trivia type question

[bella]

ok, resident nerds and saddos, now's your chance to shine.

who was the last driver to do f1 and another series at the same time? i know fisichella did a season of itc with f1 drives in between, but before that...

i was just thinking about pizzonia and a nice comfy minardi drive that's being waved in his direction....could he do both, a la tomas scheckter last year with f3000 and f3? or is it completely unheard of?

[MichaelC]

Easy one. Alex Wurz played super-sub for Berger, while still driving for Mercedes in the FIA GT Championship.

Next please.

[MichaelC]

Hey, hang on a minute, are you calling me a saddo and a nerd?

[Liz]

Guy Smith races Indy Lights and ALMS on a fairly regular basis; also Max Papis has done some ALMS racing while also racing in Champ Cars. Neither very successfully, I must admit.

[WackyRacer]

Easy one, brazilian Luciano Burti. He drove the F1 Irv-Jag at Austria 2000 and did F3 in the same year. Outside F1 Memo Gidley drove ChampCars and SportsCars in 2000 as well. There must also be other drivers who did series like touringscars and LeMans in 2000.

[racer10]

The latest edition of F1 Magazine has an interesting interview with the golden boy Hill and the new one Jensen Button. Hill is supposedly conducting the interview, but ends up doing 99% of the talking. Jensen nods and gives his agreements to Hills stories of yesteryear. This interview aside, I would like to give credit to Jensen. He seems to have a bit more of a personality and fun side than the average f1 hero. A very welcome addition to the family of f1. That sumb*&*# can drive to!

[robert2000]

I can go one better than Burti.

Jean Alesi drove in F1 last year and did the Monza Rally

[OVERSTEER]

Ok i've got two both about Mansell because in 1993 he did the Indycar championship and at the end of the year he did the TOCA touring car shootout at Donington, and in 1994 he did the Indycar championship and did some F1 races with Williams after Senna's death.

[Carrie]

Hmm, Luciano Burti - I thought he was only test driver for Jag in 2000, I didn't think he was actually racing, unless he did some F3000, I don't take much notice of that. It was 1999 when he did F3.

[AL Racing]

The last driver to do that would be Stephane Sarrazin in '99 stepping in for Luca Badoer at the Brazilian GP.

[WackyRacer]

Carrie, Burti stepped in on Saturday at Austria 2000 for Eddie Irv because he had a bad hairinfection due to colouring it(or was it something else?). OK, Burti didn't do F3 in 2000 BUT still managed to race at Monaco in the PorscheCup.
Robert2000, wasn't that the classic Alesi-banging-his-car-at-the-Monza-old-banking-race?

[Valve Bounce]

Actually, in the old days, drivers like Moss, and Clark used to drive everything and anything that was available from F1 cars to saloon cars, Le Mans, and so on. In fact, it was really sad that Clark should lose his life in a stupid F2 race at Hockenheim. These were not one off races, but the raced just about anything that moved. Some of the present drivers in F1 also race go carts for fun. However, with the tight schedule for advertising appearances for sponsors, teams, as well as testing, It is really unreaistic for the curent F1 drivers to fit in a lot of races other than F1. I also wonder whether their contracts may prohibit them from doing so. I remember one recent F1 driver had a clause in his contract forbidding him to ski.

[djb]

Wasn't it last year that one of the BTCC guys did the 24 hrs of Lemans? Can't for the life of me remember which one- Plato, no, probably Menu..
re: contracts, remember the late 70's driver who broke his legs all up in a hang-glider crash? (lord, I have a terrible memory for names, I'd like to blame it on having little kids, but I think I was always bad...)
I'm sure team managers remember these types of incidents when it comes to contract details...

[Marshal]

I think the names you are looking for are Tom Kritianssen and Patrick Depailier

[TimD]

Valve Bounce, you touched on something I was thinking about too. Of the many racing moments I regret never seeing, watching Jim Clark chucking a Ford Lotus Cortina about is one of the biggest.

That was the great thing about racing in the mid sixties. It was not unusual for Clark, Hill, Surtees and Brabham to roll up to a race meeting to compete in Formula 1, and by the evening of the same day, they would have raced in Sports GTs and Touring Cars on the same bill too. It meant the spectators could see their heroes throughout the day, and the local drivers and the class specialists could pit their skills against the best in the world.

There is a grainy bit of archive film of Jimmy taking a Cortina around Brands, and the angles that he takes it to are almost beyond belief. Yet he was still one of the quickest on the track.


My biggest hope for season 2001? That Bobby Rahal - entrusted with promoting the name of Jaguar wherever he goes - will persuade Eddie Irvine to pick up the keys to a C, D or E Type and enter it in the Goodwood Revival. Who knows, perhaps Bobby will don a crash hat too. That race would be worth watching.

And before anyone says it will never happen - Eddie Jordan let Damon Hill play in a Ferrari at Goodwood a couple of years back.

[Marshal]

I'm afraid to say it won't happen Tim, if only because the revival is the same weekend as the Italian GP this year. Maybe next year, as I do remember Bobby enjoying a go in a 250 GTO a couple of years ago.

[bella]

that's cheating. i meant more than one race.

wasn't eddie handcuffed to his bed by a randy bird he'd pulled the night before the races?