Ferrari Aptitude Test?

Hey Walter

On the 166 - I was thinking 6 cylinder Dino GP car but the frame suggested the width of a dueposti. But I was misled by the 6 pipes on the exhaust manifold - pardon my ignorance - shouldnt there be 12 little pipes - one for each cyl?

vur

 

Close, but not the full response I'm looking for. No points awarded yet.

 

I could be just as ignorant, but I believe it is one pipe per bank, not cylinder.

 

Ferrari was banned one year from racing; so through Luigi Chinetti, he was able to enter Ferraris to race...

PS My answer for the 166/manual picture was a total, 100% crapshoot guess... After I saw Daniel's answer, I muttered something under my breath that I can't type here... The fact that I was right is pure luck...

 

North American Racing Team, Chinetti was previously a salesman...., inspired by Indy racing at the time?

 

Hey, Vur...

I was wondering the same thing... I thumbed through some pictures here on my computer, hoping to find a match... I was scared to specify and say 166 Spyder Corsa or 166 MM, so I'm glad I was vague about it... I noticed a difference in the engine from my pictures to the one Townshend posted and wondered the same thing as you...

Townshend...?

 

Well not sure if I can ask a question but here goes....

In which 8 GP years did Ferrari only win one race, name each year?

 

Sorry long answer -

On the origins of the word NART: the 'RACE OF GIANTS' coined by Luigi Chinetti to enter the world of GT racing as the North American Racing Team.


Quoting from Wikipedia:

"The Nart sagas are a series of tales originating from the Caucasus Mountains. They form the basic mythology of the tribes in the area; some are simply stories, but some have value as creation myths and ancient theology.

The Abkhaz, Circassians, Ossetians and the Ubykh all have versions of the Nart sagas.

The Narts themselves are a race of giants.

Some motifs in the Nart sagas are shared by Greek mythology. The story of Prometheus chained to Mount Kazbek in particular is similar to an element in the Nart sagas. These shared motifs are seen by some as indicative of an earlier proximity of the Caucasian peoples to the ancient Greeks, also shown in the myth of the Golden Fleece, in which Colchis is generally accepted to have been part of modern-day Georgia or Abkhazia.

Additionally, the philologist Georges Dumézil used the division of the Narts into three clans to support his Trifunctional Hypothesis that the Proto-Indo-Europeans were similarly divided into three castes—warriors, priests, and commoners. (Implicit in this argument is the assumption that this aspect of the Nart sagas was derived from the Ossetians, as the other peoples among whom the sagas are shared are non-Indo-European.)

In the book From Scythia to Camelot, authors C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor speculate that many aspects of the Arthurian legends are derived from the Nart sagas. The proposed vector of transmission is the Alans—the ancestors of the Ossetians—some of whom migrated into northern France at around the time the Arthurian legends were forming."

 

hey carbon - youre on form! well done on the 166 answer.

 

NART or North American Racing Team was founded by Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti, George Arents, Jan de Vroom and possibly a few others. The name was inspired by a North American Van Lines truck.

 

Thanks - but now that I've shown Gerald this thread, I don't think we'll be scoring any more points...!

 

Hey now, quoting from Wikipedia is just cheating!

Actually, were we allowed to search the 'net or whatever before answering?

 

Nah I dont think so otherwise it will turn into a contest of who can search quickest.....

 

Here comes the thunder...

 

First of all, I assume you are talking about ONLY Grands prix that counted towards the drivers/constructors World Championship, as there are lots of races named Grand Prix.

I have nine (not eight) years in which Scuderia Ferrari only scored one victory in such races:

1955
1960
1963
1968
1972
1984
1988
1994
1995

There is also a fair sprinkling of years in which Ferrari won NO RACES!

 

Correct...very, very good didnt think that was an easy one...

 

Here's one for the real trivia experts.

What brand of tire did Luigi Chinetti credit for his win in the 1951 Carrera Panamericana?

 

Since my desk is about 12 feet from Gerald's, I'll have to sit this one out (but I'm not above taking bribes...!)

 

Engelbergh(spelling)?

 

ok sorry

 

Nope, not Englebert!

 

Firestone.....guessing now....

 

Nope!

 

My guess - Pirelli

 

Here you go:

Edit: Oops - was 0161EL or 0171EL Chinetti's car? Pictures are for 0161EL I believe.

They look skinny black and round to me
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