QUIZ: How well do you know your French F1 drivers?

Give your F1 knowledge a test with this quiz on French F1 drivers! F1 returns to France for the first time in ten years, but how much do you know about F1 drivers from the country?

EASY

1)      Which Frenchman is a four-time World Champion?

2)      Romain Grosjean has scored 10 podiums in F1, all for which team?

3)      Grosjean is one, name the other two current French F1 drivers?

4)      Which Frenchman scored Manor Racing’s first ever points in Monaco in 2014?

MEDIUM

5)      Which French driver raced for six teams between 1989-2001, stepping on the podium 32 times, but only topping it once?

6)      Who took a shock win in Monaco in 1996 from 14th on the grid?

7)      Who drove for Toro Rosso for a season and a half before being axed from the team in 2009?

8)      Who raced for Manor and Caterham in a two-year career between 2012 and 2013

HARD

9)      Who won the 1971 US GP at Watkins Glen before being tragically killed at the same circuit two years later?

10)   Didier Pironi missed out on the 1982 title after a career ending crash in Germany, but who was his team-mate that tragically died at Zolder that year?

11)   Which French driver had his 1991 season cut short by a court case, thus handing a debut to Michael Schumacher?

12)   Which former French F1 driver is the current Formula E championship leader, with two rounds to go?

ANSWERS

1)      Alain Prost

2)      Lotus

3)      Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly

4)      Jules Bianchi

5)      Jean Alesi

6)      Olivier Panis

7)      Sebastian Bourdais

8)      Charles Pic

9)      Francois Cevert

10)      Gilles Villeneuve

11)      Bertrand Gachot

12)      Jean-Eric Vergne