F1 Testing 2021: Bahrain (12th - 14th)

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Probably reading way too much into it but Sebs 'Yeah' after Ted asked whether he'd felt the 'up to 10%' loss of downforce... not sure he's too happy about it, but then what racing drive would be :p
 
Yeah they had plenty of inters and there's probably less than a 1% chance they'll need them tomorrow, so they could have run them if necessary.

The grip was fine. Even yesterday at the height of the sandstorm they were setting competitive times - not as quick as the morning session obviously, but I remember in the afternoon they were just half a second back from the morning times, so certainly not bad enough for inters.

Turkey FP1 and FP2 (in mostly dry conditions) they could have run inters, but here they'd have been 5 seconds a lap slower on inters at best. It's been slicks all day long.

So long as the conditions are safe (ie not icy and where each marshal post can see the next marshal post) they'll just run whichever tyre is best. No need for a special tyre, though I thought they might consider the rain light yesterday afternoon as grip was fine, but visibility at times was average at best.
 
Feek said:
When did the pronunciation of Alpine change from ‘Al pyne’ to ‘Al peen’?
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About the same time people started saying ‘Ren-O’ and not ‘Ren-ult’. My dad, who speaks decent German, calls BMWs ‘Bay-em-vay’ for much the same reason. Citroen and Peugeot have also had pronunciation revisionism applied to them in the recent past. And in the Škoda ads these days they pronounce it the Czech way - like the Sh sound in Schweppes. ‘Sh-kaw-duh’ apparently.
 
A similar thing has happened with Petronas. I’ve noticed a load of trails/adverts for Petronas on SkyF1 where the emphasis is now on Petro-nas rather than Petronus which is how it used to be said.

But this happened years ago as well with Eye Air Ton Senna.
 
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For some reason, people are insisting it's supposed to be pronounced in the French fashion despite that not being what people do for other car brands. Who do you know who calls BMW Bey Em Vey for example?
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Funnily enough, I realised the other day that I pronounce Volkwagen pretty close to the original German even if I pronounce VW in English. I also pronounce Citroën in the original French.

Feek said:
But this happened years ago as well with Eye Air Ton Senna.
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Murray Walker, God rest his soul, told a story in his autobiography about how he originally pronounced Senna's name Eye-er-tun before falling in line with the rest of the English speaking world pronouncing it Air-tun. Then one day he was interviewing Senna, who asked him "what happened to 'Eye-er-tun'?". Murray was apparently gobsmacked that Senna had even been paying attention to the commentary :)
 
It’s a tricky testing to read into. Hard to imagine Mercedes losing their huge advantage from last year, but who knows, maybe the downforce reduction has screwed them.
 
JRS said:
Murray Walker, God rest his soul, told a story in his autobiography about how he originally pronounced Senna's name Eye-er-tun before falling in line with the rest of the English speaking world pronouncing it Air-tun. Then one day he was interviewing Senna, who asked him "what happened to 'Eye-er-tun'?". Murray was apparently gobsmacked that Senna had even been paying attention to the commentary :)
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A sad loss :(

The one that struck me recently was that they not only pronounce Hülkenberg's name wrong, but they spell it wrong too in the graphics too. I dunno I've always thought you try (emphasis on try, at least in my case :D) to pronounce people's names as close as possible to the native fashion but brands get anglicised. It's weird to say alpine one way when talking about skiing and another when talking about the car.
 
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