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3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 18:41
by pooki
Isn't it unfortunate for Luca BADOER that surnames are abreviated to the first 3 letter? :D

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 19:29
by dr-baker
Button must be glad they don't use the first 4 letters...

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 19:30
by DonTirri
Way ahead of you. From the European GP thread:

DonTirri 21 Aug 2009, 23:47
Dunno if it's a bad omen, but I noticed Badoer's name in the standings-list at the top left of the screen is "Bad"...

Poor sod, talk about pressure. Even his name assumes he is gonna fail

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 00:42
by thehemogoblin
Mine would be friggin' awesome:

OCK

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 09:18
by DemocalypseNow
Mine is dead boring. LIN.
and Hamilton's one isn't great either. Ham. Makes him sound fat :lol:

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 09:33
by jackanderton
Mind would be AND.

Which is probably what people would say when they saw my sector times.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 10:07
by TomWazzleshaw
Mine would be MEL... nothing special...

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 10:42
by shinji
Mine would be KEV - sounds violent.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 13:24
by Salamander
EMB - Not spectactular, but not dumb either.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 13:35
by FullMetalJack
STR - which would be unusual if I was driving for Toro Rosso as STR obviously stands for Scuderia Toro Rosso.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 14:12
by CarlosFerreira
FER. Stands for "Ferocious".

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 16:35
by Frentzen127
GON.
Awful :mrgreen:

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 17:41
by watka
WAT, as in WAT the hell is this guy doing in an F1 car.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 18:36
by DemocalypseNow
shinji wrote:Mine would be KEV - sounds violent.


Kev sounds more like a plumber to me.
Which could come in handy. Undo the diff on Button's car, and Bobs your uncle, your world champion!

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 18:58
by jonnyeol
Mine spells 'HAL', like the computer from 2001:Space Odyssey (it was also a school nickname of mine, for a time). Had I entered F1, I would have been a tech guy anyway, not a driver.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 19:53
by Phoenix
MAR, nothing special.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 21:37
by deCrasheris
CAN as in he's going to get canned once this race is over because of his 'mediocre' sector times.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 29 Aug 2009, 21:48
by DemocalypseNow
deCrasheris wrote:CAN as in he's going to get canned once this race is over because of his 'mediocre' sector times.


And the fact he is Canadians. Because there hasn't been a single fast one since Gilles.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 05:34
by baddriving50
MAS. But since it's already being used, MAE would work just as well.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 14:51
by WeirdKerr
Mine would be KER....

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 17:06
by Bleu
I would be HUR.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 17:45
by WeirdKerr
i await the day that there is a japanese driver by the name of Fukumoto or something....

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 17:54
by Nuppiz
NUR

Nürburgring anyone? :mrgreen:

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 18:02
by Debaser
Mine would be "HOW". That would be open to piss taking...

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 18:22
by Ferrim
Mine would be MAN, as in "he's the MAN to watch for today"

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 22:02
by Valrys
Mine's FER, as in, "Fer fecks sake! Get this guy replaced with someone slightly faster than a geriatric sloth"

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 02:13
by Goa
shinji wrote:Mine would be KEV - sounds violent.

Mine's more violent. It would be KIL.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 18:15
by Klon
GOT ... to be a reject. :D

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 22:06
by RejectSteve
TRI for me, representative of the number of wheels on my wagon.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 23:42
by Jack O Malley
I would be RIC.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 23:54
by shinji
Where did 'Jack O' Malley' come from then?

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 04:33
by Cynon
Mine would be WIC.

Here's the question I have: What if the person's name was Godard? I think someone would be offended to see GOD on the timing sheets in all caps...

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 05:36
by AllAmericanReject
There was one season where they had Montoya (MOY), Monteiro (MON), and Montagny (beats me).

The most absurd (and within one lap, ironic) one ever was the Spyker of Markus Winklehock (WIN) at a wet Nurburgring.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 09:34
by noisebox
jonnyeol wrote:Mine spells 'HAL', like the computer from 2001:Space Odyssey (it was also a school nickname of mine, for a time). Had I entered F1, I would have been a tech guy anyway, not a driver.

Yours is the same as mine! We could have a RSC/MSC situation here....

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 16:35
by DemocalypseNow
AllAmericanReject wrote:The most absurd (and within one lap, ironic) one ever was the Spyker of Markus Winklehock (WIN) at a wet Nurburgring.


WIN, as in "He will never WIN anything..."

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 01 Sep 2009, 17:05
by Warren Hughes
Mine would be CAM. Nothing much exciting there.

But my namesake, had he ever made it to F1, would be HUG. I'll leave the punnage to somebody else.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 02 Sep 2009, 00:50
by Ferrim
AllAmericanReject wrote:There was one season where they had Montoya (MOY), Monteiro (MON), and Montagny (beats me).


Montagny was MOT ;)

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 02 Sep 2009, 09:24
by thalion
CLA just sounds slow, until one remembers that a certain Jim would also have had that three letter abbreviation.

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 02 Sep 2009, 10:32
by Nuppiz
Just think about Prost if they had used these abbreviations back then... :D

Re: 3 letter surname abreviation

Posted: 02 Sep 2009, 15:57
by Phoenix
What about Nigel MANsell? :mrgreen: