Tommiste un jour, Tommiste toujours

The F1-world doesn’t know about these funny moments

From Turun Sanomat article on 30.12.2011 11:30:22

Thanks to @cmckinleyF1 for telling me about it!

Thanks to NeverCryWolf for posting this on Planet F1

Sebastian Vettel is nowadays one of the most famous sportsmen. Being the all time youngest double F1-champion almost all possible about him has been written and told.

Turun Sanomat was offered a chance to ask his trainer Tommi Pärmäkoski what fun comes to his mind about something that hasn’t yet been written in the media or told on any dinners.

Four laughters.

Here are Vettel’s special fun moments remembered by Pärmäkoski:

1. Singapore

– Sebastian won the GP on Sunday night and we stayed there to the next evening. We decided to go for a dinner and waited normally in the taxi-line. When we got in to a taxi the driver asked if we have been there to watch F1. Sebastian said that yeah, we were a bit involved.

– Sebastian asked if the taxi-driver has any favorite driver and he said he was a Vettel-fan. Sebastian downplayed Vettel saying that he is not any good driver, he isn’t even goodlooking. The driver defended that he is good and also goodlooking, since he had seen him in the disco dancing with beautiful women.

– Sebastian said that ‘that’s cool’ and asked the driver if he would recognise Vettel if he saw him again. The driver assured that he would recognise Vettel but Vettel wouldn’t recognise him. Sebastian replied that he bets on Vettel recognising the driver but the driver laughed how on earth a WDC could even recognise him since he had never even seen him.

– We arrived to our destination, got up from the car and Sebastian shook hands with the driver and presented himself in a Bond-way: Hi, I’m Vettel, Sebastian Vettel.

2. Germany

– Germany GP was ahead. Sebastian was driving. We were on our way to some PR-event. We were out of gas and in a hurry so we curved to a pretty busy gas station.

– Sebastian drove in the middle of the cars and drove ahead of someone else since an angry German jumped out of the car showing his big fist. The dude was screaming do you think that you are some damn Schumacher or what!

– Sebastian got out the car without losing his cool, looked the dude in the eyes and said ‘sorry, I did a stupid thing because I’m in such a hurry’. That’s when the dude recognised Sebastian, ran back to his car and returned with pen and paper asking for his autograph. That argument was settled by that.

3. China

– This happened in China. We came late to the hotel back from the track and wondered how three young girls still had the energy to wait for him. They jumped up and down excited when our car came to the parking lot.

– Sebastian sighed ‘okay, lets give the girls autographs and take the joint photos because they had waited for so long. It was a huge surprise when the girls ran past Sebastian and attacked me. I asked why on earth they had chosen me. They replied that I have such cute blond hair. That was a moment when Sebastian couldn’t do anything else than just watch with envy.

4. Austria

– We ended the season by going to a Finnish sauna in Austria. Sebastian acts like a Finn in the sauna, he threw water on the stones and shouted in Finnish ‘löylyä lissää’ (more steam). There was also a German couple in the sauna and they cursed and bashed us in German. They thought we were American tourists who don’t know how to behave in a sauna. We understood everything they said but we didn’t care. The couple left the sauna cursing us.

– When we came out from the sauna a small boy recognised Sebastian immediately and asked for his autograph. At that moment the German couple silently walked elsewhere.

Turun Sanomat

HEIKKI KULTA