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I've just had a good root around the FIA website and I can't find any mention of the team radio in English only rule... I originally heard this rule from Martin Brundle on the BBC last year; guess it's either been repealed or Brundle was incorrect; where did you hear it DD?
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 
Speaking of speaking Italian: I thought there's a directive that teams ought to use English in their radio communications? Ferrari often throws Italian at FM and FA (both of whom are NOT native Italian speakers). Are there any penalties for this flagrant disregard of the FIA's wishes (with the audience in mind)? Should Ferrari get stripped of their constructors' points for every race they used Italian?
I really get bored when I hear that nasal guy talking in Italian... FFS, everyone else uses English!
A) DD there is no such FiA rule
B) Vlad, everyone speaks English do they? That will come as quite a surprise to most of China, India and the Latino world. FYI Ferrari is an Italian team based in Italy - shock horror, they speak Italian. Still, I'm totally convinced they'll be mortified when they find out you're life is made more difficult when they speak in their native tongue.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. Speaking of speaking Italian: I thought there's a directive that teams ought to use English in their radio communications? Ferrari often throws Italian at FM and FA (both of whom are NOT native Italian speakers). Are there any penalties for this flagrant disregard of the FIA's wishes (with the audience in mind)? Should Ferrari get stripped of their constructors' points for every race they used Italian?
I really get bored when I hear that nasal guy talking in Italian... FFS, everyone else uses English!
A) DD there is no such FiA rule
B) Vlad, everyone speaks English do they? That will come as quite a surprise to most of China, India and the Latino world. FYI Ferrari is an Italian team based in Italy - shock horror, they speak Italian. Still, I'm totally convinced they'll be mortified when they find out you're life is made more difficult when they speak in their native tongue.
Note my wording: directive, not a rule - since I thought it was not an official rule, but a 'memo' from the FIA.
And again: neither FA nor FM are native Italian speakers and they both are fully capable to communicate in English as are the engineers.
Speaking of speaking Italian: I thought there's a directive that teams ought to use English in their radio communications? Ferrari often throws Italian at FM and FA (both of whom are NOT native Italian speakers). Are there any penalties for this flagrant disregard of the FIA's wishes (with the audience in mind)? Should Ferrari get stripped of their constructors' points for every race they used Italian?
I really get bored when I hear that nasal guy talking in Italian... FFS, everyone else uses English!
A) DD there is no such FiA rule
B) Vlad, everyone speaks English do they? That will come as quite a surprise to most of China, India and the Latino world. FYI Ferrari is an Italian team based in Italy - shock horror, they speak Italian. Still, I'm totally convinced they'll be mortified when they find out you're life is made more difficult when they speak in their native tongue.
Note my wording: directive, not a rule - since I thought it was not an official rule, but a 'memo' from the FIA.
And again: neither FA nor FM are native Italian speakers and they both are fully capable to communicate in English as are the engineers.
Sorry mate, but that is a croc. If you think either Nando or Felipe are anywhere near as comfortable communicating in English as they are in Italian - when they are talking to Italians - really? Their native tongues are Latin based languages. They all intrinsically speak, and more importantly think that way.
WB - The Mercedes you are talking about is based in Brackley (last I heard the native language there is something like English). The race engineers who talk to Michael and Nico are English and speak English so, guess what, the common language they have is ....... English. The team is predominantly English. They also didn't speak Japanese in 2008
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. ahhh the off season.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. ahhh the off season.
Yeah, need to keep this joint burning...
Did I say that they are as comfortable in English? No! Do they have to be comfortable? No. Why should they have an advantage over somebody whose native language is German or Finnish and yet needs to talk in English like everybody else? Are they capable of communicating in English - you'd better believe it!
Last I heard the native language of the Britain-based sport called Formula One is something like English. I haven't heard Jean Todt give a press conference in French - ever!
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