200 F1 Twitter accounts to follow
2011 F1 season
Drivers, Melbourne, 2011
More than half the F1 drivers racing today are now on Twitter.
The F1 Fanatic Twitter Directory boasts hundreds of accounts including F1 drivers (past and present), team principals, mechanics, racing circuits and more.
Twitter offers fans the ability to hear from and even interact with teams and drivers directly.
Here are over 200 F1 accounts to add to your follow lists.
F1 teams, drivers and personnel
Red Bull
Red Bull
Red Bull F1 Spy
Mark Webber
Red Bull Shop
Lee Stevenson – Mechanic
Ed Aylwin – Technician
Stu Jones – Composites technician
Tom Batch – Sebastian Vettel’s systems engineer
Mark Willis – Rear jack man
McLaren
McLaren
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Gary Paffett
Pedro de la Rosa
Dave Robson – Jenson Button’s race engineer
Michael Collier – Jenson Button’s physiotherapist
McLaren eShop
VoxVocis
Rory Clements – Mechanic
Tom Briggs – Tyre technician
Mercedes
Mercedes
Nico Rosberg
Bradley Lord – Mercedes Motorsport communications
Petronas Motorsport
James Vowles – Chief strategist
Neal Johnson – Graphics technician
Renault
Renault
Vitaly Petrov
Bruno Senna
Romain Grosjean
Alan Permane – Trackside operations director
Eric Boullier – Team principal
Paul Seaby – Team manager
Renault Sport F1
Rene Dias Torcato – Engineer
Julien Simon-Chautemps – Vitaly Petrov’s performance engineer
Phil Kennard – Commercial manager
Ricardo Penteando – Team support leader (Renault Sport F1)
Williams
Williams
Rubens Barrichello
Pastor Maldonado
Xevi Pujolar – Pastor Maldonado’s race engineer
Mark Arnott – IT support specialist
Williams Hybrid Power
Sophie Eden – Press officer
Force India
Force India
Paul di Resta
Vijay Mallya
Nico Hulkenberg
Martin Galpin – Software engineer
Virgin
Virgin
Timo Glock
Jerome D’Ambrosio
Tabatha Valls
Sakon Yamamoto
Mark Hutcheson – Jerome D’Ambrosio’s race engineer
Dave Greenwood – Chief race engineer
Dave O’Neill – Team manager
Simon Fitchett – Jerome D’Ambrosio’s physical and mental trainer
Tracy Novak
Sam Rosa – Event manager
Gemma Lawrence – Controls engineer
Paul Andrews – Graphic designer
Florian Eschrich – Physiotherapist
Rory Currin – Graphic designer
Lotus
Lotus
Heikki Kovalainen
Tony Fernandes – Team principal
Mike Gascoyne – Chief technical officer
Karun Chandhok
Luiz Razia
Davide Valsecchi
Anna Goodrum
Riad Asmat – CEO
Gianluca Pisanello – Jarno Trulli’s race engineer
Tom Webb – Head of communications
Silvi Schaumloeffel – Head of marketing
Anand Krishnan – Brand manager
Petri Lehikoinen – Sports performance coach
Steven English
Nasarudin Nasimuddin – Deputy team principal
Elliot Dason-Barber – Head of research and design
Richard St Clair-Quentin – Commercial manager
Nino Singh Judge – Driver development manager Europe
HRT
HRT
Narain Karthikeyan
Toni Cuquerella – Engineer
Juan M Rodriguez – Head of simulation and software
Maria Serrat – Communications and PR
F1 Fanatic on Twitter
Of course you can keep up-to-date with F1 Fanatic via Twitter as well.
F1 Fanatic Live is the place to head for lap-by-lap coverage of every F1 session, plus coverage of some other races.
F1 Fanatic Update allows you to receive links to every article as they are published, without the other updates and discussion offered via the main account.
F1 Fanatic
F1 Fanatic Live
F1 Fanatic Updates
F1 circuits
Most races or circuits now have some kind of presence on Twitter with only a handful of exceptions.
The list below includes a couple of regular testing venues as well as tracks visited during the racing season.
Other F1-related accounts
A range of people and companies, all connected to F1 in some way.
Pirelli
Paul Hembery – Pirelli motorsport director
Manish Pandey – Senna writer
Asif Kapadia – Senna director
Formula 1 Game – Codemasters
Andy Gray – Codemasters
Steve Hood – Codemasters
TSL Timing – Timing services for F1 test sessions
CSC Inside Track
Emma Bortnik
Emma Buxton
Johnny Herbert Karting
Norman Howell – FIA director of communications
FanVision
Drew MacDonald
Alan van der Merwe
Tom Foy
Gary Hartstein
Ryan McMullan
F1 Rocks
F1 Rocks Afterparty
Official F1 website
Young drivers’ test participants
These drivers were among those in action at the young drivers’ test last week. Some others who are official third or reserve drivers can be found listed under their teams above.
