Continuing on from last week’s retro Renault picture, we’re delving even deeper into the archive’s for today’s Caption Competition.
Back in the late eighties Pope John Paul II paid a visit to Ferrari when Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto were the team’s drivers
Can you come up with the best caption for this picture? Post your funniest suggestion in the comments below.
A selection of the best will feature in a future edition of the F1 Fanatic Round-up.
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AMR (@aiera-music)
16th January 2016, 12:07
“Sorry guys, but it’s going to be another twenty years yet until a driver is ‘Blessed’…”
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
16th January 2016, 12:14
We may as well resign.
Zain Siddiqui (@powerslidepowerslide)
17th January 2016, 17:06
Absolutely brilliant.
just.daz (@nemo87)
16th January 2016, 12:10
‘Does it come in white?’
FJBH10 (@fjbh10)
16th January 2016, 22:44
+1
AmbroseRPM (@ambroserpm)
16th January 2016, 12:13
So you needed a faster Pope Mobile, did you…?
Selbbin (@selbbin)
16th January 2016, 12:27
The Pope came to have a closer look at the competing religeous institution in Italy.
Malc1110
17th January 2016, 11:00
Oh, I like this one.
NewVerstappenFan (@jureo)
17th January 2016, 11:20
+1
TommyB (@tommyb89)
16th January 2016, 12:38
“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t bless engines.” Enzo Ferrari
Hyoko
17th January 2016, 11:38
Haha good one!!
NewVerstappenFan (@jureo)
16th January 2016, 12:45
“In nome des Padre, I bestow upon you… 1000 godpowers.”
Steven Smith (@ragwort)
16th January 2016, 12:47
We can all pray hard for a miracle. But Mansell’s Williams is a Hell of a quick car you know?
Ready_Amy_Fire
16th January 2016, 12:48
A controlling organisation, demanding obedience, power, influence, and claiming entitlement to it simply because they’ve been around so long.
Here they are entertaining the Pope.
@HoHum (@hohum)
16th January 2016, 22:06
#1
Malc1110
17th January 2016, 11:01
Very clever!
Philip (@philipgb)
16th January 2016, 12:58
As the only child present at an event full of Catholic priests, the young girl hopes a V12 Ferrari is enough to keep the focus off of her.
Patrick (@paeschli)
16th January 2016, 16:11
This post is underrated.
Malc1110
17th January 2016, 11:03
+1
Internet
16th January 2016, 17:34
*****Internet breathes in through it’s teeth and says “oooooooooooooooh” followed by awkward laughter*****
Malc1110
17th January 2016, 11:08
Best response to a Caption I’ve seen for ages, I think this is as funny as the comment.
lockup (@)
16th January 2016, 20:12
Ooooh @philipgb, that wit is biting, with teeth. Well done sir.
spoutnik (@spoutnik)
16th January 2016, 20:38
Personal favorite :-)
@HoHum (@hohum)
16th January 2016, 22:07
=#1
Pope
16th January 2016, 13:08
“I do hope you wear a seat belt.”
Pope
16th January 2016, 13:18
I would like to buy an F1 team, but we would have to go steady on Sundays.
Pope
16th January 2016, 13:19
Good year? Good millennia!
Man wearing a tie
16th January 2016, 13:22
Forgive me your Holiness, but the driver isn’t in the car.
schooner (@schooner)
16th January 2016, 13:29
“I saw one of those cars blowing black smoke. Does that mean it doesn’t have a driver yet?”
ColdFly F1 (@)
16th January 2016, 14:41
good one!
Apexor
16th January 2016, 17:55
Nice one was planning to say something similar to that.
spoutnik (@spoutnik)
16th January 2016, 20:39
Good one !
Billy
16th January 2016, 13:31
“The lord hath spoken. He grants you the holy power of the veto”
Thedonz
16th January 2016, 13:38
Little girl: Humph. I don’t want to look at the cars.
Bishop behind girl: Humph. Me neither.
Pope: Will you two shut the Humph up!
caci99 (@)
16th January 2016, 13:48
God will always support the humble working man and even if you don’t succeed in this life we promise paradise in the other.
hzh (@hzh00)
16th January 2016, 13:49
“I want my doll”.
