How about a nice multi puzzle? No points at all for telling me the name of the car in each picture, instead tell me the name of the circuit (just the name its generally known by is fine). Since the answers vary (hopefully) from very easy to very hard I'll try to award points as each correct answer is given. But bear with me as that may get quite hard if all the answers come at once. Here are numbers 1 to 5.
Numbers 6 to 10...
And finally numbers 11 to 15, good luck :)
Nothing from the rookies.
I'm sure the experts can solve some of these...
I'll try some guesses:
#3 Targa Florio
#7 Avus
#11 Zandvoort
#12 Nürburgring
#14 Monaco
You get the first point but just the one I'm afraid. Number 11 is Zandvoort but the others aren't correct. I'll fill in the correct answers below so people can easily see what is yet to be solved.
GTC 1 Monte Carlo (Metalshapes) Louis Chiron's Bugatti T35C in the pits in the 1930 Monaco GP.
GTC 2 Pau (DynaMike) Claude Storez leads Paul Armagnac in the DB Monomills in the 1955 Pau GP.
GTC 3 Nurburgring (Metalshapes) Tazio Nuvolari on his way to a famous victory in the 1935 German GP in his Alfa Romeo B P3.
GTC 4 Silverstone (Metalshapes) Riccardo Patrese's Shadow DN8 leads a Mclaren and a Brabham in the 1977 British GP.
GTC 5 Sebring (D-Type) Fritz d'Orey in the Tec-Mec F415 in the 1959 US GP. The only world championship apperence for both car and circuit.
GTC 6 Donington Park (Metalshapes) Manfred von Brauchitsch's Mercedes-Benz W125 gets airbourne at the Melbourne rise in the 1937 Donington GP.
GTC 7 Nepliget Park (DynaMike) Rudolf Caracciola (Mercedes W25K) leads Bernd Rosemeyer (Auto Union C) in the 1936 Hungarian GP.
GTC 8 Miramas (Metalshapes) Jules Goux, in a Bugatti T39A, on his way to winning the farcical 3 car French (l'ACF) GP of 1926.
GTC 9 Birmingham (DynaMike) Olivier Grouillard's F3000 Lola in the 1988 Superprix.
GTC 10 Syracuse (D-Type) Luigi Musso on the way to victory in the 1958 Syracuse GP in a Ferrari Dino 246.
GTC 11 Zandvoort (DynaMike) Luigi Villoresi leads Alberto Ascari in their Ferrari 500s in the 1952 Dutch GP.
GTC 12 Monza (Pieter) Emerson Fittipaldi in a Mclaren M23 heads towards the Variante Ascari with the old circuit in the background, Italian GP 1975.
GTC 13 Rouen (Metalshapes) Reine Wisell's GRD 273 leads Wilson Fittipaldi's Brabham BT40 and Patrick Depailler's Alpine A367 through the remains of the temporary chicane in the Formula 2 Rouen GP of 1973.
GTC 14
GTC 15 Watkins Glen (Metalshapes) Jim Clark takes the only victory for the Lotus 43 and its BRM H16 engine, US GP 1966.
:-[ Well, it was worth a try...
#2 Caen?
Sorry not Caen but keep guessing because I'm not expecting most of these to be solved first time.
I think I've got it:
#2 Pau (DB Monomill at the 1955 Grand Prix de Pau).
And maybe
#3 AVUS (behind the Alfa is a typical German one-way sign, and the pavement looks like the German Autobahn... Was it called something like Autobahnnormbetonplattenbau?)
A second point to you #2 is Pau (with DB's being the best clue)
#6
Donnington.
#7
Tripoli
#6 is Donington, one point 2U but #7 is not Tripoli.
I think
#7 Budapest (Rudolf Caracciola in Mercedes-Benz Silberpfeil and Bernd Rosemeyer in Auto Union, 21st of June at the GP of Hungary).
And #3 AVUS?
#3
nurburgring
Oh Dynamike I really want to give you the point for number 7 (which I think is one of the hardest to get). The circuits not called Budapest tho (But it is in Budapest)
I'm sure you can tell me its name so I'll leave number 7 as exclusive for you for 24 hours...
Metalshapes you are right on number 3 - it is the nurburgring.
#1 LeMans
Sorry #1 is not Le Mans.
The Budapest circuit is called Hungaroring, nowadays. But I'm not sure wether that name was used in 1936 as well... Maybe Nepliget?
Yeah thats right, one well deserved point 2U.
I'm pretty sure that the Hungaroring is completly seperate from Nepliget Park. I think Nepliget Park is (or was) within Budapest itself where as the Hungaroring is near Budapest but not in it (or possibly in the outskirts)...
I don't think they're in the same place anyway.
Well done on getting the #7, I thought would be one of the last few left.
#1
1930 Grand Prix of Monaco.
Yep number 1 is Monte Carlo/Monaco
...And a quick check has confirmed it is from the 1930 GP
#15 Watkins Glen
Right again, 15 is Watkins Glen.
#8
Grand prix de l' A.C.F 1926
Which was held at Miramas, I believe.
And another, 8 is Miramas.
Well done, that was another that I thought people would struggle with.
#4
Silverstone.
#13 a guess...
Rouen.
Yep #4 is Silverstone and if #13 was a guess it was a good one because it is indeed Rouen.
#5
Sebring
Fritz d'Orey in the Tec Mec 1960
#10
Syracuse
#12
Brands Hatch
#14
Albert Park, Melbourne
12 looks like Monza (the old banked circuit passing over in the background)
Ok. D-Type: #5 is Sebring and the Tec-Mec (1959 not 1960 tho) and #10 is Syracuse but #14 is not Albert Park and #12 is not Brands Hatch, instead pieter is correct and #12 is Monza with the old circuit in the background.
So 2 points to D-type and 1 to pieter.
Two are left unsolved and they are #9 and #14.
Dammit! I genuinely meant to say 1959
If #14 isn't Monaco or Albert Park, could it be Montreal?
And as #9 is a road circuit, is it Long Beach?
Sorry no neither is right. For #9 you've got the wrong racing series. As for #14 I was a little suprised by the location but it does make sense. If I hadn't set this puzzle I'm not sure I'd have guessed it tho.
Is it a Formula 3000 at Pau?
#9 is a F3000 car but its not at Pau
I'll try again...
#9 Birmingham Superpix?
Yep it is indeed the streets of Birmingham.
#14
Phoenix ?
It was a street circuit, but I dont know how close it was to the artificial lake...
They had the US GP there for a couple of years around the late '80s
Sorry not Phoenix either.
Last guess:
#14 - Long Beach
I can't think of any ther F1 circuit near water.
Its not Long Beach either...
Like I said before if I didn't know the answer I'd find it very suprising (even if in some ways it shouldn't be)
Is #14 the Detroit street circuit?
Yes it is indeed Detroit. It might not be a circuit normally associated with water but the start/finish section ran right next to the Detroit river. So well done you get the final point in this puzzle.
I was thinking of doing a second puzzle of this type. I knocked this one together pretty quickly so I would spend longer on the next one and make it (hopefully) much harder with more obscure/less eaisly reconisable circuits. Then I'd probably open it up to everyone straight away by putting it into the pros section (since they didn't get a chance with this one).
So what do people think about these kind of big multi answer puzzles? Would people be up for another, better, harder sequel to this puzzle? Let me know what you think.
I'm no racing specialist at all, but I might have a try at it: I liked this one very much.
Yup, go for it!
OK then, I'll spend some time getting the pics together and I'll post it in the next few weeks.
Quote from: 250gto on July 14, 2009, 05:02:19 PM
Yep #4 is Silverstone and if #13 was a guess it was a good one because it is indeed Rouen.
BTW, you havent given me the points for these two yet... :)
Oh sorry I thought I had done ???...
Well I definatly have now. :)
Thanks. :)