[Team] Alpine: The cars are Racing Points

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

Do you think now they are done we can go back to calling Alpine, Al Pine, or do we have to keep calling the sportscars Alpeen? Idiotic rubbish

It's just the French pronunciation, that's all. Like calling Renault "Ren-O" rather than "Ren-alt" or calling BMW "Bee-Emm-Vay" rather than "Bee-Emm-double U" and so on.

[Tourer]

For those who haven't seen it, Otmar did a fascinating interview with Jake Humphries that is on YouTube and well worth watching (warning, just over an hour long). A lot of it is of course about Alpine and the colossal cluster-fluff the (then) reporting structure appeared to have. Even allowing for some residual bitterness on Otmar's part, it sounds like an utter mess.

Hopefully the new guy gets a better run at it.

[Gerard C]

Call'em Benz now…

[Richard C]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

Do you think now they are done we can go back to calling Alpine, Al Pine, or do we have to keep calling the sportscars Alpeen? Idiotic rubbish

I know exactly how you feel. While your on the "Al Pine" bandwagon, can you switch your spelling over to tire, color, flavor, etc. I can send a list if you want. Also please refrain from using "rubbish" the correct word is "garbage". One last thing... please learn how to pronounce Aluminum correctly. It gives me a shiver up my spine each time I hear it the wrong way. These country specific spellings and pronunciations must go. We just all need to switch to exactly how George Washington intended.

Richard