The gossip that went away, came back and probably will come back round again.

So nearly nine months after the story broke.
We now have a resolution to the Sutil/Lux case.

Sutil was given an 18 months suspended sentence for the count of GBH and £160,000 fine to go to charity.

Now personally I'm glad justice has been done.

Nine months ago I wrote in my blog post. 

"All Formula One drivers have a right to a private life, this I agree on but these guys are role models to so many people. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this kind of behaviour in public. If I "Unintentionally" hit someone. I could easily be done on an assault charge in the UK. Just because this happened in China, it makes no difference. A sorry by Sutil doesn't cover it, not by any stretch."

This isn't about who is wrong or right. This about showing the world that just because you drive Formula One cars, doesn't mean you can act irresponsibly.

You have a job not only has a driver but has a role model to Formula One fans and the general public alike. 

I'm glad that Sutil didn't go to prison. I don't think that would of helped anyone's cause.
Formula One needs decent promotion. A jailed driver would not have gone down too well. 

Sadly even with a resolution the case still hasn't been dropped.
Not with Sutil/Lux but with the case of the missing witness in Lewis Hamilton. 

So maybe in nine months time I may be writing my follow up to side of the case. 

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OZZIE PROIDE

So anyone who follows me at twitter knows about my slight obsession for anything Australian.

So it makes sense that I seem to like Mark Webber.
Not just for his singing. Honest. 

Now last year was always going be a tough year for Webber.
A young, smart, charismatic world champion for a team mate in Sebastian Vettel.

And a team in Red Bull that generally focuses on bringing new, fresh talent into F1. 

After the loss of Rubens Barrichello from F1 in 2012. (I'm still in mourning over this.)
It seems likely that in the next couple of years we are going to lose Webber too.
Sadly in part due to his age. Mark does turn thirty six this year.

That is why in 2012. The year of the Olympics, my quarter of century and the Muppets movie.
That I'm putting my two pence in, on Mark Webber winning the world championship.


Here are my reasons why.

One.
I assume (We haven't seen pre-testing yet) that the Red Bull car will be quick and like last year reliable.
So winning car. Check.

Two.
Good end to a season, good start to a new one.

I like to believe in this theory.
Mark won the last race of the year (Okay, mainly down to a Vettel car failure but still)
So confidence will be at a high and hopefully will be maintained to the start of the new F1 year.

Three.
Mark Webber is one of the nice guys in F1.
They say nice guys finish last but I'm desperate for that to not happen to Webber.
Mark seems so down to earth and I would really love him to do well.

Like Rubens before him. I would love it if Mark went (When the time comes) out with a bang and a world championship under his arm.
I would also love Webber to get better starts of the grid but you can't wish for everything. If so I would have had that Ferrari by now.

But sadly though.
I'm not Mystic Tiff.

But I'm the same person who predicted a podium for Nick Heidfeld in Malaysia last year.
And that Fernando Alonso would win a championship whilst he was still driving baby steps in a Minardi.


So maybe just maybe it could happen.
*Crosses fingers*

Who do you think is going to win the 2012 championship?
Let me know what you think.

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Dance yourself dizzy..ish.

Since it's the F1 off season and not much seems to be going down in China town.
I thought I would mention the latest video's I have seen from Ferrari's Vrooom 2012.

Now lately what I love about F1 is when F1 teams have a party. The drivers really let their hair down.
So in honour of seeing drivers in different lights.
I thought I would compile the best of them.

This post focuses on the F1 dancers.
The ones who really know how to boogie.

Now Ferrari Vrooom 2012 produced it's own set of F1 dancers.
It might be more like line dancing but I enjoyed it.
(Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart....)


So whilst Mark Webber moves his hips in a undulating motion. I cry at the prospect that an F1 driver is better at dancing then me.


I'm no Inspector Columbo here but I suspect that this may not be Fernando Alonso dancing...


Now here is my all time favourite dancing driver.
It is of course. My Dad.
Nick Heidfeld.

Hit it Nick.


