The Caption Competition is back for the off-season and will have a slightly retro flavour while we wait for the new season to begin.
The first offering takes inspiration from Sniff Petrol’s hilarious series The Schumachers.
It’s up to you to decide what Michael and Ralf were discussing over cake in this picture from 2001. Post your funniest suggestion in the comments and look out for my pick of the best in tomorrow’s round-up.
See the best of last year’s Caption Competition winners here:
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Image © Ferrari spa/Ercole Colombo
Bendanarama (@bendana)
5th January 2013, 10:11
“No, I said ‘you’re CACK’ not ‘your cake.”
Saiesh (@saiesh)
5th January 2013, 10:16
Shumi : It feels great to be back in a Ferarri t shirt. Now I can have my cake and eat it !!!
cg22me (@cg22me)
5th January 2013, 10:19
“Ralf goes to show that you CAN have your cake and eat it.”
JamieFranklinF1 (@jamiefranklinf1)
5th January 2013, 10:21
Ralf: “So you’re saying that if I eat this cake, I’ll gain your super human driving ability?”
Bradley Downton (@bradley13)
5th January 2013, 10:25
Mmmm, Cake…..
Oooops, meant to be thinking up a caption, sorry, got distracted…
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
5th January 2013, 10:32
Michael: “Nice cake, isn’t it?”
Ralf: “Yeah, lovely!”
HS (@hsvdt15)
5th January 2013, 10:35
Ralf: What’d you say was in this cake?
Michael: Something to make you go faster.
Ralf: Then why aren’t you eating it?
Michael: Because I’m already fast, all I’ll do is gain weight.
Timebolt (@timebolt759)
5th January 2013, 10:36
Michael: You know ralf if you drove as quickly as you eat you…actually nevermind
Chris (@tophercheese21)
5th January 2013, 11:21
+1 Brilliant!
Kingshark (@kingshark)
5th January 2013, 17:53
Best one yet. :P
Nixon (@nixon)
6th January 2013, 15:07
LOL
Osvaldas31 (@osvaldas31)
5th January 2013, 10:38
Michael: “To buy this cake, I had to fly to Germany, because it’s cheaper there than in Switzerland.”
James Brickles (@brickles)
5th January 2013, 10:39
Ralf: “Mmmm good cake, and before races, a very good idea of yours. What did you put in mine?”
Michael: “…Nyquil…”
Dane. (@dane-1)
5th January 2013, 10:41
It’s called The Breakfast of Champions. That’s why you’ve never tried it
LucaBadoerFan (@lucabadoerfan)
5th January 2013, 10:44
michael: i’m the better driver in the better team. the look on your face tells me i have a better taste in cake, too.
ralf: …
MNM101 (@mnm101)
5th January 2013, 10:47
Michael: have these english people never heard of spoons ?
davidnotcoulthard
5th January 2013, 11:07
Ralf:”Perhaps, but I know these people in this country in Southeast Asia with Monaco’s flag using spoons to eat…Rice! What was the country’s name……..Nederlands-Indië or someting like that? Do you know, Mike?
Walter_Frosch
5th January 2013, 10:56
Michael: Haha, a piece of cake. Thats what Ross Brawn said, when i asked him if he can repeat 2009 at Mercedes …funny, isnt it, Ralf?!
davidnotcoulthard
5th January 2013, 11:00
MSC:”Brackley’s FAvourite Racing team/ BakeRy sure makes great cars….and cakes!”
RSC:”BAR? It’s not like you’re dreaming of ever racing for the team, right?”
9 years later…
Leonardo A. de Souza (@leonardo-antunes)
5th January 2013, 11:02
Michael: “I can’t believe you only ate Half of your first piece, i’m already on my 7th one”
anakincarlos (@anakincarlos)
5th January 2013, 22:46
+1
Jeanrien (@jeanrien)
5th January 2013, 11:02
“Happy birthday Ralph ! Let’s celebrate the two of us”
Master firelee (@master-firelee)
5th January 2013, 11:05
RS: Oh god this cake is disgusting, I must pretend to eat it.
MS: Hang on he doesn’t have any cake on his fork!
