Caption Competition 26: Rookies of 2001
Caption Competition
Continuing our retro-themed Caption Competitions, today’s features the rookie class of 2001.
Future world champions Kimi Raikkonen (Sauber) and Fernando Alonso (Minardi) made their F1 debuts at Melbourne in 2001 along with Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams) and Enrique Bernoldi (Arrows).
It’s up to you to suggest the best comedy caption for this picture. Post your funniest suggestion in the comments and look out for my pick of the best in tomorrow’s round-up.
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TommyB (@tommyb89) said on 12th January 2013, 10:18
Alonso: “I can’t wait to get to Ferrari, Minardi can’t even afford to buy me a cap.”
ajokay (@ajokay) said on 12th January 2013, 10:33
win.
JimmyTheIllustratedBlindSolidSilverBeachStackapopolis III said on 12th January 2013, 21:44
It’s quite simple. Champion retired champion fired.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1) said on 12th January 2013, 10:24
“How do you feel making your F1 debut Kimi?”
“It’s okay.”
Juri Kantonen said on 12th January 2013, 10:24
Kimi: “So be it. Motor racing.”
Snafu (@snafu) said on 12th January 2013, 14:14
Brilliant!
f199player (@f199player) said on 12th January 2013, 10:26
Photographer: “give us a smile please Kimi”
Kimi: “yes, yes, yes you don’t have keep telling me”
f199player (@f199player) said on 12th January 2013, 11:00
*have to
hzh (@hzh00) said on 14th January 2013, 11:25
nice one
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys) said on 12th January 2013, 10:28
“Boys, twelve years from now, you’ll have three World Championships and an Indianapolis 500 win between you. You’ll have fifty-six race wins, fifty-one pole positions and will have scored over twelve hundred World Championship points. But only one of you will have dated Anna Kournikova.”
pejte (@pejte) said on 12th January 2013, 10:34
Who ?
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys) said on 12th January 2013, 10:41
She’s a Russian tennis player who was famous around the time this photo was taken.
pejte (@pejte) said on 12th January 2013, 10:45
No, i mean who dated Kournikova? I’ve heard of her :)
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys) said on 12th January 2013, 11:38
None of them dated her. The joke works because Enrique Bernoldi achieved nothing in Formula 1, but dating Anna Kournikova is presented as being a greater achievement than anything and everything else Raikkonen, Montoya and Alonso have done.
It’s not funny when you have to explain the joke, though.
matt90 (@matt90) said on 12th January 2013, 12:22
If none of them actually dated her, what’s the joke?
Atticus (@atticus-2) said on 12th January 2013, 10:55
I think this caption is the best even without the last line.
What a year 2001 was from a rookie standpoint… A truly astonishing class.
sumedh said on 12th January 2013, 15:35
Umm, some other Enqiue, a singer with the surname Iglesias dated Kournikova. Not this Enrique.
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys) said on 12th January 2013, 22:56
Go back up and read my other posts. Whether or not any of them actually dated Kournikova is not the point of the joke.
PMccarthy_is_a_legend (@pmccarthy_is_a_legend) said on 13th January 2013, 20:04
I think the joke just isn’t funny buddy. Keep trying though, I laugh at the rubbish one’s as much or more as I enjoy the good one’s hahaha @prisoner-monkeys
Gerdoner (@gerdoner) said on 12th January 2013, 21:10
@prisoner-monkeys: more like
“Boys, twelve years from now, you’ll have three World Championships and an Indianapolis 500 win between you. You’ll have fifty-six race wins, fifty-one pole positions and will have scored over twelve hundred World Championship points. And then there’s Enrique Bernoldi.”
BradandCoffee said on 12th January 2013, 10:30
All rise for the German and Italian national anthems.
KDesser (@kdesser) said on 12th January 2013, 10:46
Haha great!
Anastasia (@flyingfinn1710) said on 12th January 2013, 10:38
“And now,for their first ever appearance,we present to you The New Kids Of The Grid”
Tom L. (@tom-l) said on 12th January 2013, 10:45
Kimi: “… so maybe deciding to sew my name onto my overalls after last night’s drinks wasn’t such a good idea.”
Cyberaxiom (@dave-m) said on 12th January 2013, 11:47
Love this one.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog) said on 12th January 2013, 10:55
“Juan, tell us about these giant earplugs you’re using.”
Montoya: “What?”
andae23 (@andae23) said on 12th January 2013, 11:00
nice
Chris (@tophercheese21) said on 12th January 2013, 10:56
“… and from left to right, we have the emotional scale of a racing driver, and yes, that is Kimi’s happy face… Coincidentally it’s also his laughing face, angry face, boredom face, smug face, and his guilty face.”
Mathers (@mathers) said on 12th January 2013, 10:57
After much consideration they decided that Westlife needed an overhaul of members…
chris_browning (@chris_browning) said on 12th January 2013, 11:06
Bernoldi’s future was not quite as bright as his race suit suggested…
GeeMac (@geemac) said on 12th January 2013, 16:18
Quality!
the_sigman (@sigman1998) said on 12th January 2013, 11:07
Achievements from left to right:
19 wins-1 WDC, 11 wins-1 Indy 500 win, 30 wins-2 WDC, eeeeeeerrrrrr
TommyB (@tommyb89) said on 12th January 2013, 12:17
Annoying the hell out of David Coulthard.
q85 said on 12th January 2013, 16:34
overtaking michael schumacher at sepang. he was an alright driver. But ron dennis told him he would never drive in f1 again. and didnt
MahavirShah (@mahavirshah) said on 12th January 2013, 11:09
The planned casting for Reservoir Dogs, The Sequel goes awry when the directors decide to cast a Fernando Alonso as, Mr Black.
sandy (@sandy) said on 12th January 2013, 11:14
Montoya : I bet these two guys standing beside me won’t last long.Bernoldi should be fine though.