Just remember to always "Go Nick, go go go"

Now remember if your in a club and fancy hitting the moves.
Just copy your F1 dancers and dance like no one is watching.

(Warning: Your chances of pulling may decrease if you actually perform any of the moves seen above.)

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Short Post: DC, Jake and EJ at ASI 2012

This is a quick post but I thought it would be good for some of my international followers to see.
I didn't go to the Autosport show this weekend. (I would like to put I did something really exciting here, but I didn't. True story)
But in this video clip.

Jake Humphrey does a quite decent impression of EJ.
(Don't worry my opinion of Jake hasn't changed... This post here explains all)
EJ is off doing something better.
And the BBC F1 coverage is going to wipe out all other competition. Allegedly.



The BBC F1 team there. That's your what the TV licence pays for.

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And the winner of most accident prone is...

So today we have all heard the news about Robert Kubica breaking his leg after slipping on ice near his home.
The worse part is that it was the same bone that broke in the rally crash last year.

So trying to look on the positives.
I think one of three things will happen.

One. Robert will never drive competitively in F1 again. I hope this is not the case.

Two. If/when Robert returns to F1. He will be like Senna/Prost/Schumacher and Vettel combined and be a super world champion. 

Or if the other two don't work out I can only assume that Robert Kubica, will come back as Iron man and save the world from a TERRIBLE DOOM. 

A TERRIBLE DOOM I TELL THEE.....

(Picture courtesy of wtf1.co.uk)

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The GQ curse of Hamilton's schadenfreude

These pictures were show to me yesterday by @F1_Obsessive

And after the Lewis Hamilton schadenfreude pictures of a few days ago.
(Missed them? You can see that post here.)
I think it's only fair you see some of these brand new bad boys from the people at GQ.

I think the last picture offends my eyes the most.
It's brightest shade of blue I think my eyes have ever seen.
Golly gosh.

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Where thou art Rubens?

It's has come to that time of year when most of the seat in F1 are filled and we end up waiting like lost limpets for the last few seats to be filled.

Now we just have two seats that haven't been confirmed.
HRT and Williams.

HRT is always a hard seat to predict. Mainly due to the fact that HRT are dirt poor and they will literally put anyone in that car. If Luca Badoer is not in the car for 2012 I will be shocked.

Joking a side.
HRT will go one of two ways. An older driver who has either been out of F1 for a while or has been bumped out of a team recently. Or will go for a young driver who has a lot of sponsors.
Rumours of  HRT seat filling have included Nick Heidfeld, Jaime Alguersuari and Karun Chandhok.
We might be waiting a while to find out the result of this one.


The other seat still not to be confirmed is that at Williams.
But only two people seem to be up for that job.
Bruno Senna and Rubens Barrichello.
Now Bruno Senna is the one tipped the most for that seat.

But this is where I get a little bit torn.
Don't get me wrong I know that the Williams at this moment in time is not a race winning car.
But I would love to see Bruno Senna in a car from the beginning of a season for once and actually do well.

But the other part of me would love Rubens Barrichello to have just one more year in F1.
Celebrate 20 years and then leave with a bang.
Rather then how he could leave at the moment.
With a whimper and a backlog of tyre marbles.

Rubens, I admit is not what I would really call an exciting driver anymore, plus he is on a salary and Bruno is not. Bruno will and can bring a lot of money and sponsors to Williams.

But Rubens is and has always been the only constant in my F1 life.
I would love to spend 2012 having a huge celebration.
A Rubens Barrichello leaving do if you would.

So to any F1 team out there.
Please give Rubens a job for 2012.

Because the Iceland party platter needs to be brought out in honour.
True story.

The Jake Humphrey decline momentum.

So in the past six months. I have noticed a change in someone.
It all started when the BBC announced that the coverage of the F1 was to be shared with Sky.

Most people were quite angry about this.
(Me included. The blog post about all that debacle is here.)

This even included some of the presenters of the BBC F1 coverage.
But just one comment from one person changed my whole perception of how much they really loved F1.
That proved to me. That F1 was a just job to them not a real passion. Even though they made out that was the case

That person is Jake Humphrey.


