Monday 23 June 2014

The Pitstop Princess takes to Facebook

In new technological advances, you can now follow The Pitstop Princess on Facebook.  Let me know if you'd like a "comment along" during a race, results to be published there, more notifications, more competitions.

Austrian GP - "Go strat 1 and pick up rubber"

Ja

Williams 1, 2 grid positions
Cousins - who knew James Dyson was Patrick Head's cousin?
Dirndls - much better than the usual grid girl outfits
Hamilton's radio - "it's hammer time"
Perez radio - "You can press the overtake button for two laps...use it wisely."
Webber's podium interview - stirring up the tension in Mercedes

Nein

Epic Fails - Hamilton's qualifying
The blame game - Rosberg blames Hamilton's spin for not securing pole
Bumps - There was always going to be some bump that knocked William's chances of winning this race.  The first potential bump was receiving a grid penalty - bump avoided.  Second bump could have been losing it all at the start - swerved that one.  Third bump to be missed is poor pit stops - yep, there we go.
Sycophantic superimposed graphics on the circuit

Austrian GP Results

1. Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes! - 812
2= Mercrari Hulkenassa - 533
2= The Mercs - 533
4= The Pitstop Princess - 475
4= No Vices Now - 475
6. Hippy F1 - 474
7. The Hopefuls - 466
8. The View from the Back of the Grid - 420
9. League of Extraordinary Pay Drivers - 411
10. Red Bull goes Brazil Nuts!! - 354
11. The Baldy Biker - 302
12. Magnussen Benz over Button - 283
13. Beauty & the F1 Geek - 202*
14. Hopefully Prancing Horses not Donkeys - 177

* Home track

Saturday 21 June 2014

Thursday 12 June 2014

Canadian GP - *sobs*

Yes

Adrian Newey - staying at Red Bull, but not in F1, a chance for everyone else to catch up
Classic race start - lots of excitement
Bottas' pit stop - 2.6 quick seconds, at last Williams pull it off
Massa passes Alonso - schadenfreude
Overtaking - so much of it, best race of the season, I think (please comment if you disagree)
Canadian crowd
Australian national anthem - long time since we've heard it

No

Suzie's yellow boots - a bit Fireman Sam
Button - so gaunt
Adrian Newey - staying at Red Bull, no chance for another team to receive the magic
Massa's pit stop - 7 long seconds
Hoagy?
Williams throw away another race...
Poor Perez - what a shame
Massa/Perez - a Grosjean style incident, if it had been him what would the other drivers be saying?
Button's interview - finding the negative in the positive

Canadian GP Results

1. Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes - 661
2. The Mercs - 457
3. Mercrari Hulkenassa - 450
4. The Pitstop Princess - 425
5. The Hopefuls - 423
6. Hippy F1 - 406
7. No Vices Now - 372
8. League of Extraordinary Pay Drivers - 365
9. The View from the Back of the Grid - 349
10. Red Bull goes Brazil Nuts!! - 335
11. The Baldy Biker - 248
12. Magnussen Benz Over Button - 238
13. Hopefully Prancing Horses not Donkeys - 156
14. Beauty & the F1 Geek - 148

Monday 2 June 2014

Monaco GP - "Mighty job. Mighty"

Oui

Raikkonen's start
Marussia - scoring their first points

Non

Ericsson in Qually - poor, shoddy, ban him.
Ricciardo - looked very, very nervous on the grid
Kvyat - what a shame
Hamilton - back to "toys out the pram" days
Raikkonen's mystery Safety Car stop
Williams' tactics
8 DNF - the most so far, very retro
Benedict Cumberbatch's interview - make him stop
Marussia - can't afford PR training - "I did a really sh*t start"

Monaco GP Results

1. Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes! - 610
2. The Mercs - 437
3. The Hopefuls - 390
4. Mercrari Hulkenassa - 383
5. The Pitstop Princess - 367
6. Hippy F1 - 334
7. No Vices Now - 331
8. The View from the Back of the Grid - 324
9. League of Extraordinary Pay Drivers - 321
10. Red Bull goes Brazil Nuts!! - 261
11. The Baldy Biker - 226
12. Magnussen Benz Over Button - 148
13. Hopefully Prancing Horses not Donkeys - 139
14. Beauty & the F1 Geek - 127