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31 Dec 12

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Here are 25 seriously hard questions to test your knowledge of the FIA World Rally Championship and beyond. It's just for fun and there are no prizes to be won but make a note of your answers because they'll be revealed on WRC.com soon.

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

2: Who are the only two people ever to have scored world championship points as a driver and co-driver?

3: Which sport would Nicky Grist have taken part in professionally had he not become a successful co-driver?

4: What was the last WRC event victory for a rear-wheel drive car, and who was driving?

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

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?

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

8: Where and when did Sebastien Loeb drive a Ford Focus WRC in competition?

9: Before Kimi Raikkonen (pictured), who was the last active Formula One driver to take part in a WRC event?

10: What is Mikko Hirvonen’s favourite post-rally meal?

11: Which was the first rally car to feature a fully automatic gearbox?

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?

13: How high up the RAC Rally classification did Formula One champion Jim Clark get before he was forced to retire his Lotus Cortina?

14: Which rally contained a stage that ran through a prison yard?

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

16: Which top driver is strictly teetotal?

17: Who was the last driver to win a WRC stage outright in a Group N car - and what was the car?

18: What do Jean-Pierre Nicolas, Sebastien Loeb, Jean-Claude Andruet, Rauno Aaltonen, Markku Alen and Colin McRae all have in common?

19: Who is the most famous driver ever to have tested a Volkswagen rally car?

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

21: Two rally drivers have had tribute songs released on CD in Finland in their honour. Name them?

22: Which was the first rally that Lancia’s Group S ECV Delta competed on?

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?

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

25: 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?

Previous quiz answers: The answers to the quiz first published on 22 December appear below: 1: Delecour handed driving duties to navigator Dominique Savignoni who had planned to retire after the event. 2: Dani Sordo was drafted in to replace the injured Jari-Matti Latvala. 3: He was preparing for and then taking part in the London 2012 Olympics. 4: Thierry Neuville in New Zealand, Chris Atkinson in Finland. 5: Jari-Matti Latvala. 6: Six. 7: John Powell. 8: Sordo. 9: Ford Fiesta RS WRC, Citroen DS3 WRC, MINI John Cooper Works WRC. 10: Became the first driver to compete in a WRC event, the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500, Le Mans 24 Hours and Dakar Rally. 11: Petter Solberg. 12: Broke his ankle training. 13: Daniele Elena. 14: Ken Block. 15: Palmeiras. 16: Colin McRae. 17: Scrap metal. 18: Kris Meeke. 19: He became the first driver to win an all-gravel stage in the WRC in a Super 2000 car. 20: Belgian. 21: His mother. 22: They carried Ford EcoBoost branding as part of a marketing exercise. 23: Mexico and Finland. 24: Sebastien Loeb. 25: Abdulaziz Alkuwari.

 

 


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