Former F1 drivers
Previous F1 world champions Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti are among those on Twitter.
Jean Alesi
Mario Andretti
Enrique Bernoldi
Raul Boesel
Martin Brundle
Luciano Burti
Derek Daly
Christian Danner
Anthony Davidson
Pedro de la Rosa
Lucas di Grassi
Robert Doornbos
Tomas Enge
Christian Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi
Nick Heidfeld
Johnny Herbert
Yuji Ide
Taki Inoue
Nigel Mansell
Perry McCarthy
Allan McNish
Tiago Monteiro
Juan Pablo Montoya
Kazuki Nakajima
Tiff Needell
Olivier Panis
Max Papis
Nelson Piquet Jnr
Emanuele Pirro
Antonio Pizzonia
Bobby Rahal
Eliseo Salazar
Takuma Sato
Scott Speed
Aguri Suzuki
Jos Verstappen
Justin Wilson
Markus Winkelhock
Alexander Wurz
Alex Yoong
Ricardo Zonta
F1 Twitter Directory
The above list covers accounts directly linked to F1 teams, tracks or other aspects of the competition. For a more comprehensive list including journalists and media working in F1, see here:
There is also a list for GP2 drivers and teams which you can find here:
If you’ve found an account that’s not on any of these lists and should be, please leave a comment on those pages or below.
foleyger (@foleyger) said on 19th November 2011, 20:42
Taki Inoue the legend is there! Wasn’t he the lad involved in Monza 1995 when Hill and Schumacher were lapping him?
GeeMac (@geemac) said on 20th November 2011, 10:22
He’s the fella who got hit by the medical car in Hungary.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 20th November 2011, 12:40
Indeed – @ratboy was very happy when he got a message off Inoue one day!
Mark Blundell used to be on there and had a substantial following. He was tight-lipped when he appeared as an FIA steward, unfortunately. He’s left recently and I’m not sure why – @ratboy thought it was because he got a lot of abuse after appearing on Question of Sport and getting several F1 questions wrong. Can anyone corroborate?
daykind (@daykind) said on 19th November 2011, 21:54
Can we make a list of F1Fs on Twitter?
GeeMac (@geemac) said on 20th November 2011, 10:23
That would be very handy.
Fixy (@fixy) said on 19th November 2011, 21:57
I’m on Twitter as well, and as you all know I’ll take the under-performing-Alonso’s seat next year at Ferrari ;)
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 19th November 2011, 23:25
Thanks for the list update, @keithcollantine I shall add what i’ve not got.
This place is the reason i signed up for Twitter and ended up with a good few extra friends. Thanks again!
Chris Yu Rhee (@chris-yu-rhee) said on 20th November 2011, 3:50
“Most races or circuits now have some kind of presence on Twitter with only a handful of exceptions.”
I had to laugh when I read this.
Hmmmm, let’s see which one(s) are missing…
alexf1man (@alexf1man) said on 20th November 2011, 10:31
I had a tweet from InsideFerrari saying that Alonso and Massa won’t be getting one any time soon.
Younger Hamii (@younger-hamii) said on 20th November 2011, 17:15
Im not in favour of promoting my Twitter account here on this article but like @daykind said,I believe we should have a ‘Website’ section in our Profiles or Bios that enables us to slot in the URLS to our Twitter,Facebook,Youtube accounts etc.
As for Personnel,I know someone who’s an Engineering Apprentice at Force India,I was wondering if People with similar Qualifications/Scholarships should be on that list
xxiinophobia (@xxiinophobia) said on 21st November 2011, 1:05
This is an appropriate place to point out that former F1 driver and two-time Champ Car champion Alessandro “Alex” Zanardi is now on Twitter:
alex zanardi (lxznr) on Twitter
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 21st November 2011, 10:26
@xxiinophobia How do you know it’s him?
xxiinophobia (@xxiinophobia) said on 21st November 2011, 22:53
@keithcollantine I don’t know what your personal requirements are for this sort of thing, but Jimmy Vasser, the 1996 CART champion, has confirmed it to multiple people who’ve questioned him. Vasser was Zanardi’s teammate at Chip Ganassi Racing for Alex’s first three years in CART (1996-1998); if anyone in the racing world would know for sure, it’s Vasser. Mario Andretti also made mention of it on his account, and both his and Vasser’s account have been confirmed by Twitter to be the men in question.
Luca (@italianluca) said on 27th March 2012, 13:54
New accounts for Ferrari team: https://twitter.com/#!/Baldol https://twitter.com/#!/lcolajanni https://twitter.com/#!/alo_oficial
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 27th March 2012, 14:13
The Alonso one’s been on here for a few weeks – are the other two confirmed as well now?