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Get a picture next to your name 16th August 2008, 7:00
You may have noticed a tweak to the comments at F1 Fanatic. Some users now have small pictures, usually called avatars, next to their names. These are Gravatars (‘globally recognised avatars’) and you can get one yourself which will appear on this site and any other site that uses the same system. They also work [...]
The best souvenir you’ve got from a race 30th June 2008, 12:30
What’s the best souvenir you’ve picked up at a race – F1 or anything else? Some of us started discussing this on the F1 Fanatic Forum last week. Best finds so far include handfuls of carbon fibre from Giancarlo Fisichella’s crash at Magny-Cours in 2002, a jam jar full of tyre marbles from Melbourne ’01, [...]
F1 Fanatic Forum now open! 16th June 2008, 7:00
Recently I’ve noticed some of you haven’t been able to find the right post to talk about the latest piece of F1 news. So I decided to create a forum on the site where we can discuss everything to do with F1 there isn’t room or time to cover on the blog. You can give [...]
New stuff: Top 100 and past polls 29th May 2008, 12:00
It’s been an extraordinarily start to the season on F1 Fanatic. Just a few months ago I marked the 10,000th comment on the site – yesterday we passed the 15,000 mark*. There’s already a list of the top 10 posts with the most comments on the front of the site (look up to the top [...]
Share your ideas for F1 Fanatic 19th May 2008, 12:30
I’m trying out a new feature on F1 Fanatic that allow readers to share and vote on different ideas for articles. On the side bar to the right of this text you should see a box with the title “Suggest an article for F1 Fanatic.” Here you can post your ideas for articles, polls or [...]
Want to write for F1Fanatic? 23rd April 2008, 12:30
I’ve had a couple of emails from people who would like to write for F1 Fanatic. I’m always keen to get new and interesting articles on the site so I’ve set up a new page for anyone who wants to submit an article. If you’ve got an idea for an article you can either write [...]
F1 on Wikipedia 22nd April 2008, 12:30
What do you think of the quality of Formula 1 articles on Wikipedia? I’m forever researching different topics to do with F1 and, as with so many online subjects these days, Wikipedia dominates the search results rankings. But is the information on there any good? Have you edited any of the Wikipedia F1 articles? Share [...]
F1Fanatic hits 2,000 posts 21st April 2008, 1:00
F1Fanatic has hit the 2,000 posts mark! Actually I went past it the other day – this was the 2,000th post. If you want to look back at the articles stretching back over three year’s worth material then have a look at the new F1Fanatic Archive. I’ve also started a section to collect the various [...]
New stuff on the Facebook Group 11th April 2008, 13:00
A quick reminder about the F1 Fanatic Facebook Group: There’s over 100 members on there now and there are a number of discussions going about future stuff on the site I’d like to get feedback on including: The F1Fanatic Court Tips on commenting The Cool Wall What made F1 great? You can also watch many [...]
A quick request to 20% of you… 1st April 2008, 1:00
I don’t normally use posts to advertise but as this could be mutually beneficial for some of us I thought I’d make an exception! As you know I had the site redesigned last month, which is always tricky as people use different versions of different browsers. And the 20% of you who are using Internet [...]
