F1 Fanatic

We all saw what happened with Pastor and Hamilton and you can draw your own conclusions from it but clearly there isn’t a lot of love lost there. It got me wondering though about other instances where a driver has seemingly lost their rag completely either with a fellow competitor whether on track or after a session, the press or team. There are few obvious choices such as: Piquet and Salazar and their punch up, Schumacher running to the Mclaren garage screaming that DC had tried to kill him at Spa, JPM shrieking about Raikkonen over the radio, Alonso apparently threw his helmet across the garage at either Spain or China 07 after qualifying I think it was Spain, and Hulkenberg last year at Valencia took his rage out on the tyre barrier by kicking it repeatedly.

Can you think of any other mad moments? There’s been quite a few instances of brake testing but I struggle to think of another time where a driver took a swipe at another with their car in the heat of the moment.

Just off the top of my head, Piquet and De Cesaris had a coming together at Loews Hairpin back in 1989 and sat in the car arguing about it, which I always find hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GiFfcClDnY

There’s a great Jim Bamber cartoon of that incident in one of my books…

Senna punching Irvine is probably not brought up too often because there´s no footage of it. At least not available to us.

Surely a discussion about tantrums and bust-ups cannot happen without this being mentioned

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9BGx3seT8&feature=related
it is of course Nelson Piquet vs Eliseo Salazar in the 1982 rumble in the jungle of Hockenheim

and as Steph started this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MIu0OUv5jo&NR=1
Mr Massa shows Coulthard that he was 1st to the apex

I don’t know about bustup, but does Alonso vs Massa in 2007 Nurburgring count? And Alonso vs Petrov after Abu Dhabi ’10?

As for some more examples… Vettel’s gesture had me fuming and really put me off him for the rest of the season and I’m only really starting to forgive him now for that.

Vettel again.

And again…

I think Sebastian has been supreme this year, but I hope you’ll all forgive me for despising him last year! :P

By the build-up I knew what that one would be!

I can’t find a clip of it but there was one race in 1995 where after they’d had one of their many collisions, you could see Schumacher talking to Hill (might have been Monza) and Murray was saying “And there is the lie that that these two are implacable enemies”, then when he asked Hill about it later and told him how he had been saying “look at that, they’re really good chums after all” Hill said “Well not surprisingly Murray, you were wrong!”

Didn’t Fisichella storm to JV’s garage a few years back?