Trophy Smashing - Any Precursors?
#1
Posted 08 April 2000 - 21:33
Can anyone remember anything similar happening in the past?
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#2
Posted 09 April 2000 - 01:31
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#3
Posted 09 April 2000 - 04:37
Closest I can think of..
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#4
Posted 09 April 2000 - 08:17
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"Hey there, all you middle men
Throw away your fancy clothes
And while you're out there sittin' on a fence
So get off your ass and come down here
'Cause rock 'n' roll ain't no riddle man
To me it makes good, good sense"
-Brian Johnson
SHAMELESS PROMOTION--check out my website! Like the Atlas newsroom, only worse!
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#5
Posted 09 April 2000 - 09:10
#6
Posted 09 April 2000 - 10:15
Then there was Jo Bonnier, who bolted his McLaren BRM up on the wall of his living room.
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Posted 09 April 2000 - 10:53
#8
Posted 11 April 2000 - 20:07
#9
Posted 11 April 2000 - 23:10
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Yr fthfl & hmbl srvnt,
Don Capps
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[This message has been edited by Don Capps (edited 04-11-2000).]
#10
Posted 12 April 2000 - 02:36
He was quoted as saying that the horse had a lucky escape as it may have ended up on a dinner plate if a French driver had won ;)
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#11
Posted 12 April 2000 - 04:27
He loves the French, makes a point of mispronouncing Peugeot... caustic remarks about everyone from his father to women in general... a guy who really speaks his mind, and I look forward to his comments on the GP broadcasts.
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#12
Posted 12 April 2000 - 15:25
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Posted 14 April 2000 - 20:52
#14
Posted 15 April 2000 - 00:06
#15
Posted 15 April 2000 - 04:32
How about Pooojoooo with the oomlout.
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#16
Posted 30 June 2002 - 08:02
#17
Posted 30 June 2002 - 09:59
Originally posted by Huw Jenjin
Didn't one of the McLaren drivers drop the trophy into the crowd just to piss Ron Dennis off?
Yes, it was Prost. I think Monza 1989, things were going pear-shaped for him at McLaren as Senna had justifiably become the golden child. Ronzo went ballistic
#18
Posted 30 June 2002 - 16:10
In the rowing events of the 1988 Seoul Olympics Italian Gold medal vinner Davide Tizzano was thrown into the water. He came up again without his medal. A diver managed to find it after a 50 min search.
So Aussies, if you want a Olympic silver medal, it's just to jump into Lake Wendouree and start searching.
#19
Posted 30 June 2002 - 22:37
i had an unfortunate experience with a trophy a few years back,i had won a kart race and was presented with a fairly cheapish plastic/metal trophy.When i got it back to the truck and put it down on the table 2 plastic washers in the centre of the trophy shattered sending bits of plastic everwhere,including into someone's drink which was sitting on the table,this caused the trophy to go wonky and subsiquently fall to towards the floor,narrowly avioding impaling the dog!Guy who i traveled with won his race to,brought his trophy back and it broke to.cheap rubbish!
I also recall visiting a kart factory and finding a race winning trophy being used to hold a door open,and another used as a step.
I never know what to do with all mine(he boasted )had them on display in the house for a while,now they are all in boxes in a cupboard somewhere.
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#20
Posted 01 July 2002 - 02:15
Originally posted by Psychoman
That was Muhammad Ali's medal if memory serves right...
Myth has it that Muhammad threw his gold medal into the Ohio River.... he had in fact lost it or it was stolen. It is one of many Allegorical tales included in film on Ali.
There was the 'black power' display during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico though.
Kenny Roberts once gave back a trophy when he was a GP rider. He was mad that the prize money was so low and gave the trophy back, 'Since they needed the money so badly'
#21
Posted 01 July 2002 - 22:47
Back in 1911, after the very first Monte-Carlo Rally, Capt.von Eismarck (correct spelling?), rejected his trophy for finishing sixth, because he thought he would have finished higher had not been held up by French custom officials...
#22
Posted 29 August 2002 - 17:06
Originally posted by Don Capps
Moss did melt down most of his trophies to make a coffee table. And Niki Lauda used to give his trophies to the gent who owned a garage at the bottom of the hill near his house. In exchange he got car washes, servicing, and so forth. Typical Lauda. I also recall that the trophy Gilles "won" at Imola was never collected by him after the race. I also wonder about all those bottles of champagne that Reims used to give to the pole winners...
This puzzled me when I first read it. I asked about it the other day and I understand Stirl thought about doing it but in fact did NOT have his trophies melted down and cast into a table.
His wife Suzie thought that it might upset quite a lot of people, showing insufficient regard for the trophies as historic artefacts.
Absolutely stuffed for space, he ultimately sold the majority of them instead to an American geezer who painted a picture of a Moss museum display, dedicated in perpetuity. Anyway, predictably the whole shebang is now on the market, piecemeal... The Mosses can't justifiably be too upset about it. It was so predictable. But disappointing, nonetheless...
DCN
#23
Posted 29 August 2002 - 17:36
Originally posted by Doug Nye
This puzzled me when I first read it. I asked about it the other day and I understand Stirl thought about doing it but in fact did NOT have his trophies melted down and cast into a table.
His wife Suzie thought that it might upset quite a lot of people, showing insufficient regard for the trophies as historic artefacts.
Absolutely stuffed for space, he ultimately sold the majority of them instead to an American geezer who painted a picture of a Moss museum display, dedicated in perpetuity. Anyway, predictably the whole shebang is now on the market, piecemeal... The Mosses can't justifiably be too upset about it. It was so predictable. But disappointing, nonetheless...
DCN
Well, that does answer a question I always have had since despite several "references" to the alleged coffee table, there were still trophies in his home and office years later.... And the recent offerings of Moss "memorabilia" -- the very trophies which were supposed to be in that famed coffee table. I always had one small dose of skepticism about the whole idea of the trophies being made into an object d'arte: no one ever mentioned seeing it later on....
Well, Doug, I am glad to hear the real story, as disappointing as it may be.
#24
Posted 29 August 2002 - 19:16
Regards
Michael
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Posted 30 August 2002 - 03:24
#26
Posted 30 August 2002 - 06:59
Originally posted by Paul Hartshorne
Hi. I've just watched the podium ceremony from the Imola F3000. The second-place driver (I won't spoil it by telling you who!) dropped his delicate-looking glass trophy, smashing it to shards. As if that wasn't enough, the winner also dropped HIS trophy when leaving the podium, shattering that one too
That was a rather farcical podium ceremony
From what I remember of that (it was the 2000 race), the trophies looked to be crystal platters or plates of some sort with very ornate and delicate edges. When the drivers picked them up by their edges to show them to the crowd, the edges they were holding broke off in their hands and the rest of the trophies crashed to the ground and shattered. By the end of the podium ceremony I think all three drivers (Minassian, Junqueira and Webber IIRC) had managed to break pieces off their trophies and both Minassian and Junqueira had managed to totally destroy theirs.
#27
Posted 30 August 2002 - 11:29
Didn't Prost give Ronzo a replica of the 89 Italian trophy he gave away when he tested for the team in 1996?
I recall in the mid 80s you got a little moped and 100 bottles of Moet for getting pole - which means in 1985-1986 Senna earned himself 1,500 bottles of Moet and 15 mopeds. What the hell did he do with them?
#28
Posted 30 August 2002 - 11:37