This F1 trivia quiz has 60 free questions with answers and runs from the first World Championship race at Silverstone in 1950 to the current grid. It covers the champions (Fangio, Lauda, Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton, Verstappen, Norris), the teams (Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull, Williams), the circuits (Monaco, Monza, Spa, Suzuka, Silverstone), and the rules and technology every fan argues about: points, DRS, tyre compounds, the safety car and the halo. Roughly a third of the questions are easy enough for someone who found the sport through Drive to Survive, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who know Fangio's win percentage and which corner at Imola is called Tamburello. Every answer has been checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01The first Formula One World Championship race was held on 13 May 1950 at which circuit?
Silverstone
Silverstone was built on the site of RAF Silverstone, a wartime bomber station.
Q 02Who won the first Formula One Drivers' World Championship in 1950, driving for Alfa Romeo?
Giuseppe Farina
He narrowly beat his teammate Fangio, who would go on to win five titles.
Q 03Fangio won world titles with four different teams. Which of these was NOT one of them?
Vanwall
He won with Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari; his 24 wins from 52 starts is still the best winning percentage ever.
Q 04In February 1958, Fangio was kidnapped from a Havana hotel by gunmen loyal to which Cuban revolutionary?
Fidel Castro
He was released after about 29 hours and later called it 'one more adventure'.
Q 05Which two drivers had each won seven F1 World Drivers' Championships by the end of 2025?
Schumacher and Hamilton
Schumacher's came in 1994-95 and 2000-04; Hamilton's in 2008 and 2014-20.
Q 06Michael Schumacher's record five consecutive titles came with which team?
Ferrari
His first two titles, in 1994 and 1995, were with Benetton.
Q 07In December 2013, Schumacher suffered a traumatic brain injury while doing what?
Skiing
He was placed in an induced coma for six months; his brother Ralf also raced in F1.
Q 08Whom did Lewis Hamilton pass for fifth at the last corners of the 2008 Brazilian GP to clinch his first title?
Timo Glock
Felipe Massa had crossed the line thinking he was champion; the pass swung the title by one point.
Q 09After 12 seasons with the Silver Arrows, Lewis Hamilton joined which team for 2025?
Ferrari
He was knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours and remains the only Black driver to have raced in F1.
Q 10How old was Max Verstappen when he became F1's youngest ever starter at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix?
17
He was 17 years and 166 days old; a year later he became the youngest race winner at 18.
Q 11Verstappen won four consecutive world titles from 2021 to 2024 with which team?
Red Bull
His father Jos was also an F1 driver; Max holds Dutch and Belgian nationality but races under the Dutch flag.
Q 12Who was the race director at the centre of the dispute over the 2021 Abu Dhabi safety-car restart?
Michael Masi
He let only the five lapped cars between the title rivals unlap themselves, which had never happened before, and was removed from the role in February 2022.
Q 13Which driver won the 2025 World Drivers' Championship?
Lando Norris
It was McLaren's first drivers' title since Hamilton in 2008.
Q 21Which driver holds the record of six wins at the Grand Prix run through the streets of Monte Carlo?
Ayrton Senna
Five of them came consecutively between 1989 and 1993.
Q 22The Monaco Grand Prix is one of motorsport's Triple Crown races. What are the other two?
Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500
Graham Hill is the only driver to have won all three.
Q 23The Grand Prix through the streets of Monte Carlo is the only one exempt from which FIA rule?
The 305 km minimum race distance
Q 14Sebastian Vettel became the youngest ever world champion in 2010. How old was he?
23
He was 23 years and 134 days; Fangio, the oldest champion, was 46 when he won in 1957.
Q 15Vettel took his first Grand Prix win at a wet Monza in 2008 for which team?
Toro Rosso
He was 21 years and 74 days old, a record Verstappen later beat by more than two years.
Q 16Which driver is the only Formula One world champion to have been crowned posthumously?
Jochen Rindt
He was killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix in 1970 but had built an unassailable points lead.
Q 17Niki Lauda returned to racing just six weeks after his fiery 1976 crash at which circuit?
Nürburgring
He missed only two races and finished fourth at Monza on his return; the season was dramatised in the film Rush.
Q 18Which four-time champion was nicknamed 'The Professor' for his calculating approach to racing?
Alain Prost
His 51 wins stood as the record for 14 years until Schumacher passed it in 2001.
Q 19The 1989 and 1990 world titles were both decided by collisions between the same McLaren rivals at which circuit?
Suzuka
Senna won all three of his titles with McLaren, in 1988, 1990 and 1991.
Q 20At which Imola corner did Senna's Williams leave the track on 1 May 1994?
Tamburello
Roland Ratzenberger had died in qualifying the day before; Senna was the last F1 driver to die in a race accident until Jules Bianchi.
The race has been run in the streets of the principality since 1929.
Q 24Which circuit, home of the Italian Grand Prix, is nicknamed 'the Temple of Speed'?
Monza
Built in 1922 in a royal park north of Milan, it has been the fastest track on the calendar since 1991.
Q 25The Raidillon de l'Eau Rouge is the most famous corner sequence at which circuit?
Spa-Francorchamps
Spa, in the Belgian Ardennes, is 7.004 km long and was first used for Grand Prix racing in 1925.
Q 26Which Grand Prix circuit is the only FIA Grade 1 track with a figure-of-eight layout?
Suzuka
It was designed as a Honda test track in 1962 by the Dutchman John Hugenholtz.
Q 27Maggotts, Becketts and Copse are famous corners at which circuit?
Silverstone
Cars pull more than 5g through the Maggotts-Becketts sequence.
Q 28Under the points system used since 2010, how many points does a race winner receive?
25
Points go to the top ten, and a driver must complete at least 90% of the distance to be classified.
Q 29To be classified and score points, a driver must complete at least what percentage of the race distance?
90%
That is why a driver who retires late can still score, and why a lapped car finishing 10th usually gets a point.
Q 30DRS let a driver open a rear-wing flap when within how much time of the car ahead at a detection point?
One second
Used from 2011 to 2025, it was replaced by 'active aerodynamics' under the 2026 rules.