Trivia For Nico Rosberg

Trivia For Nico Rosberg

Trivia For Nico Rosberg


Question: You won the GP2 championship back in 2005, while your ART team mate Alexandre Premat finished in fourth. Last season, however, Premat won his own championship - in what series?

Nico Rosberg: Holy Moses! Obviously he didn’t win in DTM. Must have been the Le Mans Series.
Correct - with Audi.

Question: At what race did your father Keke score his first Formula one victory with Williams?

Nico Rosberg:  That was in Dijon in 1982. It was the Swiss GP!
Correct

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Question: How many races, drivers’ titles and constructors’ titles have Williams won?

Nico Rosberg:  I think they’ve won 11 constructor’s titles and nine driver’s titles. Races? I would put that down to 90.
Zero out of three - they have won 113 races, seven drivers’ championships and nine constructors’ championships.

Question: You were born in Wiesbaden, but can you name another famous sportsman to have been born in the German city?

Nico Rosberg:  In Wiesbaden? I didn’t know there was one. No idea.
Incorrect - tennis star John McEnroe was born on a U.S. military base at Wiesbaden.

Question: You have dual German and Finnish nationality. What is the Finnish national anthem called?

Nico Rosberg:  Ah, I have no idea.
Incorrect - it is called ‘Our Land’ or in Finnish, ‘Maamme’.

Question: When you made your F1 debut at the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix, you became the youngest ever driver to score a fastest lap, aged 20. Who held that record before you?

Nico Rosberg:  Fernando Alonso.
Correct - Alonso scored his first aged 21 at the 2003 Canadian Grand Prix.

Question: You list climbing among your interests. Can you name the highest mountains in your ‘home’ countries of Germany and Finland?

Nico Rosberg: Wow, what a question! In Germany must be somewhere down in the Alps. Zugspitze! Correct? I’m really impressed by myself! Finland I have no clue whatsoever.
Half marks - Zugspitze in Germany, Halti (or Haltiatunturi) in Finland.

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Question: Before deciding on a career in motorsport, you were set to study aeronautics at university. You now spend an awful lot of time on planes. Can you tell us the typical cruising speed and altitude for a long-haul commercial jet?

Nico Rosberg:  Speed: 900km/h, Altitude: 35,000 feet. Correct? Yes? So I absolutely got it spot on? Wow!
Correct - ‘wow’ indeed.

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