Driver Pairings you would like to have seen....

ranig · Post by **ranig** » 15 Mar 2012, 14:50

A pairing Marques/Rosset would be rejectfully epic.

Just for the fun in the press conference, I think Hakkinen/Raikkonen would be good too.

For on-track action, I would love to have an Alonso/Hamilton pairing back (with fair and equal chances). I think that Hamilton/Kobayashi would be great too.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 15 Mar 2012, 15:07

Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher.

Susie Stoddart/Wolff and Katherine Legge.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 15 Mar 2012, 16:46

Chandhok / Karthikeyan at Force India.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 15 Mar 2012, 16:53

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:Chandhok / Karthikeyan at Force India.

That said, Luca Badoer and Giancarlo Fisichella at Ferrari!

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 15 Mar 2012, 16:54

De La Rosa / Alguersuari at HRT.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 15 Mar 2012, 18:19

How about Jaime Alguersuari/Slim Borgudd for a musical driver lineup? Though you'd need a time machine...

Alternatively, you could go with the slightly more possible Alguersuari/Jacques Villenuve lineup.

Also, I think a Jenson Button/Mark Webber lineup would be somewhat interesting.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 15 Mar 2012, 21:37

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:De La Rosa / Alonso at HRT.

Sorted! Or fixed in F1Reject-speak.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 15 Mar 2012, 21:39

dr-baker wrote:
Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:De La Rosa / Alonso at HRT.

Sorted! Or fixed in F1Reject-speak.

Oon second thoughts, Alonso and Alguersuari in the HRT A-team (see what I did there?

) then Docklands Light Railway and Maria de Villota in HRT's B-team.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 16 Mar 2012, 01:05

Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi. Wait, what? Oh, wrong forum, never mind...

Nelson Piquet and Eliseo Salazar? Gilles Panizzi and Olivier Grouillard (Mr Panizzi does not react well to traffic).

Or, had Ayrton Senna gone ahead and acquired half of Jordan F1...Ayrton Senna and Colin McRae, Senna GP, 1996.

eichy · Post by **eichy** » 16 Mar 2012, 01:59

Kimi/Petrov (It could've happened. :cry:

)
Kubica/Vettel (Bobby in a Red Bull would be FUN).

In IndyCar: Bourdais/Franchitti (both four time champs, in different series though.)

NASCAR: Kyle Busch/Kevin Harvick (that would just be bathplugging hilarious).

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 16 Mar 2012, 03:48

eichy wrote:Kubica/Vettel (Bobby in a Red Bull would be FUN).

Especially in 2010. While Vettel was throwing points away like no tomorrow, I'd bet every penny I'll ever earn that Kubica would've wrapped that title up with races to spare.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 16 Mar 2012, 14:17

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Alternatively, you could go with the slightly more possible Alguersuari/Jacques Villenuve lineup.

In the Virgin team, due to their alternative musical careers... :lol:

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 16 Mar 2012, 14:22

Panis and Papis.

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 16 Mar 2012, 14:23

(Sorry, I'm slightly obsessed by Panis/Papis & Brundle/Blundell)

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 16 Mar 2012, 14:26

fjackdaw wrote:Panis and Papis.

Phil Hill, Graham Hill, Damon Hill and Josh Hill.

Or, more realistically, Henry Taylor, John Taylor, Mike Taylor and Trevor Taylor.

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 16 Mar 2012, 14:37

dr-baker wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:Panis and Papis.

Phil Hill, Graham Hill, Damon Hill and Josh Hill.

Or, more realistically, Henry Taylor, John Taylor, Mike Taylor and Trevor Taylor.

On that note, Henning Solberg, Petter Solberg and Kristian Sohlberg.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 16 Mar 2012, 15:35

Waris wrote:
dr-baker wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:Panis and Papis.

Phil Hill, Graham Hill, Damon Hill and Josh Hill.

Or, more realistically, Henry Taylor, John Taylor, Mike Taylor and Trevor Taylor.

On that note, Henning Solberg, Petter Solberg and Kristian Sohlberg.

Sebastian Vettel, Sebastien Loeb, Sebastien Buemi, Sebastien Bourdais...

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 16 Mar 2012, 15:55

DanielPT wrote:
Waris wrote:
dr-baker wrote:
Or, more realistically, Henry Taylor, John Taylor, Mike Taylor and Trevor Taylor.

On that note, Henning Solberg, Petter Solberg and Kristian Sohlberg.

Sebastian Vettel, Sebastien Loeb, Sebastien Buemi, Sebastien Bourdais...

You forgot Ogier.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 16 Mar 2012, 16:01

Waris wrote:
DanielPT wrote:
Waris wrote:
On that note, Henning Solberg, Petter Solberg and Kristian Sohlberg.

Sebastian Vettel, Sebastien Loeb, Sebastien Buemi, Sebastien Bourdais...

You forgot Ogier.

Damn memory! :lol:

Only two of those aren't winners according to the now famous Helmut Marko winner scale.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 16 Mar 2012, 17:54

fjackdaw wrote:(Sorry, I'm slightly obsessed by Panis/Papis & Brundle/Blundell)

Weren't Brundle and Blundell team mates for a season during the 90's? (1993 if I'm not wrong...)

wmetcalf68 · Post by **wmetcalf68** » 16 Mar 2012, 17:55

Senna and Alesi!

