Grand Prix Rejects

Wet races are a lottery.

Over-use of the word "crucial" was evident again in today's race.

Ferrim wrote:

Aerond wrote:

Ferrim wrote:

Phoenix, un día de estos tenemos que hablar tú y yo por privado.

Yo me uno a la charla... joder con Jesús Fraile...

¡Joder! No tenía ni idea de que Aerond fuera español también. Ahora te contesto

Chris Dagnall es español...

I'd definately say Legard is getting worse. Maybe those rumours about Brundle wanting him out are true and he's kind of giving up on the job before he's done. Today as others have pointed out, he was patronising, downright embarrasingly patriotic and missed key moments in the race, like the start when Rosberg passed Hamilton, getting himself all muddled up and it taking a couple of laps before the replay came on, and for Brundle to explain the entire situation. Then they both missed the fact that Hamilton slipped to third behind Alonso after the third safety car and was under threat from Massa. Pretty poor showing if I'm honest. I hope they get a replacement, anybody, for next year.

Getting reminded at the end of each qualifying session that the drivers may finish any laps they've started before the clock hits zero, but can't start any new ones, really bugs me at times. It just feels a little stupid to me to remind the viewers every single time about it.

I agree that Legard is now become a total disgrace in the commentatary box. Methinks Ant Davinson, Maurice Hamilton or Crofty should replace him.

... "that's a real shot in the arm"... Was a typical annoying comment Legard said so much last year, I started to believe that Legard was actually some sort of crackhead (he certainly looks like one ).

Or.."what he got in the locker now"...

Typical Gonzalo Serrano (spanish tv comentator on telecinco both epoques: 1994-1996 and 2004-2008), would say before every single race start:

"And you know, if you blink you´ll miss it, as this is pure Formula One!"

ibsey wrote:... "that's a real shot in the arm"... Was a typical annoying comment Legard said so much last year, I started to believe that Legard was actually some sort of crackhead (he certainly looks like one ).

I agree about that though, I mean 'shot in the arm' - it doesn't even sound like a positive thing to say about someone!

Who fancies a shot in the arm here? Shotgun or needle, your choice!

"Keep it on the island" is pretty bad but I really can't stand being told that a car dumping oil on the track will "make it slippy".

I think the reason Martin Brundell seems to ignore Jonathan Legard is that he only seems point out irrelevant, untrue or
very very boring facts. If Brundell acknowledged every stupid thing Legard said it would more like Steptoe an Son than F1.

Brundell, a mix of Brundle and Blundell! That would be an fairly unlucky F1 career!

Myrvold wrote:Brundell, a mix of Brundle and Blundell! That would be an fairly unlucky F1 career!

That is how the Japanese commentators dealt with the 1991 season. You see, in Japanese you don't have the letter L so you pronounce it as a R. Add the fact that its a syllable-language, so no lone consonants are spoken, they get a semi-muffled U or a I added to them. They also use purely phonetic versions of words. So they pronounce both Brundle and Blundell as Buranduru

Myrvold wrote:Brundell, a mix of Brundle and Blundell! That would be an fairly unlucky F1 career!

Fairly unlucky? Mate it would make Amon look like Fangio

Boogity boogity boogity, let's go racing boys!

thehemogoblin wrote:Boogity boogity boogity, let's go racing boys!

You have commentators who say that? Man, only in America

Warren Hughes wrote:

thehemogoblin wrote:Boogity boogity boogity, let's go racing boys!

You have commentators who say that? Man, only in America

That'd be Darrell Waltrip. Annoying. <--- Full stop

That catchphrase even made it into movies, namely Talladega Nights ...

So expect to see some film called 'This could be crucial' coming soon to a cinema near you ...

P.S. Edit - The above may be wrong, I know he was in Talladega Nights, but not sure if actually said it, but anyway, the post below reveals more ...

madmark1974 wrote:

Warren Hughes wrote:

thehemogoblin wrote:Boogity boogity boogity, let's go racing boys!

You have commentators who say that? Man, only in America

That'd be Darrell Waltrip. Annoying. <--- Full stop

That catchphrase even made it into movies, namely Talladega Nights ...

It's also in Cars. As a commentator's catchphrase i'm ashamed to admit I actually quite like it - it's Redneck enthusiasm that could only possibly work in America*. But then again, I've only watched 2 Nascar races over the last 10 years, and I can imagine tiring of it pretty quickly if I had to deal with it regularly.


*Kind of like:

Jordan192 wrote:
*Kind of like:

Rumour has it that HRT were after that sponsorship, but the sponsor refused to lower themselves to that level

"The Hulk"

"Fred"

Outstanding.

