Dec 5, 2019
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Long time no see. How’s your holiday mood doing..? 🎄✨
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Long time no see!
Some fantastic views from the recent hiking “trip”! Shots of the local flora and fauna (this one aka weird me) included 🐻
Thank you @verstapping for tagging me in the 2018 selfie thingie! <3
And you too will also have to thank her for having to witness my face again xD
AN epic mixed bag of the very mundane selfies, cat selfies (apparently, my cat doesn’t fancy selfies with me), a frozen selfie, a travel selfie and an OHMYGODITSSEBASTIANVETTELIHAVEBEENWAITINGFORTHISMOMENT selfie.
Tagging some precious people here (sorry if you have already been tagged) @estebaguette @redbullmocktails @hulkieswonderland @sweetpeapoppy @mr-cage-man @robin-frijns @bebananaslikethehulk @livelongandfangirling @stoffelwaffle @redbullricciardo
Now that I’m home I can finally sort all that photo mess that I have from my whole journey and make a decent (ha?) post about my second ever F1 weekend. German GP 2018, probably the last F1 race at Hockenheimring.
To be honest, I just start thinking that I should never ever come to one again because once I’m there, my favourite driver(s) race is not that good and with a lot of issues.
It was a hell of a wekeend actually (literally, half of it was the terrible heat and the other half was a sort of a flood - lightning storms and wrath of the skies included). A short story of how it was with bits of unnecessary personal information.
Thursday was a pit-walk day and I was really excited: it was Sebastian’s home GP so we believed that the chances for him to go meet the fans were really high. Having spent some hour or two camping in front of Ferrari garage paid off and there he was! Cute and nice and attacked by piles of fans but I still managed to have a small talk and a selfie with him (seriously, my extreme-conditions-selfie-skills still suck, sorry for that orc with Seb in the first picture). Presented my drawing (probably that was the reason I was honoured with so ‘much’ attention) and he seemed to like it, yaaaas! It was the third day since I arrived to Germany but it was already the highlight of the whole trip (reminder: still had almost a month of travelling ahead).
Friday was the practice day, no special events for fans, but I checked my place at the grandstand and it was perfect: could actually see half of the track from my spot (that panorama shot is the one). Got to discover the surroundings, fan attractions and stuff. Met some friends and tried local pizza. Not the best one ever but still good. Just a note here: my previous F1 weekend was Baku so it was a completely different track, and also my place was at the longest straight so I could enjoy that not-so-big piece of the track that I could see and those awesome loud sounds of cars rushing by but this time I was sitting by the last turn of the track and could see a number of other turns and straights and it was really exciting. In no way I want to say that it was a bad experience back there in Baku but I definitely enjoyed Hockenheim more.
Saturday was the first day of the flood. Bought a raincoat for 10 euros (wtf) and upon my arrival to the track site I was actually shocked to discover the lack of the signal on my phone. Is it dead? Is my phone dead? What if my aunt is trying to reach me and she can’t and thinks that I’m dead? Nothing special that was though, and a simple explanation to that was just too many people in one spot and everyone’s connection was dead. The issues started before that though, I have missed half of P3 because I couldn’t get into the train to Hockenheim - too many people, the first train couldn’t fit us all in, the next one was in an hour. Well, crap. But at least that wasn’t the quali. Later on, the qualifying was actually good even though rainy: the grandstands were full and the atmosphere was great, so many people in red and when Seb took the pole, the cheer was loud. The schedule said that in some 2 hours after the qualifying there was a fan forum with autograph session, and my friends and I believed that if we rushed to the place right after the end, we would be lucky to be close enough to the stage (and our grandstands’ entrances were actually close to the place of the forum) but oh how we were wrong: it took us literally a couple of minutes to get there but the spot was already full of people and we could hardly see the stage. Somehow it didn’t feel too bad, that day we celebrated anyway.
Sunday was good at start. The drivers’ parade, the show, the beginning of the race and the weather - yeah, it was perfect. The grandstands made waves all together and it was fun and they booed those grandstands who failed to make a decent wave (like, yeah, booing is not good but that was a friendly booing so everyone was ok with it). We made a huge flag with those cards they gave us and I was a red piece (yay). It was epic, fantastic, spectacular, promising - right until the rain started and then... well, you know. The mood was just as grey as the weather. We were trying to leave the grandstand when the rain turned into storm with thunder and lightnings (perfect day for a astrophobic person, ha) and there was a literal flood around: I and some others found shelter under the women’s toilet roof and the water was coming closer to our safety island so I decided to try to escape as soon as the thunder was gone. It was the day the cars I cared about so much crashed: first it was Seb and then I got a call from my aunt saying someone hit my uncle’s Mercedes (that was the wrong merc you dummies... i am only skilled to make stupid jokes, i’m sorry, no hate please). And he was supposed to pick me up after the race. Well, crap. The happy end though: it wasn’t a bad hit so he actually picked me up after the race. The very end of the whole race weekend was predictable but we tried to keep hope to avoid it but it didn’t happen: we got stuck in a traffic jam full of people trying to leave the track site.
It was just another great experience and time to remember. Things never go smoothly as planned or desired, so yeah, we mourned but we never lose hope. And also I still had most of my journey ahead, new adventures I’ve been looking forward to. But that’s a completely different story.
I’m finally alive enough to post something because I was tagged by the great sir @estebaguette to post my face and tag some peoplses!
Please enjoy the epic sight behind me: my most favourite city ever - Heidelberg!
Rules: Post a selfie, tag people, and if they post a selfie tell them a secret
And again I’m superlate with this so sorry if you’ve already been tagged @godbastian @hulkieswonderland @livelongandfangirling @stoffelwaffle @redfiveferrari
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Hello from Hockenheimring! 🏎🇩🇪