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[magic]

mike the bike, andrea de crasheris, quick nick...

your turn,
magic (senna).

[magic]

...danny on the gas,
pied-de-plomb jarier,
jos graveltrappen,...

[Wes]

Hunt the Shunt.

[Donny]

As an MS fan my favourite nick name for him is ......................wait for it ...................................................................... "THE GREAT FARCE". - There, beat that one for irony.

[MacFan]

David Clout-hard

[hhffan]

Luca Bad-Odeur

[Ellen2]

Cubehead (selfexplanatory)

The Aviator (Gilles Villeneuve in 78 in Italian press)

The Professor (Prost)

The Accountant (Niki Lauda)

El Gaucho (Reutemann)

Riccardo Cuor di Leone (Ricky Lion's Earth, of Patrese when young and aggressive)

Jaxs for JV

Fisico (how fisichella is called by Italian fans rather than Fisi as called by international fans. Fisico in italy means body)

The Viking (Rosberg)

The Inseminator (Eddie Irvine - OK that one I made up)

The Waltz Dancer (Verstappen, ok I made than one up too)

The Other Mika (Salo)

The Best (almost) Japanese driver in F1 (Alesi, via his wife - made that up too)

[Billy]

Mansell, Il Leone

Prince of Destruction -- what Enzo Ferrari called Gilles Villeneuve


[p][Edited by Billy on 07-11-2000]

[molive]

The World´s fastest idiot

(that´s how Piquet used to call ´the Lion´ Nigel Mansell)

Ukyo Katagrama

(he, he, in Portuguese it´s something like Ukio grass-picker)

[John B]

The Irvinator and The Swerve

L'Enfant Terrible (Senna early in career)

Red Mist (Alesi)

Mad Max Papis

Mobile Chicane (several 1980s back markers)

The Flying Pigs (Toleman team during difficult first season)

[614david]

The flying Finn (take a guess:))
The flying Scotsman(and yes I'm Talking about DC:))
Der Meister (yeah right)
Swerve.
Jaxs
Normal, but i think they are cute:)

[Ellen2]

mmmhhhh, the flying scotsman was a guy called Jakie Stewart......

[614david]

I know that Jackie was the first to be called it, but i have often heard people refer to DC by the same name!
Not that i can blame them, i mean the guy is quick, and an excellent racer, but i have said all of this before and can't be bothered to rake over old ground:)

[Nikolas Garth]

Mika "The Igloo" Hakkinen
Jacques "The Hairplug" Villeneuve
Rubens "The Excuse Factory" Barrichello
Michael "Careful" Schumacher
David "Diarrhoea" Coulthard
Alex "The Lesbian" Zanardi
Jos "The Premature Ejaculator" Verstappen
Jean "The Goat Killer" Alesi
Jarno "The Pantyhose" Trulli
Jenson "The Mudslide" Button
Eddie "The Goods & Services Tax" Irvine
Johnny "The Gay NiteClub" Herbert
Heinz Harald "The Au Pair" Frentzen
Pedro "The Nuclear Arms Treaty" Diniz
Alexander "The Child Minding Centre" Wurz
Ralf "The Psychiatrist" Schumacher
Mika "The Drug Addict" Salo
Giancarlo "Oprah" Fisichella
Marc "The Human Genome" Gene
Ricardo "The Disease" Zonta
Gaston "The Social Worker" Mazzacanne
Pedro "The Flatulence" de la Rosa
Nick "Joan Armatrading" Heidfeld
Oliver "The Three Legged Cougar" Panis
Luca "The Carrot Cake" Badoer

[Ellen2]

are you sure that the ones using it today are not trying to refer to pit crashed pit wall, flights during formation lap or spinning on grass before punting Wurtz??? just curious, you know.....;)

[614david]

your going to have to wait until i stop laughing before i give you a serious reply to that.

[Ellen2]

PS. DC is actually having a wonderful season, Canada apart that is. I think he got smarter, he now makes a season's worth of mistakes in one single race, delivering flowless performances regularly. One more race like the last one and it will be a Michael/David private affair. Who would have guessed before season's start (apart from you, of course).

[EKB]

Eric far from the Pole

"King" Hiro (the Japanese CART driver who owns Swift - his first name is Hiro, and for the love of me I can't remember his last name). Anyway, whenever Emerson Fittipaldi was lapping him, he would come over the radio to his pit crew and complaing about "King Hiro". It wasn't for quite a while that his crew relized that Emmo was a second or two late hitting the "talk" button on his steering wheel, and what he was really saying was ****ing Hiro. But by this time, the nickname had spread up and down the pitlane (even one of the commentators on ABC used the nickname before it was found out what it really meant).

"The Mobile Chicane" I was watching an F1 race with a non-racing fan, when (I think) Hunt called one of the drivers a mobile chicane. I then had to expain to my friend what a chicane is (a slow corner that causes a lot of accidents). We both burst out laughing at that discription of a driver.

