The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has reached fever pitch – your Facebook feed is probably as inundated as the ice-cold victims – but allow us to serve up a selection of the best drenchings from the world of Formula 1.
We’ve gathered together some of the best Ice Bucket Challenges from the pitlane, featuring such luminaries as Lewis Hamilton, the Red Bull team and even the BBC F1 commentary squad.
It makes for pretty compelling viewing: and if anyone can afford to be generous with their donations it’s the mega-money world of top-flight motorsport.
Our only regret? So far we don’t think that the Ice Man himself – Kimi Raikkonen – has got involved. He’s obviously cool enough already… Don’t forget you too can donate to the ALS Association charity here, helping to combat this neurodegenerative disease.
Lewis Hamilton is among the many in F1 who’ve been drenched and donated. Although this effort is far from the most flamboyant you’ll see out there. He had to redo it a few days later, wearing just Speedos!
And here’s the Caterham team, led by technical director John Iley. Their mechanics climb high on the support truck to drench the whole team.
Nico Rosberg suffers some of the biggest ice cubes we’ve yet seen in his ice bucket. But he’s certainly wearing fewer clothes than the fully race-suited Lewis Mk1. For that we give him our respect.
Even fathers of the F1 world are getting involved. Keke Rosberg, sporting a proud dad t-shirt, enjoyed a charity soaking from what looks like a champagne bucket. Interestingly, he nominated Santa Claus and Gerhard Berger to do a repeat performance.
Red Bull bigwigs Christian Horner and Adrian Newey stepped out of their mobile HQ for a dousing, too. Just the kind of extreme sportsmanship we’ve come to expect of Red Bull. Amusingly, they nominated Ron Dennis…
… Who else could Jenson Button nominate, other than his boss Ron Dennis?
And here he is – McLaren chief Ron Dennis, making a chilly mess on his immactulate desk at the McLaren Technical Centre in Woking. The cleaners were called 10 seconds after this video ended…
And finally here’s the BBC F1 team suffering an ice-cold drenching. See David Coulthard, Eddie Jordan, Allan McNish and Suzi Perry frantically get rid of their phones, watches and other electronics as they stand in front of the Red Bull motorhome. Got to love the slow-mo action replay analyses.