> Look, I don't want to nit-pick, but I think you guys are marking fun of
> Frank for saying homologated instead of homogenized. But homologated
> and homogenized are actually two different words--
We all know that, dimbulb. That was the point of the jibe. Some of us
racing fans actually know what homlogation means.
More correctly, it means "of uniform structure or composition". But
thanks for telling us what we already knew.
And it usually applies to racing series where the racecars are derived
from road cars. To be homologated, the race car had to be the same as
the street car. Thus, the usual practice was for a manufacturer to make
as many copies of the race as was necessary in order to qualify for
whatever the sanctioning body considered to be "production".
The generalized, root meaning of homologated means "all under the same
rules", but it has a broadly accepted, albeit slightly narrower, meaning
in motor racing.
Do you know what "GTO", as in Ferrari 250 GTO, means?
They are (to the layman, but not the enthusiast) homogeneous - all the
same. And they are within a given set of rules, if you wish to be
pedantic about the usage of homologated. However, F1 is not a
homologated series in the sense with which that word is usually used in
racing. The clown confused the usage of homologated and homogenized, and
that was the root of the ridicule.
The six-wheel car (the Tyrrell P34) did not win "nearly every race" as
the previous author stated, but one (the Swedish GP in 1976). And it was
not supercharged. And it did not have JPS livery, but French blue Elf
livery.
If you're gonna post a correction, please get the facts right first.
With the internet at our command, these facts are easy to find out.
bp
