The 100 Greatest Moments in Formula One History

99. Michael Schumacher drives into Damon Hill at Adelaide '94; English tabloids re-use their vast arsenal of World War II-related headlines usually reserved for football.

98. Michael Schumacher breaks his leg at Silverstone '99. And King Boy Pato was at THAT corner where it happened. No shit.

97. Leading to Eddie Irvine's hilarious reign as Ferrari lead driver.

96. Michael Schumacher drives into Jacques Villenue at Jerez '97; English tabloids re-use their vast arsenal of World War II-related headlines usually reserved for football.

95. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/MaxMosleyNazi2_gawker.flv.jpg

94. A lower end late-1980's team is NOT a front to smuggle drugs. I repeat, NOT a front to smuggle drugs.

93. http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/ZLewisHamilton_468x308.jpg

92. Bernie Ecclestone calls Adelaide "cheap, tacky and downmarket...sort of like Long Beach twenty years ago".

91. James Hunt has sex with a woman or something.

90. williams, having just won the world championship, losing their honda engine deal in '88 because they wouldn't give satoru nakajima a drive

89. piquet vs salzaar punch-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0aQPLJNvA

88. Chris Amon could never win a fucking race!

87. The State Bank of South Australia has an advertising campaign involving a drawing of a sad looking Nigel Mansell because he can't get a State Bank car loan.

86. Juan Pablo Montoya finally realises he's overrated and goes into exile, steering a car only left for the rest of his life.

85. ANDREA MODA

84. British American Racing gives itself the tag "A Tradition of Excellence" before its first race. And installs Craig Pollock as team boss. And doesn't finish a race until the Belgian GP (about the 12th that season). And doesn't win a point at all in that first season. With the ugliest looking car ever.

83. Tom Walkinshaw's scam to steal Ligier/Prost's FOCA money for Arrows afetr they go bust (and before he goes bust).

82. Heinz-Harald Frentzen takes the piss out of a greasy spoon waitress during a piece for a magazine.

81. Benetton have the great idea of bringing in some bloke called Flavio who scammed a whole lot of dumb American investors in starting too many shops to run their Formula One team.

80. Who promptly sacks Johnny Herbert just because he can't walk.

79. french conspiracy robs ayrton senna of his maiden race win (monaco, 1984).

78. senna crashes straight up martin brundle's arse (adelaide, 1989): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvbfMJA6zss

78. French conspiracy robs Stefan Bellof of his only win (Monaco, 1984).

77. Alain Prost gives his trophy at the '89 Italian GP to his soon to be Ferrari fans, causing Ron Dennis to cut fully sick angry.

76. They run a Grand Prix in PHOENIX!

75. They run a Grand Prix in LAS VEGAS, IN THE CEASAR'S PALACE CAR PARK!

hey that phoenix track was awesome i used to play it all the time in F1 grand prix on the PC!

74. they ran a grand prix at LE MANS... no big surprise there but it was also in the carpark!!

I didn't get a proper PC until GP2 came out OK. And that Le Mans Bugatti track is so lame that they don't even have it in GPL, even through they raced there in '67.

73. Ron Dennis unleashes "Ronspeak" on the world.

where's that "i feel physical pain when we lose a race" quote when you need it

72. Those couple of years when Paul Stoddart mouthed off at everyone.

71. Camping at Silverstone next to a bunch of drunken Jos Verstappen fans.

70. http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/inoue/large/95-f1-hungaroring-2.jpg

Try that again:

70. http://www.histomobile.com/histomob/internet/pilote/26602.jpg

69. THAT advertisement for Pizza Hut.

68. Bernie Ecclestone is the mystery man behind the Great Train Robbery.

67. the 'luxembourg' grand prix, an excuse to have two GPs a year in germany at the height of michael schumacher's popularity (despite luxembourg being about 50 miles away from the race track).

66. Juan Fangio at the 1957 German Grand Prix.

65. The Tyrrell P34

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/TyrrellP34ScheckterDepaillerExhSinsheim.JPG/800px-TyrrellP34ScheckterDepaillerExhSinsheim.JPG

64. The Swiss Grand Prix held at Dijion because...well, I'm not sure why...

63. Jackie Stewart comes to a realisation that better safety might be needed while upside down and trapped in his car which is neatly leaking fuel on his crotch in a Belgian cottage after flying off the Masta Kink.

haha

62. gilles villeneuve going 11 SECONDS faster than anyone in wet practice session (watkins glen, 1979).

61. Didier Pironi trying to make himself World Champion any way possible, resulting in Gilles' death (probably) and having both his legs broke at Hockenheim.

60. Niki Lauda goosesteps into James Hunt's dressing room at 6am in his race overalls, declares that "today, I am going to win ze world championship" and goosesteps out.

59.

Murray Walker: "What's that? There's a BODY on the track!!!"
James Hunt: "Um, I think that that is a piece of BODY-WORK, from someone's car."

Please explain 94 in non-litigous detail!

58. Kubica's accident

57. Verstappen's Bennetton ignites for 2 seconds during a fuel spill. No-one hurt.

56. Olivier Panis wins '96 Monaco GP in the lovely blue Ligier after pretty much everyone else retires - one of my favourite underdog victories

55. Eddie Irvine getting confused by Suzuka's anti-clockwise direction and driving the wrong way to everyone else yet still finishing third (probably)

54. Brazil 2003 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ji9MTLdfnQ

(beg pardon, is Interlagos that is ac) xp

Special Non-F1 Great Moment:

During a late night pitstop at the 1970 24 Hours of Spa Touring Car Race on the old circuit, Hans-Joachim Stuck shouted to his co-driver Jochen Mass over the noise that he should "look out for body parts at the Masta Kink".

