Yup - the McDonalds car did great in the Burger King qualifying session and got the KFC Pole for the Subway 500.

I don't think I've ever heard an F1 driver 'thank' their sponsors...and credit to F1 as a whole for handling sponsorship in an all together more classy way

Doug

They both did, several times each.

Spotting them say it was far more entertaining than watching the pictures...

Damn, i feel hungry now.

On the bubble is quite a rare thing in that it started in motorsport and went to other sports. It was first used at the Indy 500 on Bump day (hey, remember that). Anyone that was bumped was said to have burst his bubble, because back then you couldn't run again.

So don't knock it it's actually one of ours.

"Quite honestly and obiously"

In Macas site:

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA
"I made a dreadful start off the line and lost three or four places but managed to gain some ground again in the first corner to end up 11th. Then I don't know quite what happened but I lost the car and got stuck on the kerb and that was it."

The Globo TV reporter asked Montoya and he told TC failed (mechanical thing), not in the very same words.

In the nicest possible way,

Fisi: "we have a good package and I'm very optimistic".

Not limited to F1, but:

"I'll be giving 110%"

Or, in qualifying at least 107%

David Hobbs loves that phrase also, here in the states.

TOdt: "Rubens, let Michael pass for the championship..."

"The team did a fantastic job today."

Mark Blandell tends to say "at this moment in time" quite alot.

Blundell just doesn't come across as a natural performer. Though he must have had as much training as any other presenter, he looks and sounds completely wooden. Not naturally lucid, he relies on stock phrases like this a lot. He must be a lot more interesting & knowledgable than he appears on screen. I like Steve Ryder, but him & Mark aren't a very good double act, Tony Jardine would have been far better.

I like Martin Brundle's phrase



so and so................is in the kitty litter.

Haven't heard it for a while.

My favourite Brundle-ism is when he talks about someone who's lost control of his car being "on the way to the scene of the accident."

The one phrase all drivers seem to have a problem with is " I screwed up!"

an uneventful - every Mercedes driver, even in the DTM!

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "all the team", as in "I'd like to thank all the team for their hard work". I kept wondering what they mean when they say that. I suppose it means "the entire team".

Also, "the car worked fantastic all the race..."

Chief culprits are Barrichello, Alonso, Fisichella.

Theres hardly any kitty litter left thats why.

Thanks - I feel suitably educated.

Mind you - James Allen spouting forth the finest words of Shakespear would still sound like he's talking toss, so no surprise he turns something reasonable into something annoying sounding.

Perhaps "RDM, you have won the lottery" would sound OK. (not that I'm stupid enough to play it)

"Tin-Tops"

2006 MONACO GRAND PRIX FRIDAY PRACTICE
From Mclaren's site.
...
At the end of the first practice when Kimi came out for his first lap of the week a heat shield on his car caught fire and damaged the wire looming which made the engine switch off.
...
Cold foot Kimi.

what i hate most about press conferences is how windsor or whoever is conducting the conference will make statements and the drivers will ALWAYS start with;

"yeah, we had a good result..."

"yeah, i mean our tires..."

"yeah, our lap was..."

"yeah, you can see from..."

a couple races ago, i think imola, i noticed how often they save "yeah" at the beginning of every statement. i put most of the blame on the way the conferences are conducted because when they're asked questions (instead of replying to statements) they dont say "yeah" as often.

Yeah, for sure it is annoying when people start every sentence with yeah, to be honest. Former F3000 driver Gareth Rees, who is Ben Edwards' supporting commentator on GP2 for Eurosport, starts EVERY comment he makes with 'Yeah'. After a while, you start to wistfully wonder if James Allen isn't so bad after all...

For sure, a large number of drivers and team members seem to say "for sure" a lot in interviews, even the native English speakers. Does anyone really understand for sure why "for sure" has crept into the English used in the paddock for sure?

I don't know. It really annoys me now that I've noticed everyone doing it!

For sure, this is a repost.

For Sure its been happening for years. For Sure I reckon they get trained what they can and cannot say to the media by their teams. For sure they tell their drivers to be positive, and for sure they shouldnt diss the team. For sure 'For Sure' is a nice phrase for sounding good on camera.


For Sure.

Thats pretty old news for sure.

Obviously, this is old news for sure

For sure it is (OK the joke's already wearing thin) but in the 30 odd years I've been watching F1 I've never come across a decent explanation. I imagine it's one of these "there isn't a direct translation" moments for a common phrase used in several other languages, but I'm not... sure.

For sure it's very annoying seeing the drivers and team personnel say for sure...
Seems that they don't know anything else to say...

Time to drag out the old Kimi 'for sure' action figure for one last appearance on the BB

http://www.wangbar.co.uk/f1/kimi/

For sure it is bloody annoying. Daft when Lewis says is though. Only Englishman I know to say "for sure".

The eternal complaining about that 'for sure' thing is even more annoying than the 'for sure' thing itself, which is a non-issue.

It's an old favourite action figure but dammit it's still funny. Wish they had an updated 'Ferrari' one. Or a gorilla suit one drinking vodka.

For sure.

Jacques Villeneuve started it. Schumacher had a hand in "obviously" and "to be honest", but they're probably fading.

The word 'Stellar' is creeping in as well, Allen uses it every couple of minutes these days, really starting to annoy me.

I might attempt an f1 drinking game using 'for sures' tomorrow. Though I'd probably be unconscious before the end of Brundle's gridwalk.

Massa has to be the king of "for sure". Although Kimi and Alonso come close

you pickup language off what your around... like i doubt many of you guys know what grats means

For all the pain that a grid full of "For Sure"'s is it is better that one Nascar

Well my Penzoil - Wal-Mart - Jim Beam - Jelly Bean - UPS - CPU - ICU - Chevrolet - Ford - Dodge - Toyota was running real good and we had just made the final track bar - tire pressure - sway bar - oyster bar change and we were good to the end when (Insert rival driver name here ) plumb run me off the road - rode me high - rode me wet - and that was my race done there. I just want to thank all the crew of the Penzoil - Wal-Mart - Jim Beam - Jelly Bean - UPS - CPU - ICU - Chevrolet - Ford - Dodge - Toyota for giving me a great car and I want to thank Jesus - Budda - Dali Llama - Hari Krisna - L Ron Hubbard for all that i have been given


None of theose drivers have a personality and they all went to Dale Carnige and bought the same one.

Those guys make you thank whoever you thank for the Kimi Action Doll

Been done on TNF too, for sure. Interesting that the TNF thread was prompted by Hamilton using it ....