Question of the day

[2b1ask1]

Ok literally a petrol head question for a Fiday afternoon:

2013; Petrol only, how much petrol was consumed by road transport over the year in the UK (includes cars, taxis, light commercials and motorcycles etc. but not aviation)?

Answers in tonnes please.

 

[2b1ask1]

Also excluding LPG/bio-fuel etc. in this it is just petrol as we know it...

 

[spkennyuk]

I shall give it a guess 18 million tons. Thats a complete finger in the air job though.

 

[2b1ask1]

Not too far adrift...

 

[midlifecrisis]

21,765,567 tonnes...roughly...

 

[BennyD]

Nah bollox. Judging by my fuel bills I reckon I used that much in the spyder last year.

 

[dem maser]

25 million

 

[2b1ask1]

MLC is in the right million but a little high. 21.1 million tonnes according to HMGov official numbers, a staggering volume by anyone's calculations. Over to you MLC.

 

[zagatoes30]

Like Beeny looking at what we spend on the stuff that would seem a conservative amount

 

[midlifecrisis]

You're joking! That was a complete guess!

Ok, here's one, MotoGP.

Who is the youngest winner of a MotoGP, Moto2 or Moto3 race. And by that I'm including the older classes of 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 80cc and 50cc.

Bonus points to their nationality, age in years and days, track and the others on the podium.

 

[BennyD]

IIRC, Mark Marquez is the youngest MotoGP winner but in other classes, Pedrosa was a very young winner as was Rossi and Bradley Smith.

 

[zagatoes30]

It was Marco Malandri but I thought that a Brit took one of the smaller titles a few years ago. Not Bradley but the other, who I can't remember his name - it will come to me (eventually)

 

[midlifecrisis]

It was Marco but someone beat his record...

 

[zagatoes30]

Got the name, Scott Redding - I think he was 125cc world champ 08 or 09 maybe ?

 

[midlifecrisis]

That's the fella, Marc Marquez was on the podium too at Donington Park. He's not won a world championship but came perilously close in Moto2.

Your go Z

 

[zagatoes30]

OK nice easy one

What have Graham Hill & AJ Foyt done that nobody else has and what is different between the way they did it?

 

[BennyD]

That's the fella, Marc Marquez was on the podium too at Donington Park. He's not won a world championship but came perilously close in Moto2.

Your go Z

Marc Marquez has won a World Championship; MotoGP last year.

 

[BennyD]

OK nice easy one

What have Graham Hill & AJ Foyt done that nobody else has and what is different between the way they did it?

I know they have both won the Indy 500 and the Le Mans 24 hours but I don't how they did it differently.

 

[zagatoes30]

I know they have both won the Indy 500 and the Le Mans 24 hours but I don't how they did it differently.

Half the question right

 

[midlifecrisis]

Hill has won Le Man's, the Indy 500 and a Grand Prix if not the championship. Foyt probably has too but not a Formula 1 grand prix...