Spain’s F1 drivers of the future or Fernando Alonso’s personal army of tiny clones?
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Picture: Fernando Alonso via Instagram
Force Maikel (@force-maikel)
22nd July 2017, 11:59
“See that marshall over there. That’s where you stop it when you have an engine faillure!”
Joni (@theflyingfinns)
22nd July 2017, 12:00
“So the deckchairs are over there. Everyone go grab one and enjoy the view!”
Fukobayashi (@)
22nd July 2017, 12:29
haha very good.
Mallesh Magdum (@malleshmagdum)
22nd July 2017, 14:16
i was about to post the same line! Beat me to it!
ColinChapman (@colinchapman)
22nd July 2017, 12:00
Right over there is where we will pratice breaking down.
Alex
23rd July 2017, 14:22
Alonso is determined that he will succeed at McLaren and is willing to play the long-game. So he has cloned himself. He hopes that one day, one of these little Alonsos will get a podium with a Honda engine…or at least finish a race.
Mick
22nd July 2017, 12:01
Honda only brought 10 additional horses with the spec 3 engine, so Alonso decided to bring a few more Alonsos to the party to make up the difference. 0,7 + 0,7 + 0,7 + 0,7 + 0,7 = Merc power
f1junky
22nd July 2017, 12:07
This is the hand signal for overtaking a slow driver on a blue flag.
Ben (@chookie6018)
22nd July 2017, 12:09
After hearing about the Halo news. Alonso decided the only option would be to train his own replacement.
Lewis McMurray (@celicadion23)
22nd July 2017, 12:13
No Billy, I told you before – we’ve already covered blocking your team mate in the pits. Now for homework tonight, read chapter seven: “The do’s and don’ts of threatening to release your emails”.
bobec
22nd July 2017, 21:39
Lame
AspergerNerd
22nd July 2017, 12:13
“Win this race and you too could drive the worst car on the grid.”
Ben (@scuderia29)
22nd July 2017, 12:15
“The Piquet Junior Juniors will crash over there”
Gerulf Dösinger (@)
22nd July 2017, 12:43
Hahaha. :D Best!
tgu (@thegrapeunwashed)
22nd July 2017, 12:54
+1 I should have read the comments first!
Nikhil Patel (@tiya)
22nd July 2017, 18:52
+1
Matt Clark (@mattc888)
22nd July 2017, 19:02
Rofl nice one ; D
Susan Raburn (@brukz)
23rd July 2017, 2:32
Now, now, Alsonso ‘knew nothing’
Strontium (@strontium)
22nd July 2017, 12:20
“We are all faster than you.”
TR
22nd July 2017, 12:23
We were going to try out the karts today, but Fernando needed all the horsepower he could get, so instead we’re going to run around the track.
PS: Try not to lap Fernando too much!
NotAgain
22nd July 2017, 18:30
I like the Post Scriptum bit ;)
That’s Sr Alonso in the orange car. Be careful when you overtake him.
Joao (@johnmilk)
22nd July 2017, 12:28
If not Honda, my minions will help me conquer de WDC, muahahahah
runforitscooby (@runforitscooby)
22nd July 2017, 12:30
I brought you here kids to show you whats on the horizon if you drive for McLaren-Honda.
Fukobayashi (@)
22nd July 2017, 12:30
“Ok Tito, so you’ll compete in the Indy 500 next year. Mario, Le Mans for you. Between us we’ve got this triple crown covered amigos!”
hzh (@hzh00)
22nd July 2017, 12:36
20 years after retiring, everyone is still surprised that Alonso’s grandchildren are still being forced to serve his McLaren days grid penalties.
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
22nd July 2017, 13:16
LOL!
Robbie (@robbie)
22nd July 2017, 13:33
Me too lol.
mog
22nd July 2017, 13:57
Winner!
Hugh (@hugh11)
22nd July 2017, 14:11
This is brilliant
Fukobayashi (@)
22nd July 2017, 14:13
This is the winner!
Michael Barry
22nd July 2017, 16:16
Brilliant ! Has to be the winner !
Julian (Mr. Sakura) (@xiasitlo)
22nd July 2017, 17:46
This one. Great one. :)
Dougracing (@dougracing)
22nd July 2017, 18:31
hahaha awesome!!
Hans (@hanswesterbeek)
22nd July 2017, 21:27
Winner!
Thecollaroyboys (@thecollaroyboys)
22nd July 2017, 23:17
Well played
Scalextric (@scalextric)
23rd July 2017, 1:23
Game over
Sun Siyuan (@peking901)
23rd July 2017, 11:33
Ouch! Hahahahahahahah
Zim
23rd July 2017, 13:44
This is too good :’D
Nimba (@nimba)
23rd July 2017, 19:36
Bull’s eye
spoutnik (@spoutnik)
24th July 2017, 11:02
Excellent!
Ashwin (@redbullf1)
24th July 2017, 15:12
Holy…this !! Superb !
hzh (@hzh00)
22nd July 2017, 12:41
Ballast, you’re doing it wrong!
Adam (@rocketpanda)
22nd July 2017, 12:45
Now repeat after me – ‘GP2 ENGINE, GP2’
OmarRoncal - Go Seb!!! (@)
22nd July 2017, 12:48
“And remember the most important lesson:
“You have to leave a space! YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO LEAVE A SPACE!!!
tgu (@thegrapeunwashed)
22nd July 2017, 12:50
“I’ll crash there on lap 14 and bring out the safety car. Whoever pitted first gets to win.”
Briatore’s henchman schools the next generation.
Damon (@damon)
22nd July 2017, 12:56
“OK, my little Fernandos, the race starts in 10 minutes. Don’t push your engines too hard, you’re all driving Hondas, and I want at least one Alonso at the finish line. If having twelve of you doesn’t do the job, then I don’t know what else we can do…”
Little_M_Lo (@pezlo2013)
22nd July 2017, 13:09
Fernando is faster than you.
Ruben
22nd July 2017, 13:12
“With this many me’s, I’m bound to make a good career decision eventually.”
JamieFranklinF1 (@jamiefranklinf1)
22nd July 2017, 13:13
“Everything the light touches is our Kingdom,”
“What’s over there?”
“Over there is Mclaren Honda. You must never go there,”
Adam
22nd July 2017, 14:10
Brilliant..
Ada
22nd July 2017, 13:13
“Once you pass the chequered flag then …
hang on its been a while …
it will come back to me …
…
I might need to look this up”
praero
26th July 2017, 21:28
Brilliant
JamieFranklinF1 (@jamiefranklinf1)
22nd July 2017, 13:15
So the best way to tackle this corner is to push like an animal.
Bernie
22nd July 2017, 13:16
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-dee
If you are wise, you’ll listen to me
What do you get when you guzzle down fuel?
Going as slow as a stubborn mule
What are you at with engines going blat?
What do you think will come of that?
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-da
If you’re not speedy, you won’t go far
You will drive a Honda too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
22nd July 2017, 13:18
And when you’re older, if anyone approaches you from a company called McLaren, run away as quick as you can!
Dan
22nd July 2017, 13:19
would you rather fight one Alonso sized child or 5 child sized Alonso’s ?
Euro Brun (@eurobrun)
22nd July 2017, 13:24
Following a career of bad moves into the wrong cars at the wrong time, Fernando aims to infiltrate every team with a set of clones so that he can pick and choose the best drive at all times.
Robbie (@robbie)
22nd July 2017, 13:36
This is what Vettel saw after doing one lap with the windscreen.
Corey (@dragon86)
22nd July 2017, 13:40
FIA’s new safety protocol starts at a young age. All drivers must wear their helmets while doing the track walk.
mog
22nd July 2017, 14:04
Otherwise known as the halo effect
Martijn (@)
22nd July 2017, 13:42
And then after turn nine you get the difficult chicane. But not to worry, you will break down before you get there anyway
B194 (@b194)
22nd July 2017, 14:02
McLaren set for further grid penalties having already used their permitted allocation of 4 Alonso Driver Units so far this season.
Rahman (@arahman93)
22nd July 2017, 14:09
As Alonso once said “ all the time you must always leave a space”
Don
22nd July 2017, 14:18
It’s about 4000 miles past those hills to Indianapolis.
mog
22nd July 2017, 14:23
No halos for these little speed demons.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
22nd July 2017, 14:28
-“I’m the best”
-“No, I am the best”
-“No, No, I am the best”
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
22nd July 2017, 14:29
Alonso minions
Kringle
22nd July 2017, 14:31
“CRY MY PRETTIES! CRY!”
