F1 Drivers Nickname
F1 Drivers Nickname
When watching the UK Snooker championship last week, I was interested to learn that some of the snooker players had a nickname, like 'the whirlwind' for Jimmy White (Old school I know, but he's always been my fav for some reason).
Anyway I started to wonder what nicknames I would give F1 drivers. I haven't had much time to give this subject much though recently but I can think of....'the bullfighter' for Alonso, for usually taking the fight to the Red Bulls & for be being Spainish etc.
So wondered if anyone else can think of other nicknames for F1 drivers (past or present). I think it would be especially interesting & funny to give F1 rejects nicknames like 'Banzai - San' for Yuji Ide perhaps?
Anyway I started to wonder what nicknames I would give F1 drivers. I haven't had much time to give this subject much though recently but I can think of....'the bullfighter' for Alonso, for usually taking the fight to the Red Bulls & for be being Spainish etc.
So wondered if anyone else can think of other nicknames for F1 drivers (past or present). I think it would be especially interesting & funny to give F1 rejects nicknames like 'Banzai - San' for Yuji Ide perhaps?
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Jazz Johnny for Johnny Claes, obviously.
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Michael "Cheater" Schumacher (mostly for Austria-gate, quali-gate, crash-gate_before_nelsinho, and I_can't_win_without_a_car_that_bend_rules-gate)
Nick "zzzzz" Heidfeld
Gregor "Battering Ram" Foitek
Yuji "Ninja" Ide (because he come and gone as swift as a ninja)
HWNSNBM counts as a nickname?
Nick "zzzzz" Heidfeld
Gregor "Battering Ram" Foitek
Yuji "Ninja" Ide (because he come and gone as swift as a ninja)
HWNSNBM counts as a nickname?
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HWNSNBM 'HWNSNBM' HWNSNBM
Bruno 'Disgracing the family name' Senna
Romain 'Crash' Jean
Pastor 'Pasta' Maldonado
Pastor 'Reverend' Maldonado
Taki 'Modest' Inoue
Eric ' Back of the grid' van der Poele
Enrique 'Coulthard' Bernoldi
Timo 'Glockenspiel' Glock
Kamui 'Kamikaze' Kobayashi
Bruno 'Disgracing the family name' Senna
Romain 'Crash' Jean
Pastor 'Pasta' Maldonado
Pastor 'Reverend' Maldonado
Taki 'Modest' Inoue
Eric ' Back of the grid' van der Poele
Enrique 'Coulthard' Bernoldi
Timo 'Glockenspiel' Glock
Kamui 'Kamikaze' Kobayashi
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Mine would obviously be 'The Barber' in recognition of that place I never visit.
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Ayrton "I was being nice about you, Bruno. In reality, you can't drive for toffee..." Senna
Lewis "Hard As Mother-Fricker" Hamilton
Justin "Lanky" Wilson
Nicolas "Even I forgot I raced in F1" Kiesa
Charles "Pun-fodder" Pic
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Justin "Lanky" Wilson
Nicolas "Even I forgot I raced in F1" Kiesa
Charles "Pun-fodder" Pic
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Ralf "Half" Schumacher
Nico "Britney" Rosberg
Narain "Cucumber" Karthikeyan
Le Professeur Alain Prost
Romain "I don't have any vowels in my name" Grosjean
Narain "Raj Koothrappali" Karthikeyan
David "Quagmire" Coulthard giggity
Nico "Britney" Rosberg
Narain "Cucumber" Karthikeyan
Le Professeur Alain Prost
Romain "I don't have any vowels in my name" Grosjean
Narain "Raj Koothrappali" Karthikeyan
David "Quagmire" Coulthard giggity
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Nigel 'Stache' Mansell
Fernando 'I-will-never-lose-my-heavy-accent' Alonso
Jean-Eric 'Vindictive' Vergne
Fernando 'I-will-never-lose-my-heavy-accent' Alonso
Jean-Eric 'Vindictive' Vergne
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Kevin "Coo-gan" Cogan
Romain "Oppa" Grosjean "Style"
Romain "Oppa" Grosjean "Style"
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redbulljack14 wrote:David "Quagmire" Coulthard giggity
Oh LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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It was a Tokin' effort!
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Bertrand 'Pepper Spray' Gachot
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Kimi 'The Lone Wolf' Raikkonen
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Carlos 'El Politico' Reutemann
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redbulljack14 wrote:David "Quagmire" Coulthard giggity
Indeed, we have a winner
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From friend no.1: Lucas "Timo's noble accomplice" di Grassi. Yes, I have told her they are no longer teammates. No, she hasn't come to terms with this yet.
From friend no2: Sebastian "ain't he cute" Vettel. She is very much enamored with him.
From me to friend no1: Jenson "not German" Button. She refuses to believe that he may, in fact, be British.
From friend no2: Sebastian "ain't he cute" Vettel. She is very much enamored with him.
From me to friend no1: Jenson "not German" Button. She refuses to believe that he may, in fact, be British.
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14 Hundred Hours wrote:From me to friend no1: Jenson "not German" Button. She refuses to believe that he may, in fact, be British.
What. Jenson Button's the most British person I've ever heard of.
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BlindCaveSalamander wrote:14 Hundred Hours wrote:From me to friend no1: Jenson "not German" Button. She refuses to believe that he may, in fact, be British.
What. Jenson Button's the most British person I've ever heard of.
It started off as an honest mistake, now she's just being stubborn.
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14 Hundred Hours wrote:From friend no.1: Lucas "Timo's noble accomplice" di Grassi. Yes, I have told her they are no longer teammates. No, she hasn't come to terms with this yet.
From friend no2: Sebastian "ain't he cute" Vettel. She is very much enamored with him.
From me to friend no1: Jenson "not German" Button. She refuses to believe that he may, in fact, be British.
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Jocke1 wrote:14 Hundred Hours wrote:From friend no.1: Lucas "Timo's noble accomplice" di Grassi. Yes, I have told her they are no longer teammates. No, she hasn't come to terms with this yet.
From friend no2: Sebastian "ain't he cute" Vettel. She is very much enamored with him.
From me to friend no1: Jenson "not German" Button. She refuses to believe that he may, in fact, be British.
Teenage girls hyped up on sugar and gossip? Little to no understanding of F1 let alone other sports? Wierd is a bit tame!
Saying that, I love my friends and they are right now raiding my kitchen. Oh the joy.
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Timo "Big Gun" Glock
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Surprised that nobody has mentioned Jerome "Custard" d'Ambrosia yet...
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Not an F1 driver, I know, but....
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dr-baker wrote:Surprised that nobody has mentioned Jerome "Custard" d'Ambrosia yet...
And if Jérôme d'Ambrosio was "Custard" that year, then that made Timo Glock "Roobarb"...
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dinizintheoven wrote:dr-baker wrote:Surprised that nobody has mentioned Jerome "Custard" d'Ambrosia yet...
And if Jérôme d'Ambrosio was "Custard" that year, then that made Timo Glock "Roobarb"...
Is it bad I just read that and my initial reaction was to loudly exclaim "that's so cute!"?
Secondary reaction has now proved to be having that theme tune stuck in my head!
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ibsey wrote:When watching the UK Snooker championship last week, I was interested to learn that some of the snooker players had a nickname, like 'the whirlwind' for Jimmy White (Old school I know, but he's always been my fav for some reason).
Anyway I started to wonder what nicknames I would give F1 drivers. I haven't had much time to give this subject much though recently but I can think of....'the bullfighter' for Alonso, for usually taking the fight to the Red Bulls & for be being Spainish etc.
So wondered if anyone else can think of other nicknames for F1 drivers (past or present). I think it would be especially interesting & funny to give F1 rejects nicknames like 'Banzai - San' for Yuji Ide perhaps?
I guess that these would be alternatives to the nicknames that the drivers already have, because, for example, I thought that some sectors of the press and public had already nicknamed Alonso "Magic" or "The Magician" in reference to his love of the magic tricks (particularly card tricks) that he practises in his spare time.
Speaking of driver nicknames, one that has puzzled me a little is Sergio Perez's nickname, which is "Checo" - where did that come from?
Martin Brundle, on watching a replay of Grosjean spinning:
"The problem with Grosjean is that he want to take a look back at the corner he's just exited"
"The problem with Grosjean is that he want to take a look back at the corner he's just exited"
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TheBigJ wrote:Riccardo "Tosser" Rosset.
Combine with "King" Hiro Matsushita and we can have a "King Tosser". Thank the heavens they never raced against each other. Emerson Fittipaldi made King Hiro with a late press of the radio button and "King" Hiro was born.
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mario wrote:Speaking of driver nicknames, one that has puzzled me a little is Sergio Perez's nickname, which is "Checo" - where did that
come from?
According to this website: http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/boy/sergio
Checo is a common nickname for the name Sergio (probably in Spanish-language countries).
