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Quiz: Name That Driver

Saturday 29-December-2012 12:23

Lewis Hamilton has two middle names - and believe it or not, one of them is Davidson, as in Ant (now Sky commentator) Davidson. Armed with this bit of priceless knowledge we thought we'd have a look through all the F1 drivers' full names and see how much our well-informed PF1 readership knew...

1.Whose middle name is Carl?
a) Nico Rosberg
b) Jean-Eric Vergne
c) Sebastian Vettel
d) Lewis Hamilton

2.Which former F1 driver-turned-media-star has 'Marshall' as his middle name - (a great motorsport middle name.)
a) Martin Brundle
b) David Coulthard
c) Johnny Herbert
d) Damon Hill

3.Whose middle name is Erik?
a) Mark Webber
b) Michael Schumacher
c) Nico Rosberg
d) Heikki Kovalainen

4. Whose full name should have Diaz at the end (i.e. his mother's name)
a) Fernando Alonso
b) Felipe Massa
c) Pastor Maldonado
d) Sergio Perez

5. Whose middle name is Alan?
a) Kamui Kobayashi
b) Jenson Button
c) Mark Webber
d) Daniel Ricciardo

6. Kamui Kobayashi was named after 'Kamuy' in Ainu mythology. But what does it mean?
a) A divine being
b) A promise of good fortune
c) A strong wind
d) A tendency to crash into other mythological creatures

7. Who has 'Lyons' as one of his middle names?
a) Romaim Grosjean
b) Jean-Eric Vergne
c) Paul DiResta
d) Jenson Button

8. "Nico" Hulkenberg wasn't christened with this name. What is it really?
a) Nicolas
b) Nicklaus
c) Nickel
d) Heinz-Harald

9. Kimi's middlename is often given as Kimi "The Iceman" Raikkonen and occasionally Kimi "The Ice Cream Man" Raikkonen. But what is it really?

a) Kimi has no middle name
b) Keke
c) Bob
d) Matias

10. Vitaly Petrov has a very Russian middle name. What is it?
a) Vladimir
b) Sergei
c) Aleksandrovich

11. Pastor Maldonado doesn't strike you as the arty type, but his middle name makes him sound very creative. Which is it?
a) Michaelangelo
b) Vincent
c) Rafael
d) Leonardo

12. Heikki Kovalainen may not be in F1 much longer but his middle name is not "fingers crossed". What is it?
a) Johannes
b) Mika
c) Henning
d) Sven

Answers
1. d) Lewis Hamilton
2. b) David Coulthard
3. c) Nico Rosberg
4. a) Fernando Alonso
5. c) Mark Webber
6. a) A divine being

7. d) Jenson Button
8. a) Nicolas
9. d) Matias
10. c) Aleksandrovich
11. ) Rafael
12. a) Johannes