Who in your opinion has had the best name in Formula 1's history?
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- 18th August 2011, 20:40 at 8:40 pm #129939dam00rParticipant
Yes.. the most ‘racey’ name.
In my opinion it has to be Giancarlo Fisichella or Jos Verstappen.
18th August 2011, 20:46 at 8:46 pm #176646Magnificent GeoffreyParticipantAnother vote for Giancarlo Fisichella.
I was also a fan of Scott Speed as well as Ricardo Patrese.
18th August 2011, 20:56 at 8:56 pm #176647matt90ParticipantI 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).
18th August 2011, 21:02 at 9:02 pm #176648jonnyw360f1ParticipantI’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?
18th August 2011, 21:02 at 9:02 pm #176649BullfrogParticipantElio de Angelis
It’s a pity Will Power never made it to F1 though.
18th August 2011, 21:43 at 9:43 pm #176650CristianParticipantJacky Ickx
18th August 2011, 21:47 at 9:47 pm #176651Tom L.ParticipantJonny – 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
18th August 2011, 21:52 at 9:52 pm #176652ZadakMemberAs 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.
18th August 2011, 22:14 at 10:14 pm #176653StevoMemberI have just one word for you…Geki
Some other interesting ones:
Tom Jones
Basil van Rooyan
Nanni Galli
Jose Carlos Pace
18th August 2011, 23:25 at 11:25 pm #176654Prisoner MonkeysParticipantJuan Manuel Fangio
Ricardo Zunino
18th August 2011, 23:31 at 11:31 pm #176655TommyBParticipantGiancarlo Fisichella is a great one. So many Italian racers names sound fast…
Michele Alboreto
Giancarlo Baghetti
Luigi Fagioli
Andrea Montermini
Alessandro Nannini
Vincenzo Sospiri
18th August 2011, 23:39 at 11:39 pm #176656David-AParticipantScott Speed.
19th August 2011, 0:18 at 12:18 am #176657ZadakMemberAs Zadak once said…
Anything with Juan as a first name.
It sounds like one, so cool for racing
19th August 2011, 0:37 at 12:37 am #176658lubhzParticipantJuan Pablo Montoya
Roberto Pupo Moreno
Andrea de Cesaris
19th August 2011, 0:52 at 12:52 am #176659Ned FlandersParticipantZadak… 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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