Let's put our fingers together.

Last weekend Vettel won the Championship title.
Last weekend I was hastily making plans to move house.

This week is my move, so for the last few days I have been clearing out my room and in a box under my bed.
Was some very interesting finds.
(Don't be so dirty minded by the way, it's all F1 related)

One find was a signed Jenson Button photo from his Williams days. No idea if the signature is even real but it's great to remember how baby face Jense used to be. (Bless his cottons)

The other find. Lead me on a thought path. 

In the box along with the Jenson photo was a pile of old F1 racing magazines from 2006/2007

And on the front of the October issue was this.

We now know this pose has Vettel finger.
But it definitely wasn't Vettel finger.
It was Alonso finger.

And this got me to wondering.
Who started this in F1?

Is it every World champion?
Or most race winners?

So I have created myself and my readers a small challenge.
I want to see how many F1 drivers have done the number one finger.
I will then compile a blog post with has many as I and you can find.

Now I may be slightly internet-less for a while.
But I still have twitter on my phone.
So if you see any Number one F1 poses. Then tweet me @squiffany with your best ones.

"It's like Where's Wally but worse"

How Cartoons came back into F1 fashion.

It's been several years since I read the Beano or the Dandy for that matter.

But recently Formula One has become famous for it's cartoons and animations.

Who knew that cartoons and Formula One would work so well together. 

The first use of cartoons that I saw was @F1Cartoonz

Word spread from twitter followers about these cartoons and recently F1Cartoonz collaborated with Marussia Virgin for promotion of the British GP Marussia Virgin weekend.

All this in less then 6 months of self promotion. 

Not bad at all.

The next lot of cartoons comes from @cirebox and is being promoted on the Lotus Renault facebook page.

They range from general F1 comedy
(I do love the use of Michael Schumacher's walking stick in this picture)

To Lotus Renault race results.


Even Toro Rosso release cartoon strips has press statements after every race.
Genius.




These are the good/funny cartoons.
Nice to see in the serious F1 world.

Unlike this.
Which, is HRT's attempt at animation.
Now I know that HRT barely have a budget for a car but they should of saved the £5 spent on this to put towards getting some better car stickers.
But bless them for trying.


I would like to show you my attempt at a F1 Cartoon.
But sadly HRT actually did better...Which is very bad times for my F1 artistry career.
Oh well back to the day job.