Sociology 281 Quiz

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SOCIOLOGY_281_QUIZ
There have been 74 Formula One drivers from France, the most successful of them being
Alain Prost, who won the World Drivers' Championship four times.== World champions and
race winners ==
The title has been won by a French driver on four occasions, all of which were victories for
Alain Prost.Thirteen other drivers have won at least one race, though they are all far behind
Prost's tally of 51 wins.Alain Prost debuted with McLaren in 1980.He finished in the points
on four occasions but only finished 16th overall, moving to Renault for the following
season.After three successful years, including finishing the 1983 season as the
championship runner-up, he returned to McLaren.Prost drove with the team between 1984
and 1989, winning the championship three times and coming second twice.During this time
McLaren introduced a new team-mate for Prost – Ayrton Senna.Their relationship was
difficult and the pair clashed on and off the track, leading to it being described as "one of the
sport's greatest ever rivalries".Prost joined Ferrari in 1990 and resumed his battle with
Senna, losing the championship at the penultimate race of the season after the pair
collided.In 1991 the Ferrari was uncompetitive and for the first time since his debut season
Prost was unable to win a race.He publicly slated the team for their performances and was
subsequently fired before the end of the year.He took a year off in 1992 and returned for
one last season in 1993, winning his fourth championship.René Arnoux won seven races
during a career than spanned 12 years, having made his debut in 1978 with Martini.The
team folded part way through the season, and he secured a drive with Renault for the
following year.For some of his time there he partnered Alain Prost, and he controversially
ignored team orders to win the 1982 French Grand Prix ahead of his favoured teammate.He
moved to Scuderia Ferrari and enjoyed his most successful season, winning three races and
finishing third in the championship.Ligier signed Arnoux for four seasons from 1986 and he
retired after several years of poor performance.Jacques Laffite, who developed Ligier race
cars, won six races and finished fourth in the drivers title in three successive seasons
(1979–1981) : he was the first French driver to win a Grand Prix, in Sweden, for a French
team, with a French car and a French engine (Matra V12).His Formula One career began in
1974 and ended with a serious accident at the 1986 British Grand Prix, though he still raced
in other disciplines.Didier Pironi started his Formula One career in 1978 with Tyrrell.He
moved to Ligier in 1980 alongside compatriot Jacques Laffite, frequently outpacing the team
leader.He won that year's Belgian Grand Prix and finished fifth in the championship.He
signed with Ferrari as partner to Gilles Villeneuve but could not keep pace with the French-
Canadian.In 1982, the year of Villeneuve's death, Pironi looked set to win the championship
having won two races and finished on the podium six times.At the German Grand Prix he
crashed during a practice session, breaking his legs and ending both his title challenge and
his career.Patrick Tambay made his Formula One debut in 1977 with Ensign.He signed for
McLaren for his second year in the sport but the car was never particularly competitive.He
left the team at the end of 1979, being replaced by Alain Prost for his first year in the
sport.Tambay returned in 1981 after a year in the US but was dropped at the end of the
season.He announced his retirement but was asked to drive for Ferrari for the second half
of the 1982 season after the death of their driver, and close friend of Tambay, Gilles
Villeneuve.He won one race and stayed with Ferrari for the following season, winning once
more.After two years with Renault and one with Lola he retired for a second time.Maurice
Trintignant competed in the inaugural season of the Formula One World Championship,
debuting at the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix in a Simca-Gordini.He became the first French
driver to win a World Championship Grand Prix at the at the 1955 edition of the same
event.His only other race win also came at the Monaco Grand Prix, in 1958.He retired in
1964 having raced with ten different teams.Patrick Depailler, who developed and drove the
6-wheeled Tyrrell P34, won the 1978 Monaco Grand Prix for the British team (albeit in a
conventional 4-wheeled car, shortly after the P34 experiment was abandoned) and the
1979 Spanish Grand Prix for Ligier.He died at the Hockenheimring, during testing ahead of
the 1980 German Grand Prix.Jean-Pierre Jabouille, who developed and drove the Renault
turbo, won the 1979 French Grand Prix and the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix for the French
team.François Cevert won the 1971 United States Grand Prix for Tyrrell.He died after an
accident in practice of 1973 United States Grand Prix.Jean-Pierre Beltoise, iconic Matra
driver, won the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix for BRM.Jean Alesi is the only French driver to be
in the "200-plus club", having competed in 201 races and being one of only a small number
of drivers to reach the landmark.He made his debut in 1989 and raced with a variety of
teams until his retirement in 2001.He scored 32 podium finishes but only won one race –
the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix.Olivier Panis won in Monaco in 1996 when only three cars
finished the wet race.It was his only win.Pierre Gasly won the 2020 Italian Grand
Prix.Esteban Ocon is the most recent French driver to have secured a race victory, winning
at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix.

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