The Getting Through to Pre-Season Testing 2019 Quiz

Right then .

What team owner was so against a new wing that had been designed for his car , that he deliberately kicked / jumped on it to break it ?

There are one or two different versions of the above , but the basics are still fact .

 

Bah, call yourself anoraks!

Hang your coats up in shame!

 

Come on then , answer my question

 

This isn't the answer, but there's a great story about Ferrari challenging the legality of a Red Bull front wing, arguing a feature of it posed a puncture risk.
When the stewards went to inspect said front wing, Charlie Whiting mischievously stepped on it, and broke the offending feature clean off. Whiting then winked at Newey, declared that if it was that flimsy it'd never damage a tyre, and the case was dismissed.

 

I feel like it's a very Enzo kind of thing to do back in the early wing days. He never liked aero.

 

Nope . Not him .

 

It has to be a maverick type, so I'd say Colin Chapman or John Barnard

 

Nope .

He wasn’t British .

 

Gordon Murray? (South African I think?)

 

Nope .

Team owner , European .

Massive clue .

He wheely wheely did not like the being told he was wrong.

 

Is that a motorbike reference?

 

Nope definitely F1

 

Ken Tyrrell (six wheeler reference?)

 

Ligier?

 

European? Paul Stoddart

 

MASSIVE CLUE . The Wheely Wheely ref was in respect of the Company that the owner of the F1 team also owned .

 

ATS, Fondmetal?

 

ATS is correct . Just need his name now

 

Gustav Brunner?

 

No . First initial is correct .

He was the team owner .