Japanese GP Quiz - The Answers
So how much did you know about the Japanese Grand Prix?
Wednesday 3 October 2012 10:50, UK
So how well do you think you've done? Well come this way for those all-important answers...
1. How many Formula 1 World Champions have been crowned in Japan?13. 2. Other than Suzuka, which other circuit has hosted the race?
Fuji. 3. Which other Grand Prix was hosted in Japan in 1994 and 1995 at TI Circuit Aida, now known as the Okayama International Circuit?
Pacific Grand Prix. 4. Name the four British drivers to win the race?
James Hunt, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. 5. Which two drivers collided at the 1989 and 1990 Japanese Grands Prix?
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. 6. Who holds the lap record at Suzuka?
Kimi Raikkonen, set in 2005 for McLaren. 1:31.540. 7. Which team has won the race the most times?
McLaren, nine times. 8. Which British driver contested his last Grand Prix in Japan in 1999?
Damon Hill. 9. Which American won the inaugural race in 1976?
Mario Andretti. 10. Which driver at the age of 20 years and 89 days became the youngest driver to lead a lap of a Grand Prix in Japan in 2007?
Sebastian Vettel for Toro Rosso. 11. What unusual incident occurred behind the safety car in that race?
Sebastian Vettel running third for Toro Rosso ran into the back of Mark Webber who was in second place for the sister Red Bull team. 12. Which driver's remarkable record of 37 races as leader of the Drivers' Championship was completed at the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix?
Michael Schumacher. He had topped the standings since the US GP in 2000. 13. What caused Saturday practice at the 2007 race to be restricted to just four minutes?
Fog. 14. That year fans were also prevented from displaying flags of all-but-one team. What was that team?Toyota. They own the Fuji circuit. 15. Name the fearsome left-hander towards the end of the lap which has been likened to Eau-Rouge at Spa in terms of spectacle?
130R. 16. Which corner is named after a German motorcycle racer who crashed heavily at the turn whilst riding for Suzuki in 1963?
The Degner curve - named after Ernst Degner. He won at the circuit on his return in 1964. 17. What was unusual about qualifying for the 2010 race?
It was held on Sunday morning, after heavy rain caused the session to be called off. This also happened in 2004. 18. Which team's last victory came at Japan in 2008?
Renault (now called Lotus) in the hands of Fernando Alonso. 19. Victory at Suzuka in 1999 clinched a second Drivers' title by two points for which Finn?
Mika Hakkinen. 20. Kimi Raikkonen won the 2005 race with a last lap pass on Giancarlo Fisichella. What position did he start that race?
17th.
