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[SophieB]

@motorsport
The winner of each #F1 grand prix will receive a new FIA medal, starting with today's #AbuDhabiGP.
 
Here's the full story:
https://www.motorspo...bi-gp/10402795/
 

 

Not Bernie’s old idea but just…

The FIA medal will be awarded as part of the podium ceremony to mark the driver's achievement, ensuring drivers can keep them as a personal record of their achievement.

Although drivers are awarded trophies on the podium for winning races, many of them are then kept by their teams depending on their contractual agreements. Drivers can often then have replicas made should they want the trophies for themselves.

The FIA medal will be a "unique personal memento to commemorate their outstanding achievement" by winning the race, and is also intended to highlight the history that each grand prix victor will become part of.

 

Bring back the wreaths, I don’t give a hoot about sponsors being covered up.

[Secretariat]

Wreathes, medals and trophies, oh my!  Wreathes, medals and trophies, oh my! Wreathes, medals and trophies, oh my!  I like the idea.

Edited by Secretariat, 20 November 2022 - 12:06.

[Fastcake]

I am wondering quite what the point is. We already have a reward for the winner!

And what if teams start wanting to keep the medal as well?

[kosmos]

Stop being cheap and make an extra trophy 

[YorkF1Fan]

Why do they always have to medal with things? 

[Ross Stonefeld]

Will it be a crappy sponsor themed medal?

[ToniF1]

Lewis puting 103 on him for some fashion show...

[ANF]

Waste of metal.

[Mark521]

Will it be a crappy sponsor themed medal?

 

Maybe it will be a crypto coin de jour  . There is still enough of them that they could go a whole season without duplication.

[IrvTheSwerve]

Wreaths made from Bitcoins.

[milestone 11]

Why do they always have to medal with things? 

A pillow of winds?

[Maustinsj]

Why do they always have to medal with things?

I see what you did there!

[FirstnameLastname]

Just get rid of the trophies then… teams already get one. Just make constructor trophies for too 3 or whatevs

Until the team starts keeping the medals

[absinthedude]

Bring back laurel wreaths. Or mandate that the teams may not appropriate the drivers' trophies. The teams can have copies made, excluded from the budget cap. 

 

Wasn't Niki Lauda an exception in that he refused to let McLaren take his trophies?

 

I mean in the grand scheme of things it is rather unimportant. And is there a mandate that the teams may not take the medals?

[P123]

Did they have medals today?  Hopefully nothing like the sprint race things, as they are a ridiculous size and just feel a bit too... Jim'll Fix It.

[YorkF1Fan]

Did they have medals today?  Hopefully nothing like the sprint race things, as they are a ridiculous size and just feel a bit too... Jim'll Fix It.

Can you imagine the FIA'll Fix it medals!! it'll be meme overload 

[milestone 11]

Did they have medals today?  Hopefully nothing like the sprint race things, as they are a ridiculous size and just feel a bit too... Jim'll Fix It.

All that crap just ends up in a cardboard box in the loft. Invariably left there when one move's house. Niki had the right idea, he gave everything to the guy at the filling station in his hometown.

[SophieB]

Bring back laurel wreaths. Or mandate that the teams may not appropriate the drivers' trophies. The teams can have copies made, excluded from the budget cap. 

 

Wasn't Niki Lauda an exception in that he refused to let McLaren take his trophies?

 

I mean in the grand scheme of things it is rather unimportant. And is there a mandate that the teams may not take the medals?

why would he do this when…

 

All that crap just ends up in a cardboard box in the loft. Invariably left there when one move's house. Niki had the right idea, he gave everything to the guy at the filling station in his hometown.

[RainyAfterlifeDaylight]

Please! Trophy is enough!

 

[RainyAfterlifeDaylight]

What next?

 

[F1matt]

With Liberty in charge we will soon have WWE style belts for the champion and championship leader, also one for the team principal leading the constructors championship. 

[William Hunt]

Just make a rule that the teams aren't allowed to keep trophies instead

[Brian60]

Simple solution........ Have the race sponsors give two trophies for winning, 1 for the team and 1 for the driver. That way it doesn't cost the team, the driver, the track, the FIA or Liberty.

[registered]

Cue new contracts saying teams keep medals.

[macjim]

The first thing I thought of when i heard of this idea, was Muttley:

 

https://thumbs.gfyca...rush-mobile.mp4

 

Why start at the last race of the season, when not start the first race of 2023?

[Beri]

The first thing I thought of when i heard of this idea, was Muttley:
 
https://thumbs.gfyca...rush-mobile.mp4
 
Why start at the last race of the season, when not start the first race of 2023?

So Abu Dhabi can always say "we were the first"

[Clatter]

@motorsport
The winner of each #F1 grand prix will receive a new FIA medal, starting with today's #AbuDhabiGP.
 
Here's the full story:
https://www.motorspo...bi-gp/10402795/
 

 

Not Bernie’s old idea but just…

 

Bring back the wreaths, I don’t give a hoot about sponsors being covered up.

 

I know Mclaren kept the trophies (don't know if they still do). What other teams do the same?

[Clatter]

Simple solution........ Have the race sponsors give two trophies for winning, 1 for the team and 1 for the driver. That way it doesn't cost the team, the driver, the track, the FIA or Liberty.

 

Could have sworn they already do this.

[milestone 11]

 
Why start at the last race of the season, when not start the first race of 2023?

Dry run for those that are prepared to participate.

[milestone 11]

I know Mclaren kept the trophies (don't know if they still do). What other teams do the same?

Red Bull's trophies got nicked a couple of years ago from memory. Didn't some get found in a lake?

[IrvTheSwerve]

Could have sworn they already do this.

Exactly. No need for teams to take the driver’s trophy when they get given a winning trophy anyway.

[Jerem]

With Liberty in charge we will soon have WWE style belts for the champion and championship leader, also one for the team principal leading the constructors championship. 

Sneaky success ballast!

[Sterzo]

Red Bull's trophies got nicked a couple of years ago from memory. Didn't some get found in a lake?

Was it the lake beside a technology centre in Woking?

[cbo]

With Liberty in charge we will soon have WWE style belts for the champion and championship leader, also one for the team principal leading the constructors championship.

Skinny F1 drivers will disappear behind the belt buckle 😄

[masa90]

With Liberty in charge we will soon have WWE style belts for the champion and championship leader, also one for the team principal leading the constructors championship. 

 

Next you are gonna say there is gonna be debate about "screwjob" between champions which will be talked about for years

[Clatter]

Next you are gonna say there is gonna be debate about "screwjob" between champions which will be talked about for years

 

Screwjob? Is this some WWE term?

[7MGTEsup]

Screwjob? Is this some WWE term?

 

Look up Montreal screw job....

 

Was last year the Abu Dahbi screwjob?

[milestone 11]

Was it the lake beside a technology centre in Woking?

I hadn't realised that the perps had been caught. https://www.bbc.com/...-herts-34810131

[Clatter]

Look up Montreal screw job....

Was last year the Abu Dahbi screwjob?

Never heard of it, but then I dont follow wrestling.