You know you're obsessed with F1 when..

[herowassenna]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

You question the rationale of anyone you see walking around out outside while the Grand Prix is on. Don't they want to hurry to get home?

Other people question your rationale when they see you with two computers and the TV on, one for the GP, one for the live timing and one for the driver tracker and/or forum. This is of course a completely normal thing to do and does not make anyone obsessive. Ah, damn- I just said it did.

Can I include watching all the F1 replays in case the drivers say anything new that evening. Then maybe watching the race again the next day to see what the rest were doing because you have read an interesting comment on here?

Or buying a state of the art PC to be able to play Grand Prix Legends on there because consoles only give you contemporary machinery.

I wonder if obsessive is also travelling abroad, and part of your holiday is the classic F1 tracks that aren't used anymore, like Reims and the original Spa

[Bononi]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

Someone cuts in right in front of you whilst walking down the street or moves around twice in front of you and you turn to you friend and broadcast loud enough so anyone within earshot can hear you "He/she's got to get a penalty for that, hasn't he?".

"You're magnanimous Born Racer baby, keep going..."

[willb]

You use the round-about as a skid pad to test g forces and how much downforce you need for turns.

[Carsandmotorracing]

You know you're a MOTORSPORT fan when the only reason you learnt Japenese was so you could understand what the commentators were saying when watching Super GT.

[Chatters]

Originally Posted by Bononi

... You are proud to share the same birthday of a double world champion !

On that note...

• You a proud to share the same birthday as Tiago Monteiro.

Every year on July 24 I now sing a quiet "Happy Birthday to me/Tiago" song to myself...

[Carsandmotorracing]

Yeah I do the same thing on my birthday for George Follmer (1973 F1 driver, came 3rd at Spanish GP, 1972 Can-Am Champion, 1965 SCCA Road Racing Champion, 1972 and 1976 Trans-Am Champion and winner of the 1969 IndyCar race at PIR).

Just gwtting it out there

[Marbot]

I share a birthday with former GP driver, Dave Kennedy. An Irish chap who drove the Shadow/Theodore cars in the 1980 season. Not with any great success it has to be said. Then he raced Can Am, then on to sports cars and TV commentary.

[Lotusonpole]

Guilty...to more than I realised.

Oh...and that too...pointing at the Avatar. Gravity powered F1...sort of.

[Osella]

you have Franz Tost for breakfast...

[Born Racer]

Oh blimey- the thing with the birthdays. To think I used to be pleased with the fact Gerhard Berger's is two days after mine!

Originally Posted by herowassenna

Can I include watching all the F1 replays in case the drivers say anything new that evening.

You certainly can. I do exactly the same.

[Born Racer]

More of these are happening to me and it may be because of the thread, but:

You're going on holiday, unzip a suitcase and it makes a high-pitched fluctuating sound that instantly makes you think of a Formula 1 engine sound when you get a bit of wheelspin and the revs are momentatily high.

Or maybe that's 'you know you've been playing F1 2011 all day when..'.

[phathead]

How about the fact that the only thing that will pacify my ten month old for longer than 10 minutes is if I put a F1 race on?

[Thaw Daggerslash]

As soon as you get out your car you go and weigh yourself.

[Born Racer]

It's raining and your girlfriend begins to share the the umbrella she's sheltering herself with by shifting it over your heard, at which point she feels like your grid girl/ personal trainer.

[VIVA GT]

A bit of an old one this but back in the day if I ever had new tyres fitted to my road car I'd leave the stickers on the treads and pretend I got 'my qualifiers' on!

[Dan Fielden]

Originally Posted by chillibowl

you make investment decisions based on what companies sponsor F1.

drive around for miles because Shell fuel is the only gas good enough for your car.

time your gas station attendant and offer pointers to on how to improve your 'pit stop' times.

Ive actually HAD to stop at a Total garage and only put in enough to get me to the shell garage 16 miles away!

I really thought that was just me.

[chunterer]

I've done similar too Dan, in my case the mimimum possible in order to get back and fill up at Painsburys for the nectar points!!!

I also find my head popping round anytime I hear an air drill or pnemuatic drill, heck, any drill and immediately imagine an F1 car having its tyres changed!

[herowassenna]

You know you're obsessed when....
looking for a sports car, you discount Porsche and Audi because they're Le Mans winners. Look at Ferrari and genuinely consider an NSX because Senna famously developed it...

On holiday in Italy, pull into a petrol station in your hire car, they saunter over to fill you with fuel in tragically slow time, then as you leave the pit area realise they forgot to change your tyres and now you have to complete the journey on these worn out ones...

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by herowassenna

On holiday in Italy, pull into a petrol station in your hire car, they saunter over to fill you with fuel in tragically slow time, then as you leave the pit area realise they forgot to change your tyres and now you have to complete the journey on these worn out ones...

Or you feel offended if they don't instantly recognise you as a Ferrari driver!

[Born Racer]

After qually, you feel frustrated that there are 24 hours until the start.

You get that Saturday night feel-good feeling when you think about how there's a Grand Prix the next day. You may be sitting in a pub with friends and your thoughts are elsewhere.

2 from my lady:

You spend the night asking her five times what the time is, because she's hogging the alarm clock and you'd rather be in control of the 'off' button so she doesn't switch it off and go back to sleep without being aware. You also worry about that clock- does it definitely go back by itself?

You thought you heard her asking you about Felipe Massa's front wing when actually she was saying something totally unrelated.

[parkingjedi]

- you live in Japan and when a pedestrian starts weaving about on the foot path in front of you, you think: no wonder these people have never produced a decent driver - no one in this country can hold a decent line!

[boyracer019]

Geting up at stupid o'clock to watch the first moments of FP1 of the first race of the season - I take it that everyone else in the world gets up at not quite so stupid o'clock to watch quali and the race

[Thaw Daggerslash]

You're surprised to see that your name isn't at the top of the Castrol Driver Rankings.

[Chatters]

• You beat your friends at go-karting and are surprised when nobody approaches you offering you a McLaren contract.

• You stand in front of the mirror for hours practicing the best way to say "Mr. Dennis, one day I'm going to drive for you."

• You get a flat tyre 3 miles from home and feel the same sense of disappointment Kimi Raikkonen did in 2005.

• You arrive and instinctively go to pull the steering wheel off.

[daallo]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

Just a bit of fun, mostly nicked from elsewhere. I've added some of my own.


• You make massive amounts of pointless spreadsheets to store stats that are readily accessible on the internet.

• You are walking behind someone, you wait until the last millisecond to cut either to the left, or the right, and then try to overtake them.

• While drinking champagne, you are sometimes tempted to either spray it out on everyone, or at least pour it out over the friends next to you.

****, all that's true, and I have actually sprayed it feeling as an F1 race winner haha.