Continuing our retro-themed Caption Competitions, today’s features the rookie class of 2001.
Future world champions Kimi Raikkonen (Sauber) and Fernando Alonso (Minardi) made their F1 debuts at Melbourne in 2001 along with Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams) and Enrique Bernoldi (Arrows).
It’s up to you to suggest the best comedy caption for this picture. Post your funniest suggestion in the comments and look out for my pick of the best in tomorrow’s round-up.
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TommyB (@tommyb89)
12th January 2013, 10:18
Alonso: “I can’t wait to get to Ferrari, Minardi can’t even afford to buy me a cap.”
ajokay (@)
12th January 2013, 10:33
win.
JimmyTheIllustratedBlindSolidSilverBeachStackapopolis III
12th January 2013, 21:44
It’s quite simple. Champion retired champion fired.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
12th January 2013, 10:24
“How do you feel making your F1 debut Kimi?”
“It’s okay.”
Juri Kantonen
12th January 2013, 10:24
Kimi: “So be it. Motor racing.”
Snafu (@snafu)
12th January 2013, 14:14
Brilliant!
f199player (@f199player)
12th January 2013, 10:26
Photographer: “give us a smile please Kimi”
Kimi: “yes, yes, yes you don’t have keep telling me”
f199player (@f199player)
12th January 2013, 11:00
*have to
hzh (@hzh00)
14th January 2013, 11:25
nice one
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
12th January 2013, 10:28
“Boys, twelve years from now, you’ll have three World Championships and an Indianapolis 500 win between you. You’ll have fifty-six race wins, fifty-one pole positions and will have scored over twelve hundred World Championship points. But only one of you will have dated Anna Kournikova.”
pejte (@pejte)
12th January 2013, 10:34
Who ?
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
12th January 2013, 10:41
She’s a Russian tennis player who was famous around the time this photo was taken.
pejte (@pejte)
12th January 2013, 10:45
No, i mean who dated Kournikova? I’ve heard of her :)
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
12th January 2013, 11:38
None of them dated her. The joke works because Enrique Bernoldi achieved nothing in Formula 1, but dating Anna Kournikova is presented as being a greater achievement than anything and everything else Raikkonen, Montoya and Alonso have done.
It’s not funny when you have to explain the joke, though.
matt90 (@matt90)
12th January 2013, 12:22
If none of them actually dated her, what’s the joke?
Atticus (@atticus-2)
12th January 2013, 10:55
I think this caption is the best even without the last line.
What a year 2001 was from a rookie standpoint… A truly astonishing class.
sumedh
12th January 2013, 15:35
Umm, some other Enqiue, a singer with the surname Iglesias dated Kournikova. Not this Enrique.
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
12th January 2013, 22:56
Go back up and read my other posts. Whether or not any of them actually dated Kournikova is not the point of the joke.
PMccarthy_is_a_legend (@pmccarthy_is_a_legend)
13th January 2013, 20:04
I think the joke just isn’t funny buddy. Keep trying though, I laugh at the rubbish one’s as much or more as I enjoy the good one’s hahaha @prisoner-monkeys
Gerdoner (@gerdoner)
12th January 2013, 21:10
@prisoner-monkeys: more like
“Boys, twelve years from now, you’ll have three World Championships and an Indianapolis 500 win between you. You’ll have fifty-six race wins, fifty-one pole positions and will have scored over twelve hundred World Championship points. And then there’s Enrique Bernoldi.”
BradandCoffee
12th January 2013, 10:30
All rise for the German and Italian national anthems.
KDesser (@)
12th January 2013, 10:46
Haha great!
Anastasia (@flyingfinn1710)
12th January 2013, 10:38
“And now,for their first ever appearance,we present to you The New Kids Of The Grid”
Tom L. (@tom-l)
12th January 2013, 10:45
Kimi: “… so maybe deciding to sew my name onto my overalls after last night’s drinks wasn’t such a good idea.”
Cyberaxiom (@dave-m)
12th January 2013, 11:47
Love this one.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
12th January 2013, 10:55
“Juan, tell us about these giant earplugs you’re using.”
Montoya: “What?”
andae23 (@andae23)
12th January 2013, 11:00
nice
Chris (@tophercheese21)
12th January 2013, 10:56
“… and from left to right, we have the emotional scale of a racing driver, and yes, that is Kimi’s happy face… Coincidentally it’s also his laughing face, angry face, boredom face, smug face, and his guilty face.”
