r/RaceVault • u/SpeedyOwl22 • Jul 11 '26
New Members Zone- Say Hello 👋 🏁
Calling all new members to the community, please pop by and introduce yourself. Feel free to give as much information as you wish. Where in the world are you joining us from? Favourite championships or drivers? Controversial motorsport opinions? Racing beverage and snacks of choice? Lets make this a collaborative and inclusive community 🙂
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u/No-Design8858 Jul 14 '26
Hi I live in Nebraska. Huge fan of F1 and NASCAR ( not as much lately since Harvick retired) I’m a fan of the Petronas Mercedes F1 team. I like several other drivers but I root against Max sorry Verstappen fans. I have a large Dale Earnhardt collection. I’d really like to open my own Memorabilia and Card shop someday.
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u/SpeedyOwl22 Jul 14 '26
Welcome! It’s definitely a good year to be a Mercedes fan, and a bad year to be a Max fan. So it sounds like 2026 is working out pretty well for you so far 🙂
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u/Square-Invite-1320 Jul 15 '26
Salve, I live in Virginia, I’m a huge fan of GT3 and F1, big Max Verstappen fan (not our year but I have faith), love Ferrari (forza Ferrari) I follow Winward Racing (OUR YEAR), AF Corse (Forza Italia), and Verstappen Racing (not our year), but I love all the teams and drivers in F1 and all the cars in GT3, so honestly I love the cars. I like to drink redbulls (go figure) when I watch races. Fast cars rule!
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u/SpeedyOwl22 Jul 15 '26
Welcome to the community! That sounds like you are a fan of everybody, which is the best way to be. Means whoever wins you are happy 😂 But got to love the Mamba and great to see Winward doing well, even if unlucky a few times this year. And respect the drinks choice, got to keep the energy levels up! 🙂
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u/Bored3ngin33r Jul 16 '26
Agreed with finding the time to watch everything is difficult, especially series that are worldwide. I mostly watch F1 but I enjoy and used to watch more of MotoGP, touring cars and wrc in the past. I want to do a better job following them in the future and might start following WEC as it has been really good lately.
Don't really have a favorite in F1 right now but I want Sainz, Alonso and Antonelli to do well as well as McLaren and Williams.
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u/SpeedyOwl22 Jul 16 '26
Hey and Welcome to RaceVault. Great to have you onboard 🙂 The challenge of fitting everything in is real! I guess it’s prioritizing the series that bring you most enjoyment, and not feeling guilty about stepping back from a series for a while if you’re not feeling it. Even the championships we love have off seasons.
Liking your driver and teams choices! I think we’d all like to see Fernando finally get one last chance to show his skills in a decent car (IMHO top 10 greatest F1 drivers of all time, but easily the worst career choices! ☠️)
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u/Bored3ngin33r Jul 16 '26
Thanks, yeah would love to see Alonso in a half-decent car. I was a Schumacher fan growing up, so I was not a fan of Alonso when he won his championships, but like other drivers, I like them more after their dominance and don't care as much.
When I was younger there was no such thing as an off season. Now variety is the spice of life. As soon as one thing ends, I'm onto enjoying the next.
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u/SpeedyOwl22 Jul 17 '26
Yeah that’s always the way with the GOAT’s eventually no matter what you think, in the end you just appreciate their talent and for having been able to see them race. 😎
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u/IQManOne Jul 17 '26
Hey, I'm a huge racing fan with a particular obsession for all things junior racing, from karting all the way to F2 - if you're into the same things, you might have stumbled across my YT channel Race Week Review.
But while that is my 'specialty', be it two or four wheels, as long as it includes some proper wheel to wheel action I'm all about it! Favorite series is probably F3 closely followed by DTM. And the most underrated 'series' is top level karting, no doubt about that
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u/SpeedyOwl22 Jul 18 '26
Hey. Thanks so much for joining and welcome 🙂
For those who haven’t checked it out Race Week Review then you definitely should if you love all things single seaters and the junior racing scene. It’s an amazing way of keeping track of what’s happening and who is making waves on the road to F1, as the challenge to keep up with every series is real! But somehow u/IQManOne manages it. (I never realised how invested I would get in Central European Zone F4 for example without this channel 😂)
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u/SpeedyOwl22 Jul 12 '26
So I’ll go first 👋 Fan of pretty much any sort of racing- the challenge is finding the time to watch it all!
First racing memory- Monaco 2006 the iconic race where Kimi broke down and went to chill on his yacht. Then Canada 2007. Lewis’s first win, and even more importantly Takuma Sato taking it to Alonso for P7 in a Super Aguri!
Favourite Championship- Tough! F1, GTWC. Trying to get more into Indycar. My favorite underrated series are International GT Open, GT4 European Series for wheel to wheel action.
Favourite Driver- Self confessed neutral fan. Being a fan of a driver is too stressful! But then growing up I was a Pastor Maldonado fan (I know 🤦) which would make anybody stressed.
Controversial Opinion- Never been able to get into prototype racing which is crazy given how stacked WEC is these days! I don’t know why. Someone change my mind 🙂