| RENAULT | Motor racing team with whom Fernando Alonso won the F1 drivers' championship in 2005 and 2006 (7) |
| MCLAREN | F1 team for whom Fernando Alonso drives (7) |
| MERCEDES | Formula One racing team with whom Lewis Hamilton has won five drivers' titles (8) |
| GFORCE | Starts getting fidgety - one race can explain what the F1 drivers feel while taking a turn (1-5) |
| DAMONHILL | English motor-racing driver who won the F1 world championship in 1996 (5,4) |
| LOTUS | Make of car in which Jim Clark won the F1 World Championship in 1963 and 1965 (5) |
| SENNA | Ayrton ...., 1988, 1990 and 1991 F1 Drivers' Championship winner (5) |
| PLAYER | Member of the team with whom the president had a row (6) |
| MEATH | Team with whom goalkeeper Conor Martin won an All Ireland football final winner's medal (5) |
| MASSA | 2008 F1 Drivers' Championship runner-up (5) |
| FELIPE | 2008 F1 Drivers' Championship runner-up (6) |
| ALONSO | Fernando -, winner of the F1 World Drivers' Championship in 2005 and 2006 (6) |
| APPLEBY | Stuart, Australian golfer who won the Mercedes Championships in Hawaii in 2004, 2005 and 2006 (7) |
| SURTEES | John, British motorsport racer who won the Formula One drivers' championship in 1964 (7) |
| FERRARI | Formula One motor racing team whose headquarters are at Maranello in northern Italy (7) |
| LANEWAY | Music festival which began in Melbourne in 2005 and spread to Auckland (7) |
| VATANEN | Ari ___, winner of the 1981 World Drivers' Championship in rallying (7) |
| GOKARTS | Small vehicles with an open frame which was the childhood starting point for many F1 drivers (2-5) |
| HESKETH | Lord ____ founded and ran a 1970s UK motor racing team |
| PITSTOP | Where F1 drivers take a break with Wacky Races' Penelope, say (3,4) |