New Year Quiz
results!

1: Lancia only ever ran in red Martini livery once. Which event was it, during which year?
A: Sanremo 1989

2: Who are the only two people ever to have scored world championship points as a driver and co-driver?
A: Jean-Claude Lefebvre and Fabrizia Pons

3: Which sport would Nicky Grist have taken part in professionally had he not become a successful co-driver?
A: Golf - he was a rising pro golfer before turning to co-driving

4: What was the last WRC event victory for a rear-wheel drive car, and who was driving?
A: Didier Auriol, Tour de Corse 1988

5: Who was the very first driver ever to be appointed a Red Bull athlete?
A: Gerhard Berger

6: P-G Andersson’s son was born on the back seat of a car as he raced to hospital. But which make of car was it?
A: BMW 3 Series

7: Which major film star used to be Francois Delecour’s neighbour?
A: Johnny Depp

8: Where and when did Sebastien Loeb drive a Ford Focus WRC in competition?
A: 2008 Race of Champions, Wembley Stadium

9: Before Kimi Raikkonen, who was the last active Formula One driver to take part in a WRC event?
A: Derek Warwick, 1990 RAC Rally, Subaru Legacy

10: What is Mikko Hirvonen’s favourite post-rally meal?
A: McDonalds - Big Mac and Fries

11: Which was the first rally car to feature a fully automatic gearbox?
A: 1978 Mercedes 450 SLC

12: Who was the oldest driver to take part in a WRC event at the wheel of a factory World Rally Car - and on which event?
A: Stig Blomqvist, Skoda Octavia WRC, Sweden and Acropolis 2002

13: How high up the RAC Rally classification did Formula One champion Jim Clark get before he was forced to retire his Lotus Cortina?
A:He was in 6th place at the half way halt, just before he went off the road on the next stage.

14: Which rally contained a stage that ran through a prison yard?
A: Rally d’Italia-Sardegna

15: “There is no such thing as pressure; only excitement.” Which leading co-driver said that?
A: Jarmo Lehtinen

16: Which top driver is strictly teetotal?
A: Jari-Matti Latvala

17: Who was the last driver to win a WRC stage outright in a Group N car - and what was the car?
A: Hermann Gassner Senior, 2001 Monte Carlo, Proton Pert

18: What do Jean-Pierre Nicolas, Sebastien Loeb, Jean-Claude Andruet, Rauno Aaltonen, Markku Alen and Colin McRae all have in common?
A: They’ve all competed at the Le Mans 24 Hours

19: Who is the most famous driver ever to have tested a Volkswagen rally car?
A: Ayrton Senna - tested a VW Golf Rally car in the late 1980s for a magazine feature

20: The late Richard Burns owned and treasured an American muscle car. What was it?
A: Chevrolet Camaro SS

21: Two rally drivers have had tribute songs released on CD in Finland in their honour. Name them?
A: Tommi Makinen and Marcus Gronholm

22: Which was the first rally that Lancia’s Group S ECV Delta competed on?
A: Trick question - it never competed, as Group S was never made legal

23: A former WRC star was once forced to miss several rallies due to liver damage - but was perfectly sober at the time. Who was he?
A: Alister McRae, tore his liver during a mountain bike accident and spent months convalescing

24: Name the driver who spent some of his spare time entering hillclimb events in his homeland in 2012?
A: Dani Sordo

25: And finally, which legendary team boss once described his star driver as “a very good man who tries his best to be very bad every time he puts on his crash helmet” - and who was the driver?
A: Corrado Provera, on Marcus Gronholm