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Fun Stuff => Competitions & Quizzes => Topic started by: Wizzo on September 26, 2007, 05:10:57 PM
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The Competition
Complete the following sentence:
You know you've watched too much F1 when.............
Answers can be funny, clever, witty or serious, just complete the sentence with whatever you think of - it's that simple.
The Prize
A rare chance to own this Award Winning Designer F1 Model.
(http://www.gpwizard.co.uk/images/playsam.jpg)
Named an Excellent Swedish Design recipient, the 'Racer F1' flaunts a high-luster exterior and an exhilerating body design. An exclusive gift for racing fans, this solid wooden race car gives a whole new feeling to the expression "vroom, vroom."
This timeless 14.5cm wooden model brings you the very best in Scandinavian design. Classic and contemporary, simple and sophisticated, this beautiful model is a must for any F1exhilarating enthusiast.
Good luck guys
The Rules
All entries must be posted on or before 14/10/07
Each member can post as many answers as they like.
The winner will be chosen by Mr Wiz (snigger)
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you check out GP Wizard first thing
upon rising in the morning,then you
fix your coffee
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1. when you tell the speed cop, "I wasn't speeding, I was qualifying!
2. (Men only) when you go to the image gallery and skip past the babes to look at the race pix.
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When you pull into the garage and trash the pump attendant
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When you start to think that the stuff in store section of "The Official Formula 1 Website" might actually be worth what they charge for them.
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When you can't understand why people think it is strange that you get up at 3am to watch a race in Japan.
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When Max Mosely makes any statement and you
think it makes perfect sense
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you remove the fenders off your auto so
you'll have a open wheel racer
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You try to find ways of getting more aero devices and cabon fibre components on your Ford Focus
Rom
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You look for ways to getter better ground effect on your road car....
Rom
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You try to do pit stop procedures at the petrol station.....
Rom
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you go to a plastic surgeon and tell the
doctor to make you look like Kubica
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someone asks you the time and you reply "4 days, 12 hours, 5 minutes and 38 seconds until Fuji.
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..................when you wake up screaming after dreaming Bernie Ecclestone was the first President of a World Government.............. and Max Mosley was his Deputy!
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when you consider Kimi Raikkonen is the most exhilarating and wittiest "post-race" speaker on the planet.
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when, while watching another F1 GP, you yell out,
"Only another hour to go, honey!"
to your hot new chick who wants you to come back to bed!
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you swore,
"I'll never buy another f*****g FORD!"
after they pulled the plug on the JAGUAR F1 team.......................
and traded yours the very next day on a bloody FWD TOYOTA Corolla!
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before ya take delivery of aforesaid TOYOTA Corolla sedan, you negotiate for all the tyre treads to be painted with two separate white bands.................
including the "space saver" spare!
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you can remember the chassis number of the Williams-Cosworth FW-28 that Webber drove at Monaco last year, but not where you left your car keys.
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when you tell the surveyer that the most famous Japanese person you know is Takuma Sato.
(NB - this happened to me in July this year).
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Everytime you see a blue shirt on the side of the road you pull over to let the leaders through.....
Rom
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You get annoyed when you keep missing the apex of the corners.....
Rom
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You can't understand why your hubcaps don't do the same job as the Ferrari....
Rom
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when you park your car in the garage you
put a monitor on the hood so you can
check out the telemetry
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When it comes time to renew your licence, you ask the transport department if the FIA has approved your super licence........
Rom
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you call in a team of 16 engineers just to turn your car on.......
Rom
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you try to pull off the steering wheel when you park.
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you say that you were late for your appointment because "unfortunately I failed to optimise the fuel strategy for the first stint of my journey down to the chip shop, resulting in a Honda passing me and ruining my expected pace across the second phase down the back lanes, and then I received a 10-minute stop/go penalty for speeding down the lane..."
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you try to pull off the steering wheel when you park.
You pull the steering wheel off your car when you park
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When you look at a stylised model and try to figure out which car it is based on.
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When you think there must be some conspiracy behind the prize being a red car.
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you keep a set of rain tires in the
trunk,just in case
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you know the French,German,English,and
the Italian national anthlems by heart
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When you put garlic and stakes in your car to ward off evil FIA officials...
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the ring tone on your cell (mobile) phone is Georges Bizet's Overture from Carmen.
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When you know the parent company of every tobacco brand in the world.
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When you can recognise any circuit in the world within 0.2s of it appearing on TV.
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When you can recognise any circuit in the world within 0.2s of it appearing on TV.
and name every corner, in order.
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the ring tone on your cell (mobile) phone is Georges Bizet's Overture from Carmen.
when your phones background is an F1 car and the ringtone is the sound of an F1 engine....
Rom
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When the car in front on the motorway won't move over and your screaming ' BLUE FLAG, BLUE FLAG '
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you only keep your car clean and shiny to reduce it's "drag"
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This is silly. There's no way you can have watched too much F1...
:yahoo:
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when you spend half the morning looking for your F1 notes folder and refuse to have breakfast until you've found it.
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when you brake check the car
behind you
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your boss at work expects you to be tired on the monday after a race......and he knows he can't change it.....
Rom
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you build a podium in the backyard and climb
on the top step when you beat the better half home
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This is silly. There's no way you can have watched too much F1...
