00. F1Newbie the ultimate guide for the F1 Beginner

Welcome to F1F1 is the pinnacle of open wheel, single seater car racing and arguably the highest level of any motorsport globally.... There's more...Newbienewbie noun Definition of newbie Informal : a person who has recently started a particular activity : BEGINNER, NOVICE, NEWCOMER... There's more....com’s guide to Formula 1

F1Newbie.comF1Newbie.com is an interactive membership based website for new F1 fans and anyone curious about F1. Our content is deliberately... There's more... is a website dedicated to sharing easily accessible, simple and concise information about the world of Formula 1. The site is for all fansThe fans are the life-blood of F1, without us the sport wouldn't be what it is today. From the 300,000... There's more... of the sport but with a particular focus on informing those with an emerging interest – NewbiesF1Newbies is a term that embraces anyone and everyone new to the sport or existing fans curious to dig deeper... There's more....

Having read The Four Hour Work Week, the plan was to write a book and live off the royalties. But I soon realised it was unlikely that my writing skills or my chosen subject would get me onto the best sellers’ lists and fund my retirement. Having thought about it a lot, I realised that there is a massive emerging fan base, and maybe I could provide a resource to help these Newbies navigate the highly complex sport of Formula 1Formula 1 is the pinnacle of open-wheel, single-seater car racing and arguably the highest level of any motorsport globally. Also... There's more....

I decided to give it a go so next was the decision about the delivery method. And given the rapidly changing dynamic nature of F1, a website seemed like the ideal format. I imagined a place where I would organise and construct posts that delivered entertaining and informative insights. To which, I imagined, the internet would ‘blow-up’ with likes, follows, shares and comments. “Build it and they will come”. Well, six months and countless hours into the build, I can report that this is not the reality.

The reality is that the internet is largely apathetic, people will give you a few seconds to deliver or they move on. Our stats show a global audience (that’s good right), averaging around 25 visitors and 50 views per day. A very low return on time invested…

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As an aside, one of my very first posts was to promote Max VerstappenMax Verstappen (No 1 as 2021 World Champion, otherwise No 33) is a Belgium born F1 driver, racing under a... There's more... as the 2021 World ChampionThe world champion is the winner of the driver's title for the year proceeding the current year. The world champion... There's more.... A significant event and worthy of special mention. Within a few short hours, a notification popped up that I had a new comment. I was beside myself, my first post, and the internet is responding. All I could think was “This thing is going to be huge“… Well, this is the reality. The comment was from a very angry and bitter person who believed Lewis deserved the title and Michael Massey was a cheat.

I genuinely wish to encourage discussion about the sport and would love nothing better than to have people commenting on the site, but this guy was too intense for the intended audience of F1Newbie.com. Since then, I have had the pleasure of moderating one further comment, which happened to be from my wife. “Build it, and they will come” continues to be my mantra.

So here we are; despite the lower-than-expected uptake and considerable time commitment, I’m 100% committed and cracking on…

The Guide

F1Newbie.com is a website constructed around a step-by-step Beginner’s Guide and an F1-based FAQ, with the sport’s most extensive Glossary* linking names, phrases and terms for immediate reference. Hover over any underlined word to preview the link or click to open in a new window.

We employ a powerful search engine to deliver the most relevant results for your search terms.

To be a complete ‘go-to’ reference, we maintain current data on Teams, Drivers and Tracks, and we share relevant updates such as Race Reviews and Podcasts. We are not a media outlet, and we don’t deliver day-to-day news. There are screeds of established resources for that, and where relevant, we provide linksAn example of how our glossary works within our websites content. There's more... to these sites.

We will do our best to provide updates on ticket sales and point you in the direction of cool F1 stuff like merch, wallpaper or playlists.

So whether it’s an introduction to F1, a question like “why did the car have green lights at the back”? or if you want to know what a particular term means, F1Newbie.com is your comprehensive beginner’s guide to the sport.

The F1Newbies.com guide comprises

00. F1NewbieF1Newbies is a term that embraces anyone and everyone new to the sport or existing fans curious to dig deeper... There's more....com. The Beginners Guide To F1.

01. How to. An introduction into what to watch and how.

02. F1 Overview. A high-level overview of the sport.

03. The Tournament. The Drivers and Constructors World ChampionshipsThe World Championship is the competition amongst the drivers where the driver with the most points at the end of... There's more....

04. Teams, Cars and Drivers. Who competes?

05. Practice And Qualification. What are these sessions?

06. The Race. Before, during, and after.

07. The Pits. Pit stops are critical.

08. Power and AeroSlang for Aerodynamic Aerodynamics is the science of controlling how the air behaves as the car cuts through it at... There's more.... How can F1 cars be so fast?

09. Wheels and Tyres. Super sensitive and critical to success.

10. Rules and Regulations. The FIAFédération Internationale de l'Automobile is the association responsible for the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users across the... There's more... and their rule book.

11. Safety. Integral to everything F1 – drivers, teams, marshalsMarshals, dressed in their distinctive orange overalls, have a number of roles but the majority are positioned around the circuit... There's more... and fans.