Myrvold wrote:Brundell, a mix of Brundle and Blundell! That would be an fairly unlucky F1 career!

he would probably have driven for tyrrell, brabham, ligier and mclaren

Legard Bingo is a legendary idea, I'll take the pink card.

ADx_Wales wrote:

fantastic.....just fantastic

Before you all get excited, I'm not claiming that was my creation, its something thats popped up occasionally on another site, and it could not be better for this thread.

If we have an F1 Rejects meeting somewhere we HAVE to play a game of Legard Bingo

I was going to suggest the BBC F1 Drinking Game but then I realised many members including myself are underage.

Wizzie wrote:If we have an F1 Rejects meeting somewhere we HAVE to play a game of Legard Bingo

I think we should. If so, I'm claiming yellow...

As for annoying sayings, James Allan: "LEWIS HAMILTON, WINS (Insert GP here)" though Legard seems to be taking this one up a little too. Wouldnt surprise me if he does in the next two races

Although its not really a slogan per se, is it me or does Eddie Jordan change opinion on something each race but always claims to have had that opinion?

Wizzie wrote:If we have an F1 Rejects meeting somewhere we HAVE to play a game of Legard Bingo

I was going to suggest the BBC F1 Drinking Game but then I realised many members including myself are underage.

I'll take the green card [elvisvoice]thankyouverymuch[/elvisvoice].

At this rate we'll need to create alot more cards with new phrases while mixing and match the existing ones as well.

BTW I call dibs on the blue card

does anyone else get irritated every time they say, 'has he kept the fire?' after a spin?
not just that but any references to the engine either stalling or not as the 'fire'.
e.g.:
"has he kept the fire (burning, alight, going)?"
"the fire is out"
"re-fire"
"kept the car fired"

this is something that steve matchett tends to say A LOT, and back in the days of nelspin piquet and rrrrmmmn grrssjnnn, it was a biweekly occurance.

Another Legardism - the frequent use of the word 'decent'...

DonTirri wrote:So they pronounce both Brundle and Blundell as Buranduru

Blundell can just as well be pronounced as Buranderu and Brundle as Buranduru or Burandoru to differentiate them. Don't know if the announcers ever did that, but it would have made sense and been less confusing.

And for what it's worth, Japanese Wikipedia lists Brundle as ????? (Burandoru) and Blundell as ????? (Buranderu)

Edit: Hm, I see this board doesn't support Japanese characters. Or I'm doing something wrong.

"Before you can race in the (insert the locale) grand prix, YOU MUST QUALIFY."

"HE MUST BE ABSOLUTELY FUMING!

F1000X wrote:"Before you can race in the (insert the locale) grand prix, YOU MUST QUALIFY."

"HE MUST BE ABSOLUTELY FUMING!

matchett's like the american equivalent of legard, only he's not quite as cliche, and tends to be considerably more interesting.

i must note, though, that there's not a single quote from david hobbs here.

i hate Legared he boars the tits of me...Brundles good but Legard he says the dumbest things hes round f1 cars and drivers allot and he cant tell the difference between a Mercedes and a Mclaren also in Bahrain...

this was about 4 Laps after Vettel came on the radio saying
"LOSS OF POWER,LOSS OF POWER"

4 laps later
"Hes got a problem surely Christian Horner knows it, Alonso knows it and surely Vettel knows it"

O F**K OFF! i could do a better job then him while being raped by a monkey and being force fed lettuces.

Eryx wrote:O F**K OFF! i could do a better job then him while being raped by a monkey and being force fed lettuces.

Well put, good sir.

Eryx wrote:O F**K OFF! i could do a better job then him while being raped by a monkey and being force fed lettuces.

That's worryingly specific. I'd ask if there was maybe something you wanted to share with the group but I'm terrified the answer might be "yes".

JohnMLTX wrote:

F1000X wrote:"Before you can race in the (insert the locale) grand prix, YOU MUST QUALIFY."

"HE MUST BE ABSOLUTELY FUMING!

matchett's like the american equivalent of legard, only he's not quite as cliche, and tends to be considerably more interesting.

i must note, though, that there's not a single quote from david hobbs here.

THATS BECAUSE CLAG AND SHIMOZZLE ARE THE TWO GREATEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

JohnMLTX wrote:

F1000X wrote:"Before you can race in the (insert the locale) grand prix, YOU MUST QUALIFY."

"HE MUST BE ABSOLUTELY FUMING!

matchett's like the american equivalent of legard, only he's not quite as cliche, and tends to be considerably more interesting.

i must note, though, that there's not a single quote from david hobbs here.

Huh? The first quote is Varsha's, the second is Hobbs. Although Matchett does have quite a few of his own... the difference is that he can do a pretty reasonable analysis, given the opportunity.

Answer : Yes LOL god i hate Legard!!!