EmBRACE your inner geek.

So eight years ago. I finally finished school.

Much to my relief.
For five years, I pretty much counted down the days that I could walk out the school gates and NEVER return.
Why?

Quite simply.
I was a geek. 

People at school didn't understand me.
They couldn't work out why I didn't wear skirts, why I spoke about Formula One and why I listened to Green Day's Dookie on loop. 

Some people at school didn't act geeky, but they just looked geeky. 

Glasses, braces (teeth and on trousers) and wild haircuts. 

It was a bad time to be a geek. 

But in the last couple of years something amazing happened.
Geek became cool. 

Formula One is one of those sports that has had its fair share of the geek community. 

In looks and in mind.

The mind because of the engineering/technical side.
And in looks, well just see for yourself. 

Pastor Maldonado

Though this is now an old picture because much to the amazement of twitter.
Pastor now only has the bottom brace on.
Yay to perfectly straight teeth. 

(Though this may qualify for the world's most creepy photo)

Does it matter that Pastor has braces, bad skin and a creepy photo face.
No. For two reasons.
One. Did anyone see his drive in Australia.
Two. Have you seen how stunning his girlfriend is?
Case closed my friend.  1-0 to the geeks. 

Daniel Ricciardo.

This is how Daniel Ricciardo looked last year.
Still good, but he obviously wanted to improve his smile.
Cut to the 2012 Australian GP.

And hello braces.

Now from moving from braces to glasses.

Now when I think of glasses in F1.
A couple of people spring to mind.
The first though has to be.

Sebastien Bourdais.

The Frenchmen didn't make much of impression in F1.
But he did make an impression with his eyes.
Most F1 drivers who wear specs, tend to take them off for racing and wear contacts.
Not Sebastien.
He bucked the trend and chose to wear his glasses when he drove.

For some people. Contacts just don't work.
They can get too irriatated by them or they can move causing discomfort.
At least with glasses. There is less risk of that happening. 

Several drivers in the last couple of years do wear contacts for racing. This includes: Robert Kubica, Timo Glock and Giancarlo Fisichella. 

Ralf Schumacher spoke in 2001 of wanting to wear glasses whilst racing, (A big news story in 2001. Slow F1 news week) but sadly I couldn't find any photo proof . 

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns05276.html

And this leads me very nicely to probably my favourite F1 geek.

Jacques Villeneuve. 

So what if he wears glasses, has unruly hair and wears overalls that are three sizes too big for him. 

Jacques is the best F1 geek I know.

And as we all know. Geeks need love too, so show your support to the geeky F1 community. 

Get your glasses on, mess up your hair and get your braces on...Your trousers.
Embrace your outer geek. With the already inner geek you already have.

Well because if you like F1. Then your inner geek is already sorted.

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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.

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