What's a Helio?

[nrc]

What's a Helio? (http://66.223.17.243/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=024142)

Helio Castro Neves the three-named "Brazilianaire" and one-time symbol of everything wrong with open wheel racing in America, is now the hero of Gomers from both North and South.

[cart7]

It was a brilliantly instinctive move by a brilliant race car driver.


Forget Fangio, forget Moss, forget Schumacher. They've got a Helio.

:shakehead :gomer:

[Hink]

You just don't know what Helio means.

[DaveL]

I thought he was a nameless faceless Brazilian MARF's* couldn't relate to.

*MARF-Mainstream American Race Fan

[Hink]

Well yeah - but now that he won the IRL500 a lot of people in Marion county can pronounce his name wrong.

[lone_groover]

Originally posted by Hink
You just don't know what Helio means.

Well, according to some Brazillicans I met on 46th St., a
HELIO is an effeminate race car driver.

:thumdown:

[Napoleon]

:rofl:

[pchall]

In Brock Yates latest "Notes from the Margin" it is clear that he has learned to pronounce Castroneves and no longer thinks of him as a jabbering fence climbing simian.


http://www.speedtv.com/commentary/5118/

He does seem overly concerned, though, that fans won't relate to fast guys from foriegn countries the way they do to fast guys from Miami. ;)