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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 […]