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.

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.

To hear more of my ramblings about F1 and the general state of my ovaries. Follow me on twitter at @squiffany

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.

F1 Fitty of the week.

Since he had a bad week last weekend.
I mean a fourth place finish is just tragic considering his recent winning streak. (Please detect the hint of sarcasm in that sentence)
So to cheer him up.

My fitty of the week is Sebastian Vettel.

Now this blonde haired, blue eyed German.
Is just  twenty four years old, so there is still years of beautiful-ness to come.

But Sebastian is not just a cute, pretty face.
Oh no... He is also the youngest Formula One champion ever.
Not only that but he is the youngest Formula One race winner, youngest person to drive a race and youngest pole sitter. I could go on with all of Sebastian's record achievements, but I would be here all day.

So not only is Sebastian young and pretty but he is also fast too.
On Top Gear UK last month Vettel became the fastest Formula One driver in a reasonably priced car, beating the old stig and old timer Rubens Barrichello.


One of the best things about Sebastian though has to be his sense of humour.
The stereotype is that German's don't tend have a sense of humour but after years of watching British comedies like Faulty towers and Little Britain. I think we can say Sebastian knows how to have a laugh or two.
I like to think the British helped with that.


Joking with Alonso.


Joking about blow up dolls.
(My twitter friend took this video. Follow her at PeachyF1 on twitter)

But like most Formula One drivers they do have hidden talents.
Playing the guitar is Sebastian's.

Or maybe not...
Maybe less time winning some races and more time practicing Sebastian. :)

So Sebastian Vettel.
Cute, pretty, funny, fast and talented.
What more would you what out of a F1 Fitty of the week?