F1 Fanatic

early 90s. Grew up in Daytona so I was always a race fan but didn’t get to see them much on tv. but I played a lot of the video games and that’s how I got to know the names and circuits. always followed the sport but was never up early enough to watch a race or in school . Then I was watching Canada 07 and saw Kubica’s crash and was amazed at how far safety had gotten and I’ve pretty much been watching ever since. Now I check 5 sites for updates regularly, have 4 or 5 phone apps to check, and spend most of my free time catching up on what I missed or wasn’t alive for on youtube

Not very long ago for me really.
I started watching WRC in 05/06, and really started to get the bug for racing, then in 2006 i started to watch the occasional F1 Race with interest.

I enjoyed what i had seen and in 2007 i watched the whole season, since then im completely hooked. Seen every race and qualifying session and i’ve been watching F1 season reviews of the older stuff, done 1970 – 1991 so far!

Looking forward to the new season… HD,20 races and five word champions :D

My earliest memory of F1 was Senna in 1994, I was 7 at the time, and I had been watching F1 before this date because I remember watching it with my Dad. I’m sure I started maybe in 1993, but nothing shocked my memory as much as 1994.

I was a big fan of Williams and Sauber, my favourite F1 memorabilia being a red Williams cap, and blue Red Bull Sauber cap.

I pretty much watched most of the races during the 90s and grew up with the sport. My enthusiasm fell off during the early 2000s and I’d then watch the occasional race. I watched most of the races from 2005 – 2008, and then in 2009 I really got into the sport. I bought a copy of the BBC’s F1 season review, and I was hooked. I then preceded to watch every session since.

I, much like Superted, have been going through old season reviews and reliving my childhood memories of the 90s.

Its fascinating to hear your first memories dsob, I’d love to hear some more of our older F1 Fanatic generation here.

My earliest memory is Hockenheim 1992, I will always remember Schumacher on the podium, for some reason he seemed to stand out to me even though Mansell and Senna were also on the podium. I was only 5 at the time but I loved sitting with my Dad watching the racing, and even now I still never miss a race with my Dad.

Admittedly I was never focussed on championship standings or anything since I were so young but once Schumacher started showing his dominance I really started getting glued to the telly. I honestly think I got into F1 in the greatest era ever and I feel privileged to have followed Schumacher almost through his whole F1 career.

For some reason the whole family had fallen asleep on Saturday night on the sofa. When I was woken up in the middle of the night to be packed off to bed, I found the Australian Grand Prix was on and asked if I could stay up to watch it. Thankfully my mother said yes. 15 years on and I’ve never looked back (except for 2003-2006, I missed those three years as I fell out of practice and excitement, this as a Schumacher fan). Although the first F1 I saw was actually the year before, a snippet of the Monaco Grand Prix and the podium ceremony of the Canadian Grand Prix (Alesi in a #27 Ferrari winning, had no idea of the significance at the time!) It rather annoys me I could have been watching from 1991 at least and I didn’t.

I remember watching a Grand Prix in the evening (probably 1990, I was 6) with a Ferrari fighting against a Marlboro McLaren, and I supported the Ferrari, and Ferrari won. Probably was the GP Mexico 1990. After that I read some stuff about the championship and I wake up in the middle of the night just to see Senna throwing off Prost in the first corner, I was completely pissed off with that and stoped following F1 fulltime for a while.

I resumed in the Hungary 1995, motivated by the returning of a driver from my country.
From the beginning of 1996 I started recording all the Grand Prix in VHS, and since 2006 in DVD. Now I had all the grand prixs recorded by me since 1996, and copies of allmost all the grand prixs since 1977…

I once had the delusion that I could record the entire 1998 season on a single VHS. I managed all of Aus, the build up to Brazil and, errrr, that was it.

Not sure to be honest, my dad has watched F1 since the 70′s so from birth I might of seen it, but my earliest memory would have to be the 1996 Monaco GP as a “whole grand prix” with my old man wanting me to support Damon Hill, but as kids do, my favorite colour at the time was red so schumi was it. Of course as parents do my old man disowned me in the process.

But for some strange reason, I have that feeling that I have seen Jean Alesi racing in a Ferrari and that could be from 1991 to 1995 since I just knew he drove in a red car without checking up. I was too young to sit down and focus on the TV for a whole race so I wouldn’t know which circuit if you asked me.