F1 Fanatic

So F1 is our passion. We watch every race, cheer for our favourite drivers, read F1 news every day, form opinions and discuss the sport with our friends and online. However, it’s probably even more than that. Can you think of how being an F1 fan has affected your life?

Here are some examples of how my love for the sport has changed my life:

1) I have significantly improved my foreign language skills by watching and discussing F1 in German and English.
2) I have made new friends on F1 Fanatic.
3) Occasionally I use F1 for analogies in talks.
4) F1 has sometimes been kind of a ‘shelter’, a place to hide from the trouble in my life.

Last year during the Canadian Grand Prix, I planned that after the program, I would revise for an exam the following morning. However the race went on two and half hours longer than expected and I barely did any revision in the end. I did okay in the end, but it could have been better. It didn’t matter that much anyway, because I was going to drop the subject afterwards anyway. Sometimes I find it hard to prioritise anything over F1.

It would be one less form of procrastination and I would be heading into my final year of uni with a strong 1st.

Where my F1 love, has turned into obsession, there is no two ways about it…I am very unsocial especially over a raceweekend…and even more so when Mclaren and Lewis don’t do well.
My life now evolves around F1, its one of my only topics of conversation that I can actually start!
However I would not change it for the world!…there is something about a community involved with F1, that I feel you don’t get from other sports!

I get nagged more by my parents, because I’m always watching, looking something up about, or talking about F1…

1) I really hope it changes everything in my life, as my ultimate dream is to work in an F1 team and I’m studying and working towards that right now.

2) I made some true friends here on F1 Fanatic, and for that I must be always grateful to @keithcollantine, for that would never happen if this site didn’t exist.

3) My English improved a lot too (although much of my basic learning came from videogames when I was 10 or 12 years old, specially from Final Fantasy VIII :P), and I learned a lot of new words from F1, specially technical terms.

4) And I got into more than 10 arguments with my girlfriend because of it, specially when she wants to go out during the Canadian or Brazilian Grands Prix (as those are the only ones that are aired at noon here) and I refuse :P

I slipstream on the highway when I have to pass someone on the road.
I always defend the inside line when someone tries to pass me on the highway.
In the morning when I first get my car out of the garage, I weave to get heat into the tyres.
When I see my fuel-tank is low, I need to save fuel!
I take a bit of the side-curb when making a turn on the road.
I use the racing line when running a distance race.
When it starts raining, I feel like driving back in my garage and changing to Intermediate tyres.
Every wet road seems dry after Japan 2007.
I am dissapointed when I take two-tenths longer to do my homework than the day before.

Whenever I’m either driving on the road, doing my homework, or running a race – I always have an awkward feeling that Fernando is faster than me.

@damonsmedley But sleeping to wake up at 3AM is not a wise choice either! Usually at that time we are sleeping so deep that we would have a hard time waking up. I missed last year’s Malaysian GP because I decided to sleep, but was so tired that the alarm clock didn’t wake me up! Usually when the races are at 4AM or 5AM I prefer to sleep early and then wake up, but if it is at 3AM then I stay awake.