This article was updated on 28th March to announce a prize giveaway by @F1Times, more prizes by @car_lease and @TomRedknap added on 12th April.
In Britain, F1-related events tend to be concentrated in the south of UK – perhaps because that’s where most of the Formula 1 factories are based and journalists are scared of traveling further north of Birmigham(!).
So a few F1 fans on Twitter have suggested organising a meet-up (or Tweet-Up in Twitter parlance) in Manchester, north-west England to watch a race. The Spanish GP (13 May) is the current race choice and the venue is “The Green @getmetothegreen” near Piccadilly Train Station.
Interested tweeps so far are: @nickyhammerton, @BenGriffin7, @Thrinne1, @moss022, @EmTheEmu, @AdamMoran, @F1_PioneerJen , @F1_Senior, @Thegoodbyegirl1 , @TheSilverZebra, @Butler_F1, @Lauren_Jade_B, @PoshKatt , @mclarenmatey, @Nico888, @F1inPubs, @McLaren_Lew_F1 , @booti101, @LindaSpencer1 , @mrWebbi, @naijasolar, @iMarfinand @SonnieM.
We’re hoping to have some prizes/giveaways on the day so please spread the word to your friends and leave a comment on this page if you have any suggestions or race preference. Best comment will give a small prize too!
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Lauren (@Lauren_Jade_B)
/ February 13, 2012Spain sounds good to me, if not China or the Hungarian GP. Cheers for organising, should be good!
Alan (reyno_buxworth
/ February 15, 2012Should be able to make Spanish GP. Potentially playing cricket so will try and get out of it!
Tom Chiverton (@thefalken)
/ February 19, 2012Have they confirmed to be showing this (all ?) races then ?
duskyblogf1
/ February 19, 2012We’ve spoken to the pub and they have Sky and will be showing all races – as far as I know. Whichever race majority of us vote for, we’ll make sure there are no football clashes and that they will show it in full 🙂
Tom Chiverton (@thefalken)
/ February 19, 2012U can haz winz 🙂
Dean Collins
/ March 4, 2012if you like the idea of chatting during the race feel free to join in the live chats at http://www.LiveF1chat.com
New chat room for each race along with the ability to post to your twitter and facebook accounts directly from within the chat room.
Rachael chiverton (@Mrsthefalken)
/ April 15, 2012Will they be showing qually as well? Much easier for us to get into & out of Manchester on a Saturday 😦 so we may struglle to make races
duskyblogf1
/ April 15, 2012You’ll have to ask the pub about Qualifying as there might be football on that day. All our enquiries so far have been about Sunday’s availability.
Louise Iontton
/ April 22, 2012I’m interested! 🙂