Now of course I don't want to think one comment made me hate Jake.
Of course not, I don't tend to hate anyone and I certainly don't dislike someone just for a comment.

It's just been in recent months.
Jake Humphrey has hit the smug button and kept running.
And smug to me. Is very off putting.

It started off with the comment that just after the BBC/Sky issue, that the BBC will still have all the races.

Jake jumped in by saying roughly
"Oh but the BBC will have all the races next year and it's going to be marvellous."
But when the BBC just has delayed edited highlights for 2012 and if the last few months were anything to  go by. The BBC F1 coverage went a bit downhill any ways.



But then little things started creeping in.
That made me think that Jake is up his own arse.

His tweets do not help the situation.
Lately his tweets have gone from nice cheeky banter, a bit of F1 and little bit of Norwich.
To full on Norwich, lots of fitness related pluggery, how many times Jake is on the beeb this week and even less F1 (And this wasn't based on the off season tweeting.)

Again twitter is his personal view and if I wanted to I could unfollow him.
Twitter is not the full basis of this dislike.

I just feel like lately Jake has got smug.
Even on the BBC F1 review. (Which was pretty dire compared to previous efforts) I just didn't want to listen to Jake. I would of preferred an F1 clip show.
Now Jake has recently announced that he is writing a book about his time in F1, which six months ago I would have be first in line for.

Now though I just feel like I really couldn't care less about what Jake Humphrey has to say... about anything.

Maybe this is just me.
But I need to know if there is anyone else out there.

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Retro F1 fitty of the week: James Hunt

Since it has been a while seen I have done a retro F1 fitty post.
I thought I would get back into the swing of things with a F1 fitty from the seventies.
A decade I seemed to haven't covered yet.

Now most ladies do love a bad boy.
We also secretly love a ladies man. (We just don't admit it.)

Now if I mention the seventies, bad boy and ladies man.
Only one name should could to mind.
James Hunt.


James was not only suave and quite beautiful.
He also had a fantastic sense of humour and straight John bull attitude to life and to work
His dry wit made him not only a great driver, but an amazing commentator even after he retired from racing.

One of my favourite piece's of James's honesty has to be this clip.


James was also very laid back. Playing by his own rules, James would turn up to important media events in just jeans and a T-shirt and like to have his own patches sewn onto his race suit.
This was the most infamous one.


Red Bull even replicated it a couple of years ago.


Not only did James have the personality but he also had the looks.
The long blonde hair and dashing blue eyes.
Made him quite the catch back in the day.

But like all the good playboys, James burnt bright and died young.
Which is a travesty.

So to all the retro playboys.
I salute you.

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Senna Watch

So this Sunday (8th January) at 8pm a special twitter event is taking place.
Senna Watch.


Senna watch is basically a mass tweet up whilst simultaneously watching the Senna movie.

Now I'm excited for about this for several reasons.

One.
When I went to the cinema (Twice) to see Senna. I went with two very different people who experienced Senna in different ways. The first was my brother-in-law who being 12 years older then me. Remembered all the Senna action and watched the races live at the time. The second was a friend of mine who being five years younger then me. Knew less about Senna then I did.

This made for great conversations after the film had finished.
I'm looking forward to having even more conversations during the mass tweet up.

Two.
Rumour has it that producer of Senna Manish Pandey is also getting involved. So not only are you tweeting comments to other Senna film lovers but also to the people who made and loved the Senna movie.
An extreme rarity.

And finally.
It's the Senna film.
This literally was one of my highlights of 2011.
I went to the cinema to see it twice.
I pre-ordered the DVD months in advance.
I even wrote a review about it. (You can see that here)
And has an ex film student. (That was three years well spent... ish)

It appeased and reminded me of my love for the beauty of film.
Something I had missed since leaving university.

So at 8pm GMT time in the UK.
I shall be watching Senna.