Post by **Nuppiz** » 16 Mar 2012, 18:02

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:(Sorry, I'm slightly obsessed by Panis/Papis & Brundle/Blundell)

Weren't Brundle and Blundell team mates for a season during the 90's? (1993 if I'm not wrong...)

Yep, in 1993 both drove for Ligier. It gave quite the headache to Japanese commentators IIRC...

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 16 Mar 2012, 18:29

I would like to see:

Hamilton / Vettel
Button / Webber
A future one: I would like to see Michael Schumacher's son and one of Barrichello's sons as team mates in Formula 1.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 16 Mar 2012, 18:57

Petter Solberg and Gigi Galli, if we're doing non-F1 now. That would be the craziest, silliest and most passionate team in the whole of motorsport.

More WRC...Colin McRae and Tommi Makinen. That would have been one hell of a team.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 16 Mar 2012, 19:00

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:I would like to see:

Hamilton / Vettel
Button / Webber
A future one: I would like to see Michael Schumacher's son and one of Barrichello's sons as team mates in Formula 1.

And this Barrichello's son forcing Michael's son to play second fiddle to him. By contract! :twisted:

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 16 Mar 2012, 20:16

If it's alreay been mentioned then sorry but Hakkinen-M.Schumacher wouldve been fun.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 16 Mar 2012, 20:17

DanielPT wrote:
Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:I would like to see:

Hamilton / Vettel
Button / Webber
A future one: I would like to see Michael Schumacher's son and one of Barrichello's sons as team mates in Formula 1.

And this Barrichello's son forcing Michael's son to play second fiddle to him. By contract!

Yeah, sure. :lol:

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 16 Mar 2012, 23:53

Nuppiz wrote:
Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:(Sorry, I'm slightly obsessed by Panis/Papis & Brundle/Blundell)

Weren't Brundle and Blundell team mates for a season during the 90's? (1993 if I'm not wrong...)

Yep, in 1993 both drove for Ligier. It gave quite the headache to Japanese commentators IIRC...

Both were also teammates together at Brabham in 1991...

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 17 Mar 2012, 12:20

How about Michael and Ralf (you know, the Schumachers)? :lol:

And on F1RWRS: Mark Dagnall and Giovanni Roda. :lol:

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 17 Mar 2012, 12:22

Nuppiz wrote:
Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:(Sorry, I'm slightly obsessed by Panis/Papis & Brundle/Blundell)

Weren't Brundle and Blundell team mates for a season during the 90's? (1993 if I'm not wrong...)

Yep, in 1993 both drove for Ligier. It gave quite the headache to Japanese commentators IIRC...

That's why I only mentioned that I'd like to see Panis and Papis!

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 17 Mar 2012, 16:42

Sato / Kobayashi
K.Nakajima / Yamamoto

The Passenger · Post by **The Passenger** » 17 Mar 2012, 16:51

Nuppiz wrote:Yep, in 1993 both drove for Ligier. It gave quite the headache to Japanese commentators IIRC...

There may have been some confusion, but their names are in fact pronounced differently in Japanese. (Brundle = Burandoru, Blundell = Buranderu -- I'd post the katakana, but the last time I tried that the forum software just changed it into question marks)

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 17 Mar 2012, 16:54

The Passenger wrote:
Nuppiz wrote:Brundle = Burandoru, Blundell = Buranderu --

What?!

The Passenger · Post by **The Passenger** » 17 Mar 2012, 17:07

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:What?!

That's how Japanese works. Foreign names are transcribed into katakana, a syllabary where one character normally represents one syllable -- Brundle, for example, is split into the characters BU-RA-N-DO-RU. (again, I wish this forum would support Japanese characters, it'd make this much easier to explain) The Us are basically silent and there's no real distinction with Ls and Rs, so it'd be pronounced basically the same as it would in English.

Edit: Somewhere right now, a Japanese linguist is reading this post and crying...

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 17 Mar 2012, 18:19

The Passenger wrote:
Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:What?!

That's how Japanese works. Foreign names are transcribed into katakana, a syllabary where one character normally represents one syllable -- Brundle, for example, is split into the characters BU-RA-N-DO-RU. (again, I wish this forum would support Japanese characters, it'd make this much easier to explain) The Us are basically silent and there's no real distinction with Ls and Rs, so it'd be pronounced basically the same as it would in English.

Thank you.

Another pairing I would like to see: Sakon Yamamoto / Katsumi Yamamoto. :mrgreen:

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 17 Mar 2012, 21:39

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:Another pairing I would like to see: Sakon Yamamoto / Katsumi Yamamoto.

For me, this would be the Moto Moto pairing... 8-)

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 19 Mar 2012, 14:28

Pic / D'Ambrosio

Backmarker · Post by **Backmarker** » 20 Mar 2012, 04:00

How about David Brabham and Gary Brabham? Great F1 name, little F1 acheivement, despite being reasonably talented.

Also, I would have liked to have seen the Finnish dream team of Hakkinen and Lehto at a competitive team together.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 20 Mar 2012, 11:57

Backmarker wrote:How about David Brabham and Gary Brabham? Great F1 name, little F1 acheivement, despite being reasonably talented.

Am I the only one who thinks that David Brabham looks a little like Alonso?

Anyway another pairing I would like to have seen is: Aguri Suzuki / Toshio Suzuki (are they related?).

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 20 Mar 2012, 20:53

2010 Vitaly Petrov/Pastor Maldonado

Just for teh lulz and enormous accidents :lol: