Here follows a little thing that I will call "Memories from Hockenheim" with pictures from our trip to Hockenheim and some of our 'adventures'
I will add some things day by day, so keep posted
Thursday July 27
Our Hockenheim trip started really early as Tomba and I drove to Sinsheim first to visit the Auto - & Technikmuseum. There was a collection of F1 cars, American Dream Cars, airplanes, bikes...all you can think of that has to do with technical stuff.
(Mika Hakkinen's 1997 car)
As we were walking in the F1 section, we noticed that some of the cars that had to be there were missing, but we discovered them at the circuit of Hockenheim.
(Williams FW12 from 1989)
(Jean Alesi's Red Bull Sauber Petronas C18 from 1999)
As I said before there were airplanes as well. This is a picture of the first Concorde
Tomba took a look inside the aircraft, but the stairs to the plane where a bit high and since I don't like hights I stayed with both feet on the ground.
After the visit to the museum in Sinsheim we drove back to Hockenheim for the pitwalk. It was very hot, but still the security took away all the bottles of water in the bags of the f1 fans.
After waiting for half an hour to be able to cross the track to the pits, it was finally our turn to go and take a peek in the garages of the teams.
(Mark Webber's car is ready to be weighed)
The garage of the safety car is just next to our first stop: Renault's garage
Renault seemed ready for a good weekend, but to bad for us, Renault fans, that wasn't the case.
McLaren disappointed the fans as they covered up all the cars with black sheets and only showed this:
Than we came along Ferrari's garage, but with all the Ferrari/Schumacher fans present at Hockenheim, you had to push a bit to take some pictures.
The engineers are preparing Trulli's car.
In the meantime, Webber's car is pushed back to the Williams garage through the crowd
Honda prepared themselfs for their 300th Grand Prix
We also saw Rubens Barrichello and have some pictures of him, but they aren't really clear as there was an army of fans and photographers in front of the box.
BMW had a horrible weekend as none of their drivers was able to cross the finish line.
Their vertical wings have been removed from the car as requested by the FIA.
Midland was setting up the car as usual. Sunday evening, the drivers will be disqualified because of too flexing wings.
Christijan Albers was going true some technical things with his engineers.
And than all of a sudden Tiago Monteiro came jogged in the pit, just next to me
The F1 podium and the big Mobil 1 bottle
Than it was time for the BMW cars to be weighed. I was following them through the whole pitlane and have a lot of pictures. One of the mechanics pushing the car found it funny and was making jokes about me stalking them
Than Fernando Alonso's car rolled by me and again...I followed as far as I could
And after that Honda F1 Racing's car came by.
And than one of the coolest moments of our weekend: Tomba and I entered the pitbox of both Red Bull and Midland for a few minutes!
Toro Rosso's car was rolled out to be weighed as well and again me and Tomba were on the right spot on the right time
A quick look on the Williams of Wurz as he was jacked up and than we were 'removed' from the pit as the pit walk came to an end.
One of the next days I'll put the second part of our trip online in words and pictures