And that’s how the dream of having female F1 drivers faided…
Robbie (@robbie)
16th January 2016, 14:03
Desperate for a WDC, Ferrari calls in the slightly deaf Pope to pray for a Miracle. Eventually they get the Michael he prayed for.
Jklpuzo-818
16th January 2016, 14:12
OMG…this made me laugh SOOOO loud… Win, for me ;)
Little_M_Lo (@pezlo2013)
16th January 2016, 14:09
Due to the divine blessing both cars broke down at the next race.
(True Story)
Jack (@jackisthestig)
16th January 2016, 14:23
“What more can I do? The big man prefers Senna.”
Lucien_Todutz (@lucien_todutz)
16th January 2016, 22:47
+1
Jack (@jackisthestig)
16th January 2016, 14:26
The cockpit canopy working group hire an experienced new consultant.
Drg
16th January 2016, 14:41
The Pope in a moment of genius, quietly considers the need to copyright the term ‘#blessed’ long before F1 drivers and the media realise its importance…
ColdFly F1 (@)
16th January 2016, 14:48
“What’s that joke again comparing Goodyear with a really good year?”
WheelToWheel (@lolzerbob)
16th January 2016, 14:50
Guys!, I told you to stop smoking!
(reference to an engine failiure)
tmax (@tmax)
16th January 2016, 14:58
Are you kidding me ? even god cannot make this car a champion !!!!
Try building a fast car and then call me for blessing !!!!
Sumedh
16th January 2016, 15:07
Pope: My blessings don’t matter much when God himself is driving the MP4/4
Tom Edge
16th January 2016, 15:58
I said I wanted a miracle and you Brought me a Michele.
MG421982 (@)
16th January 2016, 16:04
Dear beloved parishioners… God does miracles indeed… but it lasts only 3 days!!!!
Jean-Marc
16th January 2016, 16:12
“Hell on wheels ! “
Jeanrien (@jeanrien)
16th January 2016, 16:21
The first time a canopy was considered on a F1 car.
Matt (@castlebravo)
16th January 2016, 16:36
“I cannot bless a team that has an Austrian and Italians working together, last time this happened I had to join the priesthood to avoid conscription.”
Luis Conde
16th January 2016, 16:41
#Blessed
Saurabh (@sksahukanker62)
16th January 2016, 16:52
Finally i see God…
The Bear
16th January 2016, 17:40
Christina: I don’t want to go with the man in the funny white bathrobe Daddy! Do I have to?
Berger: Yes sweetheart. He promised that God would give me the win at Monza in exchange!
Mathers (@mathers)
16th January 2016, 17:48
‘Remember everyone, if it’s white smoke coming from the exhaust, it means they’ve elected a new pope…’
jhg103 (@joshgeake)
16th January 2016, 18:02
“Where do you keep your very youngest choir boys?”
Apexor
16th January 2016, 18:08
John Paul II was looking around to buy a new Pope Mobile but ended up in the wrong place.
Billys (@bilarxos)
16th January 2016, 18:24
the Pope: mi scuso ragazzi, but the god is at another team!
hzh (@hzh00)
16th January 2016, 19:27
May you not rest in pieces.
James Brickles (@brickles)
16th January 2016, 19:45
Jesus, Michele and Gerhard!
Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
16th January 2016, 19:54
Pope: Is the word “Ferrari” in the Bible?
Gerhard Berger: Yes, God said to Adam, “You must not touch the Ferrari or you will die”, but the snake said to Eve, “Surely God wouldn’t mind if you gave it a polish?” So Eve polished the Ferrari, and then Adam saw how it gleamed in the sunlight, and just had to sit in it, and one thing lead to another. So when God saw Adam and Eve in the car, the tyre marks on the road, and saw the dents on the Ferrari … well they got kicked out of the Garden.
evelekin
16th January 2016, 19:59
Race for pinks?
Jonathan (@jonny705)
16th January 2016, 22:44
lol brilliant
Jarv F150 (@jarvf150)
16th January 2016, 22:26
Despite his best efforts Pope John Paul II would never see a fellow Countryman race in F1.
