"I don't want to bring something up from the past, but Fernando did braketest me many years ago, but I was in the McLaren. He braked 30 meters earlier. We went to the stewards, and he went, "Oh, it's my right to brake where I want to brake. That's where I needed to brake!" I was just flabbergasted. And the stewards went "oh, well, no further action."
As if the fastest lap pitstop in Austria wasn't crazy enough, David Coulthard on Formula for Success shared this little story.
I went down for the top 3 driver interviews, so I was standing just in front of the Red Bull garage in the pit lane with my back to the FIA garage door. And I am standing there with the camera man that will film the top 3 interviews. and it's traditional you go there and you stand in place waiting for when the race finishes.
And I see Max is coming down the pit lane and I take my phone out and I thought, I'll take a wee video of a pitstop for my son, you know, it'll be a nice little thing, he was watching in the pits. And Max came past, and I'll show you the video - sadly our listeners can't see it- he went past about half a meter away from my feet. I couldn't go any further back. He pulls into the pit box, I film it and I think, god that was a bit on the edge. I feel like I'm maybe not in the right place here. And I am familiar with pit lane etiquette.
Anyway he goes on, wins the grand prix, I do the top three interviews, we finish our Channel 4 show and I was flying back with Max to the south of France, back to Monaco and he arrives at the plane, 'cause he's been doing some documentary filming and I am already on the plane and he comes in and goes:
Did you like how close I got to you in the pitlane?
And I went, so you knew it was me? And he said, oh yeah, I didn't need to go that close, I just wanted to give you a little scare.
[It just shows] how much capacity this guy... and I said, but how did you know it was me? And he goes, there's only one guy with white trousers and white hair that would be standing in the pit lane.