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This F1 trivia quiz has 97 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
Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina took the 1950 title with 30 points to Alfa Romeo teammate Fangio's 27; Fangio went on to win five championships.
Q 03Which of these constructors never gave Fangio a world title?
Vanwall
Vanwall never gave Fangio a title: his five came with Alfa Romeo (1951), Mercedes-Benz (1954-55), Ferrari (1956) and Maserati (1957), plus Maserati sharing 1954.
Q 04In February 1958, Fangio was kidnapped from a Havana hotel by gunmen loyal to which Cuban revolutionary?
Fidel Castro
Members of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement seized Fangio at the Hotel Lincoln on 23 February 1958, the eve of the Cuban Grand Prix; he was freed after about 29 hours.
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
Schumacher hit his head on a rock while skiing off-piste at Méribel on 29 December 2013; he was kept in a medically induced coma for months, and 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
Hamilton passed Timo Glock's Toyota, struggling on dry tyres in the rain, at the final corners; Felipe Massa had crossed the line thinking he was champion, and the title swung by one point.
Q 09Lewis Hamilton took his first Formula One win at which 2007 Grand Prix?
Canadian
Hamilton won the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal from pole in only his sixth start, for McLaren; he won again a week later in the United States.
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
Verstappen won all four titles with Red Bull Racing, having joined the senior team from Toro Rosso in May 2016; his father Jos also raced in F1, and Max 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
Michael Masi let only the five lapped cars between Hamilton and Verstappen unlap themselves before a final-lap restart, a first; the FIA removed him as race director in February 2022.
Q 13Which driver won the 2025 World Drivers' Championship?
Lando Norris
Q 21Along with Monaco, which two races make up motorsport's Triple Crown?
Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500
The Triple Crown is Monaco, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500; Graham Hill, who completed it with Le Mans in 1972, is the only driver to have won all three.
Q 22The Grand Prix through the streets of Monte Carlo is the only one exempt from which FIA rule?
The 305 km minimum race distance
Monaco is exempt from the 305 km minimum race distance: its 78 laps cover only about 260 km, because the slow street circuit would otherwise exceed the two-hour limit.
Q 23Which circuit, home of the Italian Grand Prix, is nicknamed 'the Temple of Speed'?
Lando Norris clinched the 2025 title at the Abu Dhabi finale, narrowly ahead of Verstappen and teammate Piastri; it was McLaren's first drivers' title since Hamilton in 2008.
Q 14How old was Sebastian Vettel when he became the youngest world champion in 2010?
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
Vettel won from pole for Toro Rosso, Red Bull's junior team, aged 21 years and 73 days, then the youngest winner ever; Verstappen later beat the record by more than two years.
Q 16Which driver is the only Formula One world champion to have been crowned posthumously?
Jochen Rindt
Jochen Rindt was killed in practice for the 1970 Italian Grand Prix at Monza, but his Lotus points lead proved unassailable and he was crowned champion posthumously.
Q 17Niki Lauda returned to racing just six weeks after his fiery 1976 crash at which circuit?
Nürburgring
Lauda's Ferrari crashed and burned at the Nürburgring Nordschleife on 1 August 1976; he missed only two races, finished fourth at Monza on his return, and the season was dramatised in Rush.
Q 18Which four-time champion was nicknamed 'The Professor' for his calculating approach to racing?
Alain Prost
Alain Prost won titles in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993; his 51 wins stood as the record for 14 years until Schumacher passed it in 2001.
Q 19At which Imola corner did Senna's Williams leave the track on 1 May 1994?
Tamburello
Senna's Williams left the track at the flat-out Tamburello curve on lap seven; Roland Ratzenberger had died in qualifying the day before, and no F1 driver died in a race accident again until Jules Bianchi.
Q 20Which driver holds the record of six wins at the Grand Prix run through the streets of Monte Carlo?
Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna won Monaco six times, in 1987 and then five years running from 1989 to 1993; Graham Hill and Michael Schumacher each won it five times.
Monza
Monza, built in 1922 in the royal park north of Milan, is the fastest circuit on the calendar, with lap averages above 260 km/h, and has hosted the Italian Grand Prix every year but one.
Q 24The 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 25The Circuit of the Americas, opened in 2012, is in which US city?
Austin
The Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, hosted its first United States Grand Prix in November 2012, won by Lewis Hamilton for McLaren.
Q 26Under the points system used since 2010, how many points does a race winner receive?
25
A race winner scores 25 points under the system introduced in 2010, with 18 for second and 15 for third; points run down to tenth place.
Q 27To be classified and score points, a driver must complete at least what percentage of the race distance?
90%
A driver must cover at least 90% of the winner's distance to be classified, which is why a late retirement can still score and a lapped car in tenth usually gets a point.
Q 28DRS let a driver open a rear-wing flap when within how much time of the car ahead at a detection point?
One second
DRS could be used when a car was within one second of the car ahead at a detection point; used from 2011 to 2025, it was replaced by active aerodynamics under the 2026 rules.
Q 29Who was the first driver to use DRS in a Formula One race, in 2011?
Jenson Button
Andrea Kimi Antonelli was the last, in 2025, before the system was scrapped.
Q 30Which company has been Formula One's sole tyre supplier since 2011?
Pirelli
Pirelli has been the sole supplier since 2011, taking over from Bridgestone; its dry compounds are colour-coded red (soft), yellow (medium) and white (hard).