Hahahaha, :yahoo: bloody brilliant Chameleon!
you are quite right mate but makes for a cool comp
:yahoo:
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To be honest.....I prefer the higher pitch and smoother sound of the modern day F1 engine....I don't know what it is that I love so much about it...but I love it...I have even taken a sound file and made it my mobile ringtone......
Rom [quote from a post of Rom's on another topic]
perfect Rom :good:
so: "........when you make a sound file of a modern day F1 engine and use it as ya mobile's ringtone!"
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................you spend hours being fascinated by "GPWizard" rather than cleaning up ya messy house. :nono:
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when you insist on watching the re-run of a race that only finished four hours earlier.
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When you get up in the middle of the night to watch half an hour of cars following the safety car and don't think this is strange. Guess we have become used to processional races.
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when you go on the internet to find out what on earth the company on your favourite team's nosecone side does all day...
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you spend most of the 33 hours you have been awake out of 38 has been focused on Formula 1 chat, watching websites and the race.
Rom
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when you go on the internet to find out what on earth the company on your favourite team's nosecone side does all day...
I always find it strange that there are so many companies using F1 to raise brand awareness but most have no idea what it is they do.
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................you spend hours being fascinated by "GPWizard" rather than cleaning up ya messy house. :nono:
That's just good sense! ;)
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When your family has a interventions and
tries to make you think your hooked on
GPWizard,but you already knew it
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When you'd rather chat with your GPWizard friends
than your friends in the real world
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...you log on and there aren't any 'unread posts since last visit'
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...you actually DO buy or boycott the sponsors depending on your fav's and least fav's.
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you cancel your Enzo order in protest
of Luca's shenanigans
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you wear a helmet complete with a
hans device when driving your family car
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When you phone up your local indoor kart track and insist they send you a CAD model of the track so that you and your engineer can plan how to get the best lap time.
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when you feel the curves on your favourite 2007 F1 car are sexier than your girlfriend's! :-[
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you cancel your Enzo order in protest
of Luca's shenanigans
when you snap up dare's cancelled FERRARI ENZO order
[principles may be important but pale when confronted with owning the "supercar" of the age!]
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When you continually go to the Autosport site and check the countdown timer to the next race. 3 days 16 hours 26 minutes 22 seconds.
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When you continually go to the Autosport site and check the countdown timer to the next race. 3 days 16 hours 26 minutes 22 seconds.
when you countdown the time to the
next Friday practice
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when you want the 2007 season to end because you want the 2008 season to begin with it's new set of possibilities
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when your heading out the door you gotta stop and
go back and see if there's any new posts
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you know every f1 drivers birthday but have'nt
the foggest when your families b'days are :o
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when you must check out GPWIZARD before you go to work - even when it will make ya late! :nono:
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When you go to formula1.com to check the countdown timer to first practise.
2 hours 34 minutes 28 seconds
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When the only two things in life are work and FORMULA 1.......
Rom
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computer $500
monthly internet charges $35
lcd monitor $225
GPWizard.com priceless
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When you wake up suddenly, your wifes squealing and your mumbling, " my paddles are'nt working "
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When you sit in front of your TV early on a Sunday morning shouting at Ron Dennis to pit Lewis Hamilton and forget about trying to win the race.
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when you wish you could hibernate when the 07 season
is over to awake at the start of the 08 season
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when you wish you could hibernate when the 07 season
is over to awake at the start of the 08 season
You'd rather hear the wail
of a f1 engine than hear the
angels sing
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when you support and sympathise with ya favourite TEAM/PRINCIPAL/DRIVER when they are being slagged by others!
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When you sit in front of your TV early on a Sunday morning shouting at Ron Dennis to pit Lewis Hamilton and forget about trying to win the race.
exactly SR - you too mate.
I was swearing at them for being effin TOO smart and poor ole LH panicked and slid off track at the b pit entrance
very embarrassing that even if understandable
McLAREN race engineers should have known better
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when you wish you could hibernate when the 07 season
is over to awake at the start of the 08 season
You'd rather hear the wail
of a f1 engine than hear the
angels sing
well "Dare":
I'd rather hear F1 engines singing on song than angels wailing
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You start thinking about how to buy Orange India/Spyker/whatever-it's-called-this-week - and don't stop yourself because you don't care about losing a couple of million pounds you haven't got...
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when your late for work and you tell
your boss it's because your team had
you on a 3 stop strategy
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you sell your Honda and buy a Toyota
so you can change teams next year
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you keep a record of what penalties drivers would have got had next year's four-race gearbox rule been in place this year, and put the results of said record on your blog.
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After much deliberation I have decided the winning entry is:
You know you've watched too much F1 when you go to a plastic surgeon and tell the doctor to make you look like Kubica by Dare. :yahoo:
Well done to all of you who entered, it was a really close competition and at one stage I had 15 possible winning entries!! :good: I'm sure you will join me in congratulating Lord Dare.
Watch out for another competition coming soon, I have some really cool prizes to give away.
Thanks again everybody for all your valued input which has made the site what it is today.
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Hey you yankee doodle dandy, well done Dare, nice one pal, talk to you later no doubt. :good: :yahoo:
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:yahoo: CONGRATS Dare,
Surely this means the Wiz is gonna get some 'bonus' point in the GG???
Well done to you mate,
Rom
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Dare, your Kubica entry was absolutely hilarious - I'm delighted to hear you won! Enjoy your prize, and congratulations! :yahoo:
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Congrats, old pal! :yahoo: Well done!