...I'm a big fan of Twitter. (When used responsibly that is, anyone who just tweets rubbish at me will be blocked, k thanx bai).
Recently, as well as the collection of FakeF1 Drivers a few real ones have joined in the fun.
Nelson Piquet Jr joined back on the 5th of June and started quite a few people learning Portuguese (although he dual tweets in English too) and made a lot of people smile with his photographs.
Then Rubens Barrichello turned up on the 23rd of June (possibly converted by Nelson?) and also posted amusing photographs (especially this one).
Recently Nelson decided to give away a signed visor to one of his followers if he reached 20,000 followers before the German GP.
On Friday he hit that target and asked people to tweet him what they would do with the visor if they won it.
So I sent him a message that said:
@NelsonPiquet I'll give the visor to my fiance, in exchange for the engagement ring he's been promising me for the last 6 months.
(Quite a few of my Twitter buddies loved it, but I didn't mention it to Anthony...)
The competition closed tonight, and then I got this tweet...
@Petronella won the visor! @pedrorq and @D_Broka, the other 2 prizes!
OH. MY. GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*ahem*
So I'm shaking like crazy and then Anthony wanders in.
Me "So guess what, I won @NelsonPiquet's visor!" Him "Brilliant!" Me "But you should see what won it for me" Him *reads screen* silence...!
(He still hasn't said anything, he's gone out for a smoke...) He's come back in...
Him: "Well then. I guess we're going to the Jewellery Quarter tomorrow then?" Me: "If that's ok?" Him: "Silly girl, I love you!"
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He's a happy bunny, I'm a happy bunny.
Life is good and Twitter rocks!
Showing posts with label 2009 F1 Season. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009 F1 Season. Show all posts
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Thursday, 23 April 2009
I have been utterly...
...neglectful in not blogging about the Chinese Grand Prix sooner. This is partly due to the fact that Anthony has been here every evening (and distracting me) and partly due to the fact that I'm having a bitch of a time at work at the moment (and unable to vent/blog about why).
Anyhoo.
So on Saturday morning I got to watch Sebastian Vettel sticking his Red Bull on pole and being rather happy about it. Then I went to work and had a rather better day than usual due to the God that is RichieFingers and the comic talents of Donal, our resident Irishman.
Sunday morning I got myself up to watch all the pre-race chatter and saw something come up on the screen that I wasn't sure if I'd seen correctly. Nothing about it popped up on Twitter, and although Martin Brundle mentioned it in his grid interview of Vettel, Sebastian didn't expand that much on it and they didn't repeat the shot.
Then after the race I found this on the red bullog.
I did see it. I wasn't imagining it.
Sebastian Vettel has a sticker reading "Kate's Dirty Sister" stuck inside his cockpit, just above the steering wheel.
But who, or what, was Kate? And why exactly was his car named after her sister? Her dirty sister...
The man himself explained later:
So there we have it. I got smashed in Australia...and Emily has won a Grand Prix. I'm so proud of her.
Kate's Dirty Sister Google Search.
Anyhoo.
So on Saturday morning I got to watch Sebastian Vettel sticking his Red Bull on pole and being rather happy about it. Then I went to work and had a rather better day than usual due to the God that is RichieFingers and the comic talents of Donal, our resident Irishman.
Sunday morning I got myself up to watch all the pre-race chatter and saw something come up on the screen that I wasn't sure if I'd seen correctly. Nothing about it popped up on Twitter, and although Martin Brundle mentioned it in his grid interview of Vettel, Sebastian didn't expand that much on it and they didn't repeat the shot.
Then after the race I found this on the red bullog.
I did see it. I wasn't imagining it.
Sebastian Vettel has a sticker reading "Kate's Dirty Sister" stuck inside his cockpit, just above the steering wheel.
But who, or what, was Kate? And why exactly was his car named after her sister? Her dirty sister...
The man himself explained later:
"Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it’s sexy.
My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate’s Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster"
So there we have it. I got smashed in Australia...and Emily has won a Grand Prix. I'm so proud of her.
Kate's Dirty Sister Google Search.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
...and the lights go out...
...no, not for Earth Hour.
The race is on!
What happened to Barrichello?
Button in front by miles...
Heidfeld with a puncture.
Barichello caused a little bit of fuss at the first corner - carbon fibre all over the place and poor old Mark Webber lost his front wing.
Kovalainen is out with a very broken looking car.
Button is already 4.4 secs ahead on Lap 3.
**time for me to have a look at the onboard camera screens on the BBC**
Onboard camera is sticking with Hamiltwunt at the moment so I'll pass on that.
Not as many retirements as I thought there'd be by this point! (Certainly not as many as last year!)
Rosberg just scampered past Kimi, then Barrichello tried it and clipped him.
Kimi in the pits - puncture?
Rosberg now menacing Kubica who is all over the back of Massa.
Pit stops have started - Ferrari and MacLaren have both now used their soft tires - hopefully this will give Ferrari an advantage at the end.
Rosberg had a pitstop problem that held the poor boy up. But it meant we got to watch a lovely pass on him by Kimi.
Button is miles in front!
Nakajima into the wall - safety car.... poor Button!
That whole thing with the safety car was a bit of a screw up, they let it go after Button so the whole field had to go past it! Now Button will be stuck behind it for ages... and the debris/car seems to have been shifted already!
The safety car has been out for ages with the track clear, very frustrating!
Massa keeps locking up. Brundle - "His tyres will look like a 50p piece soon"
Piquet takes the first corner sideways and slides right to the back of the very wide gravel trap!
Hamilton passes Glock very easily...again!
33 laps to go BTW.
Have got the perfect setup now - TV showing main feed, PC showing the onboard streams. Lovely jubbly.
20 laps to go, things have quietened down for the moment, but the last pit stops are all starting...
Hamilton comes out of the pits and decides to try and squeeze Massa off the track straight away. Kimi bumps into the wall...but keeps going.
Fisichella up to 8th!
Eeep!
Button had a pit stop problem, can't tell if he got enough fuel, but he got out in front of Vettel.
Drat it, Massa is out. His car was sounding very very ill.
Barrichello pits and comes out behind Rosberg, then a couple of laps later sticks in a fabulous pass.
Glock is trying to take people out as he tries to pass them - apart from Hamilton of course.
Hamilton is up to 7th. Anthony says - "It pains me to say it, but he's driven a good race."
Holy crap.
Kubica and Vettel duking it out.
Kubica takes Vettel out then hits the wall himself.
Poor Vettel.
Hurrah for Button! Hurrah for Barrichello! (unless anything breaks)
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So just as last year, it's the British national anthem. But this time it's for a driver who has really earned it.
w00t!!!
No chance of going back to bed as I did last year, partly cos the race was later, partly cos I'm too fucking hyper!
*chequered flag*
The race is on!
What happened to Barrichello?
Button in front by miles...
Heidfeld with a puncture.
Barichello caused a little bit of fuss at the first corner - carbon fibre all over the place and poor old Mark Webber lost his front wing.
Kovalainen is out with a very broken looking car.
Button is already 4.4 secs ahead on Lap 3.
**time for me to have a look at the onboard camera screens on the BBC**
Onboard camera is sticking with Hamiltwunt at the moment so I'll pass on that.
Not as many retirements as I thought there'd be by this point! (Certainly not as many as last year!)
Rosberg just scampered past Kimi, then Barrichello tried it and clipped him.
Kimi in the pits - puncture?
Rosberg now menacing Kubica who is all over the back of Massa.
Pit stops have started - Ferrari and MacLaren have both now used their soft tires - hopefully this will give Ferrari an advantage at the end.
Rosberg had a pitstop problem that held the poor boy up. But it meant we got to watch a lovely pass on him by Kimi.
Button is miles in front!
Nakajima into the wall - safety car.... poor Button!
