Archive for the 'Whacky' Category

Ferrari on Pole - in Adelaide?

Ok, so we got a lot of flak the last time we reported on a young guy crashing a Ferrari in Australia. This time however we didn’t even have to try to mix some humour in there - news.com.au did it for us by titling their gallery of the crash Ferrari in Pole Position.
Needless to [...]

Non-F1: Batman Ferrari Crash

While it’s not an F1 story, I couldn’t help but smile at a local story this week where a Melbourne man crashed his father’s Ferrari F360 Challenge Stradale. Nobody was injured (apart from the driver’s pride). The part I love is how the crash happened at “Batman Avenue”. Seriously, Batman Avenue? Shame Superman didn’t save [...]

Schumacher Taxi - Suckers

Earlier we called out the Schumacher taxi story as smelling a bit fishy. Media agencies around the world took the bait and now here’s the hook - Tuncer Yilmaz, owner and driver of the taxi, wants to sell the taxi (last bid was apparently 63,000 Euros!). His reason is supposedly to pay for any legal costs [...]

F1 Lawnmower

Yes, we’re back after a nice 2 week break. Didn’t even realise F1 resumed testing today as well… how ironic.
Anyway, last week we came across a John Player Special inspired (think Lotus / Ayrton Senna in the 80’s) lawnmower of all things. Yes, a lawnmower!
Link: F1 Lawnmower Concept
All I want to know is who on earth [...]

Photo: Chocolate McLaren F1 Car!

A Spanish pastry chef from Ibi in the Alicante province has created a chocolate McLaren Mercedes MP4/22 powered by cocoa (jokes :)). It weighs 120 kilograms and is 220 cm long and is intended to be a tribute to dual world champion Fernando Alonso (or a publicity stunt if you ask me ;)).
Now I don’t know [...]