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14 Hundred Hours wrote:dinizintheoven wrote:dr-baker wrote:Surprised that nobody has mentioned Jerome "Custard" d'Ambrosia yet...
And if Jérôme d'Ambrosio was "Custard" that year, then that made Timo Glock "Roobarb"...
Is it bad I just read that and my initial reaction was to loudly exclaim "that's so cute!"?
Secondary reaction has now proved to be having that theme tune stuck in my head!
And is it bad that when I read that, I thought, "That's so girly"? I only know girls who call things "cute."
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dr-baker wrote:And is it bad that when I read that, I thought, "That's so girly"? I only know girls who call things "cute."
Not bad- that thought exists for a reason!
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finnish commentators have a whole lot of these brilliant nicknames that make it straight to this thread...yes, they do use them rather regularly.
Michael Schumacher = 'the Principal of Kerpen'
Fernando Alonso = 'the (Human) Missile of Oviedo'
Heikki Kovalainen = 'the Pike Perch of Suomussalmi'
Kimi Räikkönen = 'the Administrative Chief'
Sebastian Vettel = 'the Singing German'
after translation it seems they're sounding even worse lol
Michael Schumacher = 'the Principal of Kerpen'
Fernando Alonso = 'the (Human) Missile of Oviedo'
Heikki Kovalainen = 'the Pike Perch of Suomussalmi'
Kimi Räikkönen = 'the Administrative Chief'
Sebastian Vettel = 'the Singing German'
after translation it seems they're sounding even worse lol
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giraurd wrote:finnish commentators have a whole lot of these brilliant nicknames that make it straight to this thread...yes, they do use them rather regularly.
Michael Schumacher = 'the Principal of Kerpen'
Fernando Alonso = 'the (Human) Missile of Oviedo'
Heikki Kovalainen = 'the Pike Perch of Suomussalmi'
Kimi Räikkönen = 'the Administrative Chief'
Sebastian Vettel = 'the Singing German'
after translation it seems they're sounding even worse lol
Some I heard from Italian commentators:
- the little samurai = every Japanese driver who raced in F1 (particularry referred to Sato and Kobayashi)
- the little Brazilian = Felipe Massa (nickname used from 2006 to 2008/2009)
- Fisichella was often referred as Fisico
More, in the past Italian fans used to call Alonso "Culonso" (were "culo" means "ass" but it's also a slang word for "luck"), because they said that he was not a good driver and his results were only due to luck.
Because the most of Italian F1 watchers are Ferrari supporters, naturally they stopped to call him Culonso in 2010.
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Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:mario wrote:Speaking of driver nicknames, one that has puzzled me a little is Sergio Perez's nickname, which is "Checo" - where did that
come from?
According to this website: http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/boy/sergio
Checo is a common nickname for the name Sergio (probably in Spanish-language countries).
Thanks for the explanation - I was wondering whether it was a reference to something associated with his early career, or whether it was just a play on his name (as it appears to be in this case).
giraurd wrote:finnish commentators have a whole lot of these brilliant nicknames that make it straight to this thread...yes, they do use them rather regularly.
Michael Schumacher = 'the Principal of Kerpen'
Fernando Alonso = 'the (Human) Missile of Oviedo'
Heikki Kovalainen = 'the Pike Perch of Suomussalmi'
Kimi Räikkönen = 'the Administrative Chief'
Sebastian Vettel = 'the Singing German'
after translation it seems they're sounding even worse lol
Some of those really are quite weird, especially the one that they've given to Heikki (which sounds more like some sort of mangled mistranslation than an actual nickname). Do any of the newer drivers have a notable nickname from, say, the junior series? I wonder if Webber's description of Grosjean as a "nutcase" might stick, particularly if 2013 starts in the same way that 2012 ended up...
Martin Brundle, on watching a replay of Grosjean spinning:
"The problem with Grosjean is that he want to take a look back at the corner he's just exited"
"The problem with Grosjean is that he want to take a look back at the corner he's just exited"
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Timo Glock = "Breakfast Time"
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Gaëtan Vigneron notably calls Fernando Alonso "notre ami Fernand", which is really starting to get annoying now
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Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:- Fisichella was often referred as Fisico
that's quite a common one - Benetton used texts 'Fisico' and 'Jenson' to replace the Mild Seven adverts in 2001 in tobacco advertisment banned countries iirc
mario wrote:(which sounds more like some sort of mangled mistranslation than an actual nickname).
yep - it's odd in finnish too, but it's been said the nickname does have some kind of story behind it. Haven't heard that though
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