That whole thing with the safety car was a bit of a screw up, they let it go after Button so the whole field had to go past it! Now Button will be stuck behind it for ages... and the debris/car seems to have been shifted already!
The safety car has been out for ages with the track clear, very frustrating!
Massa keeps locking up. Brundle - "His tyres will look like a 50p piece soon"
Piquet takes the first corner sideways and slides right to the back of the very wide gravel trap!
Hamilton passes Glock very easily...again!
33 laps to go BTW.
Have got the perfect setup now - TV showing main feed, PC showing the onboard streams. Lovely jubbly.
20 laps to go, things have quietened down for the moment, but the last pit stops are all starting...
Hamilton comes out of the pits and decides to try and squeeze Massa off the track straight away. Kimi bumps into the wall...but keeps going.
Fisichella up to 8th!
Eeep!
Button had a pit stop problem, can't tell if he got enough fuel, but he got out in front of Vettel.
Drat it, Massa is out. His car was sounding very very ill.
Barrichello pits and comes out behind Rosberg, then a couple of laps later sticks in a fabulous pass.
Glock is trying to take people out as he tries to pass them - apart from Hamilton of course.
Hamilton is up to 7th. Anthony says - "It pains me to say it, but he's driven a good race."
Holy crap.
Kubica and Vettel duking it out.
Kubica takes Vettel out then hits the wall himself.
Poor Vettel.
Hurrah for Button! Hurrah for Barrichello! (unless anything breaks)
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So just as last year, it's the British national anthem. But this time it's for a driver who has really earned it.
w00t!!!
No chance of going back to bed as I did last year, partly cos the race was later, partly cos I'm too fucking hyper!
*chequered flag*
Good morning...
...Australia.
Yup, I'm awake again. But this morning doesn't seem so bad since the clocks changed this morning. Instead of getting up at 5am, it was 6am!
I am going to blog this just like last year, well, not just like last year, I'm going to put the whole lot in one post and update as I go - that way nobody reads the last bit first!
Once again the clever buggers at the BBC are doing text updates, and the fact that Twitter has taken off this year means that I've also got Tweetag to keep an eye on (and find some new tweeps through).
It's now 40 minutes to race start...time to get everything organised - no ad breaks to get extra drinks in!
Yup, I'm awake again. But this morning doesn't seem so bad since the clocks changed this morning. Instead of getting up at 5am, it was 6am!
I am going to blog this just like last year, well, not just like last year, I'm going to put the whole lot in one post and update as I go - that way nobody reads the last bit first!
Once again the clever buggers at the BBC are doing text updates, and the fact that Twitter has taken off this year means that I've also got Tweetag to keep an eye on (and find some new tweeps through).
It's now 40 minutes to race start...time to get everything organised - no ad breaks to get extra drinks in!
Saturday, 28 March 2009
I got up at...
...4.45am this morning.
Ok, so the qualifying didn't actually start until 6am, but the first showing of the new titles was at 5am and I couldn't miss them.
I am very, very glad that ITV aren't doing the coverage this season.
Partly because this mornings results would have completely stumped James Allen.
Yes, there is a British driver on pole.
But it's not the Hamiltwunt...he's 15th on the grid after a terrible Q1 and then his gearbox giving out.
Thank you Jenson.
You've had so much crap over the last two years with people saying you were a has-been. Even real F1 fans were starting to worry.
Now just get rid of that manky beard!
Ok, so the qualifying didn't actually start until 6am, but the first showing of the new titles was at 5am and I couldn't miss them.
I am very, very glad that ITV aren't doing the coverage this season.
Partly because this mornings results would have completely stumped James Allen.
Yes, there is a British driver on pole.
But it's not the Hamiltwunt...he's 15th on the grid after a terrible Q1 and then his gearbox giving out.
Thank you Jenson.
You've had so much crap over the last two years with people saying you were a has-been. Even real F1 fans were starting to worry.
Now just get rid of that manky beard!
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