[Snail]

No doubt Lewis Hamilton has talent, he's surely among the best pilots in circulation, but I don't understand why people tend to exaggerate with him

Pilot?

[Mobius]

Oh yeah, I forgot they're called "drivers" in English.

_{In Italian Formula One pilots are refered to as piloti = pilots...sorry, it's lingual...}

[captain-custard]

Oh yeah, I forgot they're called "drivers" in English.

_{In Italian Formula One pilots are refered to as piloti = pilots...sorry, it's lingual...}

in french as well there pilots

[Mobius]

We're not alone, then...

[captain-custard]

i think its probably the same in all Latin based languages? Spanish , french , Portuguese , Italian ... Romanian?

[Snail]

Damn Brits changing everything all the time!

Or should I say Anglo-Saxons?

[captain-custard]

Damn Brits changing everything all the time!

Or should I say Anglo-Saxons?

driver comes frtom old english drifan (to push , probably) which is  Proto-Germanic *driƀan. Cognate with Old Saxon drīƀan (Dutch drijven), Old High German trīban (German treiben), Old Norse drífa (Swedish driva), Gothic

anglo-saxons thats the germans

i blame the ruling classes in great britain , so that would be lets see.... the germans , the french, and now the russians damn , those poor brits

[Topgun]

Oh yeah, I forgot they're called "drivers" in English.

_{In Italian Formula One pilots are refered to as piloti = pilots...sorry, it's lingual...}

in french as well there pilots

In USA, they call them pilots too. I don't know what snail is talking about.

[Mobius]

Maybe Snail isn't familiar with Formula One?

[pecenipicek]

maybe the rest of the world laughs at you for your incoherent ramblings?

[Colonol Dekker]

Yeah. Land vehicles are driven. . . . It's only been that way, since you know, we invented land based transport.

[Flipside]

Oddly enough, although the English is correct, driven vehicles are land based, it's an interesting fact that in reality, the only vehicles people actually 'drive' are human-powered ones, like bikes, and those are considered to be 'ridden', which is, in truth, what we do with engine-driven vehicles.

So everyone is wrong



Including me, probably.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Massa and Alonso are Spaniards, right?

[Mobius]

Massa is Brasilian but has some Italian relatives while Alonso is Spanish.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Oh, okay.

One of my lecturers - a Spaniard - was rooting for Massa. Hispanics.

[Mobius]

On a side note Massa is quite loved by Brazilians because he didn't start his F1 career as the "worth successor of Ayrton Senna".

Barrichello promised a lot of successes, he thought to be the worth successor...and now most Brazilians hate him.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Why's that? Did he offend Massa?

[Mobius]

No. He simply hadn't great chances during his career after the death of Ayrton Senna...he deluded all Brazilians who hoped to see Rubens and a worth successor of Senna.

Massa achieved a lot in a modest way. No exaggerated promises from him. That's why he's more popular.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Yeah, and I believe he's a better driver than Hamilton. The only problem: his team.

On the track, Massa makes few errors, I'll give him that. The penalties he incurred are due to technical faults in his team. It's almost as if he's experiencing what Lewis Hamilton went through last year.

[Mobius]

Despite its many errors the Ferrari team managed to win the Constructor Championship 8 times in the past 10 years...it's a superb achievement, almost certainly unmatced in all sports.