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[darwin dali]

Porca miseria! Can't we have an off-season conversation about Ferrari without it going down the drain? Mi fa schiffo davvero!

[stonemonkey]

Um half the "Italian team" is not Italian. So there is no foreign language, the lingua franca of F1 is English. The FIA is bilingual in French and English.
Ferrari as in Alonso and his Engineer conveniently talk in Italian when they want to hide something, English when they want others to know something. Do they think Italian is a coded language? I laughed when they subtitled their convo!

How can you hide something by speaking Italian when a lot of non Italians speak it throughout the world. Thats englismen included. I know English people who speak Italian. Your man Lewis Hamilton speaks fluent Italian.

I'm not quite sure I'd say Lewis was fluent in Italian. About Alonso and the team speaking Italian over the radio, they're not trying to hide anything but possibly delay a message or waste someone's time, if Whitmarsh or anyone else in any other team doesn't speak Italian then they'd have to wait on it being translated, that's all fair enough in my opinion. That said, I don't doubt there are hidden codes in messages anyway regardless of the language spoken.

[What's Burning?]

Robert Di Nero is waiting, talk-ing Italian.
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[FerrariFan63]

I'm not quite sure I'd say Lewis was fluent in Italian. About Alonso and the team speaking Italian over the radio, they're not trying to hide anything but possibly delay a message or waste someone's time, if Whitmarsh or anyone else in any other team doesn't speak Italian then they'd have to wait on it being translated, that's all fair enough in my opinion. That said, I don't doubt there are hidden codes in messages anyway regardless of the language spoken.

I don't think they're trying to delay a message. I think they're just multi-lingual people speaking to each other in whatever language they choose at the time. And I'm amazed that some people seem to be trying to "make something" of this.

[darwin dali]

Robert Di Nero is waiting, talk-ing Italian.
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Ah, Bananarama

[spankyham]

Um half the "Italian team" is not Italian. So there is no foreign language, the lingua franca of F1 is English. The FIA is bilingual in French and English.
Ferrari as in Alonso and his Engineer conveniently talk in Italian when they want to hide something, English when they want others to know something. Do they think Italian is a coded language? I laughed when they subtitled their convo!

How can you hide something by speaking Italian when a lot of non Italians speak it throughout the world. Thats englismen included. I know English people who speak Italian. Your man Lewis Hamilton speaks fluent Italian.

Exactly my point, they're idiots to think they are speaking in a coded language

.... ipso facto if "they" aren't trying to code their chat then the idiot here is ..........

[spankyham]

Um half the "Italian team" is not Italian....

List 100 non Italian's in the team, nowhere near half but I'll make it easy for you

[bud]

I'd stick by my comments, maybe change it to the people that count speak English...

But it's ok most Ferrari fans aren't from Italy so god know what language those <- EDITED FOR CONTENT -> speak!

[What's Burning?]

That would be American English and a handful of Chinese variants, but mostly Mandarin since those are Ferrari's first and second largest markets.

[racechick]

If an F1 team want to communicate in a language other than English I really cant see what the problem is. It's surely their decision, and the reason for that decision is their business. English spoken viewers aren't the only ones watching F1 races, so I think it's quite arrogant to assume that should be the only language of communication for the stake of tv viewers.
Speaking for myself I think we( English speakers) can be lazy with languages ,maybe because we mostly can be understood . I'm in awe of some of these drivers who speak two, three or more languages. I'm stil struggling with French!

[LewEngBridewell]

Speaking for myself I think we( English speakers) can be lazy with languages ,maybe because we mostly can be understood . I'm in awe of some of these drivers who speak two, three or more languages. I'm stil struggling with French!

I'm definitely lazy with languages.

Was made to "learn" French and German at school, but I think I've forgotten most of it. Horrendous, seeing as my mother teaches both!

[What's Burning?]

mmm... tell me you don't understand this Italian.
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[stonemonkey]

If an F1 team want to communicate in a language other than English I really cant see what the problem is. It's surely their decision, and the reason for that decision is their business. English spoken viewers aren't the only ones watching F1 races, so I think it's quite arrogant to assume that should be the only language of communication for the stake of tv viewers.
Speaking for myself I think we( English speakers) can be lazy with languages ,maybe because we mostly can be understood . I'm in awe of some of these drivers who speak two, three or more languages. I'm stil struggling with French!

Anyone who has a problem with it, go and learn Italian, problem solved.

[andrew]

Whilst there isn't any set in stone rule, it is preferred if radio communications are in English. Makes it easier for the viewers and, more importantly, the race stewards. I'll wager that there are more F1 fans who can understand English than there are that can understand Italian seeing as English seems to be understood in most countries.

[Hammer278]

If an F1 team want to communicate in a language other than English I really cant see what the problem is. It's surely their decision, and the reason for that decision is their business. English spoken viewers aren't the only ones watching F1 races, so I think it's quite arrogant to assume that should be the only language of communication for the stake of tv viewers.
Speaking for myself I think we( English speakers) can be lazy with languages ,maybe because we mostly can be understood . I'm in awe of some of these drivers who speak two, three or more languages. I'm stil struggling with French!

Anyone who has a problem with it, go and learn Italian, problem solved.

For what? To understand the team radio of 1 team in F1? What makes Ferrari so important when otherwise, we would not need the language ever? It's like buying a bazooka to get rid of some spiders in your house.