User:MARS1483

Fandom. For me, than fan feeling has always come from Formula 1. Ever since I was 4, to watch a Grand Prix weekend, all the way up to now, was a no-excuses, must watch affair. When I was younger, Formula 1 was not on the radar, when it comes to my fellow Americans (Save for the few that would arrange watch parties, like the one formed here in San Diego, Downtown specifically by a bar owner who was also a fellow F1 fanatic, and he would put the word out there that he’d open his bar in the morning to watch a Grand Prix live, together with other fans. And the live F1 Grand Prix Sunday coverage tended to be in the morning because of the time difference between here in San Diego California, and the bulk of the race locations at the time, which is to say Mainland Europe and the UK.) For example, the 2023 British Grand Prix which began at 1:00 p.m. local track time, but at 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Basically the running of the Formula 1 British Grand Prix was an afternoon affair for the British, going all the way back to the very first Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix, which took place in 1950 at a circuit known as Silverstone, which was the figurative birthplace of Formula 1: The 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. It was such a groundbreaking event, that even a young lady known as Queen Elizabeth attended. There was Grand Prix racing before Formula 1 was established, but those races were very loosely brought together as a World Championship, and for perspective, this was pre-WWII, and the main entries were Mercedes and what was then known as Auto Union, but it later became what we now know today as Audi. During those years, it was a matter of the big, heavy “Silver Arrows from Germany [Fun fact: When Germany became Nazi Germany, the cars wore swastikas and Hitler was the de facto team owner of both of the Nazi Germany entries, Mercedes and Auto Union. And Hitler wanted victory when it comes to Grand Prix racing so much to the extent that when one of the absolute best drivers of the time was Jewish, but Hitler set that reality aside and acquired that driver by offering him large sum of money to drive for one of the German teams. before even when “Watch parties” were a well known “thing.”) in general. And coverage of the 1987-Present Formula 1 Grand Prix of X was very limited. Only a channel known as “SpeedVision” aired F1 qualifying sessions and the Grands Prix (Yes that’s the plural form of “Grand Prix.” The reason it seems odd, and feels “weird” to refer to more than one Grand Prix, the reason why using that plural form of Grand Prix is because it’s a matter of French being translated to English. If a French person saw the plural form but the way we handle plurals (for the most-part, we put an “s” or “es” on the end of the last word)…to that French person who’s being shown our inaccurate “natural feeling” version: Grand Prixs, that French person would find it equally if not more odd than the actual plural form “feels” odd to us. (Pure semantics) But I digress, pardon. I want to be an F1 advisor for Fandom because one day I stumbled across Fandom’s F1 contingent, and almost everything was just wrong. For example, when I arrived at the F1 Fandom page for Fernando Alonso (One of my favorite drivers; I have a “videographic” memory of him clinching his first of back-to-back championships driving for the team that, at the time, was known as Renault (A factory entry; Factory vs. private entry? Ferrari is a factory entry. Red Bull is a private entry. I would love to be the one to maintain accuracy and context for Fandom’s Formula 1 “realm.” Why? Because I’m very passionate about Formula 1, and to see the page that indicated Alonso has 3 wins to his name, when in reality, he has won 32 Grands Prix. I mean no disrespect to the person who took it upon themselves to Fandom’s Formula 1 section. Maybe they’ve followed F1 for a few years (Which reminds me: The Netflix docu-series “Drive to Survive,” which has been following F1 for years now was the stimulus that introduced Formula 1 to the United States. Now the fanbase in the US is growing exponentially, which is great, but those who came to be F1 fans solely based on what they saw of F1 as they watched the series are denying themselves of the context of what F1 was before the first season of “Drive to Survive.” So, if any newcomers to Formula 1 want to know what happened in the world of Formula 1 between that first F1 World Championship race in 1950 and today (well, the people of F1 are currently taking their yearly “summer break,” and the next race is going to be the 2023 F1 Dutch Grand Prix on August 27th. And I think that covers everything, for now. Again, feel free to ask me about anything F1. The history of it must be known to understand the present F1.