I start with a probe into the logic of the platitude of the charioteer. (For this motorcycle themed playing cards are distributed: a) because the charioteer of Delphi steered a Quadriga and b) because analogously one can think of the modern carriage guider like a motorcycle driver. c) all playing cards are neutral on the backside, there I stuck the Delphic charioteer, it is about poteniality, to look at the resting figure already causes the onlooker to have tearing in the limbs...).

Every civil or church marriage uses the topos of a drive, the common passing through bad weather and calms....to-do-without kitsch. The eternal readieness to believe in progress ties the West-European to scenarios of movement. A longing for name-giving gives rise to quere practises to the given names for the steering of those movements. A boat is coming in. Even in Theo wir fahrn nach Lodz* has something of the imagination that happiness is preferred to be found in perpetual mobility, Sport tut Deutschland gut**  we are told from the billboards. And every motivation program for managers can be jazzed up with ancient aphorisms of carriage driver.
Comparisons cause happiness. Limping comparisons cause even greater happiness.

The reception of the charioteer of Delphi sculpture has likely changed over the centuries. Around 478 B.C. the horses were likely more interessting than the driver.  Prosaicly said the driver is something like a jockey, engaged and rewarded even heaped with honors, but brought into action by a rich man who owns a horse stable, care and breeding of the horses is by any means more costly than the staff. The presentation of the charioteer of Delphi corresponds exactly with the formal reason for the donation: this structure had been errected in memory of a victory in the quadriga and is not really metaphorical.
Now the team has been crushed under the rocks of a landslide and left is only the carriage driver, a young man - an Apollo who draws all attention as metaphorical figure, as helmsman.