Who Became World Champion the Year You Were Born?

golic_2004 · Post by **golic_2004** » 05 Feb 2011, 01:04

Prost 1985

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 06 Feb 2011, 21:56

Piquet '87, although the season hadn't started.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 06 Feb 2011, 22:36

My personal champion?

Jody Scheckter.

There aren't half some youngsters around here...

Row Man Gross-Gene · Post by **Row Man Gross-Gene** » 07 Feb 2011, 07:12

dinizintheoven wrote:My personal champion?

Jody Scheckter.

There aren't half some youngsters around here...

Ha, there is another ancient in here! I share Mr. Scheckter with you.

(my dad is Ascari and my mom is Fangio)

europeanminardi · Post by **europeanminardi** » 07 Feb 2011, 09:17

ok,

me, 1981, Nelson Piquet, Brabham-Ford (I like neither Piquet nor Brabham or Ford...)
my sister, 1966, Jack Brabham, Brabham-Repco (here we go again)
my brother, 1968, Graham Hill, Lotus-Ford
my parents were born in the pre-World Championhsip-era.

Reverie Planetarian · Post by **Reverie Planetarian** » 07 Feb 2011, 19:54

1989 was the year Alain Prost won a World Championship.

IdeFan · Post by **IdeFan** » 07 Feb 2011, 23:32

Shameless copy of Midgrid:

F1 World Champion: Nelson Piquet
F3000 International: Stefano Modena
Japanese F3000: Kazuyoshi Hoshino
British F3: Johnny Herbert
French F3: Jean Alesi
German F3: Bernd Schneider
Italian F3: Enrico Bertaggia
ETCC: Winfred Vogt
DTM: Eric van de Poele
BTCC: Chris Hodgetts
WSR: Raul Boesel
CART: Bobby Rahal
Trans-Am: Scott Pruett
NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt
WRC: Yuha Kankkunen
500CC: Wayne Gardner

I'm surprised how many of those names I recognise, it seems almost all of them went on to greater things in the 90s, 1987 must have been a good year.

Ross Prawn · Post by **Ross Prawn** » 08 Feb 2011, 00:08

Ben Hur

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 08 Feb 2011, 20:08

F1: Niki Lauda
F2: Mike Thackwell
British F3: Johnny Dumfries
Italian F3: Alessandro Santin
German F3: Kurt Thiim
French F3: Olivier Grouillard
Japanese F3: Shuji Hyoudo
World Sportscars: Stefan Bellof
DTM: Volker Strycek
ETCC: Tom Walkinshaw
NASCAR: Terry Labonte
WRC: Stig Blomqvist
500cc: Eddie Lawson

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 08 Feb 2011, 20:17

'93 Prost

LucaPacchiarini · Post by **LucaPacchiarini** » 08 Feb 2011, 23:10

Bleu wrote:Italian F3: Alessandro Santin

win

cretoxyrhina · Post by **cretoxyrhina** » 09 Feb 2011, 04:40

The 'tache, Luca Badoer, Alan Kulwicki

David AGS · Post by **David AGS** » 09 Feb 2011, 08:53

Prost 85.

But I share the same birthdate with Mario Andretti, Eric Bachelart, and Sebastien Bourdais.

Thats February 28th

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 09 Feb 2011, 10:54

I was born in 1995 so it would have been Michael Schumacher.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 09 Feb 2011, 17:11

Tell you what, let's have a Midgrid-style run-down and see how many names I recognise...

F1 World Champion: Jody Scheckter
Aurora AFX British F1 champion (yes, it was still going on!): Rupert Keegan
European F2: Marc Surer
Japanese F2: Keiiji Matsumoto
British F3: Chico Serra
French F3: Alain Prost (no... never heard of him, who is he?)
German F3: Michael Korten
Italian F3: Piercarlo Ghinzani (hooray, he won something... once!)
Japanese F3: Toshio Suzuki
European Touring Car Championship: Martino Finotto & Carlo Facetti
British Saloon Car Championship: Richard Longman
IndyCar Series: Rick Mears (also win the Indy 500 on the way)
Trans-Am Series: Gene Bothello (cat. 1) & John Paul, Sr. (cat. 2)
NASCAR: Richard Petty
WRC: Björn Waldegård
Paris-Dakar Rally: Alain Génestier & Joseph Terbiaut
Le Mans 24 hrs: Klaus Ludwig, Bill Whittington & Don Whittington
500cc: Kenny Roberts
350cc & 250cc: Kork Ballington
125cc: Ángel Nieto
Isle of Man TT (F1 class): Alex George

