UgncreativeUsergname wrote:When I saw a yellow suit, my immediate reaction was Heinz-Harald Frentzen. I doubt that's right, but is it? Either way, I don't know how he'd be related to F1R.
Nope.
WaffleCat wrote:Shot in the dark guess...he was one of the drivers at the Minardi Misano 2004 test.
Nope, older than that.
go_Rubens wrote:Is it Ricardo Zunino?
Nope.
Aerospeed wrote:Jarno Trulli? Again, a yellow suit could mean any Jordan driver. Giancarlo Fisichella maybe? Or perhaps someone who has reject status, such as Ricardo Zonta, Ralph Firman, Giorgio Pantano, or even HWNSNBM himself.
Or is it a Finnish driver, for national pride? I can only think of a young Heikki Kovalainen. I can't think of any reject Finnish drivers, aside from Bottas, but the photo is obviously way too old to be him.
None of the above.
East Londoner wrote:Someone slightly more left-field, and from the 1980s, and a Reject. I'd wager it's Pierre-Henri Raphanel when trying to pre-qualify the Coloni in 1989.
Nope, Coloni drivers had red overalls in 1989.
takagi_for_the_win wrote:I reckon it's Nuppiz himself
Nope, too slim.
pasta_maldonado wrote:Either it's a EJR F3000 driver, or just a cunningly deceptive photo of a Jordan Grand Prix driver
I'm going to take a punt and say Antonio Tamburini, I don't know how he could connect to F1R, however
Biscione wrote:Please, you cannot put an Italian driver as your avatar an expect me not to know!
Antontio Tamburini, raced for Pacific Grand Prix at F3000 level in 1991. But he also had Giovanna Amati as a team-mate the year before, So there is two connections! Was also one of Alfa's works drivers in Campionato Italiano Superturismo, IIRC. But maybe that's wrong, and it was just a customer car. But I think it was one of the red cars, just like Francia. Either way, he was in an Alfa.
And here we have our correct answers. It is indeed Antonio Tamburini, and
kostas... Strama... Biscione provided enough connections to F1 Rejects for me to declare him the winner of this contest. Although that was not the connection I was looking for; what I was after is that Tamburini was Coloni's test driver in the early 1990s, as seen here with him driving a Coloni-Subaru:
But what's more important is that he was the first ever driver to drive a Andrea Moda Formula One car - just weeks after the team had been bought from Enzo Coloni - at the 1991 Formula One Indoor Trophy held as a part of the Bologna Motor Show:
Find more about it here (Brazilian site, but Google Translate does a decent job)So with that, Biscione gets to decide my new avatar for February. If he refuses, then Pasta has the honor to do so. And if he refuses as well, then the bet is called off.