Naming all the F1 champions (and a JRS pedantic caveat...)

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Part of the BBC F1 summer break page has a quiz that asks you to name all 33 F1 champions. Having completed it I of course then grumbled about it to the BBC via their contact pages. Because the World Championship was for Formula 2 cars in 1952 and 1953. And technically it wasn't the Formula One World Championship anyway before 1981 - it was the World Championship of Drivers (with the International Cup for Constructors alongside).

Minor rant over :)
 
Pedantry keeps the world right. :p

Managed 27 of the 33 champion drivers, managing to forget Hulme, Stewart, Andretti, Sheckter, Jones and Piquet!
 
Argh, 32 out of 33! I couldn't remember Farina, the first!

Denny Hulme I remember well as Grand Prix Legends (my most played game by a massive distance I expect) is based on 1967 and of course a lot of other champions of around that time were racing in that year too.

1950s and 1970s have always been a weak point, but managed to narrow it down due to the years missing.

Oddly struggled to get Button for in inordinately long time, just staring at the screen with my mind blank!
 
See, Hulme was the one I was struggling with for a minute and the last one I had to get. Still driving the hell out of GPL on my PC ~20 years after it was released, and I (briefly) couldn't remember who won the '67 title...embarrassing :o:D

By the way...

timmeh said:
You have too much time on your hands.
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Just so I'm clear, what was it that made you think that? The four-ish minutes that I spent on the quiz, or the three-ish minutes that I spent on a quick note of feedback to the Beeb? ;)
 
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A poor 14 for me but in my defence I’m young-ish! And have only been watching d1 the last 5-6 years
 
Full house! The two that left me head scratching for a while were Fittipaldi in the middle, and then at the end John Surtees, he was the last piece in the jigsaw.
 
Just did this....got 25/33

Kicked myself on the ones I couldn't remember. I did miss out on Jody Scheckter as I couldn't spell his name.
 
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