Gerdoner (@gerdoner)
6th January 2013, 2:10
lol ^^
Alex Brown (@splittimes)
5th January 2013, 11:06
Michael: How are your Michelins on the Indy banking?
Ralf: Like really good cake.
Scottie (@scottie)
5th January 2013, 11:15
Ok Michael, take this and promise me you won’t join DTM… it’s all I’ve got!
WerdnaZent (@werdnazent)
5th January 2013, 11:16
Michael Schumacher: “I’m pretty sure winning 7 World Championship titles will be like this, a piece of cake.”
Cristian (@cristian)
5th January 2013, 11:16
Ralf : Michael, it seems I’m faster than you at eating this cake !
Chris (@tophercheese21)
5th January 2013, 11:28
Ralf: Mmmm this cake is so good. Why aren’t you eating yours Michael?
Michael: “Well I’m ‘preserving’ mine so that I can enjoy it later. That’s the problem with this cake; you have to eat it like you’re eating ‘on egg shells’. “
dragoll (@dragoll)
5th January 2013, 11:29
Michael: “Now be honest, I want to make sure that I win that Cake Baking Championship!”
Ralf: “7 World Drivers Championships, and its still not enough for you?”
Aditya (@adityafakhri)
5th January 2013, 11:38
MSC: “Need your help, bro. If you’re racing against McLaren, give ’em hard times.”
RSC: “Why would I do that? I still have a chance taking title this year.”
MSC: “I’ll give you more cakes like this, goddamnit!”
RSC: “Mmmmkay…”
f1alex (@f1alex)
5th January 2013, 11:43
Ralf: “So is this what victory tastes like?”
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
5th January 2013, 11:45
Michael: How does this “fork” work?
electrolite (@electrolite)
5th January 2013, 12:01
“Ralf…does this mean we skip the weigh in later?”
Hotbottoms (@hotbottoms)
5th January 2013, 12:05
MSC: “Seriously, joining a car manufacturer such as Toyota would be a great career move!”
turbotoaster (@)
5th January 2013, 12:49
My favourite
electrolite (@electrolite)
5th January 2013, 12:06
So err…BMW Williams eh? I guess the proof will be in the pudding.
Kornél (@)
5th January 2013, 12:14
RSC: “I don’t get it big bro… I can’t figure out why ppl call this cake The Taste of Victory…”
MSC: “No wonder…”
hey (@hey)
5th January 2013, 12:20
Schumi: “Real men eat the fork”
NinjaBadger (@ninjabadger)
5th January 2013, 12:39
Can you eat my piece? I don’t think I can afford to put on much weight with the number of years I plan to have in my career.
john24
5th January 2013, 12:52
Michael: taste it Ralph, you always put too much sugar. How many times must I teach you this?
AndrewT (@andrewt)
5th January 2013, 13:12
Ralf: “Well, Juan-Pablo is eating his own cake, and I’m doing the same. But as far as I can see, that particular cake on your plate belongs to Rubens…”
Scalextric (@scalextric)
5th January 2013, 13:32
Warum sprechen wir immer Englisch?
Scalextric (@scalextric)
5th January 2013, 19:38
That because f1fanatic has a policy that all comments must be in English.
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
5th January 2013, 13:36
“So I told him that I didn’t think Les Miserables was the defining work of nineteenth-century French literature, because Alexandre Dumas was much better at capturing the Romanticism of the period in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo than Victor Hugo ever was.”
“You do know there’s a camera pointed at us right now … don’t you?”
“Uh … something about racing cars; bruumm, bruumm, bruumm!”
MahavirShah (@mahavirshah)
5th January 2013, 13:47
MS: “Not as good as ice-cream? Seriously Ralf, have you ever seen a world champion who likes ice-cream??? Preposterous ! Ill quit Ferrari before that day comes !!! “
Scottie (@scottie)
5th January 2013, 15:27
admitting to laughing at this :)
milmot (@milmot)
5th January 2013, 13:49
MSC: “So you think I’ll still be driving when I’m 43?”
RSC: “Yeah, when Jaguar wins triple Constructors championships.”
