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[juicy sushi]

Basically, if Takuma spelt his last name the way it is supposed to be pronounced, everyone would be making the same mistake they do with Gazoo Racing...

[PayasYouRace]

 

 That's because in English, names are not allowed to have any special characters. 

 

 

That's actually false. English only has the limitation that accented vowels ("special characters" as you call them) are not used by convention because in English vowel sounds are contextual. However, English is a very fluid language and things like that are not forbidden, especially when it comes to adaptions of foreign words.

 

For example, we have the word "naïve" in English, which as a non-standard character. It is commonly spelled with a conventional "i" in most cases, but the version I quoted is correct too. If you want examples of names, "Chloë" and "Zoë" are both correct in English too. They aren't as commonly used, and I'm sure typed media has a lot to do with that, where English is both the dominant language and also a language where the lack of official rules makes change happen quickly and naturally.

 

Lesson to be taken here, if anyone tries to tell you that something isn't allowed in English, tell them that they're wrong.

[boomn]

Speaking of being accurate and correct, how did a man with an Italian name and Italian looks convince everyone that he's Scottish?  Pfft.  Did we all just believe Dario because of his accent and charm?

[Ross Stonefeld]

Contributions when it comes time to settle the bill may have had something to do with it 

[Frood]

Speaking of being accurate and correct, how did a man with an Italian name and Italian looks convince everyone that he's Scottish?  Pfft.  Did we all just believe Dario because of his accent and charm?

His name is George, to be fair. George Dario Marino. He should have gone with the second middle name and confused everyone.

[pacificquay]

Speaking of being accurate and correct, how did a man with an Italian name and Italian looks convince everyone that he's Scottish?  Pfft.  Did we all just believe Dario because of his accent and charm?

Brcause he is.

[StraightEdge]

On my way to the track for Sunday race getting off the I-35W taking exit 69.

Here's our Sunday race sponsor Xpel

Meanwhile get yourself a bag of Mission tortilla chips. McLaren-SP drivers Pat O'Ward and Felix Rosenqvist sent you

I got close seating for No Limits Live segment. It starts with first guest A.J. Foyt.....

....with hell freezing over with Arie Luyendyk joining him. They kept playing Foyt slapping and pushing Luyendyk out of victory lane video at the track because its one of top moments in 25 years of TMS

Max Papis joins him. Both talked about challenges of being a race stewards

Teammates Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan joins

It ends with final guest Mario Andretti

James Hinchcliffe changes sponsor from Genesys to Capstone for Sunday race

Last time Rokit car will be intact

Two-seater appearance

Then the big one with Conor Daly getting out of his car

TK whose car changed sponsor from Bryant to American Leigon roaring back out of the pits after sustaining damages in the wreck

Mayor of Hinchtown in the pits getting repairs

[StraightEdge]

No post is without mention of Takuma Sato

Scott McLaughlin making a stop

Jack Harvey race ends with wheel bearing troubles

Graham Rahal and Scott Dixon battling it out

Make it a three car battle

Vuse-mobile lost a wheel and Felix limped it around

Sato leads but have deal with Xpel car driven by Josef Newgarden as well pitting soon

Pat O'Ward get the lead and never looked back for victory including appearance of Big Hoss TV on the backstretch

 

Thank you for enjoying the photos of my journey of Indycar Texas double weekend. It's been a wild fun blast

[boomn]

Brcause he is.

Thanks. I'm well aware, and he is one my favorites.

[red stick]

Well, there you go: racing photography, standards, journalistic and otherwise, or lack thereof, non-Western names explained, and T-Rex arms; just another day on the forum.

[Jim Thurman]

I think there's a big difference between winging it on your first and last name. First name derivatives are fine. Modifying last name is not, this isn't Elli Island in 1905. Nicknames have got to go. Anyone calling him 'Smoke' needs their press pass yanked.

 

Nicknames are a great tradition in U.S. motorsports where local track announcers routinely came up with them for competitors. There's even a half-assed attempt at compiling them, although it ignores almost all nicknames from West of the Rockies and adds others that are as dubious as Wikipedia. https://www.coastal1...mes-19-9-19.pdf

 

Stewart himself came up with "Smoke Johnson", which, of course is a joke on the maturity level of middle school, at best. 

 

You're concerned about the lack of professionalism by announcers seeming too chummy? What about a TV network paying for a driver to attend a racing school or routinely flying another on a corporate plane in an effort to have him accomplish a goal they were hyping?

[Afterburner]

StraightEdge, thank you so much for all the pictures. Texas Motor Speedway is on my racetrack bucket list and I hope to make it to an IndyCar race there before they don't have one anymore.

[Jim Thurman]

This article refers to Richard Petty's mother apparently once telling an interviewer about it:

 

https://www.hemmings...-thats-for-sure
 

 

"Apparently." Hemmings usually has some pretty good historical pieces, but the writer here seems like he'd never run across "Dick Petty" before, and that it shocked him. I recall even racing publications from the 60s using the name, and newspapers used it well into the 70s, but usually only in the headline. The article body would refer to him as Richard, exactly the back and forth the Hemmings article writer seems surprised about and refers to as "chummy." Plus, for the second straight post I get to use chummy   

[Ross Stonefeld]

Nicknames are a great tradition in U.S. motorsports where local track announcers routinely came up with them for competitors. There's even a half-assed attempt at compiling them, although it ignores almost all nicknames from West of the Rockies and adds others that are as dubious as Wikipedia. https://www.coastal1...mes-19-9-19.pdf

 

Stewart himself came up with "Smoke Johnson", which, of course is a joke on the maturity level of middle school, at best. 

 

You're concerned about the lack of professionalism by announcers seeming too chummy? What about a TV network paying for a driver to attend a racing school or routinely flying another on a corporate plane in an effort to have him accomplish a goal they were hyping?

 

The first makes the second a lot easier to go by unnoticed.

[jonpollak]

"Apparently."

Any article, story, definitive internet post, or conversation that starts with this would should be disregarded immediately as conjecture.

Bang on Jim.
Jp

[loki]

I though Smoke Johnson was a cooking method for Wisconsin made brats...

[red stick]

Thanks also to StraightEdge for the fine race reportage. No need to be shy.

[Jim Thurman]

I though Smoke Johnson was a cooking method for Wisconsin made brats...

 

Nah, you're thinking of Smoke Johnsonville...

 

...and don't forget the heat! 

[Gareth]

the “Mayor of Hinchtown” stuff is cringeworthy especially when they seem to use it more than his actual name.

This is the first I have heard of it, and I WANT MORE MAYOR OF HINCHTOWN.

 

It is exactly the sort of name my kids would give to a guinea pig or gerbil and the thought of one of them behind the wheel makes me smile.

 

So there.

[paulb]

Thanks also to StraightEdge for the fine race reportage. No need to be shy.

Agreed! Hopefully, we will have much more of this in 2021.

[Afterburner]

This is the first I have heard of it, and I WANT MORE MAYOR OF HINCHTOWN.
 
It is exactly the sort of name my kids would give to a guinea pig or gerbil and the thought of one of them behind the wheel makes me smile.
 
So there.

Ha. Check this out, then:

[PayasYouRace]

That was superb racing. One of the best finishes of the DW12 era.

[jcbc3]

And notice Sato applauding right after.