Retro F1 Fitty of the week. Jacques Villeneuve

Now this week's Retro F1 Fitty was difficult for me to write about.
Mainly because the title of this blog post should really be Retro Geeky F1 Fitty of the week.

But that title, although accurate. Is a little bit too long.
Now for those who don't know me personally.
I like geeky looking boys.
Stick a pair of glasses on a boy and I literally swoon at the knees.

That's why this Fitty of the week, won't appeal to everyone.
But it will appeal to the lovers of geek chic.

My Retro F1 Fitty of the week is Jacques Villeneuve.

Now we might of forgotten about the random hairstyles, the three times too big overalls and the interchangeable girlfriends. Oh Hai Dannii Minogue.


But Jacques was pretty attractive back in the day.
He even posed topless for the now defunct F1 Magazine.
(Sadly I couldn't find the photo of that, which is gutting because I know it existed. This picture, though sadly will have to suffice.)


For me though of Jacques most attractive traits, is being opinionated.
One thing Jacques has never been is quiet.

If he had something to say. He would say it.
With no care of the media or who it could offend.
Now with F1 being so careful and protective of its image.
I love someone who fights the power and blatantly doesn't give a toss what anyone thinks.
Of course in time it does get you into trouble.

Sadly for the 1997 F1 world champion.
It did. On a regular basis.

But to me and many others.
It's something that Formula One misses.
Someone with a voice.

Especially if they also have a singing voice.


Luckily you can still hear Jacques's opinions every month in F1 Racing Magazine.
With less of his singing voice though.

Fancy writing a guest post for Retro F1 Fitty of the week?
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Fan Formula. Week One.

Since I started FFF. I have always wanted to branch out into making video blogs.
Sadly though, I never find a good subject to talk about.
That's why lately I have started to join in with FanFormula.

FanFormula was created by Grace Cunningham (@GraceF1Fanatic) to bring Formula One fans together.
Every week Grace sets a few questions which anyone can answer, either written or by video blog.
Grace then edits these combined video blogs together to create one video with many opinions.

For the last two weeks. I have been participating in FanFormula and not only enjoying it but finding more people talk to on twitter. Especially Female F1 fans. (That sounded more pervy then it needed to be)

So every week I will post my response on FFF
So it does mean you have to see my mug on a weekly basis. (You poor sods)

So here are last week questions and my video.

Week One. Feb 5th.
With the first session only a few days away. F1 in the news is gradually starting to build up hype and this edition of Fan Formula will focus on the latest headlines.

Question One
This week Adrian Sutil was found guilty of GBH against Eric Lux and has received an 18 month suspended sentence and a £160,000 fine to charity. However he has since said that his friendship with Hamilton is over and branded him a 'Coward'. What do you think of Adrian's sentence and also of his comments about Hamilton for not attending the trial?

Question Two
McLaren were the first team to hold a live launch event this week but do you prefer teams holding official launch sessions or teams using online/printed launch schemes used by Caterham?

Question Three
Rubens Barrichello has completed several testing hours in an IndyCar this week. Do you think that he will move into IndyCar and what effect will this have on F1 and IndyCar?

Bonus

Daniel Ricciardo joined twitter this week but which current non tweeting F1 driver (Racing in 2012) would you like to see appear on twitter before the new season begins?

So here is my first FanFormula video.
Sorry for being ill. 

To see the collective video for FanFormula for yourself you can go to.
http://fanformula.weebly.com/index.html

Feel free to comment below or tweet me @squiffany

Testing. One, Two...Testing.

If you didn't know or have never read my blog before.
I love F1.
I pretty much live and breathe it.

Except in one key area.
Testing.
Especially the off season testing before the F1 season officially begins.
Like the testing going on this week in Jerez.


I was sent home from work today. After being poorly the last couple of days.
But when I got on twitter. It was full of testing tweets.
The tweets about seeing the cars on the track for the first time, how many laps cars did or who crashed out. Is totally acceptable.
But to me.
The tweets about who is posting the fastest times.
This is like me posting about my hair colour, David Attenborough Polar bear footage or Katie Price's boobs.
They are all pretty fake.


Of course they exist. (My hair colour is looking pretty marvellous at the moment)
The testing times did happen.

But they aren't a realistic gauge of how things will be in Australia in March.
Yet everyone seems to get super duper excited about who's the fastest.

Last year Barrichello topped the sheets, yet where was the Williams last year?
There it was dragging it's sorry self over the line just before the Virgins, HRT and Lotus.

I'm not saying that if your fastest over testing your not going to do well. Brawn in 2009 had a really good testing session then won the both championships the same year.

I just find it hard to get excited about something that has too many variables.
From now until March. The cars and the drivers will completely change.
Drivers will be fitter and cars will have tried every part/loophole going to get the car to it's full racing capacity.

Yet everyone seems to play the world's uninteresting guessing game of who will be fastest/competitive in March.

I think I know why we do this though.
F1 fans go through nearly five months of no F1 action. By the time we hit the launches and the testing, we know that it isn't too long to wait. So we get excited by any glimpse of a so called race. Mainly because we have been starved for so long.

So even if it's just the race to get to the top of the time sheets in testing.
We get excited.
Cars have moved and it's literally GO GO GO.

Personally I have to wait the extra month (Because we all know that F1 is always worth the wait) and make my own judgements of the cars at qualifying and the race.
Because for me. The first race is the test.
The test of who will be the fastest and who can catch up to them throughout the season.
Plus after five months of being starved. It makes getting up at four in the morning, seem that little bit easier.

Feel free to comment below or you can follow me on twitter @squiffany.

Heat's top 101 hottest men.

So some back story.
Me and my friend from work Chan.
Were on our way back from Leeds after a work visit.

Since it's a two hour train journey from Nottingham to Leeds, we decided to buy a couple of magazines to keep us going.
Chan bought Heat, which this week is running a 101 hottest hunks section.

I thought after a long inspection. I thought I better check for any of the F1 community in this long and beautiful list.

Turns out Heat does know a couple of them.

But only the British ones
And only the ones that drive for McLaren.

Which is good in some sense.
Because I didn't see many other sporting people in there.
Apart from David Beckham and he doesn't really count. After all he just seems to model all the time.

But bad in others.
Have Heat not seen Sebastian Vettel, Bruno Senna and Nico Rosberg before.
I mean I could go on listing beautiful F1 people.

If you want to know who beat who.
If it was Jenson or Lewis?

I will just post the results.

So by twenty places.
Jenson Button wins the F1 related Heat 101 hottest hunks.

Next year.
I'm demanding more F1 related hotties.
Heat I'm watching you.

(P.S Photo quality is poor because I took these whilst I was on a moving train. Even when I'm travelling I'm thinking of FFF)

Do you think Jenson was the worthy winner?
Who else should of been considered?

Comment or tweet me @squiffany