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[Denaris]

Sometimes, you just got to love Bernie!

 

 

[John B]

The finish of the Swiss GP (in Dijon) in 1982 - IIRC a nationalistic flag man started to make moves to throw the checkered early when Rosberg closed in on Prost and was restrained by the Williams team. Then after Rosberg took the lead he wouldn't put out the flag and results were given by timing and scoring.

Some of the Monza cool down laps- in 1983 Piquet had an orange thrown at his car (before the end) and then I remember a pic of a fan sticking middle finger right in his visor on the track

Edited by John B, 03 May 2015 - 19:46.

[RedOne]

[thegforcemaybewithyou]

 

I think this is what happened before

 

[ensign14]

The finish of the Swiss GP (in Dijon) in 1982 - IIRC a nationalistic flag man started to make moves to throw the checkered early when Rosberg closed in on Prost and was restrained by the Williams team. Then after Rosberg took the lead he wouldn't put out the flag and results were given by timing and scoring.
 

 

Had the flag gone out early, Rosberg would have won the 1982 title without a Grand Prix win.

 

The French used to have the rotund figure of Toto Roche ruining their races.  For some inane reason the Moroccans had him over to head-steward the 1957 GP there.  Jack Brabham in the Cooper had repair work done in the garage, which meant he had to retire from the race, but he went out for some laps anyway.  Roche noticed this and decided to black-flag Brabham.

 

John Cooper saw Roche with the black flag, clocked when Brabham was going to arrive at the final corner, and just at the right moment tapped on Roche's shoulder to ask him what he was going to do.  By the time Roche had explained, Brabham had gone past.

 

Next lap, as Brabham comes to the straight, Cooper taps Roche on the shoulder and asks why he was going to disqualify Brabham.  By the time he had explained, Brabham had gone past.

 

This went on for a bit until an irate Roche simply black-flagged the next car he saw.

 

Which just happened to be being driven by Juan Manuel Fangio.

[Briz]

And this happened some other time

 

[ATesla]

 

Not F1 but still pretty funny.

Edited by ATesla, 04 May 2015 - 13:17.

[Ibsey]

The finish of the Swiss GP (in Dijon) in 1982 - IIRC a nationalistic flag man started to make moves to throw the checkered early when Rosberg closed in on Prost and was restrained by the Williams team. Then after Rosberg took the lead he wouldn't put out the flag and results were given by timing and scoring.
 

 

One of the untold stories from 1982 was how Derek Daly managed to out qualify Keke Rosberg at that race at Dijon (a race Keke won). I'll quote Derek Daly...

 

"Keke Rosberg was lighting fast and particularly good in qualifying, and there were unusual circumstances surrounding the only time I started ahead of him on the grid that year. 

Halfway through the final qualifying session, I tried my car with front wings fitted. I was about four seconds behind John Watson's Mclarenaround the back of the circuit when I missed my braking point for the downhill section. No problem, I simply went down the espace road and rejoined the track, completely by passing the downhill section. Before I rejoined, however I waited waited for Watson to pass and then set off on another lap. So I was only about two seconds behind him when I flashed past the timing beam - to record the fastest lap set by a Williams that weekend. 

When I stopped, I was just about to tell the team what happened, when Charlie Crichton-Stuart began congratulating me for the lap and said that Frank Williams had sent orders to put the front wings on Keke's car for his race set-up. I suddenly thought 'Maybe they don't know about the mistake - and just maybe I should keep quiet about it'. Keke didn't know why he was beaten that weekend and was furious but, all these years later, he now sees the funny side.

Despite the fact that I didn't actually do that laptime, I still thought that, with the front wings fitted, the car would be faster in the race. Keke therefore had enough downforce in the race to hound and eventually pass the Renaults late in the race, and go onto his only win of the season. I like to think my inadvertently devious lap actually helped him in the long run."

[Rob]

Not quite F1, but this made me chuckle.

 

[jcbc3]

We used those in the rain when karting. They were very effective.

[wrcva]

[Jimisgod]

 

 

[Button4life]

 

 

He just likes McLaren like Massa, but Button likes Red Bull for a change.
(not the best quality)

[GoldenColt]

 

How to destroy C. Horner in 5 seconds.

Edited by GoldenColt, 05 May 2015 - 06:25.

[RobertoLarcos]

 

 

[midgrid]

[Ibsey]

 

The moment at 0:44 is priceless!!!

[tmekt]

[taziosenna881]

Edited by taziosenna881, 09 May 2015 - 07:05.

[Zesus]

https://youtu.be/2404PTKhXFo?t=55s

Edited by Zesus, 09 May 2015 - 08:45.