Only had tickets for the Friday this year (which I'm glad about given that Alonso won...) - here are some pictures.

There was also a cool camera on a wire at Luffield, which used to be the final corner until they changed the layout for this year.

They opened up the old track for us to wander onto:

And here's the new pit paddock:

Kobayashi made a mess of his Sauber in FP1:

Hamilton:

Button:

The safety car, which at this point of the season had led the second most amount of laps this year, after Vettel:

Moved to Luffield for FP2, and saw this GP2 driver getting a sneaky tow:

For a long time only the Toro Rossos were out:

And then more came out, including Rosberg, which produced a crisp photo:

I won a place at the FOTA fans forum, which the best thing I can describe is that it's like Comic Con but for F1 instead of TV and movies. It was worth the 4 hour drive. The place is really impressive - difficult to believe that it's a factory for building cars, everything was spotless. I got to sit in an MP4-12C! The panel gave interesting although at times generic answers. The drivers (Hamilton and Kobayashi) came across really well. Hamilton buggered off immediately though, while Kobayashi stayed behind for autographs and things, which was good of him.

We weren't allowed to take photos inside, so the only photos I managed are of the exterior of the building. I'd love to work there. They gave us a book as we were leaving too - it's £40 on their site!

There are videos of the event here:

Session 1: Martin Whitmash [McLaren], Ross Brawn [Mercedes], Graeme Lowden [Virgin Racing] and Bob Fearnley [Force India]


Session 2: Paddy Lowe [McLaren], James Allison [Renault], Paul Monaghan [Red Bull]


Session 3: Lewis Hamilton and Kamui Kobayashi


And photos here:
http://gallery.me.com/latphoto#100330

Was a good day out - I'd recommend it to any F1 fans if you get the chance to go to one!

I went to Silverstone this weekend for the Formula 1. Spent FP1 at Luffield, FP2 at Copse, FP3 and Qualifying at various points in the new Arena stand, and at Vale for the race, so a nice selection of vantage points.

Took my new camera with me for one or two or 1586 photos (half of which were hilarious amounts of random blur), here's are a selection...

McLaren
Button:

Hamilton:

The on-show McLaren:

Red Bull
Vettel, before he stole a front wing:

Red Bull's number two driver:

Alguersuari peeking through the fencing:

Chandhok recovering from an off:

The drivers waving at me before the race:

Ferrari, including Alonso deciding to drive within the race circuit instead of cheating to overtake:

Hulkenberg, for no reason other than the photo came out nice:

Kubica (who gets my approval for having a hand in destroying Alonso's race):

Schumacher on his failing way to 10th place while his team mate was fighting McLarens for a podium:

GP2
A random car (no idea who since I can't follow it as BBC decided not to use their rights to show it):

A different random car doing it wrong:

Red Arrows, impressive as always:

Lots of photos came out like this because I failed at photography most of the time:

Here's what I got up to this weekend and took a few photos and videos. Despite the FIA and FOTA's best efforts, a race happened and everyone was happy for a while.

The video above is of the start and isn't great as I was trying to actually watch it rather than video, but it'll do.

Friday
Pits Straight - Free Practice 1
Mark Webber entering the pits:

Rear of McLaren:

McLaren interior after asking the guy guarding the car to take a photo, who surprisingly obliged:

Safety car:

Abbey Chicane - Free Practice 2
Lewis Hamilton:

Felipe Massa:

Timo Glock:

Saturday
Luffield - Free Practice 3
Robert Kubica:

Giancarlo Fisichella:

Nico Rosberg:

Sebastien Vettel:

Rubens Barrichello:

Copse - Qualifying
A Red Bull following a BMW and running slightly wide onto the dirt:

The remains Adrian Sutil's broken car after brake failure:

Porsches:

Becketts - GP2
Lucas di Grassi forcefully overtaking:

di Grassi again with a cool exhaust:

Sunday
Stowe - Race + Buildup
Driver parade:

The Stig being a chauffeur:

Jackie Stewart forgetting to turn up in a recent car:

Red Arrows:

Nick Heidfeld, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica:

Jenson Button struggling on to 6th place:

Sebastien Vettel after winning:

Lewis Hamilton about to entertain the fans supporting him with a couple of doughnuts, which I thought was a nice touch and most likely earned him a fine from an FIA determined to prevent a show: