Twitter has been in the F1 headlines recently, largely thanks to the indiscretions of Lewis Hamilton.
The F1 population on Twitter continues to swell, with almost every driver now using it.
On top of that there are dozens of team members from senior technical personnel to mechanics, the massed ranks of F1 media and growing numbers of former drivers and even a few ex-world champions.
F1 Fanatic maintains a list of genuine Twitter accounts for you to follow. Over 100 new accounts have been added in the most recent update. Find them all here:
F1 drivers on Twitter
All bar three of the current F1 drivers grid can be found on Twitter. Sebastian Vettel, Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen are the only ones staying off it, for now at least.
The other three world champions currently racing are on Twitter. Fernando Alonso is a fairly recent arrival:
Year 2006, we arrived at Monza leaders, broken car in q3, penalties, start 10th, stop in the 1st chicane, engine (cont) http://t.co/13x26XVK
— Fernando Alonso (@alo_oficial) September 8, 2012
Alonso has already passed the one million follower mark and is on course to overtake Jenson Button as the most popular F1 driver on Twitter.
Among the other new additions to the list is HRT’s Ma Qing Hua, who recently became the first Chinese driver to participate in an F1 weekend:
I'm so happy to drive the F112 for a 2nd time in a row! It will be very exciting to drive in Singapore !! http://t.co/axzc3MRa @HRTF1Team
— Ma Qing Hua (@maqinghuaF1) September 13, 2012
Team members
Teams have also been quick to take up Twitter and growing numbers of team members are appearing on there as well. Here are a few of the recent additions:
Three wet Fridays out of the last four race weekends. Frustrating!! And its cold on the pit wall! #F1WinterSeries
— Paddy Lowe (@paddylowe) August 31, 2012
@easonF1 We know it very well but to get healthy teams you need to reduce costs, don't you think?
— Luca Colajanni (@lcolajanni) June 12, 2012
Off to Hungary today for my 200th GP. Let's get those Red Bulls up on the podium. #topstep
— Ciaron Pilbeam (@RickmanHill) July 25, 2012
Back in the ops room at Leafield for this race. At last a Friday without rain! We should get some useful data from FP1 and FP2 today.
— Mark Smith (@MarkSmithF1) September 7, 2012
More F1 Twitter accounts
Also in the F1 Twitter Directory you’ll find accounts for circuits and races, journalists and photographers, ex-F1 drivers and more.
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BradFerrari (@brad-ferrari)
17th September 2012, 11:30
Kimi on twitter? Maybe when pigs fly…
Gwannel Sandiego (@gwan)
17th September 2012, 11:57
‘”Yes”, “no” – what do I do with the other 137 characters?’ :D
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
17th September 2012, 13:17
@gwan Nice ;)
xeroxpt (@)
17th September 2012, 19:12
Vettel on twitter is even less likely, in my opinion twitty is stupid and bookface as well at least most of the users, so i don’t blame Vettel nor Schumi, people get ultra fake online, and words online have no voice, there’s no way to trully understand the meaning.
Younger Hamii (@younger-hamii)
17th September 2012, 20:43
@ukfanatic Agreed. Words can be meaningless, hence partly why I found some drivers’ tributes to Sid Watkins on Twitter very emotionless or inhumane ( I found Ron Dennis & Sir Frank’s the contrary due to the experiences & history they’ve had with Sid).
xeroxpt (@)
17th September 2012, 23:32
@younger-hamii I’m glad to see that someone agrees with me, sometimes comments too get misunderstood and I think you brought up the perfect example.
SkinBintin (@skinbintin)
18th September 2012, 9:50
I cared about your comment, until you said Twitty and Bookface. You know what their correct names are. I’m going to create the mother of all evils and assume you’re one of those people that type M$ instead of MS or Microsoft?
While you are correct that many people become ‘fake’ online and assume persona’s they think people will like, just as many are themselves. These sports people want to turn themselves in to brands. To do so, in this modern technology savvy world, they’d better start connecting and interacting with their fans.
xeroxpt (@)
20th September 2012, 2:15
@skinbintin I’m sorry to reply to you so many days afterwards.
I understand the corporate mind but some people fall for it and end up feeding the corporate mind, but when your talking about individuals you get confused, did that person become a brand? and then you start asking yourself, is Alonso really trying to connect with the fans or is he following Ferraris orders only to promote the brands involved (just an ex). Let me ask does it work for you, do you start fueling your car at Shell or do you start wearing puma clothing on your way to Santander or Abbey and then return home to your computer which is now protected with Kapersky? Maybe but it’s just trickery, playing with people and there are still some few examples in F1 that didnt really sell themselves that much like for instances Hulkenberg. when asked last year about sponsorship he replied basically saying that he wasn’t willing to bring sponsors of his own to secure his spot.
Umar Majid (@um1234)
17th September 2012, 17:34
Schumacher and Vettel might get twitter in the future, as for kimi he does the talking in the race :)
Kimi4WDC
18th September 2012, 6:51
Rule number one if you want to to bore Kimi out of his mind – talk to him about F1. :)))
xeroxpt (@)
17th September 2012, 19:20
Kevin Eason rants about Ferrari but both Ferrari and Mclaren are struggling, the whole world is, they are not redbull, they profit billions not millions, there are only 2 teams that are on F1 on the basis of publicity and those teams are Red Bull and Mercedes and Mercedes are losing their patience.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
17th September 2012, 21:32
Maybe Schumacher has that old person fear of technology!
Kimi4WDC
18th September 2012, 6:52
That’s why he drives Formula 1 cars, cause they certainly lack technology!
ps. I get what you mean thou :)
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
18th September 2012, 21:29
Yea, a bit of sarcasm;)
91jb12 (@91jb12)
18th September 2012, 16:53
I know i have read Vettel say he doesn’t have Twitter or facebook- he’d rather communicate face to face. Otherwise its too impersonal for him.
M30
18th September 2012, 23:19
Vettel is just not as flexible a person that is all. I mean there is a slim chance that any of his fans can see him in person so Twitter is better than nothing because at least the fans get a direct interaction.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
19th September 2012, 21:25
Seems like all 300 of them have taken to Twitter today to moan about “having to” keep to European time.
If you don’t like it, don’t do it! Surely you don’t have to eat and sleep at stupid o’clock, and do things like running round the circuit at 4am. The race starts at 8pm – so it’s like playing football in the evening or something. It’s only 3 hours later than the Australian GP – and they’re not all going “I have to stay up all night, look at me” in Melbourne.