Cheers,

EKB

[magic]

EKB,
great story.

Garth,
you're a milion laughs

i give you;
'super mario' (andretti)
the indian (reutemann)
the sao paulo taxidriver ( piquet on senna )

[John B]

King Hiro's last name is in fact Mashushita, offering endless opportunities for the creative.

Piquet also referred to Mansell as The Blockhead in their post-Williams days.


How about "Mace" Gachot?

Jensen "The Ticket" Button?

[MercMan]

CubeHead the Village Idiot!

And before 614David starts, I am a DC fan.

Regards

MercMan

[614david]

I wasn't going to start on you, i can't be bothered anymore, people's opinions will not change because of what i say, so why bother?
I can't be arsed with the same argument over and over again.
Still it's good to know there is another DC fan here, gee, that must tally to an all time high, of oooh, dare we stake it as high as 5?

[Ellen2]

David, don't be fooled by MercMan. Last year he was a Mika fan, now he is a David fan.......reality is, he is just another Mercedes fan!!!!;)

[Wes]

One of Lauda's was, believe it or not, "King Rat." Huh?

[MercMan]

Originally posted by Ellen2
David, don't be fooled by MercMan. Last year he was a Mika fan, now he is a David fan.......reality is, he is just another Mercedes fan!!!!;)

I do not hide the fact that I am a Mercedes fan first and driver fan second. But I am genuinely a DC fan, I am also a Mika fan and would be happy to see either of them win the WDC. Admittedly I first took a shine to them because they drive for Mercedes but now I am a fan purely on merit.

I don't know what I am going to do when MS starts driving for Mercedes . A lot of wins and championships but at what cost.

Regards

MercMan

[RedFever]

so, if Mika goes to Ferrari, you will still be supporting him, huh???

PS. David, what did I tell you????;)

[MercMan]

Originally posted by RedFever
so, if Mika goes to Ferrari, you will still be supporting him, huh???

PS. David, what did I tell you????;)

Yes. But the McMerc drivers would also be on my list.


Regards

MercMan

[Mila]

so who IS "The Flying Scot"?

1) Clark

2) Stewart

3) Dumfries (just kidding)

4) DC

I believe that J-P Jarier earned the nickname, "Rabbit," due to his quick starts.

Hulme was "The Bear," I think.

of course there was "The Pampas Bull," Jose Frolian Gonzalez . . .

and Lauda "The Rat" . . .

and Mansell, "Il Leone."

with all these animals, little wonder some call it the F1 Circus!

[vroom-vroom]

Lafitte: La Frite ('avoir la frite' in French means 'to be hot')

Ickx: Le Passager de la Pluie (The Rain Passenger - after the title of a French movie) or Mr 24 Hr (referring to his 6 Le Mans victories)

Prost: Prostichon (cornichon = pickles in French)

Senna: ET, the Extraterrestrial

Panis: Penis

Hulme: The Bear

Gachot: Gachîs (mess)

Lauda: the Beancounter, the Rat

Brabham: Black Jack (my favorite)

Gianni Lavaggi: Johnny Carwash

[Ray Bell]

Ellen, one wonders about your motives...
Yes, Denny was the Bear, Black Jack was his boss, nobody, however has mentioned FJ, world champion and all (put FJ into search on Nostalgia and it will come up many, many times).
Frank Matich, who dominated anything he went into in Australian racing (except the Tasman series) between 1961 and 1973, once went through a period when his contemporaries called him 'Frank Who?'...
There was once a series in Northern America called the 'Bruce and Denny Show'
And what about Rosebud? Another World Champ, this was the name by which he was known in some circles, including those where his car was prepared for F. Atlantic.
Mario was Super Wop, too.
My Newsletter carried a story once about nicknames in past Aust racing... there were some good ones in there, ones that weren't used to the respective parties' faces...
Ellen would seeming appreciate this one... The Knife and The Sheath... a driver and his new wife, un-named because still alive...
And Essing Jay the Bee... Smiling Jack The Bastard, rumoured to have killed his parents with an axe... no wonder he had the money to import an Alfa P3 to race here... Jack Saywell.

[vroom-vroom]

Oh, another one of my favorites: Jarier was 'Godasse de Plomb' (Leadshoe)

[Daemon]

David Cubehead

Jos Verwallslappin

Mika the Hack

[Billy]

Eliseo Salazar, "Salad Bar"

Originally posted by EKB
"King" Hiro (the Japanese CART driver who owns Swift - his first name is Hiro, and for the love of me I can't remember his last name).

Hiro Matsushita. The CART commentators could not pronounce his last name, settling instead on "mashoosta"

CART commentators also prefer short first names
Massimiliano (Max) Papis
Alessandro (Alex) Zanardi
Teodorico (Teo) Fabi

I wonder, was Juan Manuel Fangio II nicknamed "one-two?"

