Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To be strict about this I work for Williams, who are sponsored by BMW (hence the name BMW Williams, if they weren't the prime sponsor their name would have to follow the constructor name ie Williams-BMW) who also supply the engine. BMW are also slightly involved in the transmission manufacture (not design) but otherwise the whole car is designed and made at Williams in Oxfordshire and the car is raced by Williams engineers and mechanics with support for the engine being provided by BMW technicians and mechanics. BMW also have a substantial marketing presence at the track as do Hewlett Packard (we use HP hardware for telemetry and data analysis). The money spent on F1 nowadays is enormous, being the third biggest TV sport in the world (after the Olympics and World Cup football - soccer) it pulls in a huge amount of sponsorship and nowadays a F1 car costs about 50 times more than an Indy car! Sorry to be so far OT. cheers Frank On Thursday, December 25, 2003, at 06:56 pm, Jerry Lehrer wrote: > Phong > > Ummm, I should remind you that one of Frank's employers is > BMW, the supplier of engines to his Formula 1 racing team. > > Jerry > > Phong wrote: > >> Hello Frank, >> >> To be precise, a Beamer or Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. >> A Bimmer is a BMW car. Not that I know more about >> cars than you do, oh, no. Though I bet Boston is much >> more polluted with Yuppies than say, Yorkshire, England. >> >> Merry Christmas everyone. >> >> - Phong >> >> In certain crowds, though possibly not the LUG, a Beamer is >> one who drinks Jim Beam, a Bourbon whiskey. >> >> Frank Dernie wrote: >>> >>> I always wondered what a Beamer was - now I can guess that it is >>> American slang for BMW! The LUG is a great educational source! >>> Happy Christmas everybody, >>> Frank >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html