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[Kpy]

This idea is not an original one, but inpired by Fines and Barry Boor.
So - Eddie UnderaCheever..........

What are your private nicknames for racing personalities past and (almost, well this is TNF) present?

To start you off I'll add :
A lazy driver
D'Angerous
No Munn
and a certain John Bright we used to call "not too"..........

Rhyming stuff based on James and/or Frank has been done too often to mention.

[BertlF]

Isn't there a certain Jos Vergraveltrappen around....?

Bert

[Darren Galpin]

Ricardo Tonta (the last name has to be read in Portuguese/Spanish)

[Viktor]

Damon Hill became Damon Downhill after 1996.

/Viktor

[Darren Galpin]

My other half calls Rubens Barrichello "Rubinho o-chinello". I've never quite understood why, but this translates something like "Little Rubens slipper" and obviously makes sense in Brazilian Portuguese!

[fines]

Tonta = Foolish ?

[Darren Galpin]

Yep - foolish/stupid.

[dmj]

Not a funny or meaningfull nickname, but a Croatian TV commentator made a wonderful combination by mistake once, when he said: "Pedro de la Zonta".

[fines]

Not very private ones, but worth a mention: Danny On-gas, John What's-on?, Niki Louder, James Shunt, Bike Hailwood. What about Mark Dunno-who, Nigel Damsel, Sam Pranks, Peter Con-you (sorry, Barry!), Eddie Sex, Colin Capman, Tony Haulman.

And in German: Carlos Beutemann (Haulman, again!), Toni Mangel (Lack).

[dmj]

As mama said:
Peter, get in!

An encouraging father:
Rev, son!

And what about Hans Stuck-in-back-of-the-grid?

Hey, this is funny, I know what I'll do in bus this evening!

[fines]

I remember a few other German ones from the biker scene: Helmut Brabbel (Babble), Stefan Pein (Pain), Helmut Gähne (Yawn), Martin Wimmer (Whimper) [well, that was his REAL name anyway! ], Manfred Herr-jeh (Oh-dear), Kazuto Sack-ata [hm, I don't think I can translate this! :p], Dieter Plappert (Chatters).

[dmj]

Wouldn't it be nice to have Chris Among Winners?

[fines]

Originally posted by Darren Galpin
My other half calls Rubens Barrichello "Rubinho o-chinello". I've never quite understood why, but this translates something like "Little Rubens slipper" and obviously makes sense in Brazilian Portuguese!

There's a picture (in AUTOCOURSE, I believe) of Rubens nearly slipping off the steps to the Prince's lounge at the 1997 Monaco GP prizegiving! Maybe that's the source...

[William Hunt]

Jos Uit-stappen or Jos Op-stappen or Jos Vuur-stappen (cf. Hockenheim '94, vuur = fire).

[Takahashi]

As unfair as this may seem, how about Andrea de Crasheris?

[lustigson]

Manager Huub Rothengatter to Jos:

"Jos, we're stoppin'!"

[No27]

I have a nickname for Jos' Arrows, because of the colours and it look huge: the tractor.

By the way: why did Andrea De Crasharis had No 8 in 1981?







It's the only number that reads the same upside down.

(I know, it's unfair)

[Kpy]

John What's Wrong?
Italian speakers will see the embarassing connection between Jochen Mass and turbos ..................
;)

[carlos.maza]

Here are two nicknames for Rubens Barrichello:

"Rubinho" = "Burrinho"
"Barrichello" = "Burrichello"

Burro = Donkey in Spanish and portuguese.

[cjpani]

1.-Juan Pablo Trompoya ;)

2.-Se-atoró Nakajima

Re:

1.- "trompo"---> "spin", in spanish

2.- "Se atoró" ----> "Is stuck", also in spanish



cj

[Wolf]

As may have been noticed, I usually refer to Barrichelo as 'Teletubbie' (I think explanation isn't neccessary ;)).

[Barry Lake]

In the 1970s there was an F2 driver in Australia of German extraction named Wolfgang Prejawa who had a tendency to crash frequently.

He was widely known as "Wolg Prang von Write-Off".

"Prang" being slang for crash, of course.

Not really funny, I don't think, but JJ (as in Lehto) has always been "Tin Tin" to me, based on appearance as much as on the "JJ" - "Tin Tin" link.

Purely coincidentally, last night I had dinner with a budding young data acquisition engineer who reminded me even more of a taller Tin Tin.

(Can any fans out there tell me if Tin Tin should be hyphenated?)

[leegle]

I thought he was called Wollongong Pyjamas?
Wollongong is a city south of Sydney and pyjamas are bedclothes. Not to be confused with the Wollongong Crash.;)

[Kpy]

Originally posted by Barry Lake


(Can any fans out there tell me if Tin Tin should be hyphenated?)

Tintin is all one word.

[William Hunt]

Tintin is the nickname of Eric Van de Poele, lots of people and even some magazines call him Tintin. I don't know why though.

[Richard Jenkins]

With JJ Lehto being Hotta Hotta Lehto in Spanish, one could say in 1994 it was a case of being Colder Colder Lehto both due to his hopes of F1 glory & maybe as well the treatment he got...

[Marcor]

Tintin is the nickname of Eric Van de Poele, lots of people and even some magazines call him Tintin. I don't know why though.¨

Just because Eric looks like Jean-Pierre TALBOT who acted Tintin in two films :"Tintin et les oranges bleues" and an other film I don't remember the title. Surprisingly Captain Haddock was acted by two different actors: George Wilson and Jean Buise (two well known French actors).

[Barry Boor]

A few years ago at Salivastone I sat behind a guy who was wearing a tee shirt with a Grand Prix grid printed on the back.

All the drivers names had been played with. I cannot remember them all but a few spring to mind: Mickey Cobblers, Jonah Lazy, Davy Cooltart, Marty Bungle, and the best one of all, Oily Dick!

I videoed it so I suppose I shall have to search out the video to find the other names; or does anyone own such a shirt?

[fines]

Oily Dick is a good one, but I can't figure out who the original driver is!

[Barry Boor]

Michael, I suspect your problem here is that this nickname has a particularly Anglo-Saxon derivation.

I'll give you a clue; he drove in today's Japanese Grand Prix.

[Vitesse2]

Think French!

[Kpy]

Originally posted by Barry Boor

I suspect your problem here is that this nickname has a particularly Anglo-Saxon derivation.

Ho ho Barry. Subtle, huh? But I suspect the origins are the latin words for olive and tail respectively. Where's the Anglo-Saxon derivation?

Come to think of it Prick - rhymes with Dick and prick has at least Old-English derivation.;)

[Prostfan]

We usually call Barrichello "Friday"

;)

[dmj]

Prost in Croatian means rude, vulgar. I used these explanations a lot whilst debatting an ethernal theme with my brothers. Sadly, any advantage I had vanished when they reminded me of Senna tea, one of strongest laxatives around...

[Prostfan]

In German you say "Prost" when drinking, i think it's comparable to "Cheers".

Aren't the cute small houses in southern Italy called "Trulli".

Press BUTTON to continue? Poor Jenson...

and so on...

[Garagiste]

Urban legend has it that the first and last letters of Ricardo Rosset's name were re-arranged on his pit bike.
By his own team...
Mind you this was after a qualifier for the "silly moments" thread!

[Cappo]

Our own Eddie is known as Eddie Urine here in Dublin

[William Hunt]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Prostfan
[B]In German you say "Prost" when drinking, i think it's comparable to "Cheers".

It is "proost" or "prosit".

At the time when Lauda & Prost were teammates it was said that Niki refused to toast and say "proost" while drinking !

[William Hunt]

Michaël Schummel ! (schoemelen = cheeting)

[William Hunt]

Yannick Dalmatier instead of Yannick Dalmas !

(dalmatier = dog race, U know from that Disney movie)

[italia]

Originally posted by William Hunt

It is "proost" or "prosit".

At the time when Lauda & Prost were teammates it was said that Niki refused to toast and say "proost" while drinking ! [/B]

Proost is dutch, Prost is german!!!

[MONTOYASPEED]

Originally posted by cjpani
1.-Juan Pablo Trompoya ;)

I'm sorry Carlos but

I have another one... Joke Vergravelstappen

[buddyt]

A very good stock car racer named DICK TRICKLE..,really:)

[Wolf]

As DMJ pointed out for Prost, I will addTrulli to list of funny sounding names in Croatian. Truli (we don't have double syllabiles; but sounds exactly the same) means 'rotten'...

[Real Estate Queen]

Akuma Sato. Akuma means devil in japanese.
This other one is about a young brazilian racer, son of F1 personality Galvao Bueno, and who had a big shunt this year (hope he is recovering well). His real name is POPO BUENO. In Colombian spanish this literally means GOOD ****.

GO JPM GO !!!!!!!!!

Please forgive the intrusion Old Boys.

[dmj]

Wasn't Trintignant's nickname in French "Petoulet" (Little rat)?

[Richard Jenkins]

Originally posted by dmj
Prost in Croatian means rude, vulgar. I used these explanations a lot whilst debatting an ethernal theme with my brothers. Sadly, any advantage I had vanished when they reminded me of Senna tea, one of strongest laxatives around...

I was going to astound everyone with the discovery today (whilst reading a book about Moldova!) that in Romanian "prost" means "stupid" but it appears, Romanian & Croatian are very similiar & thus most of eastern europe sees Prost as a rude word....

[Vitesse2]

Originally posted by dmj
Wasn't Trintignant's nickname in French "Petoulet" (Little rat)?

Missed this first time round! Yes, Trintignant was known as "Le Petoulet", but that's not what it means ...

In the first race after WW2, the Coupe de la Liberation, Trintignant retired his Bugatti due to fuel starvation. This turned out to have been caused by rat droppings (petoules ) left by the family of rats which had made the car their home during the hostilities - Wimille promptly dubbed him Petoulet , so it actually means "Little rat turd"!!

[William Hunt]

Thanks Vitesse, I always like your posts. I'm a huge Trintignant fan but I didn't know that. This is what the Nostalgia forum is all about. Thanks.

[dmj]

Originally posted by Richie Jenkins:

Romanian & Croatian are very similiar & thus most of eastern europe sees Prost as a rude word....

Uh, it is a little bit complicated to explain, but I'll try... Romanian and Croatian are very unsimilar, they are in different groups of Indo-European languages family tree, Romanian has latin ancestory, whilst Croatian is slavic language... But Romania has significant Serb minority, and Serbian language is pretty close to Croatian, so "prost" probably came to Romanian that way.
Basic meaning of word "prost" in Serbian is "simple", but both Romanian and Croatian have own words for that, so in these languages meanings developed negative way, not unconnected but slightly different.
I don't know if "prost" means anyting in other eastern european languages but I would like to know... Maybe Czech and Polish members could add something?
Sorry about going OT but I was always fascinated with ways some words live and change...