Mathers (@mathers)
12th January 2013, 10:57
After much consideration they decided that Westlife needed an overhaul of members…
chris_browning (@chris_browning)
12th January 2013, 11:06
Bernoldi’s future was not quite as bright as his race suit suggested…
GeeMac (@geemac)
12th January 2013, 16:18
Quality!
the_sigman (@sigman1998)
12th January 2013, 11:07
Achievements from left to right:
19 wins-1 WDC, 11 wins-1 Indy 500 win, 30 wins-2 WDC, eeeeeeerrrrrr
TommyB (@tommyb89)
12th January 2013, 12:17
Annoying the hell out of David Coulthard.
q85
12th January 2013, 16:34
overtaking michael schumacher at sepang. he was an alright driver. But ron dennis told him he would never drive in f1 again. and didnt
MahavirShah (@mahavirshah)
12th January 2013, 11:09
The planned casting for Reservoir Dogs, The Sequel goes awry when the directors decide to cast a Fernando Alonso as, Mr Black.
sandy (@sandy)
12th January 2013, 11:14
Montoya : I bet these two guys standing beside me won’t last long.Bernoldi should be fine though.
James Brickles (@brickles)
12th January 2013, 11:14
“And Schumacher comes up to take the free kick…”
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
12th January 2013, 13:11
Haha, like it.
Aditya (@adityafakhri)
12th January 2013, 17:36
LOL, totally unrelated but so funny!
Drop Valencia!
12th January 2013, 11:21
…three of them clearly have the focus to be future race winners…. but this Alonso chap didn’t even remember his cap…
JamieFranklinF1 (@jamiefranklinf1)
12th January 2013, 11:29
Fantastic achievements from these young drivers. We have Kimi who has multiple wins and a World Champion. Juan Pablo Montoya, multiple race wins, including an Indianpolis 500 victory. Fernando Alonso, multiple race wins and a double World Champion. And last but not least Enrique Bernoldi, a man with 200 free extra minutes on his Orange phone contract.
JB (@)
12th January 2013, 14:31
OMG!! hahahhahahaha this has got to be it!!!
Jake Kilshaw (@kilshaw)
12th January 2013, 18:57
Great!
david potes
13th January 2013, 20:03
Brilliant
Jimmy Clark
13th January 2013, 20:55
Perfect
!!!
JamieFranklinF1 (@jamiefranklinf1)
12th January 2013, 11:31
Red Bull: We have enough money to sponsor two new drivers this year. So we’ve gone with Kimi Raikkonen and Enrique Bernoldi. Juan Pablo Montoya and Fernando Alonso don’t look anything special to us.
Drop Valencia!
12th January 2013, 11:34
Rookie driver thoughts 2001 –
KR:ZZZZZ
JPM:Don’t touch me or I’ll kill you!
FA: No drive next year, no prospects in Minardi, hope they see how big I am…
EB: Who am I again?
Toro Stevo (@toro-stevo)
12th January 2013, 11:43
Despite funding from his supporters back home, for one of these drivers the podium may as well have been Neverland.
Toro Stevo (@toro-stevo)
12th January 2013, 11:45
Less a caption than a comment, but it seems to me that the success of these drivers in F1 so far is almost inversely proportional to the number and size of the sponsors on their racing stripes.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
12th January 2013, 12:00
Alonso: “This is how I look under the helmet”
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
12th January 2013, 12:15
“And here we are at the premiere of Sylvester Stallone’s epic motion picture Driven with Juan … Pablo Montoya? Who the hell is Juan Pablo Montoya? Who are these people!? Steve, this is a movie about racing drivers! I specifically told you to get me racing drivers, not these Backstreet Boys rejects! Take a look at this Raikkonen guy – do you think that, ten years from now, he will drive for Ferrari? No! And this kid Alonso; what, did you think he was going to be a World Champion or something? No, of course not! Still, I like this Bernoldi fellow. I can work with him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he becomes a three-time World Champion.”
Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
12th January 2013, 12:28
So, a Finn, a Colombian, a Spaniard and a Brazilian all walk into a bar …
Andy (@turbof1)
12th January 2013, 12:38
The Unfantastic Four
Andy (@turbof1)
12th January 2013, 12:40
Special powers:
Kimi: emotionless
Juan-Pablo: too much emotion
Alonso: Politics
Enrique: fameless
Colossal Squid (@colossal-squid)
12th January 2013, 12:40
Ok, now everybody smile, and remember Michael Schumacher won’t retire for another five years
sbewers (@sbewers)
12th January 2013, 12:43
Alonso: “If any of us manage to win anything this year I’ll eat my cap.”
John H (@john-h)
12th January 2013, 12:45
“Bernie assembles three ‘stick thin’ rookies to expose Indy car driver’s sponsor irony.”
kwacky1 (@kwacky1)
12th January 2013, 12:50
Kimi: I think I’ll have vanilla next time
JP: Amateurs
Fernando: This is my racing face
Enrique: I just wet my pants
George (@george)
12th January 2013, 13:07
Fernando: Sure these guys are fast, but I’ll beat them…with the way of the samurai.
OmarR-Pepper (@)
12th January 2013, 16:02
HAHAHAHA nice one
Ann Idiot
12th January 2013, 13:08
“Fernando, your eyebrows have yet to arrive.”
DavidS (@davids)
12th January 2013, 13:09
Montoya was confident he would have the most promising career of the group, as he had signed with a Championship winning team.
Hamilfan (@hamilfan)
12th January 2013, 13:10
Er.. Fernanado Where is your cap …??
FA : It’s there .. It’s just that you can’t see it :)
Suvan Naidu (@serv)
12th January 2013, 13:13
“Goes to show, a big smile will get you no where in F1”
ak
12th January 2013, 14:13
nice one
Suvan Naidu (@serv)
12th January 2013, 13:15
The cast for the international version of the Inbetweeners…before it got scrapped and stayed British.
Suvan Naidu (@serv)
12th January 2013, 13:24
Alonso: Did you see Nelson Piquet’s son running around….he’s so irritating. Hope I don’t see him again.
Montoya: My psychic told me by time those words become ironic, I won’t even be in F1.
Bernoldi: If there’s one thing I want from F1, it’s to make Coulthard angry.
Raikkonen: Just take the photo, I need my nap.
ak
12th January 2013, 14:13
i need to take a dump would be better
Milos Zivkovic (@iamaflyingfinn)
12th January 2013, 13:25
Look at that bottom.
Milos Zivkovic (@iamaflyingfinn)
12th January 2013, 13:29
EB: I have the most sponsors, so i’m the best.
Patrick Delee (@padelee)
12th January 2013, 13:29
Alonso : How in the hell is Juan going to be able to fit in the car!?…
Jake Kilshaw (@kilshaw)
12th January 2013, 18:59
lol
James Brickles (@brickles)
12th January 2013, 13:32
Drivers feared Montoya would be quick off the blocks, so they asked Michael Schumacher, complete with a Yellow missile, to ‘sort it out’
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
12th January 2013, 13:34
The driver’s superhero names, from left to right:
The Iceman
Deer Boy
The Spanish Samurai
Free minutes when you top-up man
JRB
12th January 2013, 13:44
Bernoldi didn’t care about the wins, he was th only one going to see the new Harry Potter film, Black Sunday’s, Orange Wednesdays…
Ishaak
12th January 2013, 14:01
Bernoldi:”The future’s bright, the future’s…just orange for me…”
French Steve (@french-steve)
12th January 2013, 14:08
“I think that’s Bernoldi who is the most promising of these young men.” Helmut Marko (2001)
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
12th January 2013, 14:35
@french-steve I like!
Aditya (@adityafakhri)
12th January 2013, 17:41
That ironically was true statement of Helmut Marko!
nackavich (@nackavich)
12th January 2013, 14:29
Bernoldi feeling a “little” intimidated by the others,
compensates with a big smile.
verstappen (@verstappen)
12th January 2013, 14:32
One would annoy his team over the radio
One would annoy a deer
One would annoy Coutlhart at Monaco
And the other one would annoy Schumacher, McLaren, Piquet, Massa and lots of F1 fans around the world.
ak
12th January 2013, 14:37
he he : best one so far !!!
plutoniumhunter (@plutoniumhunter)
12th January 2013, 14:32
Come 2012, Bernoldi will be the one having the least to smile about.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
12th January 2013, 14:36
LOL at Alonso.