Journeyer (@journeyer)
5th January 2013, 14:00
Michael: “Cake too bitter for you, Ralf? It’s just like the gravel traps you usually end up in.”
Mère Çaidaisse
5th January 2013, 14:02
“Let’s celebrate! There are now TWO bad drivers in the family!”
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
5th January 2013, 14:04
“You always were the greedy one Ralf!”
mike-e (@mike-e)
5th January 2013, 14:05
Ralf was driving the best he ever had by this point, so michael had to do something to slow his quickening brother down and remain the top schumacher. It was in this moment michael discovered ralf’s kryptonite….
JB (@)
5th January 2013, 14:08
There you go boy…. take the fork to your mouth not your mouth to the fork…
schooner (@schooner)
5th January 2013, 17:51
Ha! The only one that has given me a chuckle so far!
alofan (@alonsofan98)
5th January 2013, 14:12
MS:I have always wondered why you’re called Ralf and not Half.
stefano (@alfa145)
5th January 2013, 14:14
msc: what really ****** me off is in 3-4 years there’ll be a blond finn going around with an ice cream in this same t-shirt, and everybody will talk about that, instead of me eating this cake with you.
rsc: mmm…
plutoniumhunter (@plutoniumhunter)
5th January 2013, 14:38
MSC: Is that the only thing you’re faster at than me?
Dane (@n0b0dy100)
5th January 2013, 14:54
Michael: what’s the occasion for the cake?
Ralf: I need to make minimum racing weight.
Michael: I don’t remember Montoya ever having that problem.
Mathers (@mathers)
5th January 2013, 15:06
Having announced sponsorship from Gregg’s the bakers, they took the chance to do some valuable PR work…
prelvu (@prelvu)
5th January 2013, 15:28
Michael: Bicause u eat that Cake faster u can’t have mine too.
U growe enough allready.
Mads (@mads)
5th January 2013, 15:41
Michael: “take a look at your big brother Ralf. Great hair, great tan, a proper shirt. And the photographer ain’t going to get a photo of me eating. And THAT is why I win, and you don’t.”
verstappen (@verstappen)
5th January 2013, 15:48
That’s a trick I learned from Senna too: say your family is even faster than you! It gets them a job they wouldn’t normally get…
Mads (@mads)
5th January 2013, 15:59
@verstappen
HAHA! oh my. I laughed out loud over that one! Brilliant.
Suvan Naidu (@serv)
5th January 2013, 15:57
Schumi: Easy on the cake, bro. Who are you trying to look like…Montoya?
Angelo De Asa
5th January 2013, 15:57
Michael: Why r we havin cake again Ralf?
Ralf: I didn’t get any trophies…
matthewf1 (@)
5th January 2013, 16:19
For the brothers Schumacher, cake was a prominent part of their careers at the time shown in this picture. For Michael, driving for Ferrari was very often a piece of cake. For Ralf, driving for Williams was very often done while eating cake.
Mariano (@mariano)
5th January 2013, 17:13
Michael: “I didn’t know that Bernie had such good baking skills”.
vuelve kowalsky
5th January 2013, 17:30
enjoy the cake.
Because this 2004 season it’s the only piece i am going to leave for the rest of the pack.
vuelve kowalsky
5th January 2013, 17:32
now you understand why i am such a *******. The cake tastes so good, that i don’t want anybody else to have a piece of it.
vuelve kowalsky
5th January 2013, 17:39
Here is the reason why michael dominated the early 2000’s.
michael putting some extra weight on the closest competitor, to have the unfair advantage.
As you can see he is not eating his piece, just fooling his younger brother into eating it.
Nick.UK (@)
5th January 2013, 18:18
Michael: What do you mean, Mum and Dad are not giving us Christmas stockings next year???
mayzee
5th January 2013, 18:40
Michael: “Taste that, do you…? That’s the taste of second place… EAT IT”
Lin1876 (@lin1876)
5th January 2013, 19:07
Are you sure this isn’t Juan Pablo’s?
