F1 Quiz Chain

[xpensive]

In this day and age of Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and what not, it's not easy to formulate a Q without giving too much away, why I think "specific cylinder configuration and layout" was just about vague enough to make it difficult.

And just like WB, I was happy to specify upon request.

[WhiteBlue]

In this day and age of Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and what not, it's not easy to formulate a Q without giving too much away, why I think "specific cylinder configuration and layout" was just about vague enough to make it difficult.

And just like WB, I was happy to specify upon request.

Hmmm, it took a bit of questioning for you to admit that you were asking for volume, V angle and cylinder number really. That could have been said right away.

[xpensive]

Can't you at least see when someone is trying to be nice here? I find your questions about your favourite driver both uninteresting and bordering to embarassing, but I stop short of saying that.

What's "specific cylinder configuration and layout" to you then? You are just sore because you couldn't figure it out.

Besides, I don't belong to those who stare at F1T every waking minute.

[WhiteBlue]

What's "specific cylinder configuration and layout" to you then?

1. "specific cylinder configuration and layout" has nothing to do with volume. It covers the number of cylinders, the configuration and the angle.

2. All the drivers in my questions (Schumacher, Caracciola, Rosemeyer) are legends in their own right. There is absolutely nothing about the questions that is uninteresting or embarrassing.

3. If you are trying to be nice, please try a little harder. It does not come across as nice. Let us not spoil the quiz by tittle tattle that can be done by PM, please.

[dumrick]

Sounds a lot like Token, why the F2 outfit must have been Rondel/Motul with Ron Dennis?

In that case, there are 2 separate entities, connected by a common F1 project, which one took in after the other was forced to give it up.

In my question:

On the subject of "possibly the worst team ever", which F1 team was born from a F2 venture that used the previous year F2 champion chassis and achieved pole for its first race, only to start losing competitiveness over the season, as modifications were introduced on the car?
This team, on its way to F1, still tried to purchase the car, but ended building a chassis, even after their bad engineering experiences in F2.

I'm talking about the same entrepeneur involved in the F2 and F1 projects.

This team was a total disaster, not your average backmarker. Like it's clear from the F2 experience, they had a reverse Midas touch, turning good cars into bad ones and engineering a F1 car that was 8,74s off the leader pace in its first World Championship race qualifying.

[xpensive]

Poor Gianfranco brancatelli was 8.74 s behind in his debut with "Kauhsen" in 1979, a German effort wasn't it?

[dumrick]

Poor Gianfranco brancatelli was 8.74 s behind in his debut with "Kauhsen" in 1979, a German effort wasn't it?

Bullseye!!!

Kauhsen raced the champion Elf 2J Formula 2's in 1977, even renaming them:



As I said, early promise turned sour after some changes started being implemented on the car, that caused the car to even not qualify for some events, although driven by reputed drivers like Michel Leclère, Klaus Ludwig, José Dolhem (Didier Pironi's brother), Vittorio Brambilla or Alain Prost.

For its first (and, fortunately for us, last) F1 effort, Kauhsen planned on racing Kojimas KE009, that were even painted on the new team's colours:



The deal with Kojima fell through and, with the advent of the ground effect era, Herr Willibert Kauhsen decided to do his own ground effect car, which knew some different designs. This version could be a nice Matchbox car:


Driven by Brancatelli


Driven by Patrick Neve


By the time, they've arrived at a race, after the flyaway start of the 1979 season, at Jarama, the car looked like this:



Despite its resemblance to the Lotus 79 that dominated F1 in 1978, there was something fundamentally flawed about the project (the ground effect era was also the one that started seeing generalized use of wind tunnels...) and their history ended with two DQF, at Jarama and Zolder 1979.

Over to Xpensive, then!

[Belatti]

Besides, I don't belong to those who stare at F1T every waking minute.

[WhiteBlue]

Some of the F1 rejects here sound a lot worse than anything we have heard about the 2010 new team entrants. I still find this quiz educating. Perhaps we need to find a bit of humor and should focus on some of the more funny aspects that F1 sometimes throw up.

[WhiteBlue]

Double Post

[xpensive]

A bit of humor, why not?

Which multiple WDC won his first title by deliberately taking out his British opponent at the last race and hoped to win his third by trying to take out a Canadian driver only three seasons later?

Lead: The driver in question is by some considered to be a serious scumbag.

[WhiteBlue]

and we Germans are considered to have no sense of humor. I say a prominent Swedish user easily wins that trophy.

Of course you are speaking of the great Michael Schumacher whom you seem to hate a lot.

[xpensive]

Boy, didn't take you long to google that one, guess the lead was a bit of a giveaway though? =D>

Now, let us sample your famous sense of German humor then?

[WhiteBlue]

Two pics illustrate F1 drivers vertically challenged by their team mates. Who is the tallest and the shortest driver on these pics and what are their heights in cm?

[xpensive]

When it seems WB has failed to gain much attention for almost a week, I'm taking the liberty post a riddle of my own;

In the merciful year of 1971, the Ferrari team managed to win no less than five(5) Formula One "races",
of which only two(2) counted for the FIA world Championship however.

Xplain this and which drivers won each of the five "races"?