Top 3 funniest F1 moments - Page 2

Liz · 20 May 2002, 22:16 (Ref:290900)

TGF stalling on the grid in [1999 was it?] and being held up for many laps by an obviously very happy Jacques before blowing a tire and retiring -- and the look on his face (insert "why the long face!" joke here) as he saw Mika circulating faultlessly time after time ...

Nelson Piquet's comment about Mansell's wife looking like the back of a bus.

Anything Michael Andretti did in Formula One. I would include the look on Mario's face as he watched his son cartwheel side by side with Berger down the wall.

Mr V · 20 May 2002, 22:22 (Ref:290903)

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Originally posted by Liz
TGF stalling on the grid in [1999 was it?]

Japan 1998! but stalling again at Melbourne 1999 was just as funny!

Baby Spice · 21 May 2002, 01:25 (Ref:291032)

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Originally posted by Liz
Nelson Piquet's comment about Mansell's wife looking like the back of a bus.

Is it true? too funny,but that's no good

my pick are:
1. Fisichella forgot his grid, malaysia 2000
2. Nelson Piquet and Eliseo Salazar's karate class
at Hockenheim in 1982
3. Everytime when Murray Walker said:"Whoa! I've never seen anything like this before!"

Speed · 21 May 2002, 03:28 (Ref:291085)

Ralf last year, with his "rear jack" marvelous move !, What a bunch of Bozos, Williams crew were...

steve nielsen · 21 May 2002, 04:31 (Ref:291094)

how about Johnny Herbert who drove away from his pits with the rear jack still on the car?

mac · 21 May 2002, 07:20 (Ref:291136)

Some of Alessandro Zanardi's quotes were very funny.

At Barcelona in 1999. He retired in the pits when his gearbox broke at a pitstop. Louise Allen asked him what happened, and he said something like the following:

"I was driving around for a while, and I was thinking that my car wasn't good enough to get to talk to you at the end of the race, so I thought I would come in and talk to you now."

He made some journalists blush on Friday of Suzuka in '99 when someone asked him what he did last night to prepare for the weekend:

"I made love to my wife in the sauna," was Alex's reply.

I know its not F1, but my favourite Zanardiism came from an interview at Surfers Paradise, 1998. Being Italian, Alex doesn't have the greatest grasp of the nuances of American-English. He displayed this when asked about his chances in the race:

"You know, maybe if everybody roots me, I will have a chance."

R · 21 May 2002, 10:30 (Ref:291261)

Gotta love him.

Neil C · 22 May 2002, 16:38 (Ref:292738)

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Originally posted by Invincible
The late great Vittorio Brambilla spinning into the barriers after winning the 1975 Austrian GP

Vittorio makes 5 of my top three funniest F1 moments, including:

The above.

Forgetting that he was carrying someone on his sidepod during the post race parade lap. The poor guy was holding on for dear life!

A still photo, just before the green light, with the whole field ready, but in the back of the grid you could see a car whose front end was launched 5 feet into the air. Vittorio had jumped the start and launched himself into the poor sot in front of him.

A sign at the Canadian GP: A bullseye target and a caption, "Vittorio, hit here". (this was told to me by another 10/10er who was there)

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