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8 Feb 2003, 18:38 (Ref:500746)
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Name Games
Over the years there have been various drivers who have altered their racing names in order to stand-out. Either due to having the same name as someone else or pure vanity in some cases I guess. Anyone care to add to these...
Mike "Fulmar" Taylor Sports 2000 John "Brolly" Booth FF1600 "Smoking" Joe Winklehock Brian "Yogi" Muir - Saloons |
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8 Feb 2003, 19:57 (Ref:500804)
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John Winter (real name Louis Krages)
Nelson Piquet (Nelson Piquet Souto-Maior) Ayrton Senna da Silva |
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8 Feb 2003, 20:45 (Ref:500846)
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I'm not sure that Mike 'Fulmar' Taylor or 'Brolly' Booth altered their racing names as such. Wasn't it more a case of racing press and commentators attaching epithets to them to distinguish them from other drivers of the same name in the same formula. [In this case Mike 'Abacus' Taylor and indeed Mike 'Alta' Taylor, and John 'Butcher' Booth.] I remember a plethora of Tim Jones's down at Brands, distinguished in the same way, this time by home town.
One 'modification' was Bob Higgins who in his early days went under the moniker R.R.Higgins, rather then plain old 'Bob'. The Italians were the real aces at the pseudonym, what with Gimax and Tiger and Geki, but I guess that's not what we're after here. |
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8 Feb 2003, 21:24 (Ref:500876)
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8 Feb 2003, 22:25 (Ref:500937)
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Phil Bennett became Phil Benetti when he stood in for Paul Lomax at Donington last year. Apparently this was due to the fact the Italians in that particular championship would gang up on the Brits...
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8 Feb 2003, 23:03 (Ref:500965)
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9 Feb 2003, 12:33 (Ref:501353)
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Can't think of many.
Most Australians and some Americans now seem to favour weblike nick names. What about 'Whizzo' Williams? 'KeKe' in place of Keijo or something similary unspeakably Finnish, Rosberg. My favourit - the Belgian racer Bernard de Dryver (real), had to assist him of course, Antoine de Mechanik. The Italians used them a lot, because if you went racing and therefore had a lot of money, the maffia would ransome your children. But the Targa and Miglia Miglia was full of them as I remember. Last edited by gfm; 9 Feb 2003 at 12:36. |
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9 Feb 2003, 16:39 (Ref:501511)
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John Winter was a good one, wasn't it he who was not allowed to race by a family member. So to get round it he changed his name for racing! Only problem was when he won Le Mans his face was splashed across the papers and the family member found out!
I think he made a comeback later on though if my facts are right! |
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9 Feb 2003, 17:21 (Ref:501536)
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Spiffero is another of those Italian? ones that springs to mind.
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10 Feb 2003, 13:17 (Ref:502307)
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At one point we needed to gas up, so we went around a roundabout, full opposite lock at some ridiculous speed. All I could think of was to ask Whizzo if there was any chance of going around again........ 
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10 Feb 2003, 21:56 (Ref:502766)
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Quote:
 But if you want something unspeakably Finnish, gfm, what about Jyrki Jarvilehto. Finnish guy, used to race Formula Fords from about '84 to '86. Don't know what happened to him after that though! |
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11 Feb 2003, 11:23 (Ref:503199)
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Ah yes JJ Lehto! I remember wondering what they JJ meant!
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11 Feb 2003, 15:11 (Ref:503432)
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... can play this game. In 76 we had Mika Arpianen, Mikko Kozarowitszky and Freddie Kottulinsky all vieing for the sign writer!
Imagine too the slipstreamers nightmare for the commentator, in Austria I finished 7th - 1.4 seconds behind the winner. |
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11 Feb 2003, 15:22 (Ref:503436)
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The Australian BRUTES series is unusual in that EVERY competitor has a nickname!
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