F1 Drivers Nickname

ibsey · Post by **ibsey** » 17 Dec 2012, 17:49

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?

Post by **tommykl** » 17 Dec 2012, 17:51

Jazz Johnny for Johnny Claes, obviously.

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 17 Dec 2012, 18:07

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?

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 17 Dec 2012, 18:34

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

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 17 Dec 2012, 20:01

Mine would obviously be 'The Barber' in recognition of that place I never visit.

Jocke1 · Post by **Jocke1** » 17 Dec 2012, 20:08

Post by **Ataxia** » 17 Dec 2012, 21:09

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

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 17 Dec 2012, 21:19

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

Jocke1 · Post by **Jocke1** » 17 Dec 2012, 21:27

Nigel 'Stache' Mansell

Fernando 'I-will-never-lose-my-heavy-accent' Alonso

Jean-Eric 'Vindictive' Vergne

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 17 Dec 2012, 22:02

Kevin "Coo-gan" Cogan
Romain "Oppa" Grosjean "Style"

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 18 Dec 2012, 00:03

420 Enge

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 18 Dec 2012, 00:21

redbulljack14 wrote:David "Quagmire" Coulthard giggity

Oh LOOOOOOOOOOOOL :lol:

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 18 Dec 2012, 00:28

eurobrun wrote:420 Enge

It was a Tokin' effort!

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 18 Dec 2012, 02:04

Bertrand 'Pepper Spray' Gachot
Jean-Denis 'Wiseman' Deletraz
Kimi 'The Lone Wolf' Raikkonen
Niki 'The Simian Lover' Lauda
Carlos 'El Politico' Reutemann
Derek 'The Journeyman' Warwick

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 18 Dec 2012, 06:41

redbulljack14 wrote:David "Quagmire" Coulthard giggity

Indeed, we have a winner :lol:

14 Hundred Hours · Post by **14 Hundred Hours** » 18 Dec 2012, 21:29

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.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:09

Romain Crashjean
Pastor Crashdonado

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:18

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.

14 Hundred Hours · Post by **14 Hundred Hours** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:27

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.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:28

Kimi the ice-cream-man

Jocke1 · Post by **Jocke1** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:32

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.

TheBigJ · Post by **TheBigJ** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:35

Riccardo "Tosser" Rosset.

14 Hundred Hours · Post by **14 Hundred Hours** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:39

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.

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 18 Dec 2012, 22:42

Timo "Big Gun" Glock

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 21 Dec 2012, 21:35

Surprised that nobody has mentioned Jerome "Custard" d'Ambrosia yet...

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 21 Dec 2012, 21:36

Not an F1 driver, I know, but....

Charlie 'The Final Countdown' Whiting

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 22 Dec 2012, 16:53

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"...

14 Hundred Hours · Post by **14 Hundred Hours** » 22 Dec 2012, 22:22

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!

Post by **mario** » 22 Dec 2012, 22:51

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?

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 22 Dec 2012, 22:55

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.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 23 Dec 2012, 17:28

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).

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 23 Dec 2012, 18:21

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."

14 Hundred Hours · Post by **14 Hundred Hours** » 23 Dec 2012, 18:26

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!

girry · Post by **girry** » 23 Dec 2012, 20:17

finnish commentators have a whole lot of these brilliant nicknames that make it straight to this thread...yes, they do use them rather regularly. :roll:

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

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 23 Dec 2012, 20:30

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.

Post by **mario** » 23 Dec 2012, 20:55

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...

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 23 Dec 2012, 21:19

Timo Glock = "Breakfast Time"

Alessandio Zanardi (see what I did there?)

"Cold Soup" Frentzen

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 23 Dec 2012, 21:27

Aguri "Moto GP" Suzuki

Post by **tommykl** » 24 Dec 2012, 06:40

Gaëtan Vigneron notably calls Fernando Alonso "notre ami Fernand", which is really starting to get annoying now :lol:

girry · Post by **girry** » 24 Dec 2012, 15:01

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