3 letter surname abreviation

pooki · Post by **pooki** » 28 Aug 2009, 18:41

Isn't it unfortunate for Luca BADOER that surnames are abreviated to the first 3 letter?

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 28 Aug 2009, 19:29

Button must be glad they don't use the first 4 letters...

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 28 Aug 2009, 19:30

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

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 29 Aug 2009, 00:42

Mine would be friggin' awesome:

OCK

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 29 Aug 2009, 09:18

Mine is dead boring. LIN.
and Hamilton's one isn't great either. Ham. Makes him sound fat :lol:

jackanderton · Post by **jackanderton** » 29 Aug 2009, 09:33

Mind would be AND.

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

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 29 Aug 2009, 10:07

Mine would be MEL... nothing special...

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 29 Aug 2009, 10:42

Mine would be KEV - sounds violent.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 29 Aug 2009, 13:24

EMB - Not spectactular, but not dumb either.

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 29 Aug 2009, 13:35

STR - which would be unusual if I was driving for Toro Rosso as STR obviously stands for Scuderia Toro Rosso.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 29 Aug 2009, 14:12

FER. Stands for "Ferocious".

Frentzen127 · Post by **Frentzen127** » 29 Aug 2009, 16:35

GON.
Awful :mrgreen:

watka · Post by **watka** » 29 Aug 2009, 17:41

WAT, as in WAT the hell is this guy doing in an F1 car.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 29 Aug 2009, 18:36

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!

jonnyeol · Post by **jonnyeol** » 29 Aug 2009, 18:58

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.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 29 Aug 2009, 19:53

MAR, nothing special.

deCrasheris · Post by **deCrasheris** » 29 Aug 2009, 21:37

CAN as in he's going to get canned once this race is over because of his 'mediocre' sector times.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 29 Aug 2009, 21:48

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.

baddriving50 · Post by **baddriving50** » 30 Aug 2009, 05:34

MAS. But since it's already being used, MAE would work just as well.

WeirdKerr · Post by **WeirdKerr** » 30 Aug 2009, 14:51

Mine would be KER....

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 30 Aug 2009, 17:06

I would be HUR.

WeirdKerr · Post by **WeirdKerr** » 30 Aug 2009, 17:45

i await the day that there is a japanese driver by the name of Fukumoto or something....

Post by **Nuppiz** » 30 Aug 2009, 17:54

NUR

Nürburgring anyone? :mrgreen:

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » 30 Aug 2009, 18:02

Mine would be "HOW". That would be open to piss taking...

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 30 Aug 2009, 18:22

Mine would be MAN, as in "he's the MAN to watch for today"

Valrys · Post by **Valrys** » 30 Aug 2009, 22:02

Mine's FER, as in, "Fer fecks sake! Get this guy replaced with someone slightly faster than a geriatric sloth"

Goa · Post by **Goa** » 31 Aug 2009, 02:13

shinji wrote:Mine would be KEV - sounds violent.

Mine's more violent. It would be KIL.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 31 Aug 2009, 18:15

GOT ... to be a reject.

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 31 Aug 2009, 22:06

TRI for me, representative of the number of wheels on my wagon.

Jack O Malley · Post by **Jack O Malley** » 31 Aug 2009, 23:42

I would be RIC.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 31 Aug 2009, 23:54

Where did 'Jack O' Malley' come from then?

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 01 Sep 2009, 04:33

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...

AllAmericanReject · Post by **AllAmericanReject** » 01 Sep 2009, 05:36

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.

noisebox · Post by **noisebox** » 01 Sep 2009, 09:34

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....

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 01 Sep 2009, 16:35

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..."

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 01 Sep 2009, 17:05

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.

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 02 Sep 2009, 00:50

AllAmericanReject wrote:There was one season where they had Montoya (MOY), Monteiro (MON), and Montagny (beats me).

Montagny was MOT

thalion · Post by **thalion** » 02 Sep 2009, 09:24

CLA just sounds slow, until one remembers that a certain Jim would also have had that three letter abbreviation.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 02 Sep 2009, 10:32

Just think about Prost if they had used these abbreviations back then...

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 02 Sep 2009, 15:57

What about Nigel MANsell? :mrgreen: