What has really made you chuckle in the years gone by!? I personally like the Montoya "oh dear" moment with the deer on the track also Jarno making a fool out of himself inbthe drivers press conference with Sutil, and Webber in the post qualifying press conference at silverstone last year!

Probably loads I've forgotten but they stand out!

Oh and Jenson forgetting the drill at Monaco and having to go for a run at the end of the 2009 race!!

Has to be Kimi and the ice cream!

David Coulthard ..if my old brain doesn't fail me its Adelaide 1995, pitlane whoooops

Dan Gurney stopping his car and disappearing in the woods for having a pee at a belgian GP in the early or mid sixties.
Although even I consider this an urban legend.

The funniest F1 moment was provided by Kimi Raikkonen and Martin Brundle when Kimi explains why he missed the special presentation by Pele for Michael Schumacher at his 'final' race in Formula 1. KR - "I was having a shit".

Here is a video clip, http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2120604/Kimi_R...s_having_a_shit.

Yeah that was pretty funny

some videos of the scenes you quote/mention might help... ,)

Who was it who hit the med car? Think it was at brazil that was pretty funny, also I'm
Sure I've seen a video where Charlie Whiting had forgotten to turn the key which arms the starting proceedure!?

Heidfeld at Brazil 2002. Good thing the doctor waited a bit after opening the door!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUUUKuo8hXs

If its comedy your after then this clip is what you need:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqZV9V4R-s

Also Bonnetto is a legend!

I remember one year David Hobbs livening up a dull CART race by pretending Jackie Stewart had just walked into the commentary box, and proceeding to conduct an interview between himself, and himself doing a (pretty terrible) impression of the wee Scotsman.

I second Kimi and the choc-ice though.

Has to be this.


Tyson V Holyfield it ain't1

Never!!

This one is a bit more hardcore: Serra v Boesel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlpmj9XAn1k...feature=related

Also numerous James Hunt moments my favourite when he starts going on about enjoying the sponsors product at the end of the Fosters Australian Grand Prix one year which was greeted by some very obvious annoyance by Murray Walker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Es6eL1yBHw...feature=related

I feel the need to qualify my reasons why i find this funny, its because i have a black sense of humour. I respect Massa as a driver and the title could have gone either way in 2008, and it would have been deserved, that being so you should not count your chickens before they're hatched

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI079j1PUB4

p.s. dont agree with the title of the video, just the only one i can find

Eddie Irvine was pretty funny in some post race podium interviews and when Keke held a press conference to announce his retirement Nelson Piquet got a hold of his speech then read it word for word at his own press conference 5 minutes later except changing 'retiring' to 'not retiring'.

I found Alonso getting stuck behind Petrov in Abu Dhabi to be hilarious.

That should be a tradition from now on - whoever wins runs the length of the main straight.

Enjoying Foster´s plentifully

Sounds like maybe he tried to deliver the joke with a straight face and couldn't. Then Murray quickly jumped in as James was laughing off mic.

David Coulthard Monaco 2001 on Bernoldi

"I was shouting to the team to have him disqualified for having no fashion sense and a dodgey haircut"

hahaha

De la Rosa jumping in a ditch was pretty funny too, when he drove for Jaguar at Indy.

Felipe Baby!

Hunt on Arnoux

Very succinct and very true!

Tora Takagi & the safety car?

Quite a few,but for some reason the ones I remember best involve chubby Juan Pablo M. That weird press conference and the Juan Won One thing, the race where he ran back to his garage for the spare car after his Williams broke down on the warmup lap (?) etc.

Also this guy and his 'moments': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC3iGSGMJ8c...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8uRWIat3Y

I mean I know he's the unsung hero that had to overcome impossible odds and all that,but it's still pretty funny.

+1

I think you mean Taki Inoue and the medical car.

Ricardo Rosset's spin turn at Monaco was also rather funny.

Indeed I do

What about di Grassi crashing in Suzuka?

I've not found a clip of it, but I geuss it was late 80s?

I'm sure it was the French GP, at some new venue. Murray was commentating. A car cought fire near the end of the pit lane but I think track side. And the fire just got worse and worse and worse. The fire marshalls were quite hopeless and it resulted in a Fire Engine coming on to the track. As they readied the hose and applied water pressure, the hose burst off the back of the fire truck spilling water everywhere but on the fire. And Murray said something like "A truely Brilliant performance". Wish I could see it again.

Or Kimi and the "I was having a shit" comment on live TV
Edit: Apparently halifax already covered that one earlier

Then I will add Montoya going nuts over walking into a camera in the paddock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2eu-V57zpc
Now thats comedy.

