Caption Contest: #73
The seventy-third photograph to feature in BlogF1’s caption contest. You know the drill, think of something funny and witty to say and leave it as a comment below. This week we have a special photo to caption. Not only is it the first Red Bull/STR related image in a while, but it is also a reader-submitted picture, taken by regular BlogF1 commenter Pink Peril. Pink emailed me over the photo late last year, but as Mark Webber then broke his leg, I decided to wait until the Australian was on the road to recovery before we all took the mickey out of him. Pink snapped this photo of Mark (with a trademark funny expression) at the 2008 Australian Grand Prix, but what could the Red Bull driver be looking at or thinking about…
If anyone else has been to a grand prix or event where you’ve been able to capture a Formula One driver or personality that you think might be funny/strange enough for a caption, feel free to email them to ollie [at] blogf1.co.uk*. If you do submit a photo, be sure to give a name whom copyright should belong to and any information behind the picture (who/what/where…).
With thanks to Pink Peril for the Mark the Jim Carrey of F1 Webber image. Pink Peril often writes for F1-Pitlane, a collaboration-blog of many site owners and commenters from the F1-blogosphere.
*Or submit link to Flickr (or similar) page, but if ownership of image cannot be proved, the picture will not be used. [/disclaimer]
Oliver White
January 13th, 2009 - 10:10pm
And when I say “capture”, I mean “photograph”. Please don’t go around kidnapping Formula One drivers and leaving them on my doorstep.
Trivia: 5-times world champion Juan Manuel Fangio was kidnapped in 1958 by Cuban rebels. He was treated well and later released. Fangio remained friends of his captures.
Err, caption…
“If I squint my eyes hard enough, I can just about see the pub from ‘ere.”
Keith Collantine
January 13th, 2009 - 10:13pm
“I can’t believe Mariah Carey insured her legs! Crazy woman…”
doctorvee
January 13th, 2009 - 10:26pm
“Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be…”
Steven Roy
January 14th, 2009 - 1:18am
They said I was too tall for KERS. One leg is OK, now how do I shorten the other one.
Pink Peril
January 14th, 2009 - 5:38am
Mark Webber does his best impression of Rodin’s “The Thinker”.
And when I say “capture”, I mean “photograph”. Please don’t go around kidnapping Formula One drivers and leaving them on my doorstep. ~ Ollie
Aawwww, spoilsport. Where’s the fun in that?
Pink Peril
January 14th, 2009 - 5:47am
Or, since Webber appears to be looking straight at the camera…
“Webber is struck by a gorgeous woman in the crowd and ponders how he can engineer a meeting”
In my dreams
Or
“So. Do you come here often?”
Or
“Do you want to see my big….. microphone?”
Alex Andronov
January 14th, 2009 - 6:17am
Mark: “The name’s Webbo, Mark Webbo”.
[Off camera]
Q: “Now listen here double-0 Webbo, thanks to your ‘accident’ we have been able to fit a second KERS unit into your leg.”
Mark: “Shocking”
Alex Andronov
January 14th, 2009 - 6:19am
Perhaps a shorter one:
“I’m telling you, I honest didn’t expect Vettel to be driving that range rover as I came round the corner!”
Dank
January 14th, 2009 - 9:57am
…
(comments went a bit mental for a second, might want to delete this!)
Dank
January 14th, 2009 - 9:59am
“Hi, I’m Mark Webber. You might remember me for being incredibly unlucky in races such as Fuji 2007, Singapore 2008…”
(spoken like Troy McClure from The Simpsons)
Greg Wesson
January 14th, 2009 - 10:02am
It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone, it’s not unusual to have fun with anyone…
Hmmm, I wonder if anyone is going to throw their panties at me?
Craig
January 14th, 2009 - 10:48am
I’m Jake the Peg, tiddle-diddle-diddle-um, with the broken leg, tiddle-diddle-diddle-um…
Oliver White
January 14th, 2009 - 11:27am
@Dank: What did they do? Crash, funny error message, were you editing a comment…?
Dank
January 14th, 2009 - 11:47am
They went screwy after editing, like URL encoding. Though seemed to fix themselves once I closed my browser and came back.
Oliver White
January 14th, 2009 - 11:57am
Ta. I have noticed the comment editor screws up line breaks sometimes as well, but it does the same on Sidepodcast and F1Fanatic as well, so it’s a plugin issue rather than a BlogF1 issue.
The URL issue thing… hmmm? The plugin utilises AJAX, but it clearly needs a refresh sometimes to kick it into place. I’m not an AJAX expert so I’m not keen on debugging it or editing the files. If it gets to be a pain let me know, but for now I’m tempted to ignore it. I don’t think many of you edit comments all that often anyway because you’re all so perfect the first time around!
Steven Roy
January 14th, 2009 - 10:59pm
I don’t see why I can’t be an actor. Roger Moore only ever moved his eyebrows and he bacme James Bond
David Gleeson
January 15th, 2009 - 1:38am
and this is my “Dagger” look. Next is my……
Gman
January 15th, 2009 - 3:05am
Some of you beat me to the punch with the Bond concept, but here gose anyway…
Mark: “So, I think I might be ripe for getting out of this racing business soon. What do you think of my acting prospects- perhaps the first Bond from outside the British Isles?”
Audience: “Well….they tried James Brolin and that diden’t work so well.”
Mark: “Yeah, but he was getting old at the time. After all, can you miss with this look staring down the gun barrel at the opening?”
Oliver White
January 15th, 2009 - 3:49am
Ha, you’ve reminded me of Zoolander and “Blue Steel”.
ayrtons60
January 15th, 2009 - 5:05pm
“that was just not funny”
ayrtons60
January 15th, 2009 - 5:08pm
“anyone got a pair of sunglasses? yeah i wear my sunglasses at night, but i forget them at dusk”
ayrtons60
January 15th, 2009 - 5:10pm
“mm, no, i dont like the silver chromic mclaren livery… blinks you too much”
ayrtons60
January 15th, 2009 - 5:10pm
“AM I SEEING MYSELF IN YOUR JACKET LEWIS?”
Steven Roy
January 16th, 2009 - 3:10am
If Villeneuve can make records why my White Xmas can’t sell.
George Lazenby was Australian. Sorry for being pedantic.
D Winn
January 17th, 2009 - 3:16pm
“That’s another dumb ass pom question Louis”
Claire
December 10th, 2009 - 7:35pm
At the new Dutch Grand Prix…
Mark: Who is that shouting?
(Off-Screen)
Christian Horner (Possibly Drunk): AJAX
or
Mark: How long will I have to stay like this until I look like Hugh Dennis?