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Spot the merch! – fun trackside F1 bingo

2025-07-25

If you are trackside for a Formula 1 Grand Prix, I have good news for you, I made a bingo sheet for you to have fun while spotting different merch! You can just look and cross off your findings and race your friends on who is going to have the first bingo! Or you can […]

Land of Austrians, home of Red Bull – Visiting the Red Bull Ring

2025-06-23

Writing about my visit to the Red Bull Ring has been long overdue – I was there on the May 1 long weekend, and yet we are in the middle of June… But at least, it could be a nice intro for the Austrian GP, I guess. My worst track visiting habit was in play […]

Something to add to your Netflix list!

2025-06-20

If you are once again just browsing Netflix to find something to watch, but nothing on your list seems appealing and whatever you start seems boring after 5 minutes, I have a recommendation for you! F1: The Academy is similar to Drive to Survive, but focuses on the 2024 F1 Academy racing series. You don’t […]

Pagani – Where dreams are built

2025-04-10

For the last day of my trip, I planned only one thing: the Horacio Pagani Museum and Atelier. I didn’t really know what to expect, or how much time to plan as I had never been in a car factory before. Very short summary of my visit: I was mind-blown. I learnt so much, and […]

A Motorsport Pilgrimage to Imola and Faenza

2025-04-07

One of my earliest plans going back to Bologna was visiting the Imola track. It was even on my vision board for this year. I felt that it was a very special place – and it did not disappoint! Imola is a classic Italian small town, except it has an international racetrack. I arrived there […]

Run like a Ferrari – Enzo Ferrari Memorial Run

2025-04-03

I am not a runner – I always hated it, running after a bus made me fight for my life and was not able to run for 1 minute straight. So imagine this: a person like this signs up for a 5K run. It is a true story, though and I earnestly started to train […]

Hidden gem in the English countryside – Haynes Motor Museum

2025-03-05

I will be honest with you, I had no idea who John Haynes was before I went to the Haynes Motor Museum. If you are the same, don’t worry, we’ll come to that a bit later, but for now, let me just tell you this museum is 100% worth checking out – I highly recommend […]

Brooklands for the second time

2025-02-21

I make mistakes while I travel, but I hardly make the same mistake twice – so this time, I showed up a few minutes before opening at the Brooklands museum and planned to stay all the way until closing. I have been there before, so now I didn’t have the urge to check out everything […]

F175 – because I have been there

2025-02-19

Even though I tried my hardest (like recruiting my family and also me sitting at an airport waiting in the virtual line), I didn’t manage to get a ticket for the F175. Yet, as a F1 history junkie, I had to be there, this being a once in a lifetime thing (or at least the […]

Hockenheim

2025-01-23

My second day in Stuttgart didn’t actually take place in the city itself. Thanks to ChatGPT, I found out that if I’m interested in motorsports, I could visit the Hockenheimring. Reaching the track was another adventure involving a skillful combination of two trains and a bus. By the way, Stuttgart seems to have countless different […]

Stuttgart – the Disneyland of carlovers

2025-01-21

For me, as someone who was a total car illiterate before 2023, it was completely new information that Stuttgart is a paradise for car enthusiasts (let’s not even list how many other things I was clueless about before 2023). It was only last autumn that the Mercedes-Benz Museum landed on my radar. From there, it […]

Hidden gem in Hungary’s countryside: Kaáli Auto Museum

2025-01-13

I don’t exactly remember how I first heard about the Kaáli Auto Museum. What I do know is that it immediately went on my must-visit list, but I wasn’t really sure how to get there without a car (which is probably the biggest contradiction in my life as a car and motorsport enthusiast—I don’t have […]

Brno

2025-01-03

I like to say that I have a special sense to find all the F1 related places in any city, but that is only partly true. Whenever I find a specific place that interests me I put a star on it on Google Maps, so whenever I’m nearby I can remember it. My other secret […]

Turin – land of cars, home of FIAT

2024-12-28

Visiting Turin has been on my list for a while, mainly because of their car museum (MAUTO), but then I also learned about their heritage in car manufacturing. I haven’t really checked anything before booking my flight (except flight prices), that’s how I ended up accidentally arriving on the day of the Abu Dhabi GP. […]

F1 winter break survival tip 1 – Adrian Newey’s book

2024-12-17

Adrian Newey is an engineer and he writes like an engineer. (If you don’t know who he is, well, he is the most successful car designer in F1 history. His cars won several championships, both drivers and constructors – in the color of Williams, McLaren and Red Bull, the latest one being the 2023 Red […]

Terramar – The forgotten track of Spain

2024-12-02

I don’t know what is so attractive to me in old, abandoned racetracks (so attractive indeed, that with this one, Terramar, I can check the 3 oldest racetracks in Europe on my list) that I keep trying to find new ones and visit them. Someone told me that when I visit Barcelona, I should give […]

Should you watch the Senna series?

2024-12-01

I have been waiting for this series ever since I knew that it was coming. I am not a particularly big Senna fan – I think it is because I haven’t lived through his career, and don’t really have emotional ties to him – but as I am searching for who could be my F1 […]

Christmas gift guide for F1 fans

2024-11-25

Someone has asked me recently if I could give her some good tips for F1 gifts. Well, I could! 😀 So here is my list, these are all tested things that I have either bought or I plan to buy, and I’m sure they would me great Christmas presents to any F1 fans. As a […]

THE F1 history book – Grand Prix by Will Buxton

2024-11-22

If you are looking for a Christmas gift for an F1 fan (or for yourself, and you don’t have this book yet), then your search is over, because this is it!! This book should be on the shelf of every F1 fan.  It is such a comprehensive guide of everything F1 that it can give […]

Montjuic – A great circuit with a tragic history

2024-11-21

The Montjuic circuit was a street circuit in Barcelona that was compared to Monaco in terms of difficulty and beauty and was found (is found?) on one of the hills of Barcelona, and can be walked.  I would agree with the previous assessment as I decided to walk around it – it runs among parks, […]

How to see the Hungaroring for free?

2024-11-11

I am almost always leaving my country to do some F1 adventures, but I thought why not explore my surroundings here in Hungary. So I decided to check the renovation of the Hungaroring and see from above how they are doing. I could do this, because right next to the Hungaroring, there is a smaller […]

F1 Exhibition in London aka Ups I did it again

2024-11-09

I have gone to the F1 Exhibition in Vienna, and just because the exhibition moved to London and I also happened to be in London, well, I decided to check it out one more time. Especially because I knew that some of the featured cars are different. In Vienna, it took me 3 hours (even […]

Guenther Steiner: Unfiltered

2024-10-28

After Surviving to Drive, the next Guenther book can’t come soon enough, especially when he got sacked. Was it everything I hoped for? Well, given that I’d happily listen to the man explain the recipe of toast, I don’t think I had very big expectations other than just him telling his perspective in his usual […]

The cradle of motorsport

2024-10-23

Every time I visit England, I am blown away at the sheer amount of motorsport related activities and places. I should not be, I guess given how many English car manufacturers are based there and all the history and tradition that surrounds England. Yet, here I am – one day wondering where I should go […]

My dates with Guenther Steiner

2024-10-15

The whole reason for my visiting England was that Guenther Steiner started touring the United Kingdom with this thing called “An Evening/Afternoon with Guenther Steiner” – it is his booktour basically. My take on this was that he is hilarious, I don’t even care what he is talking about, even if he just explains how […]

Autoworld in Brussels

2024-10-09

It was 8 years ago that I have first visited Autoworld in Brussels. I remember that I was the one pushing it, which looking back, I don’t understand, because I used to have almost zero interest in cars. Or maybe my interest was just latent… Anyway, I don’t have a lot of memories from back […]

Is Spa the most beautiful circuit in the world?

2024-10-07

Short answer: yes. A bit longer answer: I haven’t been to all circuits in the world but seeing Spa, I can fairly certainly say that it must be among the most beautiful ones for sure. The nature that surrounds it makes it very special (especially if you are a fan of pinetrees and fog), as […]

Visiting Monza

2024-09-23

Monza has been on my radar for a very long time (I mean, I’m an F1 fan for abour a year, but about 10 month of that year, I have been wanting to go to Monza). Good thing is that it is quite accessible, it’s near Milan, there is great public transport there and there […]

Like Scuderia Ferrari? Join a Club!

2024-09-17

At the beginning of the year, I found out that Scuderia Ferrari Clubs exists!! They are officially affiliated with Ferrari, and located all around the world (190 club in 22 countries!!) and anybody can join them! The point is to find some like-minded fellows, aka some Tifosi that you can share your Ferrari Passion with. […]

What to read if you are interested in Red Bull Racing?

2024-08-26

I am living in my Red Bull era these days, and also this year is their 20th season, so I think it is reasonable that I wanted to learn a bit more about their history. I recommend these two! Red Bulletin – 20 Laps around the Sun: I accidentally saw it in a supermarket in […]

Book review: The Formula

2024-08-03

When I started reading this book, I thought it was like Drive to Survive, but in a book form: showing us the heroes of F1 and explaining how looking for loopholes in the regulations advances the technology of the everyday world – and it 100% appealed to my idealist personality. Then somewhere around the part […]

My visit to Williams

2024-07-30

Now that Carlos has finally announced that he will continue his career with Williams, I feel inspired to share what it was like watching the Silverstone race at the Williams HQ in Grove. With my experience at Red Bull behind me, I felt more confident preparing for the event. Williams’ headquarters is even more in […]

How I met James Vowles and other shannanigans

2024-07-05

This is the story of how I met James Vowles and some other shannanigans… As I am vacationing in London this week, I obviously had to check out the Williams fan zone that is at Piccadilly from the 2nd of July and will be there and open until lights out on Sunday. Naturally, I checked […]

I watched Red Bull’s home race at their HQ!

2024-07-02

About a month ago I found out from one of Red Bull’s Instagram stories that they hold race screenings at their headquarters in Milton Keynes. I was in the fortunate position that the Austrian race coincided with my vacation in London, so I took it as a sign and promptly booked myself a ticket. I […]

Karting as a way of self-discovery

2024-06-27

I had my second karting lesson, and I’m beginning to think that this is not just a new hobby but also a journey of self-discovery. Besides getting my usual adrenaline and dopamine rush, it made me think about many things again. As I might have mentioned last time, I don’t do things halfway, so after […]

Mercedes World in London

2024-06-24

I’m heading to London this weekend – to do a bunch of carhappy stuff – you can do some guessing about what and where I will do, as I will be there for 10 days (meaning 2 weekends). Looking at a F1 calendar might help as well, but let’s exclude what would be the obvious […]

Spanish adventures

2024-06-20

Hola! While we are waiting for the Spanish GP, here are some of my adventures from Spain to help get in the mood – not that I would need a lot of help, but still…  I’ve visited two cities this spring – the biggest ones, Madrid and Barcelona. I flew in to Madrid, and I […]

My first gokart lesson

2024-06-19

I don’t know if I’m the only one who, after watching motorsports, felt like sitting behind the wheel themselves. I suspect I’m not, because even just after a few months of being an F1 fan, the thought of trying out a racing car, or a go-kart, or anything like that, started to infiltrate my thoughts. […]

Lamborghini – The Man Behind the Legend

2024-06-17

My brain surely works in some mysterious ways, because I was closely following Frank Grillo’s stories when he was shooting this movie (during that time, I was living in a Marvel haze, my previous obsession before F1), then upon reaching my F1/car era, my brain switched off, and I completely forgot the existence of this […]

The Alfa Romeo Museum

2024-06-15

Silverstone was not supposed to be my first F1 track visit. After the Ferrari Museum, of course, I wanted to visit Monza. The trip to Milan was one with my team (as in “my team from my everyday job, which has zero connection to cars”), as some kind of team building (only kind of because […]

Silverstone (museum + track)

2024-06-10

It seems that I have kind of a pattern with Instagram, because how I ended up in Silverstone is basically the same story as how I ended up in Maranello. Instagram showed me that the Silverstone museum exists, then I looked up where it is, and decided to go.  To be fair, I think going […]

Monaco

2024-05-23

Hola! As this is Monaco race week, I thought it would be the perfect time to post about my adventures there. Especially that Monaco is such a special, historic racing place and I even chose it to be the header of this blog. The planning of the trip started with me realizing that Monaco doesn’t […]

My first adventure – THE Ferrari trip

2024-05-20

Hola gente! So as I said in my previous post, my first carventure (just made up this word) was to Ferrari. One random October evening I found the museiferrari on Instagram, and acknowledged its existence in surprise. I know, literally everyone who knows at least a little about Ferrari knows that they are in Maranello, […]

The origin story of the Carhappy Lady

2024-05-16

Greetings-greetings!  Welcome to my blog, which I guess I should start with an introduction of me and of what the heck Carhappy Lady is. Well, she is me! You know how people advise that you should not wait forever to find the perfect solution, you should start with a good enough one. A few months […]