Cyberaxiom (@dave-m)
22nd July 2017, 14:53
“Stop answering back to me, you kids are just a bunch of cheeky ‘nandos.”
Alex Tunnicliffe (@alextrosbergfan)
22nd July 2017, 14:59
“The plan is that one of you won’t break down”
Duncan Snowden
22nd July 2017, 15:21
“And when his engine blows up, you all jump out and push.”
James Brickles (@brickles)
22nd July 2017, 15:29
“Use the best of your clones, we know how small they are.”
Link
22nd July 2017, 15:39
“Alright, you join Minardi then Renault then McLaren-Mercedez then Ferrari. After that come back to karting school for 3 years.”
Lee (@leejo)
22nd July 2017, 16:43
An instructor shows 2019 prospects how high to pile cash in order to secure their seats.
Lee (@leejo)
22nd July 2017, 16:45
their seats in F1.
S.J.M (@sjm)
22nd July 2017, 17:13
Preparing for Fernando’s possible departure, the Mclaren Alonso cloning project was still in its infancy stages.
Aapje (@aapje)
22nd July 2017, 17:23
You will be using 25 HP karts, with the same engine as the McLaren F1 car.
hollus (@hollus)
22nd July 2017, 18:02
Let’s see: at 6 tenths each, that makes a total of 3 seconds… Yep! We can stay with Honda!
zimkazimka (@zimkazimka)
22nd July 2017, 18:13
Despicable Me? Nope minions, your master is Hasegawa over there.
hollus (@hollus)
22nd July 2017, 18:19
The greatest challenge in motorsport: winning the Monaco GP, the Indy500 and the 24 hours of LeMans… on the same day.
Dark Schneider
22nd July 2017, 18:27
Makes me think about Mini Cells in DBZ
Pratyush P (@pratyushp276)
22nd July 2017, 18:30
Day 742: Alonso still isn’t convinced by his manager’s latest plan to get him out of testing the Mclaren Honda…
steveetienne
22nd July 2017, 18:31
‘he was second, he IS second’
Nitin Patel (@nitin24)
22nd July 2017, 19:48
One of these Honda engines is bound to see the end of the race…
Broke84 (@broke84)
22nd July 2017, 19:55
McLaren slightly misunderstood Hondas system of bringing as many spare components as possible to each race.
PT (@pt)
22nd July 2017, 19:59
Your engines are being changed, so if you’re lucky you’ll get to race at this track!
Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
22nd July 2017, 20:15
“Remember these karts go faster around corners than almost anything else on the track.”
Thedonz
22nd July 2017, 20:32
Ah jedi master alonso, we have been expecting you. Would you like to inspect your clone army?
Thedonz
22nd July 2017, 20:34
Right guys. I know you are all really excited to race against alonso today but I’m sorry to say we ran out of karts, so alonso is going to use his mclaren-Honda F1 car. Try not to lap him too many times.
Johnny H.
22nd July 2017, 21:15
Divide the track in 5 of you, because you have always leave the space!
Eric (@fletch)
22nd July 2017, 21:32
The Guardyan Reports:
With his army of clones, Alonso intends to seed every team on the grid to ensure victories and championships.
mog
22nd July 2017, 21:39
A litter of Alonso – Stig hybrids
Proteus (@proteus)
22nd July 2017, 21:44
In this corner all the time u have to leave the space!
verstappen (@verstappen)
22nd July 2017, 21:52
You will be assimilated
Lee (@leejo)
22nd July 2017, 22:01
Fierce competition inspires innovation in F1 as teams work to find new ways to save weight and money. In one test program, a group of talented Oompa-Loompa drivers, who like to be paid in cocoa beans, receive instruction in following team orders.
Daniel
22nd July 2017, 22:03
Despicable me 4 : Alonso Minions
ivz (@ivz)
22nd July 2017, 22:42
Alonso clones himself for his best chance at a 3rd world title
BlackJack (@danieljaksa)
22nd July 2017, 22:57
No! Of course you can’t pee in the seat!
Suvan Naidu (@serv)
22nd July 2017, 23:05
The karting school organises an interpretive dance of Alonso’s five missed titles
bobby_k
23rd July 2017, 0:30
What’s that giant bee papa can’t shake off? That boys, is Robert Kubica.
Jason
23rd July 2017, 2:58
+1
Derek Edwards
23rd July 2017, 0:34
Fernando is over the hill.
Dwight_js
23rd July 2017, 1:27
An infinite number of Alonsos in an infinite number of race cars will eventually win more titles than Schumacher.
John s
23rd July 2017, 5:27
In order the mitigate the effects of the extra weight from the hybrid power unit, future Honda drivers have to be less than 4 feet tall. Honda is not worried about these new drivers getting behind the power curve.
Nidzo
23rd July 2017, 6:40
So kids. Behind that mountain there is a bad and scary Honda engine that is waiting just for you. Don’t go there as your grandfather Alonso once did!
Wonderbadger (@wonderbadger)
23rd July 2017, 6:44
Despite spending millions on development, Honda couldn’t work out why their Fernando clones were more fragile and not as powerful as the original.
Pat Ruadh (@fullcoursecaution)
23rd July 2017, 11:33
Alonso was said to have been devastated when he heard Massa had fallen in the cloning tank.
spoutnik (@spoutnik)
24th July 2017, 11:54
:)
Todfod (@todfod)
23rd July 2017, 8:13
The most evil driver on the grid has his own group of Mini-Mes.
Mariano (@mariano)
23rd July 2017, 8:49
Look kids, this is actually a real racing track were drivers used to drive until the FIA decided to ban them because they were unsafe… now, let’s go back to the simulators.
Oni
23rd July 2017, 9:24
All the drivers interested to fill in for Alonso the next time he goes to Indy are shown around the track.
Zeke
23rd July 2017, 10:42
Alonso to Honda:
I said I wanted want another 5 million to drive for Honda in 2018, not another 5 Minion.
.
Cliffery (@cliffery)
23rd July 2017, 11:41
Alonso plans to win the triple crown all in the same year.
Steven Smith (@ragwort)
23rd July 2017, 13:02
And somewhere over there. Far, far away. There might just be an engine worth putting in Fernando’s car.
PMccarthy_is_a_legend (@pmccarthy_is_a_legend)
23rd July 2017, 13:19
Muy bien kids, see that deckchair outside turn three? You know what to do off you go.
hunocsi (@hunocsi)
23rd July 2017, 14:01
After long and extensive testing of its prototype, the FIA is ready to introduce the newest step in driver safety: the replaceable driver.
Chris Wright (@chriswrig)
23rd July 2017, 15:11
I want the five of you to pedal like crazy inside the engine cover, and maybe we can get out of the back row.
Benjamin Brown (@benjib)
23rd July 2017, 15:19
After Fernando Alonso sponsors Despicable Me 4, the minions looks somewhat different ….
Nimba (@nimba)
23rd July 2017, 19:38
The one who climbs hat hill first will get a meeting with Mr. Briatore . On your marks..
Gridlock (@gridlock)
23rd July 2017, 21:47
We’re just waiting for the minibus full of mini-Petrovs, and we’ll get going.
Sidney
23rd July 2017, 22:37
Nobody is going on to the track until we find out who stole Lance Stroll’s lunchbox.
schooner (@schooner)
23rd July 2017, 23:50
Very good!
Mark Thomson (@melthom)
24th July 2017, 1:19
And once you all are at an age where you can drive F1, Honda might have come up with an engine that actually works.
TribalTalker (@tribaltalker)
24th July 2017, 10:42
A rare deleted scene from the movie “Time Bandits”.
regulus (@regulus)
24th July 2017, 19:09
Go, my minions…. fly like the wind and bring me that Mercedes contract for 2018…
BobW
25th July 2017, 0:17
This is where you will line up for next week’s race in France.
Vincent (@vinnivinni)
25th July 2017, 21:12
So this is the plan: prices are guaranteed with a full grid of Alonsos.
Placid (@placid)
27th July 2017, 10:00
OK!!! WHO IS PLAYING THE WWE’S HORNSWOGGLE THEME?