Auto Racing Trivia Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the auto racing division of Sigma Automotive (later known as SARD) became the first Japanese team to compete in the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans.

the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow.

the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race, won by Charles Duryea's Motorized Wagon (pictured), was the first auto race in the United States.

the 1948 British Grand Prix (pictured) was the first motor racing meeting ever held on the Silverstone Circuit, which until then had been an aerodrome.

the Howmet TX (pictured) earned the first win for a gas turbine racing car in 1968, before earning three more victories and setting six FIA land speed records.

the WF01, the first racing car built by Embassy Racing, was named after team founder Jonathan France's recently born son.

the Toyota 7 was the first sports prototype racing car built by Toyota Motor Corporation, debuting at the 1968 Japanese Grand Prix.

from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III (pictured) sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series.

British auto racing team CR Scuderia won races in all three series it participated in during 2008 as well as two championships.

racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500, but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand's North Island.

motorsport illustrator Michael Turner designed the original Formula One McLaren team logo.

Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars, then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Luigi Fagioli had one of auto racing's most famous rivalries with Louis Chiron in the 1930s.

Rajo Jack, one of the first African-American racecar drivers, pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism.

Nicole Manske of Speed Channel and auto racer Danica Patrick were on the same cheerleading squad at their high school in Rockton, Illinois.

motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500.

Auto Racing Trivia Quiz

1 He finished 3’30” ahead of Georges Lemaître (________), followed by Doriot (Peugeot) at 16’30”, René Panhard (Panhard) at 33’30’’ and Émile Levassor (Panhard) at 55’30”.

2 A large proportion of professional racing drivers began in karts, often from a very young age, such as Michael Schumacher and ________.

3 After 25 years away from the sport, former ________ champion Jonathan Palmer reopened the F2 category again, most drivers have graduated from the Formula Palmer Audi series.

4 Brooklands seems to have been the inspiration for the ________, which opened in 1909.

5 The major touring car championships conducted worldwide are the V8 Supercars (Australia), ________, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), and the World Touring Car Championship.

6 Other events around the world include the Targa Newfoundland based in Canada, Targa West based in ________, Targa New Zealand and other smaller events.

7 It is one of the world's most watched television ________.

8 For the worst accident in racing history see ________.

9 The most famous championship is the BriSCA ________ stock cars.

10 The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series conducts races across ________ and the NASCAR Corona Series conducts races across Mexico.

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