Who in your opinion has had the best name in Formula 1's history? (54 posts)

  • Profile picture of dam00r dam00r said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Yes.. the most ‘racey’ name.

    In my opinion it has to be Giancarlo Fisichella or Jos Verstappen.

  • Profile picture of Magnificent Geoffrey Magnificent Geoffrey said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Another vote for Giancarlo Fisichella.

    I was also a fan of Scott Speed as well as Ricardo Patrese.

  • Profile picture of matt90 matt90 said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    I think Stirling Moss and Jenson Button are great British racing names.
    Fisi is good too (in terms of name, not so much in the sense of driving ability).

  • Profile picture of jonnyw360f1 jonnyw360f1 said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    I’m sure someone will remember, someone did a thread along similar lines to this before and there was some British driver from the Fifties with an extravagant double-barreled name like Chuffington-Brown or something, can anyone remember? Or did I dream it?

  • Profile picture of Bullfrog Bullfrog said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Elio de Angelis
    It’s a pity Will Power never made it to F1 though.

  • Profile picture of Cristian Cristian said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Jacky Ickx

  • Profile picture of Tom L. Tom L. said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Jonny – your comment reminded me of the 2006 British GP edition of the F1 Rejects podcasts, talking about the top 10 posh British driver names: http://www.f1rejects.com/podcasts/index.html
    10th – Rodney Nuckey
    9th – Horace Gould
    8th – Stuart Lewis-Evans
    7th – Archie Scott Brown
    6th – John Campbell-Jones
    5th – Brian Shawe-Taylor
    4th – John Riseley-Prichard
    3rd – Philip Fotheringham-Parker
    2nd – Desmond Titterington
    1st – Robin Montgomerie-Charrington

    If those aren’t great racing names I don’t know what are :D

  • Profile picture of Zadak Zadak said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    As Zadak onces said…

    Zonta is a really cool racing name.
    Heinz-Harald Frentzen is about as awesome as a driving name gets, it just sounds like he’s going to be really fast.

  • Profile picture of Stevo Stevo said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    I have just one word for you…Geki

    Some other interesting ones:
    Tom Jones
    Basil van Rooyan
    Nanni Galli
    Jose Carlos Pace

  • Profile picture of Prisoner Monkeys Prisoner Monkeys said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Juan Manuel Fangio

    Ricardo Zunino

  • Profile picture of TommyB TommyB said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Giancarlo Fisichella is a great one. So many Italian racers names sound fast…

    Michele Alboreto
    Giancarlo Baghetti
    Luigi Fagioli
    Andrea Montermini
    Alessandro Nannini
    Vincenzo Sospiri

  • Profile picture of Dizzy-A Dizzy-A said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Scott Speed.

  • Profile picture of Zadak Zadak said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    As Zadak once said…

    Anything with Juan as a first name.
    It sounds like one, so cool for racing

  • Profile picture of lubhz lubhz said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Juan Pablo Montoya
    Roberto Pupo Moreno
    Andrea de Cesaris

  • Profile picture of Ned Flanders Ned Flanders said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Zadak… may I ask why you have begun speaking so strangely lately?

    Tom L- Great tip! That was one of F1 Rejects’ best top tens in my opinion

    I nominate Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips (you can call him Wolfy T)

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