Grand Prix Rejects

We've had F1 Drivers as Food, now we can have F1 Drivers as Places!

Olivier Paris
Montdidier Pironi
Ricardo London(o)-Bridge
Phil-adelphia Hill
Eddie Jordan
Giovanna Amalfi
Giancarlo Fisicheddar Gorge
San Juan Pablo Montoya

Innes Ireland.


God, I'm good.

Stirling (in Scotland) Moss, Rio (de Janeiro) Haryanto, Dave Charlton (Australia or Canada, take your pick), George (Windsor and) Eaton, Lella Lombardi (went there for my holidays once), Stefano Modena (don't they make cars there?) and not forgetting Ricardo Londoño-Bridge!

I'm that good as well.

Mika Salo (municipality in Finland)

I feel the results of this thread warrant a discussion as to why so many F1 drivers are already named after places...

Lewis Hamilton I only know of the place because of Hamiton Academical Football Club

dinizintheoven wrote:Stefano Modena (don't they make cars there?)

Interestingly enough, he is indeed from Modena.

Gilles Villeneuve-D'Ascq

Jean-Christope Boullion (small city in the south of Belgium)

Franck Montagny (all of these) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagny

Going for villages very much local to where I'm from, Eric van de Poulseur.

Paul England

Ben Pon(t du Gard)

Johnny Dumfries.

Eric van de Poole

novitopoli wrote:Johnny Dumfries.

Thing is... he is named after a place, given that he is really John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marqess of Bute, Earl of Dumfries - and those from the aristocracy tend to shorten their names to first-name-plus-place-of-title.

So should he be disqualified from the competition?

dinizintheoven wrote:

novitopoli wrote:Johnny Dumfries.

Thing is... he is named after a place, given that he is really John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marqess of Bute, Earl of Dumfries - and those from the aristocracy tend to shorten their names to first-name-plus-place-of-title.

So should he be disqualified from the competition?

Nah, I reckon he stays. It's what he was commonly known as.

Luis Pérez-Salta
Sydney van der Vyver