Grand Prix Rejects

Prost 1985

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

My personal champion?

Jody Scheckter.

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

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)

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.

1989 was the year Alain Prost won a World Championship.

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.

Ben Hur

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

'93 Prost

Bleu wrote:Italian F3: Alessandro Santin

win

The 'tache, Luca Badoer, Alan Kulwicki

Prost 85.

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

Thats February 28th

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

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

Let's do my own:

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

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.

Lauda ´84

1966 Jack Brabham

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.

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.

1975?

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

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.

Mansell!

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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!

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

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.

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

No, you indeed aren't

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.

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

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.

Niki Lauda in 1977.

James Hunt. Fairly easy.

the year of Alain Prost's last championship.

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