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Just always wondered.  I've tried to translate it on babble fish and look it
up in dictionaries but no luck.

TIA

The word's origin is basically the Racing Stable, which is probably the most
literate translation. But today they're called racing teams, so I guess the
most appropriate contemporary translation into English would be Team.

Achim

it's a "team" of racing horses, I don't know the english word, in french
it's "Ecurie"...

'literal' translation I meant. I'm tired :)

Achim

One of the more famous being "Ecurie Ecosse" of course :-)

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

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"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

Scuderia is an italian word , we say "Scuderia Ferrari" for say not only
the ferrari Team but also everything that come around (the place where
the engine is producted , all the "Stable" that makes this F1 so
unbeatable!

Scuderia = set of cars (and related organization) of a team.

Derived from the world of racing horses

Thanks .  That makes sense now.
In North America Scuderia is often mentioned in relation to Ferrari and said
as a synonym for Ferrari F1 but I knew it applied to other teams or
organizations as well.  Now it all makes sense.

What is the proper pronounciation ???

Anyone know? I've heard it pronounced...

Scu-Da-Ree-Ya

and

Scu-Dare-Eee-Ya

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 05:22:12 GMT, "Timmy Ferrell"

Actually, there are still  a few "glitches" in this explanation :
this sums it up in a concise manner
http://www.users.qwest.net/~hrellis/Ferrari.htm
"The prancing horse was a badge used on the fighter plane of Italys
top pilot in the First World War, Francesco Baracca.  When he was shot
down in 1918, a piece of the fuselage with this badge was recovered
and sent to his parents, Count Enrico and Countess Paolina Baracca.
In 1923, they witnessed a young Enzo Ferrari win a race at the Savio
circuit in Ravenna.  They gave him the honor of using their sons
prancing horse on his car for good luck.  The canary yellow background
was added because it is the color of Modena (Or, a cross azure.)  The
shield made its debut on the Alfa Romeo racecars run by Ferraris team
in 1932 and the first Ferrari to sport the emblem was in 1947. "
And the Ferrari always has been red because red was the racing colour
for Italy (back in the days before there was sponsorship each country
had their racing colours..). Scuderia literally means "stable" indeed,
but in many languages the terminology of horse racing later found its
way into car racing as well

greetings

   So what you are saying is that Michael Schumacher is nothing more than a  
Stable Boy cleanning (or mucking as they say) the barn for the Prancing
Horses   of some bereaved Eliteist family?

dave(plain english)henrie