Gerard Lopez: Listen Vitaly i know it has been 50 years since the first russian went into orbit, but and F1 car is not a space shuttle it won't take you into orbit.
Lopez: Don't look now, but the CEO of aeroflot is coming over here
Petrov: Grrr. I have already told him 3 times that I will not be the posterboy for their frequent flyer program
Vitaly Petrov: "The next person who submits an 'In Soviet Russia' caption about flying cars is going to find out what it was actually like in Soviet Russia ..."
That's not actually Petrov's mother. Her name is Oksana Kossachenko, and she is his manager. Don't quote me on this, but I believe she worked for Petrov's father, Aleksandr, as some kind of manager in his company and helped get Vitaly's career started. She's stuck with him ever since.
Final entry
Nick Heidfeld: "Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you'll be stayin' alive, stayin' alive;
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin' and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive;
Uh-uh-uh-uh, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Come on, Vitaly, get up here!
Uh-uh-uh-uh, stayin' ali-i-ive!"
"Vitaly, for the race in Texas next year we're going to replace your car with an orange Dodge Charger with a large "01" painted on the side to please the good ol' boys who watch the race, thinking that they're going to see NASCAR. Furthermore, when you jump, you are contractually obligated to shout "Yee-haw!" in your best redneck voice as well as honk the dixie horn which will be installed on your car."
Just a heads-up, I have corrected the mistake in the thread title - the deadline for Round 2 is 0900 BST Monday 18th April (not the 11th, which would have meant the round had finished 2.5 hours before it started! )... sorry for the mistake!
Also, China (Round 3) will begin next weekend (i.e. after the voting for Round 2 is done), not next week as you might have been expecting.
Vitaly realises people in the paddock are comparing him to Mark not because of raw pace, but because of his natural ability to get an F1 car airborne with the aid of Lotus.
FINAL ENTRY
Lopez: Hey Vitaly, they're showing the replay of your flight up on the jumbotron.
*Petrov facepalms*
Kosachenko: You keep driving like that and this fan will be the only one you have all year.
Vitaly realises people in the paddock are comparing him to Mark not because of raw pace, but because of his natural ability to get an F1 car airborne with the aid of Lotus.