Great comedy moments of Formula One.

[FourWheelDrift]

To try and forget the media rubbish over the last few days and Bernie's Bond villan approach to the sport I thought I'd start a thread with some classic moment from F1.

One that always makes me laugh to begin with. The day Eliseo Salazar took out Nelson Piquet at Hockenheim.

Clive James voice over - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0aQPLJNvA
Murray's hyper-commentary - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SXbGDcMeo8

"oh my goodness"

[anonymous-user]

mansell waving to the crowd in canada, 1991 always makes me smile!


Edited by me
How about posting the vid then - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekJ5LqWDFc

With valued added commentary from Mullay Warker.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 31st May 15:59

[dougc]

[GarrettMacD]

Taki Inoue - Getting rammed at Monaco after the F1 qualifying by Jean Ragnotti in a Renault WRC car

Taki Inoue - Budapest. Pulls off the circuit with terminal failure. Jumps out of the car... and gets hit by the safety car!!!

Jean-Denis Deletraz - Every single lap he ever did in an F1 car

David Coulthard - Spinning on the warm-up lap of the Italian GP

David Coulthard - Hitting the pitlane wall as he was on his way in for a stop. Can't remember the GP.

Nigel Mansell - Reversing down the pitlane after he overshot his slot. Then ignores the black flag and shunts Senna off the track!!!

[FourWheelDrift]

GarrettMacD said:

Taki Inoue - Getting rammed at Monaco after the F1 qualifying by Jean Ragnotti in a Renault WRC car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5VYrXZjnk

GarrettMacD said:

Taki Inoue - Budapest. Pulls off the circuit with terminal failure. Jumps out of the car... and gets hit by the safety car!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3GIKs3GHEA

GarrettMacD said:

David Coulthard - Hitting the pitlane wall as he was on his way in for a stop. Can't remember the GP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLTWyr836g

Have I got to do all of these



Odd they aren't working links? Copy & paste.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 31st May 16:10

[GarrettMacD]

Though of another one.

Nigel Mansell has the BIGGEST, MASSIVEST bruise on his forehead. It's covered by a loosely fitting Williams/Canon baseball cap. Murray Walker is interviewing him and asks him to take off the cap so he can 'have a look'. He then proceeds to poke Mansell's bruise and Mansell nearly screams like a girl in agony. Murray says 'sorry'. Nice one...

[Raify]

Martin on his grid walk. Asks a Scandy driver (can't remember which one) if he was watching Schumacher get his award:

"No, I was having a sh1t."

[grumbledoak]

That "I've saved you a seat in the stands" moment between the brothers Schumaker, as endlessly repeated on SniffPetrol. Class...

[MonkeyHanger]

Raify said:

Martin on his grid walk. Asks a Scandy driver (can't remember which one) if he was watching Schumacher get his award:

"No, I was having a sh1t."

It was Kimi Raikkonen...couldn't have been anyone else really

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpeMXVyhtEY

[johnnywb]

The fottage shwon before the start of last weekend's monaco grand prix of one of the renaults sliding backwards out ot the tunnel with the driver giving the bird to the driver behind him who'd rammed him!

[MrKipling43]

Got to be Montoya spinning it on the grid in Australia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T3qVj8IqGQ 

And this had me in fits of laughter last weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdK_VJrFq-Y 

[johnph]

This was pretty funny on a day when everyone was making silly mistakes in the pits. That guy with the airgun wasn't going to let anyone stop him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yafQHwSCDU

Heidfeld hitting the safety car. Must have woken up the guy in the merc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBisNZuOQg

Coulthard and Schumacher France 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R4PYWoWkPQ

Frentzen at Adelaide 1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRO94lycSas

Not technically F1 but JPM should have known better than to do this in the USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9AbgQvmK1k

Edited by johnph on Thursday 31st May 19:00

[Heebeegeetee]

GarrettMacD said:

Nigel Mansell - Reversing down the pitlane after he overshot his slot. Then ignores the black flag and shunts Senna off the track!!!

If you get to see this one its a simply superb piece of reversing.

He didn't ignore the blackk flag though, its just from his viewpoint, whereupon his feet were within inches of Sennas gearbox for lap after lap, he couldn't see the flag!

Senna had the clear view of it, I couldn't beleive it when he decided to chop Mansell and they both went sailing off into the gravel at 3 million miles an hour.

Great days.

[kevin ritson]

Speaking of Montoya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2WvQTeGAEU

[Chassis 33]

What about Schumacher arse-ending DC in the wet at Spa then trying to pick a fight in the pit lane?

Regards
Iain

[FourWheelDrift]

Gerhard Berger (incidently a massive Mr Bean fan) was always up to funny stuff in the pits at Grand Prix.

This is the only bit of film I could find, it's Gerhard sitting in his new Benetton car for the first time, doesn't like the view in the mirror so tries to adjust it. But breaks it off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-zTD4u2FA

[johnph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW7mV2fHSoI

0.13 - how did he do that?

0.25 - how on earth did that happen?

0.46 - whoops

0.57 -

1.11 - horrible, horrible crash

1.46 -

1.50 -

[FourWheelDrift]

Gerhard once threw Ayrton Senna's briefcase out of a helicopter when they were team mates at McLaren, "It's damage proof!" "Is it? Lets see!". In retaliation Senna stole Berger's wallet and had all the credit cards bolted together, so Berger put 99 live frogs in Senna's hotel room, Berger knowing Senna was such a precise and slightly anally retentive person would assume there would be 100 frogs and Berger knew he would search his room until he found the 100th. Senna told Berger that he had that it took until 2AM to get rid of all the frogs, to which Berger asked "what about the snake?"

He also taped a picture of some rather large and perfectly formed breasts on Senna's passport photograph once, not helpful when trying to get through some strict passport control

There's loads more.

But the last one goes to Nelson Piquet. Nelson walking down the pitlane in front of Senna's garage wearing a t-shirt saying "Nelson Piquet, Brazils fastest straight driver"

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 1st June 11:42

[HiRich]

FourWheelDrift said:

Gerhard once threw Ayrton Senna's briefcase out of a helicopter when they were team mates at McLaren, "It's damage proof!" "Is it? Lets see!".

An extremely expensive carbon fibre briefcase at that. AS was so proud of it.

Also tenuous to the sport, the legendary and possibly true (it was told by the man himself) story of a driver being pulled on the M25 for going at considerable speed.
Copper: "Who do you think you are sir? Nigel Mansell???"
Driver, with contempt: "No. I am Ayrton Senna"

[MrKipling43]

FourWheelDrift said:

Gerhard once threw Ayrton Senna's briefcase out of a helicopter when they were team mates at McLaren, "It's damage proof!" "Is it? Lets see!". In retaliation Senna stole Berger's wallet and had all the credit cards bolted together, so Berger put 99 live frogs in Senna's hotel room, Berger knowing Senna was such a precise and slightly anally retentive person would assume there would be 100 frogs and Berger knew he would search his room until he found the 100th. Senna told Berger that he had that it took until 2AM to get rid of all the frogs, to which Berger asked "what about the snake?"

He also taped a picture of some rather large and perfectly formed breasts on Senna's passport photograph once, not helpful when trying to get through some strict passport control

There's loads more.

But the last one goes to Nelson Piquet. Nelson walking down the pitlane in front of Senna's garage wearing a t-shirt saying "Nelson Piquet, Brazils fastest straight driver"

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 1st June 11:42

I always thought he had glued all his credit cards to his coffee table. Either way - genius.