• Driver's numbers

    From Brian Lawrence@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Fri Dec 4 10:58:03 2020
    Two new F1 drivers this weekend.

    Pietro Fittipaldi has chosen 51 as his permanent race number, while
    Jack Aitken has opted for 89.
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  • From build@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Fri Dec 4 06:11:20 2020
    On Friday, December 4, 2020 at 9:58:06 PM UTC+11, Brian Lawrence wrote:
    Two new F1 drivers this weekend.

    Pietro Fittipaldi has chosen 51 as his permanent race number, while
    Jack Aitken has opted for 89.

    Brian,
    Jack is a Pom but he has an Aussie twang and a few Aussie idioms to his speech. Do you or anyone know how/where he picked that up?
    tia,
    build
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  • From Brian Lawrence@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Fri Dec 4 18:07:20 2020
    On 04/12/2020 14:11, build wrote:

    On Friday, December 4, 2020 at 9:58:06 PM UTC+11, Brian Lawrence wrote:
    Two new F1 drivers this weekend.

    Pietro Fittipaldi has chosen 51 as his permanent race number, while
    Jack Aitken has opted for 89.

    Brian,
    Jack is a Pom but he has an Aussie twang and a few Aussie idioms to his speech. Do you or anyone know how/where he picked that up?
    tia,

    Haven't found anything definite, but I remembered that he has a brother
    named Max, so a search for that name also brought up some mentions of
    the F1 Paddock Club, and Sam Power Racing Ltd.

    I can't access LinkedIn, but the brief text summary from the search
    list says, "Max Aitken Formula 1 Expert Host and History Student London, United Kingdom 235 connections. Join to Connect. Sam Power Racing
    Limited. The University of Edinburgh. Report this profile ; About. A
    fourth year student at The University of Edinburgh studying ...

    Given his name it's no surprise Jack is half Scottish (mother from South Korea). He attended Westminster School, which is an expensive
    establishment, so a rich family. As a test/reserve driver he would have probably been in Oz back in March.
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  • From Brian Lawrence@24:150/2 to rec.autos.sport.f1 on Fri Dec 4 19:59:12 2020
    On 04/12/2020 18:07, Brian Lawrence wrote:

    Jack is a Pom but he has an Aussie twang and a few Aussie idioms to
    his speech. Do you or anyone know how/where he picked that up?

    Also, might be something to do with his girlfriend, Alex Thomson, aka
    alelbuth, who has been working in F1 for some time.

    <https://alelbuth.com/2014/04/>
    <https://www.instagram.com/p/B-9J5oIhWaw/>
    <https://twitter.com/alelbuth>

    I think they live together in Oxford.
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