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seppefan
20th September 2007, 17:42
"Team mates"

Looking at some teams today the above term seems a little out of date.

Team Drivers, is that what we should now be calling them?

leopard
21st September 2007, 05:58
You maybe right

I've been better familiar with 'team drivers' instead of 'team mates', the last term usually more refers to teammate. :)

ShiftingGears
24th September 2007, 11:23
I'd still call them teammates. Just like we always have been, even through past bitter rivalries.

Hondo
24th September 2007, 15:32
Hired guns.

tinchote
24th September 2007, 16:54
I'd still call them teammates. Just like we always have been, even through past bitter rivalries.

Indeed. If Prost and Senna were "teammates", I don't see why anybody else shouldn't be called like that :D

leopard
25th September 2007, 03:53
Indeed. If Prost and Senna were "teammates", I don't see why anybody else shouldn't be called like that :D
Anybody else called "Team mates" :)

ShiftingGears
25th September 2007, 03:59
Jones and Reutemann, Prost and Arnoux...

truefan72
25th September 2007, 05:31
I've been arguing that point for a while.
In today's F1 and in most racing series the concept of a teammate is as loosely defined as possible. So all the usuall sports alliterations about teamwork and teammate don't hold up in motor sports.

With one noticble exception, the Lemans Series, but they share a car in that case and are not "competing" against each other.

leopard
25th September 2007, 06:05
Jones and Reutemann, Prost and Arnoux...were you already in this earth?

ShiftingGears
25th September 2007, 06:07
No, but I read ;)

leopard
25th September 2007, 06:16
Thought children prefer read comics rather than F1 :)

ShiftingGears
25th September 2007, 06:36
I thought you knew that not all people under 25 years old are children ;)

leopard
25th September 2007, 06:40
I know that, but in the US and the rest of the world including OZ those under 18 must be children ;)

ShiftingGears
25th September 2007, 07:17
If you want to be broad then everyone is someones child ;)

Back on topic...

leopard
25th September 2007, 07:28
alright, I was joking just because you seem know old F1 more than me :)

ShiftingGears
25th September 2007, 07:52
That's ok, I took no offense :p :

Also another point about the phrase 'team drivers'... it doesn't flow off the tounge at all. I couldn't imagine commentators saying that phrase for a whole GP without just giving up!

leopard
25th September 2007, 08:02
Team drivers refer to both drivers at the same team
Teammate refer to someone drives at the same team with a driver
Teammates refer to persons drive at the same team with a driver

Team mates = Jones and Reutemann, Prost and Arnoux :p :

wmcot
25th September 2007, 09:40
Jones and Reutemann, Prost and Arnoux...

Villeneuve and Pironi... (and yes, I was alive then!) :)