User talk:Meyerbertus

hello and welcome to wikipedia:

I corrected your faulty correction, because you were mistaken-- please regard the explanation; I hope it makes sense to you:

"Similar to modern day rallying, cars were released at one minute intervals with the larger professional class cars going before the smaller displacement, economy class cars. These steps were taken to reduce occurences of overtaking, which was seen as an unnecessary danger to spectators given that the racers were ultimately competing with the clock and not one another. Thus, cars were assigned numbers according to their start time. For example, the 1955 Moss/Jenkinson car left Brescia at 7:22am.(See below.) In the early days of the race even winners needed 16 hours or more, so most competitors had to start before midnight and arrived after dawn - if at all."

Bold only in the explanation, not in the Mille Miglia entry. I recognize you just made a good faith error based on your "common-sense" assumption. But in this instance, even if your edit may have struck you as intuitively correct, you were mistaken. I'm not trying to be unfriendly and I hope that if you do have legitimate contributions to make that you don't feel discouraged from doing so. Jonathan Versen 06:06, 23 November 2006 (UTC)