Mass arrived there expecting to see bits of car all over the road but was appalled to discover it was in fact bits of a marshal.

^^^ (xpost for haitch's Murray Walker "bodywork" commentary)

53. Coulthard insists it's pronounced "Coolfard" - as if we needed more reasons to hate

52. Schumacher threatening to kill Coulthard at the '98 Belgian GP.

51. Bertrand Gachot sprays CS gas into the face of a London cabbie and ends up in jail, inadvertently unleashing Michael Schumacher on the world.

50. Lord Alexander Hesketh meets Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley; both believe it would be "smashing" to run a F1 team with James Hunt as driver.

49. John Surtees gets sponsorship from Durex; BBC demands he withdraws at the last moment.

48. Senna punching out Irvine after Suzuka '93. "Insurance claim there!"

47. Irvine upsetting Coulthard: "I didn't call him a fag, I actually said he should stop being a fag and worrying about what I say."

46. "Doctor" Jonathon Palmer and Uncle Ken win the Jim Clark Cup and Colin Champion Trophy in '87, beating out...well, I don't know, really.

45. Benetton makes Uncle Ken run the Tyrrell cars (back when Benetton sponsored Tyrrell) in Italy despite a FISA strike, causing Uncle Ken to foam at the mouth.

44. Ron's modest transportable motorhome.

http://www.formula1.com/photos/597x478/sutton/2007/d07gbr913.jpg

43. Graham Hill, Carlos Pace and Ronnie Peterson enjoying the good times.

http://www.forix.com/8w/ghill/gh-cp-rp74.jpg

42. schumacher serves stop-go penalty after the race has finished (silverstone, 1998).

(lolling hard @ 'motorhome', btw.)

41. brabham 'fan car'

40l. After Ayrton Senna's greatest drive, winning the 1993 European GP at Donington Park in very wet conditions, he receives...a gold Sonic the Hedgehog trophy.

39. Coulthard survives plane crash, comes back to F1 feeling like unstoppable god, is blocked by Schumacher during next race, leans out of cockpit at following corner making 'wanker' gestures at him.

38. Gerhard Berger replaces the photo in Ayrton Senna's passport with a photo of a penis.

37. Heinz Harald Frentzen and a racing magazine photographer are driving in Japan when Mika Salo and Eddie Irvine pull up behind. Irvine pulls down his pants and spreads his arse at them.

Sure enough, Irvine's "browneye" is found in the next issue of that Japanese racing magazine.

35. They raced is apartheid South Africa until *1985* and only stopped because the French complained.

36. They raced in Franco's Spain until...well, until they went democratic down that way.

34. Kimi Raikkonen forgets to avoid puddle; ends Sutil's race last Sunday ensuring that some Indian blokes miss out on a few million dollars.

33. Coulthard shows off his breasts awesome pecs to sell watches.

32. 1984 or 85 I think, half-witted hoon Andrea de Cesaris and some other bloke (Nelson Picquet?) doing the Footballers Waltz on the track for about thirty seconds while other competitors drove round them.

31. Apartheid South Africa, Franco's Spain, countless easily avoidable deaths, and Formula One displays no detectable morality or sense of shame ... until Max Mosley pops into Mistress Abi's for a nice cup of tea and a good thrashing.

Who was the English driver who ran into a track worker and got decapitated by the fire extinguisher they guy was carrying? I think that happended in South Africa, so in one accident you touch on a few of the components mentioned in 31. The track worker's body essentially distintegrated on impact.

It was Tom Pryce, who I think was Welsh. There's footage around apparently, but just reading about the accident makes me feel quite sick enough. At least that one was a proper accident, it's deaths like Ronnie Peterson, or any of the ones from smoke inhalation because there was no-one around to help the driver out of the car, that are most shameful. Anyway, I'm not sure this belongs on what is basically a humorous thread.

If I remember correctly, though, two accident workers were crossing the track to aid a wrecked driver when Pryce hit one of them. Seems kind of senseless and avoidable.

Ronnie Peterson's was easily the most avoidable and most unforgivable death all thanks to that dirty "hospital" at Monza with cigarette butts on the floor.

Which led to fifteen years of James Hunt constantly blaming poor Riccardo Patrese for Ronnie's death. And a George Harrison song. With JYS in the music video.

30. The electrical systems in Mark Webber's Red Bull over overloaded due to interference from the Singapore metro railway, causing him to retire from the first ever night grand prix. According to Red Bull.

29. CRAZY DAVE COULTHARD COMIN' AT YA MOFO'S WITH THE MAD TASTE OF RED BULL - SPLASH IT ON YO BODY

anyone remember a big crash in the early '00s - start of the race in the rain, lead car or two come by and then you just see a wall of carnage?

1998 Belgian GP, I think you'll find. The Schumacher-Coulthard brawl in the pits later in the race was the better spectacle, imho.

28. Sir Frank Williams stars in a television commercial for Veltins beer.

27. Ukyo Katayama is one of the judges on The Iron Chef.

49. John Surtees gets sponsorship from Durex; BBC demands he withdraws at the last moment.

― King Boy Pato, Monday, 12 May 2008 10:57 (5 months ago) Bookmark

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26. http://f1rejects.com/hall/mandolphin.jpg

25. The Tartan Trouser Craze of '99

http://f1rejects.com/hall/fashion/stewart.jpg

24. Those last few laps today. They should hold all races in Brazil (or Belgium)

23. Timo Glock gets a race seat at McLaren for 2010.

22. Bernie: I want to woo my wife back

21. Max and Bernie pretty much outright insulting JYS about his dyslexia for months, because JYS has the idea that the sport should be run by professionals with proper business experience.

ahahahahahhahaha

hahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahaa

has an entire sport ever palpably jumped the shark before