rotaryboy 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2002 ??? ??? sad to hear about old prost losing his team. but we may be in for more yet???? see also fed ex went to williams?? his name is the professor from his scholarly approach to f1. can someone explain this and tell me the other names for the other drivers like ms is the rainmeister etc etc etc. and if prost was the professor what did they call senna and mansell and pk etc etc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TotalF1 SamB 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2002 "The Professor" was just a nice way of saying that he wasn't the best driver at all - but he had an intelligent approach to his racing that surpassed anyone else. Unfortunately he didn't apply any of said intelligence to his money management skills. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TotalF1 Jens 0 Report post Posted January 30, 2002 I was SO looking forward to seeing 24 cars on the grid this year... waawaaawaa! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jagman 0 Report post Posted January 30, 2002 Um I think Nigel was called "The Lion" although many think he should have been called "The Whinger". I think Senna had a nickname too, but I cant recall it and Lauda was called "The Rat" Not sure about PK, but "PK" may have been it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nichosnz 0 Report post Posted January 30, 2002 I totally agree Jens, but in the world of F1 24 must be an unlucky number the last time it was tried was Lola in 1997 (oops Eric what were you thinking) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TotalF1 Jens 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2002 Lola was the funniest thing Ive ever seen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jagman 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2002 remember when there was too many cars and only the top 26 qualifed... And yeah, Lola was a joke.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TotalF1 Jens 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2002 That would be interesting to see again, too many cars and only a specified number of them qualify... It would add a little spice to the qualifying session! But it will never happen again, sorry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reverend Lastlap 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2002 Nicknames in formula one go back years one thities(I think) driver named Vittorio Brambilla was renamed 'brambilla the gorilla'. As for others I can think of off hand Piquet was always to my family 'Nelly', While Mansell became il Leone when he was at Ferrari this of course was before the prof arrived and nicked his motor... ??? Recent name changes that made me me chuckle was when a friend mentioned 'bonsai shuey' as the new name for Ralph. All this pales into insignificance when going back to the time when Frank Williams had two divers in his employ one Chris Brasher and the other James Hunt. Brasher became affectionatley known as 'Crasher' and Hunt duly became 'the Shunt' and it could only happen in F1 that when the two tried to share the same piece of ground the tabloid headlines of the time were variations of... Hunt the shunt has smasher with crasher Brasher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TotalF1 SamB 0 Report post Posted February 2, 2002 Not forgetting Andrea "De Crasheris" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TotalF1 Jens 0 Report post Posted February 3, 2002 Hakkinen could be named "The Quiet One" apart from the Finnish Flash or Flying Finn. Meanwhile Mazzacane could be called "The Flying Mullet - who fly's slowly", and Coulthard the "Championship evading Scot" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
