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[Sergino]

it's www.alex-zanardi.com

Is it a kind of tribute?

[gerry nassar]

Good Question!! I want to know too!

I saw the pineaplle on his helmet during the Surfer's Paradise race in Australia (97?) but I thought he stuck it there as the pineapple is sort of a symbol of the tropical Surfer's Paradise area.

But it must mean something else!!

[LB]

The pineapple was placed on the helmet after Mo Nunn told him he drove like a fruit cake one day... he won the race the next day and the pineapple stayed.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Here's the story I hear most often


In early 96 Zanardi was a bit of a freak on track. Just before, or maybe the weekend of, the Portland race his engineer Mo Nunn called him a fruitcake so Zanardi put a pineapple sticker on his helmet, and won his first Indycar race

[clickhappy]

I don't think Morris Nunn ever called Zanardi a 'fruit cake'

He did call him 'his little pineapple....

[DEVO]

As far as I can remember the pineapple symbol (especially in Italy) is a welcome/friendship sysmbol.

[The Soul Stealer]

I didn't know they used pineapples when making fruit cake:eek:

[Ickster]

Originally posted by The Soul Stealer
I didn't know they used pineapples when making fruit cake:eek:

Yeah, they just dye them bright red and green so that you can't identify them...(I'm thinking of the disgusting stuff they sell door-to-door here; don't know what fruitcake is like in other parts of the world...)

[The Soul Stealer]

Originally posted by Ickster


Yeah, they just dye them bright red and green so that you can't identify them...

They wouldn't happen to be cherries by any chance:confused:

[Elspeth]

The pineapple was a traditional sign of hospitality in the Colonial period in America, but I doubt that has anything to do with AZ.