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Caption competition winner No 94
Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barichello take to the podium after the German's controversial victory in the Austrian Grand Prix.
Whose comedy caption made us laugh loudest?
Barichello led the race from start to finish, but was ordered by his Ferrari team to slow down at the final bend so that Schumacher could win. Amid jeers of derision from the crowd, the world champion refused to take the winner's position on the podium, and seemed determined to ensure that his team-mate got all the champagne. Adam Buck in Australia is this week's winner. He came up with this comic quip: The Ferrari team finds a way to stop Rubens from taking the honours for "best smile" at the presentation. Well done Adam, your goodie bag is on its way.
The best of the rest
Rubens: "It isn't funny Michael! Honestly, you Germans have no sense of humour."
Schumi: Germans no sense of humour? You obviously haven't met Dave from the UK!
Ferrari's tactics leave Rubens foaming at the mouth.
As Rubens the genie appears out of Michael's magic bottle and says 'Your wish is my command', F1 viewers realize why the car in front of Schumacher's moved over to gift him victory.
Well the dogs on "That's Life" managed it!
And that's the only taste of victory you're going to get.
Keep lapping, I'll tell you when to stop.
Gargle, rinse and spit before the press conference.
Michael: So you're just as slow to move out of the way up here too...
Schumacher demonstrates yet another "in your face" manoeuvre from Ferrari.
After the PA broke down, Schumacher forced Barichello to gargle the German National Anthem.
Didn't see that coming either, son!
Schumacher and Barichello mess around for the benefit of Richard Day and the Falconer family...
Excited by the imminent release of Attack of the Clones, Schumi and Rubens reinact the Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker scene from Return of the Jedi with his 'champagne' lightsabre. May the farce be with you!
...Not as convenient as pepper spray, but just as effective.
Schuey demonstrates with a champagne bottle what he'd done earlier with his exhaust pipe.
First the "thumbing the nose" at you on the finish line, then forcing you to stand on top of the podium to the German National Anthem, now the champagne in the face and finally the 'debagging ceremony' on global TV. (Cue the Immac!)
(Thinks) Little does Rubens know I've connected the bottle to a hose-pipe...
"Oops! Sorry Rubens. I was accustomed to you getting out of the way."
You fool Rubens. Didn't you realise it was me giving you the orders on your headset?
Schumacher: "and you think it would be me chocking on the hollow victory."
Rubens: This Santa beard in a bottle will come in handy for Christmas!
Mike shows what a great wag he is by substituting the champagne with brake fluid...
Schumacher: "Chin up Rubens... ha ha ha".
Prior to forming the grid, Michael helps his team-mate prepare for the race - showing why he was selected "World Sportsman of the Year".
Schumacher: "No, no, I don't want to hear it Rubens - take this!"
The fiendish German mercilessly tortured the hapless Santa...
Michael and Rubens (as well as most others) begin to celebrate the extinction of Formula One.
Austrian Police are investigating reports of drink driving in the Ferrari camp after viewing the finish of the race.
Sham Pain?
Barichello: Hey, Schumi! When I said I wanted to drown my sorrows...(gargling noise)...did you have to take me so literally?
I will drown you now...while the rest of the world is watching the real racing, superbikes on BBC2.
The management only had your best interests at heart, Rubens: they thought there was a speed camera there.
Jean Todt orders the drivers to wash the egg off their faces.
Schumacher: "We are not robots." Barichello: "Yes, master."
Schumacher: "This is not very efficient, wasting this champagne."
Rubens: "So why do you did win?"
You know that Rubens has already thought of a whole new meaning for the phrase "Grand Prix".
Schumacher wins using Brawn and Brut strength.
Schu: Sorry, but I did warn you to lay off the post-race vindaloo!
Michael Schumacher shows Ray Parlour how it's done properly.
"Take that...and that....and that...dare to beat me will you!!"
Rubens decides he may as well drink because it's not worth driving whilst on the Schumacher team...
Schumacher: Vee haff vays of making you celebrate!
Michael Schumacher turns his champagne into a water cannon to cool down a furious Barichello
"Take that you bounder, and remember in future that I lead and you follow!"
Michael Schumacher appears in a cameo film role in which he gets revenge on Norman Wisdom by spraying him with champagne.
Schu: Shut up viz dat blinkin' YMCA!
"I win, I win. Ner, ner, ner, ner, nerrrr!"
Sorry Rubens, Ross told me to do it...
Schumacher takes extreme measures when Barichello starts explaining what he really thought of the Ferrari game-plan.
Schumacher prepares Rubens for his post-match breath test.
"Now Rubens, if I hear you using language like that again there will be even more soap in this!"
Ever the joker, Michael Schumacher makes up for slipping red-hot chillies into Barichello's chewing gum before the race
Michael to Rubens: "Here Rubens, see if this washes away that nasty taste."
"Don't worry, Rubens, we'll get the cork out later."
Having had his three wishes, Schumacher tries to force the genie back into his bottle.
"Okay Michael, next time I'll let Ralph past too!"
Barrichello: "Stop drowning me with that horrible champagne, Michael!"
Schumacher: "But I made it especially for you, Rubens... from sour grapes."
Michael graciously helped remove the bitter taste from Rubens' mouth.
Ferrari post a new F1 record champagne pit stop. Benetton wonder if it will all go up in flames.
You can have the champagne and the trophy mate, but the 10 points are all mine!
"Please Michael, stop - I promise I won't ever nearly beat you again!"
As their next circus trick, Schumacher shoots and Barichello catches the cork between his teeth.
"Now Rubens, it's your turn to go first!"
'Oh stop whining Rubens and have some champagne.'
Not content with stealing his victory and getting him dragged in front of a disciplinary committee, Schumacher tries to drown Barichello as well.
Finding a driver better than himself, a paranoid Schumacher tries to pressure wash Damon Hill's mask off.
Schumacher prepares Barichello for his Fire-proof suit test.
"The Ferrari alcohol fuel-injection system - great for parties!"
After tying him down, Schumacher interrogates Barichello with the champagne-torture method.
Schu: Ve Germans are zo precise zat I can still hit your chin even zough it ees only a quarter ze size of mine!
Schumacher comes up with another way to stop Barichello from beating him.
Ferrari order Barichello's chin to be removed with a fire extinguisher
Michael to Ruben: "I don't care if you don't like champagne, drink it - it's team orders!"
Schumacher follows team orders and extinguishes any fair chance Barichello may have had of winning this season.
Schumacher wastes no time in carrying out Ferrari team orders: "If you can't beat them, drown them".
Realising that he will probably be out of work by Christmas, Rubens gets Michael to spray on the fake Santa beard to see what it looks like.
"I know it's a bitter pill to swallow, Rubens, but this should help wash it down."
At the post-race press conference Michael Schumacher is happy for Rubens to give his side of the story
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