Jarv F150 (@jarvf150)
16th January 2016, 22:29
Apologies if I am incorrect; the F1F and Wikipedia are my only sources.
Jeanrien (@jeanrien)
16th January 2016, 23:48
@jarvf150 Poor Kubica, so quickly forgotten …
verstappen (@verstappen)
17th January 2016, 8:15
Is Kubica from the Vatican?
Bleu (@bleu)
17th January 2016, 12:57
I think the point was that John Paul II died in 2005 and Kubica debuted in 2006.
Lucien_Todutz (@lucien_todutz)
16th January 2016, 22:45
Pope John Paul: – I do deamons not gremlins!
Iestyn Davies (@fastiesty)
16th January 2016, 23:00
Pope: “I will pray for your success to swiftly follow..”
mark irvine
16th January 2016, 23:32
Mama Mia La ferrari v12, that’s a spicy meatah ball
ferrox glideh (@ferrox-glideh)
17th January 2016, 0:25
“Not to worry dear, We haven’t sacrificed a virgin in Ages…”
lomp
17th January 2016, 1:11
Now Gerhardt.. repeat after me ” Inna Lexus Limo Fellatioooooo “
Stig Semper Fi (@stigsemperfi)
17th January 2016, 1:46
Berger: “I asked for a miracle, not a Michele!”.
ivz (@ivz)
17th January 2016, 2:28
Sorry, I can’t get into anything without a canopy!
N0b0dy100
17th January 2016, 3:17
“I’m sorry, but the McLaren drivers left a little more in the offering basket this week. The Lord has blessed their season already.”
McF1 (@mccosmic)
17th January 2016, 5:10
Berger to Alboreto: I know Enzo said he was worried by the threat of Senna, but this new sponsorship deal is ridiculous!
Joker
17th January 2016, 7:47
Cardinals vs. Mafia: the story of one girl’s coming of age, and the civil war that rent brother from brother.
_In the midst of a conflict that engulfed the Italian peninsula in the mid-80s, Ferrari’s F1 team is a beacon of hope. Yet, the loyalties of its drivers are split; could national unification really be in the hands of a young girl thrust into the limelight by this internecine conflict?_
From the maker of Reservoir Dogs, “Oh Berger” is rumoured to hit cinemas in 2017…
Neil (@neilosjames)
17th January 2016, 8:11
Despite the presence of the Pope, a host of dignitaries and two top drivers, the director still ensured young Carmen Jorda was in the centre of the frame.
frogster
17th January 2016, 8:59
The Pope advises Ferrari they really need to be making donations to the OTHER bloke with grey hair and a white shirt.
melkurion (@melkurion)
17th January 2016, 9:20
Cardinals dissapointed by lack of small boys at ferrari event
Rick
17th January 2016, 10:12
‘Our father thou art in marenello hallowed be thy name’
JackySteeg (@jackysteeg)
17th January 2016, 10:12
The hungry pope couldn’t hide his disappointment after getting the wrong kind of ‘Berger’…
naz3012 (@naz3012)
17th January 2016, 12:50
“Look, another team that only turns up on sundays!”
Bleu (@bleu)
17th January 2016, 12:59
“Your holiness, can you arrange that we win at least once this season? Monza would be the best place for it to happen.”
Lenny (@lenny)
17th January 2016, 13:21
“We put the brick on the accelerator”
Carlos Oliden
17th January 2016, 13:27
Michele, when I told you that only God could help us with our performance now, I meant Bernie!
Scalextric (@scalextric)
17th January 2016, 22:57
“No my son, if I take off these robes for a test drive, that will not be a drag reduction system.”
verstappen (@verstappen)
17th January 2016, 23:16
“This car is a winner”
“Oh stop telling fairy tales again.”
Pink Peril
17th January 2016, 23:20
Even I can’t give absolution for future sins.
pH (@ph)
17th January 2016, 23:35
“I am sorry, gentlemen, but contrary to popular opinion, our Lords does not fix matches.”
Maralyn Smith
21st January 2016, 19:18
” But there’s no room for the coffin!!”