F1 Fanatic

this was becoming somewhat of a game in the “Frentzen to steward European GP” article, so I thought I’d just move it here

I can’t tell whether this will be rendered useless in the near future, so apologies for eventual wasting of bandwidth

Andrea de Cesaris, along with his given de Crasheris springs to mind

Andrea de Adamich was a good’un.

Agabashian.

Elio de Angelis

I always liked Rene Arnoux just because whenever I thinki of it Murray’s voice pops into my head for some reason

Luca Badoer was unfortunate because he got ‘Look how bad you are’ last year

Baldi…because well I’m immature.

I liked Fabrizio Barbazza

He was just in F1 Racing so Zsolt Baumgartner

Francious Cevert was just cool.

I always liked “Gilles” but the driver became so popular that he didn’t even need a last name for people to recognise him and that’s hard to come across.

Pierluigi Martini

The Italian names just seem to roll off the tongue

From

Andrea de Adamich
Michele Alboreto
Giovanna Amati
Marco Apicella
Alberto Ascari
Lorenzo Bandini

To

Nino Vaccarella
Luigi Villoresi
Alex Zanardi
Renzo Zorzi

and a whole host in between.

Lol Ratboy, I used to laugh when I was a kid trying to visualize “a mad titter running through the crowd” :-)

Haha yeah I remember that Rob, there were some great ones there!

http://www.f1rejects.com/podcasts/index.html

Here’s the link for anyone who’s interested, it’s on the 2006 British GP edition. I’d encourage everyone who hasn’t heard them before to try one of their podcasts, they’re great

Nothing can be quite as unique as:
Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips

That’s why his friends called him “Taffy” Ratboy.

von Trips was nicknamed ‘The Count’ wasn’t he? That’s got me thinking about other driver nicknames. Here’s a few off the top of my head:

M Schumacher= Schumi/ The Rainmeister
R Schumacher/ Vettel= Baby Schumi
Massa= Felipe Baby
Fisichella= Fisi
Baumgartner= HWNSNBM
Hakkinen= The Flying Finn
Coulthard= DC
Prost= The Professor
N Rosberg= Britney
Raikkonen= The Iceman
Heidfeld= The Beardinator

(ok so I made that last one up!)
Can anyone think of any others?