver a 25-second time penalty, dropping him to third. 8. Why was Sky Sports F1 pundit Damon Hill awarded victory in the 1994 race?
Stewards ruled that the wooden plank underneath race winner Michael Schumacher's Benetton had been worn away too much and the German was disqualified from the event. 9. And which then young driver had claimed his and his team's maiden F1 pole position the day before?
Rubens Barrichello for Jordan. 10. Why did the 1985 Belgian GP have to be postponed from its original June slot to September?
The newly-laid track surface broke up during practice. 11. Which circuits apart from Spa have staged the Belgian GP?
Nivelles and Zolder. 12. Who caused a 13 car accident in 1998, when he spun at the start after putting a wheel on a metal grille?
David Coulthard. 13. And what team went on to take their first every Grand Prix win in that wet race?
Jordan. 14. Two drivers also nearly came to blows in the pit lane after both retired from the race. Can you name them?
Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard. 15. The original circuit was known as 'the triangle' and linked the towns of Spa, Malmedy and Stavelot. How long was that circuit? (you get the point if you are within half a mile).
9 miles. 16. As recently as 2000, which famous corner was still used as a public road?
Eau Rouge. 17. What driver stopped on track and ran to the aid of Erik Comas when he crashed during a practice session in 1992?
Ayrton Senna. 18. Mika Hakkinen pulled off one of the best overtaking moves in F1 history on Michael Schumacher in 2000. What driver did they split as the battled on the Kemmel Straight approaching Les Combes?
BAR's Ricardo Zonta. 19. In 1999, both BAR drivers crashed at which corner?
Eau Rouge. 20. What happened to the Arrows mechanic Dave Luckett at the 1981 race?He ran onto the track to restart Riccardo Patrese's car but the light sequence had already started and the second Arrows car of Siegfried Stohr hit the back of his team-mate, breaking Luckett's leg in the process. So how did you do? Let us know your score in the comments section below.