James Brickles (@brickles)
12th January 2013, 14:42
Simon Cowell reveals the four people that didn’t make it in to One Direction.
sumedh
12th January 2013, 15:03
Exactly 12 years later,
1) another driver will make a move from Sauber to Mclaren like Kimi did.
2) There will still be a hot-headed South American at Williams.
3) There will be a driver who started after Alonso in Minardi and will win more championships than Alonso :P
4) Neither Bernoldi nor Arrows will be in F1
alejandroX (@alejandrox)
12th January 2013, 15:16
EPIC
Jimmy Clark
13th January 2013, 21:09
Real perfect combined thought !!!
vuelve kowalsky
12th January 2013, 15:27
kimi, jee, i can’t wait to get to the motorhome, i can’t take this pr stuff.
montoya, i am so hungry, whre is the closest mcdonalds?
alonso, i am faster than all of them, i hope the know that, or we’ll have problems.
bernoldi, with this car, i can only be a mobile chicane, i hope the big guns notice.
Nick (@npf1)
12th January 2013, 15:30
Formula One Direction
Jake Kilshaw (@kilshaw)
12th January 2013, 19:06
quality!
Nick (@npf1)
12th January 2013, 20:36
Alternatively; Formula One Direction sings ‘Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy’.
755Assassin (@755assassin)
12th January 2013, 15:44
Three future greats… and Enrique Bernoldi.
Jake Kilshaw (@kilshaw)
12th January 2013, 19:08
haha
M Dickens (@sgt-pepper)
14th January 2013, 0:48
+1
Ben (@benchuiii)
12th January 2013, 15:52
That’s a smile of a winner. Oh wait…
Suvan Naidu (@serv)
12th January 2013, 15:57
“Sorting Gigantic Earplug, choose the one who’ll waste his talent the most”
Leonardo A. de Souza (@leonardo-antunes)
12th January 2013, 16:15
“One of these drivers is not like the others,
One of these drivers just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which driver is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?”
GeeMac (@geemac)
12th January 2013, 16:23
Bernoldi: “Guys can we do this photo in 5 minutes, I’m so excited I seem to have wet myself.”
icemangrins (@icemangrins)
12th January 2013, 17:00
hey Kimi, who is this chubby standing between us?
OmarR-Pepper (@)
12th January 2013, 17:01
I almost look like a ninja, except for the white part… let’s try the Samurai now
Mariano (@mariano)
12th January 2013, 17:23
Alonso: “This is embarrassing … I’m the only rookie without the support of a major sponsor”.
Nick (@npf1)
12th January 2013, 20:32
‘This is rrrridiculous’ would have been more appropriate to Alonso, methinks!
zicasso (@zicasso)
12th January 2013, 18:13
Kimi: “I am being sponsored by Red Bull… this is just becoming stupid.”
Kimi4WDC
14th January 2013, 11:30
Actually his main sponsor prior to F1 was Battery, an energy drink from Finland, pretty good one too :)
StephenH
12th January 2013, 18:30
As the legions of fans, celebrity girlfriends and lucrative endorsements gradually dried up, One Direction became increasingly desperate ….
WesselV1
12th January 2013, 18:53
‘Guys, one of you will be responsible for knocking 2 of the others out of formula 1. You have the right to remain silent.’
davey (@djdaveyp87)
12th January 2013, 18:55
So Juan…. What do you think to the people surrounding you?
“…oh dear!”
Jake Kilshaw (@kilshaw)
12th January 2013, 19:04
Fernando forgot his cap.
Juan-Pablo forgot his cheeseburger.
Kimi forgot his emotions.
Enrique forgot how to drive. Don’t worry though: he did get 100 extra minutes a month on his Orange Nokia.
JerseyF1 (@jerseyf1)
12th January 2013, 19:09
Interviewer: “As each of you starts your F1 career, what are your hopes for the future?”
Kimi: “One day I hope to race alongside David Coulthard at Mclaren”
JPM: “Ha! One day I will take David Coulthard’s seat at Mclaren!”
Alonso: “Haha! One day I will take Montoya’s place at Mclaren”
Bernoldi: “To be honest, I think Arrows can deliver me a great car and I’m looking forward to seeing David Coulthard’s Mclaren in my mirrors.”
Ben Needham (@ben-n)
12th January 2013, 20:10
“Okay Michael, please identify the man that assaulted you.”
John H (@john-h)
13th January 2013, 0:17
Superb :)
andrewf1 (@andrewf1)
12th January 2013, 20:27
Remember boys, one day you will all annoy Mclaren one way or the other!
verstappen (@verstappen)
13th January 2013, 0:32
I like this one
Burnout (@burnout)
13th January 2013, 7:26
So true!
Brakius (@brakius)
12th January 2013, 20:58
One of these things is not like the others.
andrewf1 (@andrewf1)
12th January 2013, 21:36
I find this great, most subtle one!
Master firelee (@master-firelee)
12th January 2013, 21:17
“So here we have the new formula 1 four aside football team, Fernando with out a hat obviously because he is the goalkeeper.”
Mathers (@mathers)
12th January 2013, 21:25
Red Bull were sure they had sponsored two of the finest drivers in a generation. I suppose they were half right – Enrique Bernoldi did brilliantly to win a round of the 2010 GT1 World Championship, and at the same time Kimi was constantly crashing in the WRC. Pretty obvious that Enrique should be number 2 at Red Bull don’t you think…
AndrewT (@andrewt)
12th January 2013, 21:33
Bernoldi: See you in my mirrors, fellas!
Alonso: Then you’ll have to park your car with its rear towards the podium of the 2005 Brazilian Grand Prix!
Craig Woollard (@craig-o)
12th January 2013, 22:23
Well at least Bernoldi wouldn’t go on to fall out with McLaren…
dragoll (@dragoll)
12th January 2013, 23:26
What the drivers think:
KR: “Wake me up when this is over. ZZZ”
JPM: “Why do we have to do this? Its all pointless, just give me the WDC already!”
FA: “I bet I could take a better picture than this cameraman. The cameraman doesn’t look that good, all I’d have to do is work harder than him and I’d take better photos. I’m sure he’s standing all wrong…”
EB: “This is nice…”
James (@jimmyd13)
13th January 2013, 0:00
Kimi: So this is F1. Well this is boring can i go now.
Russell Gould (@russellgould)
13th January 2013, 0:45
“Okay, first one to NASCAR wins, right? Juan, Juan . . .?”
RayF1
13th January 2013, 0:45
Alonso:- Ok, so out of the four of us, I’m the one in the slowest car this season, but come back to me at the end of 2006, and let’s see who’s achieved what.
Mike (@mike)
13th January 2013, 1:54
You know guys, in the future 3 of you will be considered great drivers…..
Bernoldi: “Ha! I knew it!”
Vargas (@)
13th January 2013, 9:54
Nice.
Lima
13th January 2013, 6:56
Enrique Bernoldi, clearly not use to the glamour of Formula 1, had to hide his pleasure after seeing the grid girls walk by.
Vargas (@)
13th January 2013, 9:52
Gentlemen, right now what are you aiming for?
Kimi: Get out of here.
JPM: Get to the McDonalds.
Alonso: Get into the track.
EB: Get to the toilet.
Alex Brown (@splittimes)
13th January 2013, 11:00
Fernando: Ugh. It’s like having your photo taken by your mother on the first day of school.
Kimi: My mother does not take photos.
JPM: You guys went to school?
Alex Brown (@splittimes)
13th January 2013, 11:01
Enrique was a bit embarrassed to be entered in ‘Crotch Bulge’ competition.
Pink Peril (@pink-peril)
13th January 2013, 21:15
Kimi wonders if he should dye his eyebrows darker
regulus (@regulus)
14th January 2013, 11:36
Thinking….
Raikkonen: Hummmm… Vodka…
Montoya: Hummmm… Hamburger….
Alonso: Hummmm…. Teammate…
Bernoldi: Hummm… Future….
Jack (@jackisthestig)
14th January 2013, 21:31
Reservoir Dogs 2 never quite lived up to the original
Rob (@silverspooler)
14th January 2013, 22:08
Alonso: “Haha these suckers had to put on their hats but my hair looks way to damn good to be covered up”
Still camileon (@stillcamileon)
23rd February 2013, 12:47
Raikkonen, Montoya, Frankie Howerd and Bernoldi.