Byron Young
5th January 2013, 19:18
“I suppose we could open a restaurant”
Neel Jani (@neelv27)
5th January 2013, 19:40
The Legendary Schumachers
Dominating Formula 1 was a cake walk
After a decade, eating humble pie
BenH (@benh)
5th January 2013, 20:42
MS: Do you think if I keep eating this cake, I will get slow by the time I hit 40?
RS: I doubt it. I’ve been eating cake for years and I’m doing fine!
Josie Maunders (@jbmaunders)
5th January 2013, 21:07
‘Ralf, you try it first. That way if it’s poisoned it’ll still be alright.’
Maciek (@maciek)
5th January 2013, 21:38
See? I told you: an aftertaste of Rubens’ bitter tears, seething helplessness and crushed spirit that lingers in the corner of your mouth for years. You can’t go wrong with my ‘Austria 2002 Special Mix’.
Novotny (@novotny)
5th January 2013, 21:43
‘When you get half-way through, I’ll start. And I’ll still beat you to the end.’
Bendanarama (@bendana)
5th January 2013, 22:58
“i was thinking of starting a website. I might call it ‘inhale gasoline.'”
John H (@john-h)
5th January 2013, 23:09
“These Pirelli tyres taste quite nice. Can you imagine if they ever had something like this F1?!”
(note: controversial).
Dwemmer
5th January 2013, 23:50
Michael: ” Its bitter sweet chocolate, tell me what you think?”
Ralf: ” Now my mouth knows exactly how you felt after your comeback”
electrolite (@electrolite)
5th January 2013, 23:54
‘You know that move you pulled today? You’re on thin icing, bro…’
Mark Thomson (@melthom)
6th January 2013, 1:37
and this is instead of salary in DTM?
Mark Thomson (@melthom)
6th January 2013, 1:42
And you know little brother, for the last three years in F1 I got to understand what it is to be you. Enjoy your cake Ralf.
Mark Thomson (@melthom)
6th January 2013, 2:04
Oh, by the way Ralf, I’m releasing my own condom brand now, hard, soft and rain in different colors. What do you honestly think about that?
Rupert Richardson
6th January 2013, 11:40
If you eat that cake, Ralf, you’ll always be slower than me – oh, too late… Have mine too.
Sviatoslav Andrushko (@)
6th January 2013, 16:29
– Does it taste like a new contract?
Gaz
6th January 2013, 19:53
I don’t know what all the fuss is about over Formula 1. If I wanted to see a driver do the same thing seventy-eight times before finally finishing…….I’d watch my wife try to park.
Milos Zivkovic (@iamaflyingfinn)
6th January 2013, 20:35
Rubinho’s piece
Bobbi F (@bobbif)
7th January 2013, 0:57
Michael (thinking) “when he looks away, that cake is mine”
Jason (@jmwalley)
7th January 2013, 4:44
“I do say, big bro, this is the best bit of humble pie you’ve ever served me.”
Klon (@)
7th January 2013, 10:42
Liberate translation from German:
MSC: “And then Jenson was like, “I’m, like, so gonna win a world title one day,” and I was like “whatever”…
RSC: “You tell ‘im.”
Guillermo Deutsch
7th January 2013, 17:58
Schumi: “So you are not wearing my never washed lucky red socks I give you for birthday?”
Russell Gould (@russellgould)
7th January 2013, 19:59
Michael: “Every time I win, I get a cake!”
Ralf: “That’s what this is?!!!”
Cesar Chacon (@cheese22)
7th January 2013, 21:58
“Almost like the sweet taste of victory… Oh wait you wouldn’t know would you Ralf”
MAB
7th January 2013, 22:15
I told you it isn’t humble pie, it’s cake!
Switchbacker (@switchbacker)
8th January 2013, 3:28
Michael: That humble pie looks good, but I think Ill let mine mature for a few years.
nomeg1 (@nomeg1)
27th January 2013, 15:39
MS : “Mums’ better don’t you think” ?
RS : “Hummm, let me see”…
Still camileon (@stillcamileon)
23rd February 2013, 12:48
Mum said it would make you a better driver !!
Dionanda
20th April 2016, 6:09
M : “bro,why this ic cream cake taste so flat?”
R : “,idk,i got it from sauber’s garage ;) “