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Recent Driver Stand-Ins of Formula One

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10 questions
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Throughout Formula One, there are many times where a driver has been substituted in for a race. Whether it's due to injury, illness or a full on race ban. Test your knowledge on the most recent times this happened.
1

Jack Doohan made his debut with Alpine early, in the season finale of 2024. Why?

To let Ocon do the post season tire test with Haas

Ocon crashed heavily in FP3, and was declared unfit for the race

Ocon took out a competitor in Qatar, and earned a race ban

Ocon was ill

Hard  7% got this right

Jack finished last of the finishers in 15th.
2

Which of these occured in the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend, where Oliver Bearman debuted with Ferrari?

Bearman claimed the driver of the day award

Bearman took pole for the F2 race

Bearman finished ahead of Leclerc

Bearman reached Q3

Hard  30% got this right

The reason Bearman stood in for Ferrari was due to Sainz suffering from appendicitis. He would finish seventh.
3

Furthermore, how many races did Bearman compete in during 2024?

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3
10

62% got this right

He replaced Magnussen twice, in Baku due to a race ban and in Brazil due to illness.
4

Liam Lawson stood in for an injured Daniel Ricciardo in 2023. In which country did he make his debut?

Hard  9% got this right

Liam finished ahead in thirteenth and ahead of his teammate, in a wet and wild Dutch Grand Prix.
5

Nyck de Vries scored his only F1 points in a one-off race for Williams in 2022. At which track did this happen?

Monza

Hard  26% got this right

Similarly to Bearman, De Vries got his chance due to Albon suffering from appendicitis. He finished ninth.
6

Nico Hülkenberg stood in for Sebastian Vettel for the first two races of 2022. What was the reason?

Vettel contracted COVID-19

A pre-season bicycle crash broke Vettel's wrist

Vettel earned a race ban due to claiming too many penalty points in 2021

Vettel had appendicitis

45% got this right

Nico did decent, finishing ahead of Stroll in Jeddah.
7

Robert Kubica stood in for two races in 2021 for Alfa Romeo ahead of Kimi Räikkönen. What was his best finish?

Fourteenth

He retired from both

Sixteenth

Tenth

Hard  7% got this right

His race in Monza was the last time a Polish driver has raced in Formula One.
8

Pietro Fittipaldi stood in for Grosjean in late 2020. Order the events that happened during the two races he competed:

1.

Verstappen and Leclerc collided

2.

Pérez won after being last on the first lap

3.

Verstappen took pole

4.

Ricciardo took the fastest lap

79% got this right

The first two occurred in Sakhir and the other two occurred in Abu Dhabi.
9

Jack Aitken made his only Formula One start at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix. How did he contribute to Perez's win?

He crashed and brought out a safety car

He collided with the race leader whilst being lapped

His tear-off was stuck in the leader's brake duct

His wing mirror shattered on the track, giving the leader a puncture

Hard  17% got this right

His incident allowed Pérez to shoot from last to first, which helped him join Red Bull the following season.
10

George Russell made his debut with Mercedes after Hamilton contracted COVID-19. In which lap did he suffer a puncture?

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87

Hard  7% got this right

Without the puncture, Russell would've been on for a certain fairytale victory.