Grand Prix Rejects

To start the ball rolling, today at the GT1 world championship at Silverstone, I met the mighty Markus Winkelhock, as well as David Barbham and Tomas Enge. Previously, I met Alex Zanardi, Nico Hulkenberg, and Jerome D'Ambrosio

I have met Alex Yoong, Ralph Firman and Tomas Enge, all at the 2005 A1GP meet. I even have a picture with my esteemed countryman!

Jan Lammers about 20times, Ben Pon, Giovanni Lavaggi, Huub Rothengatter, Vincenzo Sospiri, Eppie Wietzes, Roelof Wunderink, Karthikeyan, Nicolas Kiesa , Max Mosley

Derek Warwick I have met many times, recently last week - he owns several Honda Garages, one of which, used to sponsor my local kart club.

And I use to serve Nigel Mansell and his sons every weekend when they came to the Newsagents store!

Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart I have also met in PR events.

Jenson Button and Andy Priaulx I have met recently at a cycle race!

Not F1 drivers but have met Murray Walker at a book signing place and have been in contact with Eddie Jordan to do an interview.

Have also raced against EJ's nephew and Nigel Mansell too....

Not bad for a 19 year old ay?

I've met loads of bike racers such as John McGuiness, Steve Hislop (R.I.P), Neil Hodgson, Chris Walker (twice), Leon Haslam, Jonathon Rea, Glen Richards, Danny Webb, Scott Redding, etc etc.

Sadly no F1 drivers though

I've served Mike Brewer (famous for those Deals on Wheels shows and other motoring programmes) and his young daughter back when I worked at SportsDirect...!

I have Anthony Davidson's autograph on a Super Aguri cap! (I bought the cap a week before meeting him.)

Tonio Liuzzi at the 2006 British Grand Prix, he (along with Klien and Adrian Newey) signed my can of Red Bull, which is still on the mantelpiece along with our hillclimb and karting trophies (and a card signed by Greg and Leo Mansell, a true monument to mediocraty).

Its pretty much the only can of Red Bull I've ever bought, I bought it especially for the Grand Prix in the hope of getting it signed by David Coulthard, but alas I didn't manage to find him.

The thread was meant to be reject drivers only guys... I'm pretty sure Nigel Mansell isn't a reject!

jpm wrote:The thread was meant to be reject drivers only guys... I'm pretty sure Nigel Mansell isn't a reject!

As much as I think Mansell was an egomaniac I believe that his 31 wins and his championship in 1992 is cleared for Mansell to be a non-reject.

Greg, on the other hand...

Ive met many F1 drivers, when the grand prix is in Melbourne, as it is pretty easy to meet them if you know where to go.

The following I got signed programmes/others

F1 Rejects:
Albers, Friesacher, Nissany, Liuzzi, di Grassi, K.Nakajima, Piquet Jnr

Non Rejects:
Sutil, Glock, Hamilton, de la Rosa, Rosberg, M.Schu, Massa, Barrichello, Raikkonen, Montoya, Webber, Heidfeld,
to name a few. My personal favs were Sir Jack Brabham and Sir Jackie Stewart.

And no, I aint done it for business, (ebay etc) these are strictly for myself.

I'm gonna make an effort to meet Bordais in September so I guess I'll post the encounter in the IRL thread.