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F1 News & Discussions => General F1 Discussion => Topic started by: markfarrell9572 on July 21, 2011, 08:49:43 PM
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This may have been discussed before but what do you think is the best ever F1 Driver name? The coolest name ever in F1?
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Hmmm interesting! I checked through the complete list of drivers on Wiki and came up with a few candidates:
Emmanuel de Graffenried
Fabrizio Barbazza (anyone with 3 "z's" in his name has gotta be cool!)
Birabongse Bhanubandh (I dare you to pronounce it right!)
Bill Cheesbourg (mmmmmmmmm)
Dieter Quester
Wolfgang von Trips
Joachim, Manfred & Markus Winkelhock
Best ever I'd have to go with Birabongse Bhanubandh
Coolest name I'd go with Wolfgang von Trips
Honourable mention to the three Winkelhocks! :yahoo:
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Roelof Wunderink
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Can't decide which of this bunch is the oddest:-
Ivor Bueb
Paddy Driver
Huub Rothengatter
Otto Stuppacher
Desmond Titterington
The coolest has to be one of these:-
Juan Jover
Ernst Loof
Pete Lovely
or even..... :swoon: Jenson Button. - does sound a bit like a stage name don't you think. ;)
The trickiest has to be :-
Mário de Araújo Cabral. - Well can you imagine commentators getting their tongues round it. :D
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Scott Speed is certainly a natural name for a race car driver.
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when I was a kid just starting to watch F1 this name
meant exotic racing to me
Lorenzo Bandini,still does
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Jacky Ickx is the best name
Wolfgang Von Trips is the coolest though!
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His full name was even cooler:
Count Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips
From what I've always read, he was a really cool guy, too.
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His full name was even cooler:
Count Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips
From what I've always read, he was a really cool guy, too.
Yes, he was! When he did radiobroadcastings, he used to sit on the floor, legs crossed. He also intruduced go-karts in Europe!
The longest names I can come up with are these three:
Count Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips
Jonkheer Karel Pieter Anthoni Jan Hubertus Godin de Beaufort
and of course:
Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Angel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton
Scott Speed must be within the list of funny Formula 1-driver names, just as Paddy Driver
John Love
What about Jean Max, or, as he officially was named: Max Jean
another cool sounding name: Noritake Takahara
or Archie Bryde (pronounce it, not read it...)
Guy Gale...
But I won't write my whole database down... ;)
Think I'll keep with Scott Speed, though...
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von Tripps childhood nickname was Wolfchen (Little Wolf).
I wonder if Scott Speed is related to the 80's NASCAR driver, Lake Speed.
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Good old Wolfgang seems to be in a commanding lead amongst us for coolest name but.......
NOBODY can hold a candle to Good 'Ol Nascar Boy...drum roll....DICK TRICKLE!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeVOwBu3Msg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeVOwBu3Msg)
Now back to our regularly scheduled thread.
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Dick Trickle has to be the best name ever, let alone for a racing driver.
I like this one though Ricardo Londono-Bridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Londo%C3%B1o and http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/londono-bridge/index.html
As a child though the name Gilles Villeneuve and Nelson Piquet were unbelievably exotic and foreign. I guess thats growing up int the west of Ireland though, if Ice cream was other than vanilla it was exotic!
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I remember when I started watching F1, thinking Damon Hill had the best name in F1 because it was the only one I could pronounce...
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von Tripps childhood nickname was Wolfchen (Little Wolf).
I wonder if Scott Speed is related to the 80's NASCAR driver, Lake Speed.
Did you know Lake Speed was a world karting champion?
Lonny