| Author | Message | ||
| rick catalano (Tatcat)
Junior Member Username: Tatcat Post Number: 83 Registered: 9-2001 |
thats why i go over my partners spot to watch the races. although i've got some strange looks at the store on the way over. oh well... | ||
| Anthony_Ferrari (Anthony_ferrari)
Junior Member Username: Anthony_ferrari Post Number: 138 Registered: 11-2002 |
See my profile for my race-watching uniform! | ||
| Drew Altemara (Drewa)
Junior Member Username: Drewa Post Number: 110 Registered: 2-2002 |
Rick, My wife already thinks I'm nuts getting up at 6Am in the morning to watch F1. Could you inagine the look on her face if she caught me in the den wearing the red wig and shoes. I think she might have a case of divorceing me claiming I was mentally insane. Drew | ||
| rick catalano (Tatcat)
Junior Member Username: Tatcat Post Number: 81 Registered: 9-2001 |
Drew, don't forget the red wig and them cool red shoes!! | ||
| Drew Altemara (Drewa)
Junior Member Username: Drewa Post Number: 106 Registered: 2-2002 |
No Arthur, I have never gone racing but I can certainly understand the euphoria for the whole team when they won. I was just curious if there was some history I had missed but this thread seems to have cleared it up. I just can't wait till March to get up early Sunday morning, close the doors to the den, turn the volume up, and watch F1 again. Thanks, Drew | ||
| MFZ (Kiyoharu)
New member Username: Kiyoharu Post Number: 1 Registered: 2-2003 |
Hi, I am a newbie here, so sorry if I sound like I'm interrupting. I'll spare the introductions and go straight to my contribution. Anyway, yes, the red wigs were first worn as a celebratory sign back when the team clinched the constructors championship at the last race of 2000 season. I recall reading in the local papers that Ferrari had expected a win and had asked for the Malaysian organizers right after Saturday qualifying, to supply them with red wigs in case they do win. Several personnel from the Sepang track management had to scour the Kuala Lumpur shopping district that very night to buy/rent the wigs. Supposedly they were handsomely rewarded for being able to fulfill the team's request. | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 947 Registered: 6-2001 |
Drew: Have you ever gone racing. Once you've been with a team, and you won something important, the issue is solidarity. The red wig simbolized something for them. Most racers use the term "combination" and what that means is that the rider, driver is a certain factor, the equipment another factor, the pit crew another factor. Those guys were happy they won, and it mean money money in their pockets, and for some fo them, a change of teams,with a promotion, and again more money. Art | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 2096 Registered: 8-2002 |
"Luca who during the race was watching it at a nearby hotel, came immediately over to the circuit, and also donned a red wig." Where do you get a red wig on the spur of the moment...? | ||
| Drew Altemara (Drewa)
Junior Member Username: Drewa Post Number: 104 Registered: 2-2002 |
Anthony, you must be right. I posted tes same question on the Tifosi site and got this reply: This was a one time deal and it happened in 2000. That year Ferrari won both the WDC and WCC since the last time in 1979. At Suzuka, Japan, the penultimate race that year, Michael clinched the drivers title by beating Hakkinen. The next race, which was the last of the season, was at Malaysia, and there Michael again won just beating cubehead DC and therefore securing the Constructor's Title for Ferrari. When he pulled into the pits, some of the mechanics had put on red wigs they had brought with them, in very short fashion everyone from Schumacher to Todt, to Brawn and Barrichello and Badoer were wearing them. Luca who during the race was watching it at a nearby hotel, came immediately over to the circuit, and also donned a red wig. Quite a party, quite a year, quite a championship. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 2087 Registered: 8-2002 |
i always did like red heads...  | ||
| Andreas Forrer (Tifosi12)
Member Username: Tifosi12 Post Number: 460 Registered: 10-2002 |
Drew, no, not a long standing tradition. Anthony, I figured you'd comment on this with more in depth perspective. You didn't snatch that picture, did you? Come to think of it: I was at the Monza GP in 98 and I the Campari grid formation girls wore those wigs. Maybe that's what started it.  | ||
| Drew Altemara (Drewa)
Junior Member Username: Drewa Post Number: 103 Registered: 2-2002 |
So this is something unique to Ferrari during the past couple of years? Has nothing to do with any long standing GP tradition? | ||
| Anthony_Ferrari (Anthony_ferrari)
Junior Member Username: Anthony_ferrari Post Number: 132 Registered: 11-2002 |
Andreas, you are right. The red wigs first appeared during the post Japan Championship celebrations. Most of the team memebers wore them. Do you also remember the wierd double-peaked caps the team wore at Malaysia that year?  | ||
| Andreas Forrer (Tifosi12)
Member Username: Tifosi12 Post Number: 459 Registered: 10-2002 |
Not totally sure where it started, but if memory serves me right it was in 2000 when MS clinched the WC. In the party aftermath he wore one and then it became a trendy thing and all the mechanics and team members started to wear them for occasions like victories, WC and CWC. | ||
| rick catalano (Tatcat)
Junior Member Username: Tatcat Post Number: 80 Registered: 9-2001 |
not sure but i've seen photos of MS wearing one. it looks cool in the stands when there are a group wearing them in one section. it also freaks out security personel. last year i was behind a wig dude at the gate at USGP when Rubens drove in and as we moved toward the gate this security nazi flipped out and tackled the poor dude. i think i'll stick with the shoes. | ||
| Drew Altemara (Drewa)
Junior Member Username: Drewa Post Number: 102 Registered: 2-2002 |
Can some explain the history of the red victory wigs worn by Ferrari? |