I've just been watching the 2000 Italian GP and at the end of the Australian broadcast they had Alan Jones reading out an F1-themed "Why did the chicken cross the road" article. Made me chuckle.
Why did the chicken cross the road? We asked this traditional question of a whole load of Formula 1 personalities. As you'd expect from grand prix drivers and team managers, the answers were quite varied...
Mika Hakkinen "Why did the chicken cross the road?" (pause) "that's tough question" (pause) "maybe" (pause) "maybe it's a question you have to ask the chicken."
David Coulthard "I was really surprised when the chicken swerved right in front of me and crossed the road. I was expecting it to walk straight along the pavement, but it just cut right across in front of me. I think we'll need a ruling from the FIA if chickens are allowed to do this."
Michael Schumacher "The chicken is allowed to move over, that is clearly within the rules. The chicken can make one move to defend his line. But it can't zig-zag backwards and forwards across the road. What it did was quite fair and within the rules."
Luca di Montezemolo(Ferrari) "The chicken knew that it couldn't get to the other side of the road first, it had to wait for the rooster and let it through."
Ron Dennis (McLaren) "The objective of the poultry individual in this situation is to work towards the goal of a road crossing. We're comfortable that that can be achieved using only bi-ped motional forces. We would refuse to compromise until a safe chicken arrival scenario had been achieved."
Alain Prost "For sure the chicken crossed the road. But for me it was not as interesting as chickens crossing the road ten years ago."
Rubens Barrichello " I'd like to dedicate the chicken crossing the road to my great friend Ayrton Senna"
Max Mosley " We have to find ways of slowing chickens down and making them safer. For that reason the FIA are changing the rules so that chickens crossing roads will be equipped with special chicken bodywork and neck supports."
Jacques Villeneuve " So what the f*** if the chicken gets run over. The chicken wanted to cross the road."
James Allen (ITV pitlane reporter) "Hey guys, you're not going to believe this, but the chicken's on a different strategy to the bantams."
Murray and Martin:
Murray: "And as the lights go out, it's GO GO GO for the duck as it dives towards... "
Martin: "It's a chicken Murray."
Murray: "Yes, yes, it's a chicken, charging into the lead. I think it's got this race sewn up."
Martin: "The chicken's stopped, Murray."
Murray: "DISASTER for the chicken! This will throw the whole badger crossing championship wide open!"
Why did the chicken cross the road? We asked this traditional question of a whole load of Formula 1 personalities. As you'd expect from grand prix drivers and team managers, the answers were quite varied...
Mika Hakkinen "Why did the chicken cross the road?" (pause) "that's tough question" (pause) "maybe" (pause) "maybe it's a question you have to ask the chicken."
David Coulthard "I was really surprised when the chicken swerved right in front of me and crossed the road. I was expecting it to walk straight along the pavement, but it just cut right across in front of me. I think we'll need a ruling from the FIA if chickens are allowed to do this."
Michael Schumacher "The chicken is allowed to move over, that is clearly within the rules. The chicken can make one move to defend his line. But it can't zig-zag backwards and forwards across the road. What it did was quite fair and within the rules."
Luca di Montezemolo(Ferrari) "The chicken knew that it couldn't get to the other side of the road first, it had to wait for the rooster and let it through."
Ron Dennis (McLaren) "The objective of the poultry individual in this situation is to work towards the goal of a road crossing. We're comfortable that that can be achieved using only bi-ped motional forces. We would refuse to compromise until a safe chicken arrival scenario had been achieved."
Alain Prost "For sure the chicken crossed the road. But for me it was not as interesting as chickens crossing the road ten years ago."
Rubens Barrichello " I'd like to dedicate the chicken crossing the road to my great friend Ayrton Senna"
Max Mosley " We have to find ways of slowing chickens down and making them safer. For that reason the FIA are changing the rules so that chickens crossing roads will be equipped with special chicken bodywork and neck supports."
Jacques Villeneuve " So what the f*** if the chicken gets run over. The chicken wanted to cross the road."
James Allen (ITV pitlane reporter) "Hey guys, you're not going to believe this, but the chicken's on a different strategy to the bantams."
Murray and Martin:
Murray: "And as the lights go out, it's GO GO GO for the duck as it dives towards... "
Martin: "It's a chicken Murray."
Murray: "Yes, yes, it's a chicken, charging into the lead. I think it's got this race sewn up."
Martin: "The chicken's stopped, Murray."
Murray: "DISASTER for the chicken! This will throw the whole badger crossing championship wide open!"