[Rainstorm]

A couple more that had me laughing:

Mika Happy Pen (The F1 Insider);

Sao Paolo Taxi Driver (Piquet on Senna);

The Irvinator (again, The F1 Insider);

and The Bald Midget (someone on this BB once referring to Jacques)

[Rainstorm]

Oh yeah! and a jurno once called Nick Heidfeld "The Scarlet Pimpernel" due to his many facial pimples, heh)

[magic]

wasn't brambilla called the gorilla?

(his only vic in the wet austria'77?, crashing whilst crossing the finishline both arms in the air)

ps.le professeur (prost)

[Tigalola]

In reference to "The flying scot" I would have to say Clone McRoll (Colin McRae) is the true flying scot.

[Samurai]

I remember the Japanese media used to sometimes call Senna "The Prince of sonic speed" (It sounds very good in Japanese).

[Cobra]

I always thought Enzo referred to Gilles as his 'High Priest of Destruction'.

Wasn't Juan Fangio called il Maestro? The Prince without a Crown was non-other than Stirling Moss. Anyone out there know if Jochen Rindt had a nickname or if Tazio Nuvolari was known other than the little Manchurian?

[Jonathan]

Lauda was actually known as "Super Rat".

J-P Jarier was best known as "Jumper Jarier". I am not sure if this was from his tendancy to fly over the curbing, or this this was a joke about his being a French person (AkA 'a frog').

Brambilla was best known as the "Monza Gorrilla", although I think he had an elder brother who also had the same nick-name ? (And Magic his victory for March in Austria was actually in 1975. In 1977 Alan Jones got his first victory in a "Shadow DN8-Ford" at this circut - also in the wet).

Ronnie Peterson was initally known as 'Bungalow', before people gained respect for him and started calling him 'Super-Swede'.

Jody Scheckter was briefly known as 'Baby Bear' when he first started driving for McLaren as one of Hulme's teammates.
[p][Edited by Jonathan on 07-12-2000]

[G-R]

When talking to my mates:

Mika Crapinen
Mika "can't" Hakkinen-it (hack it), for Monza 99)

One of my mates one for Schumacher - Schu-kaka

[Ray Bell]

CART commentators also Anglicised Stefan Johanson to 'Stevie Johnson'
In Australia, Peter Brock was known as 'Peter Perfect' because of his Bathurst record and lack of crashes etc.

[ClashCityRocker]

A friend of mine calls J Villeneuve "The Drunken French Logger" in reference to way JV looks when he doesn't shave

[614david]

Redfever, i forget, what did you tell me?
And to prove my point, i just had itv( Britain) teletext service up, and they had their headline reading, Flying Scot targets Austria win, put up the page and they were writing about DC.
MercFan, Mercedes as in the German Auto Vehicle specialists, or Mercedes sporting division, i.e McLaren?
Personally they are all my favourites, Mercedes road cars, are great.
Just thought i'd share!

[John]

The first time I saw "cubehead" I nearly died laughing.

That DC sure has some "chiseled" features.

[Srrh]

Oh can I? can I? can I? Join?
MSc:
Micheal Schumonster
Micheal Schumaster
Micheal ShoeMaker.
Helmethead, The Man from loreal, The Red Cheater.
Of course this guy drives for the Schumacaria Ferrari (Ferraillerie in french)
His main opponent this year is DC. DC (until know) meant D(umb) C(lutz).
He used to Race against Demon, but he is over the Hill.
He also use to race against Jacques "Vidal Sassoon" Villeneuve and Heinz Ketchup Frentzen. On day though Jenson Butt-on will beat him.
Oh yea, there is also Bernie Eccel$tone and Max Mostly.

[614david]

614 reaches for the pills to reduce her blood pressure, and stress, which is brought on by certain discussions about the shape of certain people's jawline.
However, happily she has managed to maintain a level head and resist the temptation to get angry:):)




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ahhh:)

[Todd]

Lamon Hill
Blondie
Hack
Testacuba

[Snow1]

I like these drivers, but I still nicknamed them with the following:

David -Coolretard (sorry, I know, not pc)
Eddie I.- Eddie (because all the Eddie's I have come across act like him and are bad and overly frisky when they should mind themselves)
Michael - "The Schu" because he is good at stepping on others when he believes he has to
Mika H.- The fourth Yucca brother (remember them on mtv? Mika's their missing fourth brother)

[Ellen2]

Peterson = SuperSwede (if you saw him drive, you know why)

Lauda = Rat (why? did you look at his face after Neurburgring???)

Brabham = Black Jack he was called for his often dour expressions

Rudolf Caracciola = known as "Ringmeister", for his mastery of Nurburgring. Need I say more?

Fangio = "The Master". 'Nuf said

Ferrari = Drake, Il Commendatore

Nuvolari = Nivola; The Flying Mantouan

Fittipaldi = El Raton (the rat, well, look at him...)

Moss = The Greatest driver who never won a title

Prost = The Professor

Chiron = Wily Fox