We learned a lot at Silverstone last weekend. Here are the highlights:
- A month’s worth of rain in one day is a lot of water
- Tractors may not be the least sexy means of transport, but occasionally you’d kill to have one:
- Sometimes when you’re camping it’s easier just to leave the tent behind, rather than pack it up, mud, water and all and take it home:
- Simon Pegg, once chief geek, has transmogrified into Hollywood chic:
- He may look slightly disconcerting, but Goldie is possibly the nicest man you could ever meet. He is also very energetic:
- Clichés about British summer/weather are based on fact
- It’s a genuine pleasure to have fans come see us BACKSTAGE before our local race:
- Winning feels great. Winning in Wings For Life livery feels bloody marvellous
- Winning your local grand prix is special. It’s not just another set of trophies…
- Changing the order of the garages feels uncomfortable, but didn’t do us any harm. In fact Caterham F1 are good neighbours to have
- Having two British film heart-throbs, Jude Law and Hugh Grant, in the Energy Station puts a spring in the step of certain members of the team. Eh, ladies?
- Not putting enough parking next to the Paddock is great for golf buggy hire companies. But we can’t think of anyone else it’s a boon for
- Traffic control around Silverstone still needs some work. Eight hours to queue to get to work is not funny
- The most prophetic marketing line in British Grand Prix history came from the Yas Marina Circuit’s wet-weather poncho…
- Campers at Whittlebury Park are a very generous bunch – raising £2,000 on Saturday post-Quali at a Wings For Life auction
- If you play a JLS tune in the garage, members of the band will dance along to it
- Crossing grass (and sodden grass at that) to get from garage to pitlane is, well, just weird. The British really are obsessed by lawns
- Some guests really don’t know the first thing about F1. One celebrity’s entourage member kept referring to Free Practice as “rehearsal”. No…
- Having the unilateral interviews on the podium, and introduced by Sir Jackie Stewart is a unique, but surprisingly neat way of getting post-race comments from the top three
- Mud is a right bugger to get out of team trainers
- Professional sportsmen are very tall (Jamie Roberts, Stuart Broad et al)
- Other teams have given up competing with our garage sound system
- Everyone in the team has long-lost friends they haven’t heard from in years. There are a limited number of Paddock passes allocated to each team. Long-lost friends don’t always know about this…
- The winner of our Red Bull Flying Lap Competition at Whittlebury Park can beat Sebastian Vettel’s Silverstone lap record. Virtually…
- Now it’s your turn. What did you learn from watching/attending/camping/getting wet at Silverstone?
