Fernando Alonso addresses a class of school children while on media duty ahead of the Indianapolis 500.
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Viljar
3rd June 2017, 11:54
“Stay in school! And out of Hondas!”
budchekov (@budchekov)
3rd June 2017, 16:15
Winner :)
Thecollaroyboys (@thecollaroyboys)
3rd June 2017, 12:11
Alonso: … And so I left school at about 14 years old and started as a full time professional driver. Now I make millions of dollars a year racing really cool cars, I travel around the world first class and have a beautiful girl friend …
Teacher interrupting, flustered: Mr Alonso has a very busy schedule so he has to leave now … there will be no Q&A.
@F1-liners (@f1-liners)
3rd June 2017, 14:22
absolutely great
(could have left it with the first part)
socksolid (@socksolid)
3rd June 2017, 12:16
“What ever you do in life you must always leave the space”
Victor. (@victor)
3rd June 2017, 13:42
Win.
Sviatoslav (@)
3rd June 2017, 15:53
Beautiful!
Maciek (@maciek)
3rd June 2017, 17:49
winner for me : )
Nick (@theawesomefish)
3rd June 2017, 12:17
“I thought I asked for a deckchair…”
Pat Ruadh (@fullcoursecaution)
3rd June 2017, 12:18
Hahahaha!
runforitscooby (@runforitscooby)
3rd June 2017, 12:19
“I can relate to you kids, I was once ruled by a weirdo with a bad haircut”
Will Wood (@willwood)
3rd June 2017, 12:24
“It’s so nice for me to get to meet all of Lance Stroll’s friends.”
Don
3rd June 2017, 14:13
Ha!
@F1-liners (@f1-liners)
3rd June 2017, 14:28
touché
James Brickles (@brickles)
3rd June 2017, 12:28
“So when writing your sentences, you must leave a space in between the words. All the time, you must leave a space.”
Pat Ruadh (@fullcoursecaution)
3rd June 2017, 12:46
“so this is what a chequered flag looks like…”
FJBH10 (@fjbh10)
3rd June 2017, 14:02
Haha that’s brutal!
sbannamalai (@sbannamalai)
3rd June 2017, 14:41
which I haven’t seen in 2017
Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
3rd June 2017, 12:54
Hey boys and girls…do you have extra chair in your physics classes for some of my friends from Honda?
James Brickles (@brickles)
3rd June 2017, 12:58
“So you see, in Formula One, we can also turn right.”
Gabriel (@rethla)
3rd June 2017, 13:02
So next year you will be old enough for F1 but whatever you do dont belive a word from McLaren Honda.
kanan
3rd June 2017, 13:10
“Alonso goes back to school” – Keith can get all the credit for this one.
Robbie (@robbie)
3rd June 2017, 13:17
Next question…yes you in the back with the round shades and the tats and earrings…
Yes…um…isn’t Indycar easy if you can come in as a rookie and qualify fifth against guys that do it all year? Isn’t that interesting?
FA: Ummm…Tony? Perhaps you’d like to answer his one.
OmarRoncal - Go Seb!!! (@)
3rd June 2017, 14:06
Winner
@F1-liners (@f1-liners)
3rd June 2017, 14:25
well done.
Kevin Amery (@k-l-waster)
3rd June 2017, 15:44
+1
Richard (@rick1984)
3rd June 2017, 13:49
Alonso: “In f1 we need to read a lot! Especially the first time at McLaren, i mean that Ferrari dossier was HUGE”
Jere (@jerejj)
3rd June 2017, 14:01
”Don’t ever buy a Honda!”
FJBH10 (@fjbh10)
3rd June 2017, 14:01
“… and then they told him: Fernando is faster than you!”
OmarRoncal - Go Seb!!! (@)
3rd June 2017, 14:10
You must believe in the power of drea… Nevermind.
CateredHam
3rd June 2017, 14:21
…and since we didn’t have bottle flipping and fidget spinners when I was in school, I just sat in the beach chair. So… No, Jenny, i wasn’t “bored stupid”.
Damon (@damon)
3rd June 2017, 14:35
“…and then – if the bull is still alive – you may finish him with a hammer hit on the head, although I prefered to just wait until it bleeds out as not to get my clothes wet with blood. Hmm… Other games I enjoyed as a kid were… football… oh, wait – and we would cut their brains out with knives for our mothers to make soup out of them – hmm, yeah, football. I was a goalkeeper…”
Don
3rd June 2017, 17:03
Huh?
Ludwig_M
4th June 2017, 5:23
A reference to the Spanish “sport” bullfighting…
@F1-liners (@f1-liners)
3rd June 2017, 14:37
Besides 25 races Liberty also decided to increase the press corps.
Mark Thomson (@melthom)
3rd June 2017, 14:47
Will you be in a new version of “The Plank” like James Hunt or can’t you drive a lorry?
Matt
3rd June 2017, 14:58
The entrants eagerly await to hear who has won the competition to build the engine for Canada
Nick (@theawesomefish)
3rd June 2017, 15:49
I like that one. XD
nmgn (@nmgn)
3rd June 2017, 16:41
Winner!
Sergey Martyn
3rd June 2017, 15:12
Let me speak from my heart about Honda!
MB (@muralibhats)
3rd June 2017, 15:20
And that is why you have to take right decisions on your future.
hzh (@hzh00)
3rd June 2017, 15:31
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
Hans (@hanswesterbeek)
4th June 2017, 6:34
What about he who can, but doesn’t want to?
hzh (@hzh00)
4th June 2017, 17:22
He becomes an Alonso!
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
3rd June 2017, 15:54
Alonso inspiring kids through the power of (broken) dreams.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
3rd June 2017, 15:57
Alonso announces this years science project. Make an engine for Alonso.
Jack
3rd June 2017, 16:03
Fernando, in as much detail as you can, please explain to us which areas of the engine you think we should be prioritisng for the next upgrade.
Ruben
3rd June 2017, 16:20
“For the last time! I’m not Kimi!”
Sundar Srinivas Harish
3rd June 2017, 16:26
It is important to have someone like Kaspersky sponsoring you. Otherwise you might find a virus in your computer.
Charlotte Oxford (@charlotteo)
3rd June 2017, 16:28
And the title of my lecture today is ‘Dealing with Failure’.
Dom (@3dom)
3rd June 2017, 17:47
This one made me physically laugh out loud! Easy winner for me
Derek Edwards
3rd June 2017, 16:38
It was an awkward moment in the spelling bee shootout when Fernando was asked to spell “disillusioned”…
Bryan (@ruz234014)
3rd June 2017, 17:15
“So kids, remember, only teams with 3 syllables can be competitive in Formula 1.”
Bryan (@ruz234014)
3rd June 2017, 17:18
Argh! Meant to say engines.
“Only engines with 3 syllables can be competitive in Formula one.”
Alianora La Canta (@alianora-la-canta)
4th June 2017, 13:34
Still works – McLaren probably believes it could be world champion with an engine of the calibre of those produced by teams Mercedes and Ferrari…
budchekov (@budchekov)
3rd June 2017, 17:21
To be honest, I don’t have a clue what I’m doing here.
Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
3rd June 2017, 17:28
“A is for Australia, B is Barcelona, C is for Circuit de Monaco, D is for Did Not Start, E is for engine failure, F is for Ferrari [Yay]…”
Julian Sark
4th June 2017, 0:15
Can be sung to the ABC song nicely …
‘A’ is for all the races I aborted,
‘B’ is for all the box calls I get,
‘C’ is for the critical engine failures,
‘D’ is for my damaged engine,
‘E’ is for engine emergencies,
‘F’ is for the failures of my engine,
‘G’ is for the grass I park my car on,
‘H’ is for Hon… oh $!*&%
Duncan Snowden
3rd June 2017, 17:48
“’Honda’. D. N. F. ‘Honda’.”
Illusive (@illusive)
3rd June 2017, 18:17
What goes around, comes back around, unless you are driving a Honda.
just.daz (@nemo87)
3rd June 2017, 18:45
My name is fernando and I’ve been coming to ‘Honda is ruining my career anonymous’ for Leota 3 years now.
OllieJ (@olliej)
3rd June 2017, 18:49
So children, if we take the number of engine component penalties I will receive this year and multiply that by the number of bridges I have burnt in my career, what will be the race number of my Le Mans prototype next year?
Kringle
3rd June 2017, 19:24
Lost In Translation
“Throwing the toys out the pram doesn’t leave you as you get older, you just learn to use it at the wrong moment and the wrong time.”
thedonz
3rd June 2017, 20:11
Random Kid: Aren’t you a little old to be a rookie?
charliex (@photogcw)
3rd June 2017, 20:36
FA: Yes, I did enjoy the Indy 500 and American racing. I have heard much about this American football though I have not seen it but I am eager to try it.
mog
3rd June 2017, 21:56
Kid: Do you think I should cheat on my exam?
Alo: Only if you can get away with it!
Sean Doyle (@spdoyle17)
3rd June 2017, 23:11
That’s right, children. All of you using your fidget spinners at once will generate more power, while being more reliable than a Honda engine.
Andre Furtado
3rd June 2017, 23:29
“The first priority of a ninja is to win without fighting ” to answer your question that’s why drive a Honda.
Placid (@placid)
3rd June 2017, 23:30
Fernando: I cannot provide an autograph of Raquel Del Rosario. Didn’t you know we got divorced?
Ganesh
4th June 2017, 2:58
Simple quote, Known devil is better than unknown angel… Ferrari strated winning…Awwww
Little_M_Lo (@pezlo2013)
4th June 2017, 4:08
When you take on somebody’s car, make sure you leave a mark kids. Just ask my friend Jenson.
Todfod (@todfod)
4th June 2017, 8:45
“If you grow up to be a really smart engineer… please go help Honda. They need you”
Todfod (@todfod)
4th June 2017, 8:47
Just trying another one for fun –
“A for Alonso
B for Button
C for Can’t win a title with Honda…”
Pink Peril
4th June 2017, 10:30
Yes, that’s right, my favourite karaoke song is ‘You can’t always get what you want”.
F1Junky
4th June 2017, 11:02
Alonso finds the Indy press conference a little childish.
Pratyush P (@pratyushp276)
4th June 2017, 11:26
Fernando Alonso interacts with his engineers at Honda before the Indy 500.
Apexor
5th June 2017, 0:14
Fernando is meeting with Max Verstapen’s old school friends.
Apexor
5th June 2017, 0:17
Fernando had to meet with the kids in school because they were crying when he lost the Indy 500 race.
Andy MacMartin
5th June 2017, 1:06
Can any of you spell “MGU-H”? Honda can’t!
Nunu
5th June 2017, 7:10
The most importent thing to learn in school is: To pick the right seat at the office….
Bart
5th June 2017, 9:35
How did I get shopped into this meme? I did not even start my car today?
Biskit Boy (@sean-p-newmanlive-co-uk)
5th June 2017, 12:23
When Andretti said they had a seat for me and it would be a good learning experience, I was was not expecting this!
Craig
5th June 2017, 12:31
“If all of you write a nice letter to Toto they might let me drive the fast car with Lewis”
ksurv (@ksurv)
5th June 2017, 14:32
Classroom 2! Classroom 2!
U2F1 (@u2f1)
5th June 2017, 19:10
“Pls take career counselling very seriously – don’t regret your choices later on”