The radio conversation before the Re-start of the KoreaGP 2010 as Lewis wanted to race, was amusing, too

Alonso's TR in Oz 2006 'I am very relaxed'

Classical clueless marshal comedy. The best part was when Inoue lies on the ground and the marshal runs up to him, snatches that extinguisher and turns to the car. You gotta have your priorities right, i guess.

Funniest moment of the last few years has to be Massa's 5 (or 6?) spins at Silverstone 2008. Someone should cut together a video of that, add some Benny Hill music and put it on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAMQCfOzltE...07&index=15

Some of the funniest moments for me. Mika: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRIq3UhoB-M



Whats funny about it? The man dreamed since he was a little kid about beeing a Formula 1 Champion, it was his lifes work to get to the point where he was, was a miracle by itself, then for a short moment he and his family who supported him throughout his motorsport career thought he was Formula 1 World Champion. For a few seconds they had it all, only to end in a huge disappointment. To find that funny is not black humor, its ugly schadenfreude.

Piquet was (is?) a funny guy; here he is making fun of Alain Prost's bent nose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICsa85ELk2M

Monyota swearing about Räikkönen

I tried to qualify my post to avoid posts like this sigh
What i found funny was the fact that his family had celebrated before Lewis had crossed the line, and in particularly the exact moment when they realised Lewis had come in fifth and just slowly stopped doing it. I believe that we were supposed to put down what we thought was funny? who are you to tell me what i can and can not find funny? I know we have forum moderators but i wasn't aware we had humour moderators
As i said in the above post, i really respect Massa, and he was also a deserved winner. If i do have schadenfreude i blame it on all the comedies i enjoy such as inbetweeners, peepshow, and numerous others which use it as their primary form of comedy, and have obviously indoctrinated me, and suggest you ignore me to stop me offending you. I'd hate to have the thought police on my tail

Enough with the Poor Me, My Right To Think Whatever I Like Is Being Infringed schtick. You said something on an internet forum and now what you said is being analysed and taken apart. If you think that reflects badly on you, then stop being so emotionally attached with the things you post.

I don't think funny is the right word for the 2008 Brazilian GP; it was absurd and comical, certainly, but IMHO it can't be amusing or funny simply because that sense of absurdity is outweighed by the professional and artist-like investment in the situation. Felipe Massa and the people in the garage probably saw that moment as the culmination of their highly successful and well-spent (or so we fans would like to think...) lives, there was something quite public and humiliating in how it was taken away. Don't forget that the people in the clip aren't clowns or comic characters, they're the dedicated and highly-skilled professionals that make up the sport we're supposed to be celebrating.

Well there was nearly a page on an Autosport thread without an argument...

I thought the Massa family celebration one was funny.

This was funnier though: The Accidental Pole

I really don't want to get into these debates, but i suggest that the two of you are more emotionally invested in my post then myself. Correct me if i am wrong but this thread is on things you find funny, hence i put down something that i found funny. I was quite aware that this might incur some negative feedback, hence my attempt to qualify it, which was obviously unsuccessful. My retort, quite contray to your own explanation, was less about my rights to think being infringed, but rather being called a moron ( which has now been edited by the moderator in both of our posts) for my sense of humour, I saw no need for him to use personally offensive language, espicially since i can tentatively say that since most of us are adults shouldn't we rely on logic and fact to make our arguments, not resort to childish name calling.

I don't think funny is the right word for the Brazilian GP either, especially considering it was a great race. As i have previously stated what i found funny was the fact that his family reacted so early, and then realised. That moment of realisation being funny....that precise moment, not the whole situation. I felt extremely proud and emotional for Massa when he was on the podium holding his chest to all the cheers, when the anthems were playing.


Now to get the thread back on track
vettem ambushing Alonso's interview

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/9115369.stm

I laughed! They would have laughed if it was Hamilton!

With a rule like that Schumi would have had his superlicense revoked years ago.

Massa losing the title wasn't very funny but the mechanic headbutting the garage was, very! Wish there was a recording of Luca di Montezemolo breaking his TV too.

Sato vs Alonso in Sato's last season was amusing.

2000 Monaco GP was a good one, after Button and De la Rosa got together at Loews the whole track was blocked.
Murray started commentating on the drivers as they ran back to the pits for the spare cars as though they were racing each other on track.
Herbert was always good value too:
"It's raining quite hard now Jonny, what effect will that have on the circuit?"
"Well, it'll make it wet".

I'm guessing Paul Ricard, 1986, and the car was Philippe Streiff's Tyrrell. There are quite a few comical marshalling moments, particularly from the 1980s, and that one fits in this category perfectly.