I hope that you will be too.
Wherever you are.
Whatever country that be

Australia. 7am (9th Jan)
USA NY 3pm
USA San Fran 12pm
Germany 9pm
Russia 12pm.

Just don't forget to bring your tissues.

For more details of Senna Watch.
Follow them on twitter @SENNAWatch

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This is the Box Of Neutrals F1 season review.

So this should be a post where I do an end of season review.
But I'm too lazy to do that. Really lazy.
So I'm leaving it to some good friends of mine.

Now a couple of months ago on FFF.
You will have seen my interview with the Box Of Neutrals boys.

(Wait..You haven't? Then you should click on this link immediately.
Box Of Neutrals Interview)

So now you have read their words. You can now see their faces.

Literally this Box Of Neutrals F1 season review is full of comedy moments and a lot of Aussie related banter.
I hope you enjoyed it has much I has I did.




If you want to follow the Box of Neutrals gang.
You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

Oh and if you want to see my F1 ramblings and general moaning at life.
You can follow me on twitter too @squiffany

The Schadenfreude of Lewis Hamilton's wardrobe.

Now normally FFF isn't really that Bitchy but after a conversation with Vicky (Or F1_Obsessive) we got to talking about the schadenfreude that is Lewis Hamiton's wardrobe.

Now for those who don't know what schadenfreude is.
It's basically enjoying the misfortune of others.

Avenue Q and Adam Hills describe it better then I can.



Watch from 2.30 in for Adam Hills take on schadenfreude.


Me and Vikki enjoy the schadenfreude of Lewis Hamilton's wardrobe so much.
We made a top ten.
With comments.

(For ease of use. My comments are in red and Vicky's are in green)

Picture One.


To be honest. This is how I dress when going to Tesco. Then again there is less chance of me getting papped. MUST TRY HARDER. 


I think it's the childish sulky face that really sets this ensemble off. And the hood up? Unless your looting the place it's hardly necessary. 


Picture Two.



Oversized clothes + poncy pictures = Man trying too hard. 


Notorious H.A.M seriously wants to be a rapper and given recent events, we may be in 'luck'. Gains points in this one for achieving the look of a starstruck (and short) fanboy. 

Picture Three.



Lewis has at least some excuse for this photo.  He is after all promoting Reebok. However it does look like someone may have puked on his shoulders though. Should been paid more. 


Maybe head and shoulders were a better sponsor choice after all. At least he has the self-respect to look fairly depressed in this situation.

Picture Four.


To be honest Nicole's horrible shoes distracted me from Lewis's man bag. This can only be a good thing. 


Made for each other, these two. Both looking equally terrible. I'm just hoping McLaren don't have the bright idea of making team hats that look like that. Run, Jenson, run!

Picture Five.


We have all been there. Just one colour catcher could have saved Lewis from dinghy whites. 


Even Nicole has the audacity to look disgusted with him here. Maybe he's just told her what he's doing with his hand in his pocket.

Picture Six.


Does he own just one pair of trackies? Reebok, give Lewis some more. 


The trackies, the twat hat, the hood-up, the cold dead eyes as they smile. - It's all there.

Picture Seven.


A shiny jacket and shorts doth makes a sun reflector plausible. 


As if the shiny, highly flammable fabric isn't enough, they are shorts. Note the body language in the foot area: that of a child caught pushing a sibling down the stairs. (Felipe baby?)

Picture Eight.


My eyes hurt. That is all. May my retina's burn in hell.


You would need sunglasses that dense to view his outfit choice. Good grief.

Picture Nine.


Ah crushed velvet. My arch Nemesis.


Was this when the happy bubble burst? Also, those shoes look like they're held together with masking tape. Not a good look. 

Picture Ten.


So that's where all the left over material from prom dresses goes?


I'm struggling here because I don't know how to spell the noise I made upon seeing this picture. Just...Just...Awful. 

Now I know that we may seem harsh on Lewis but I promise it's all in good fun.
After all that's schadenfreude.

Feel free to comment below or talk to us on twitter @squiffany and @F1_Obsessive.