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 09 Feb 2011, 18:41

Let's do my own:

F1: Nigel Mansell.
International F3000: Luca Badoer :mrgreen:

Japanese F3000: Mauro Martini.
British F3000: Yvan Muller.
British F3: Gil de Ferran, Paul Evans (National Class).
Italian F3: Max Angelelli.
Japanese F3: Anthony Reid.
German F3: Pedro Lamy.
Austrian F3: Phillip Peter.
Sudamerican F3: Marcos Gueiros, Suzane Carvalho (Light Class).
French F3: Franck Lagorce.
Swiss F3: Jo Zeller.
Brazilian F3: Marcos Gueiros.
Mexican F3: César Tiberio Jimenez.
Masters of F3: Pedro Lamy.
Macau F3 GP: Rickard Rydell.
Monaco F3 Support Race: Marco Werner.
BTCC: Tim Harvey, James Kaye (Independt Drivers Championship).
DTM: Klaus Ludwig.
CART: Bobby Rahal, Stefan Johansson (Rookie of the Year).
Trans-Am: Jack Baldwin.
NASCAR: Alan Kulwicki (Winston Cup), Joe Nemechek (Nationwide Series), Jeff Fuller (Whelen Modified Tour).
WRC: Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya.
Paris-Dakar: Hubert Auriol and Philippe Monnet (cars), Stéphane Peterhansel (bikes), Francesco Perlini (trucks).
WSC: Derek Warwick and Yannick Dalmas (C1), Ferdinand de Lesseps (Cup).
GP Motorbike racing: Alessandro Gramigni (125cc), Luca Cadalora (250cc), Wayne Rainey (500cc).

Verde · Post by **Verde** » 09 Feb 2011, 18:48

LucaPacchiarini wrote:
Bleu wrote:Italian F3: Alessandro Santin

win

The man who drove for FIVE different teams in a single Formula 3000 season. A typical F3K reject.

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 10 Feb 2011, 14:58

Lauda ´84

JGomezHRT · Post by **JGomezHRT** » 11 Feb 2011, 10:37

1966 Jack Brabham

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 11 Feb 2011, 12:19

In my year, this person won the first of his three world championship, 31 drivers failed to score a point but 21 drivers did score a point, point scorers included 2 americans (although one other tried too) but only 3 brits (although another 10 tried to) and 3 frenchmen (although 3 others also tried too). A single Japanese driver was involved in the world championship, trying to qualify a Japanese car... There were 2 swiss and 2 swedes too and at least 5 south africans. And an Italian didn't even score a point, but did not score zero either.... Can you guess the year.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 11 Feb 2011, 13:34

SuperAguri wrote:In my year, this person won the first of his three world championship, 31 drivers failed to score a point but 21 drivers did score a point, point scorers included 2 americans (although one other tried too) but only 3 brits (although another 10 tried to) and 3 frenchmen (although 3 others also tried too). A single Japanese driver was involved in the world championship, trying to qualify a Japanese car... There were 2 swiss and 2 swedes too and at least 5 south africans. And an Italian didn't even score a point, but did not score zero either.... Can you guess the year.

1975. The Japanese trying to qualify the Japanese car should be Hiroshi Fushida in the Maki-Ford Cosworth, and the Italian that didn't score a point but didn't fail to score either is Lella Lombardi.

Post by **tommykl** » 11 Feb 2011, 17:07

1975?

Edit: I see Phoenix beat me to it. Ah well...

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 18 Feb 2011, 07:01

The year of McLaren domination and the Rise of Senna. aka 1988. Funny to see how many youngsters the forums has. Granted, we got a lot of Old hats too so I'm kinda on the middle of the road

Ironically enough the first race I ever saw was the race where Senna died.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 19 Feb 2011, 01:49

Mansell!

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 22 Feb 2011, 10:44

SuperAguri wrote:In my year, this person won the first of his three world championship, 31 drivers failed to score a point but 21 drivers did score a point, point scorers included 2 americans (although one other tried too) but only 3 brits (although another 10 tried to) and 3 frenchmen (although 3 others also tried too). A single Japanese driver was involved in the world championship, trying to qualify a Japanese car... There were 2 swiss and 2 swedes too and at least 5 south africans. And an Italian didn't even score a point, but did not score zero either.... Can you guess the year.

1975.

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 22 Feb 2011, 16:33

NASCAR: Rusty Wallace
CART: Emerson Fittipaldi
F1: Alain Prost

Pommy Barsteward · Post by **Pommy Barsteward** » 25 Feb 2011, 00:54

As the Beastie Boys once said:

"You (I was born the same year as) love Mario Andretti cause he always drives his car well"

PB

Porrima · Post by **Porrima** » 25 Feb 2011, 03:25

That would be Keke Rosberg in 1982.

There's a "heartwarming" (YMMV) story on that, since my first word was "Keke". The name was up a lot that year in Finland. That's also probably my closest connection to F1. Either that or owning a bottle of Giancarlo Fisichella deodorant.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 25 Feb 2011, 12:56

Porrima wrote:That would be Keke Rosberg in 1982.

There's a "heartwarming" (YMMV) story on that, since my first word was "Keke". The name was up a lot that year in Finland. That's also probably my closest connection to F1. Either that or owning a bottle of Giancarlo Fisichella deodorant.

Didn't you accidentally cought Fisichellitis? :lol:

jpm · Post by **jpm** » 25 Feb 2011, 14:19

One Michael Schumacher's first title; 94

Other series include
F3000; Jean-Christophe Boullion
Formula Nippon; Marco Apicella
British F3; Jan Magnussen
German F3; Jorg Muller
French F3; Jean-Philippe Belloc (Never heard of him!)
BTCC; Gabriele Tarquini
DTM; Klaus Ludwig
Indycar; Al Unser Jr.
NASCAR; Dale Earnhardt
WRC; Didier Auriol

Some good stock in '94 then!

Conventi · Post by **Conventi** » 25 Feb 2011, 14:55

So am I the dinosaur here ?!? :mrgreen:

My year is Emerson Fittipaldis first World Champonchip title...

LucaPacchiarini · Post by **LucaPacchiarini** » 25 Feb 2011, 15:24

jpm wrote:French F3; Jean-Philippe Belloc (Never heard of him!)

He competed for some time in GT Fia with a Viper in the early 2000's, I think he might have won a championship.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 25 Feb 2011, 23:39

Conventi wrote:So am I the dinosaur here ?!?
My year is Emerson Fittipaldis first World Champonchip title...

No, you indeed aren't :lol:

Post by **tommykl** » 26 Feb 2011, 09:45

Phoenix wrote:
Conventi wrote:So am I the dinosaur here ?!?
My year is Emerson Fittipaldis first World Champonchip title...

No, you indeed aren't

In fact, I believe someone's answer would be Alberto Ascari.

stupot94 · Post by **stupot94** » 27 Feb 2011, 21:30

1994-Schumacher.
Wish it was Hill. And realistically I would have been Senna

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 02 Mar 2011, 05:14

LucaPacchiarini wrote:
jpm wrote:French F3; Jean-Philippe Belloc (Never heard of him!)

He competed for some time in GT Fia with a Viper in the early 2000's, I think he might have won a championship.

Yes, with Bouchut.

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 07 Jul 2011, 14:45

Niki Lauda in 1977.

The Mountain Man · Post by **The Mountain Man** » 07 Jul 2011, 16:39

James Hunt. Fairly easy.

MansellsEyebrows · Post by **MansellsEyebrows** » 07 Jul 2011, 17:28

the year of Alain Prost's last championship.

dnhrudi · Post by **dnhrudi** » 08 Jul 2011, 17:35

Jim Clark's first championship. never thought about my age in these terms before. scary :lol: