Fans they have always been very resourceful when it came to their own favorite racer awarded affectionate names or nicknames. Let's fly over briefly nicknames of some famous racers, which are very original and some of them as well suitable for an individual racer.
Carlos Reuteman - LOLE
Denny Hulme - THE BEAR
John Surtees - BIG JOHN
Niki Lauda - THE RAT
Alberto Ascari - CICCIO
James Hunt - HUNT THE SHUNT
Nigel Mansell - IL LEONE
Juan Manuel Fangio - IL MAESTRO
Alain Prost - THE PROFESSOR
Kimi Raikkonen - ICEMAN
Given the fact that the next race in Brazil, but we dedicate ourselves to the racer, after whom the track v is named Interlagos and that is: José Carlos Pace - MOCO.
18. March 1977 je Jose Carlos Pace in Brazil tragically passed away in plane crash, as his pilot lost orientation due to the storm. Peace and his race car Brabham they were a strong duo. It's about, of course joke, because a racer of his talent he only got in his career and dirko and this domestic v Interlagos in 1975. His nickname "Moco ” it has its origins in many reasons. One of these is related to seven sticks and this the most peaceful. José Carlos he was very calm in his youth because his parents married after his birth moved from Brazil to the old homeland Italy, then back again in South America. José Carlos mastered it better Italian than Portuguese language, so he spoke very little in Brazil. V Italian dialect could "mucus”Meant dumb. His peers in Brazil but nicknamed "Mucus”Just croak, because in their language it also means what you pull with your finger from your nose.
