For example, I have seen this late-1990s McLaren that Mika Hakkinen smashed in the Science Museum, South Kensington, London (not my photo):
I have also seen various F1 cars in the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire and the Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset (including a Hill GH1). Not to mention seeing contemporary cars driving round Silverstone in July 1996 and Monza 2011 (where I saw an HRT sideways in a momentary top-10 position before hitting a competitor or two...). I also seem to recall seeing historic F1 cars going round Brands Hatch, I think possibly at the first A1GP meeting.
But what I wanted to share on this occasion was my most random contact with an F1 car. It was last weekend, and I think the next picture pretty much explains it.
OK, so Rush does feature a McLaren, but of a very different vintage, with a very different livery, with a British driver being one of the few similarities... And F1 in a local supermarket in the suburbs of a city? Doesn't happen too often, and not where you would go looking for contact with the F1 world. But it happened:
And you know the sidepods on the McLaren? The ones that look like this?:
Well, they would always remind me of the airship from the Thunderbird 6 film from the 1960s, the one that looked like this:
So where are the other random or not-so-random places that contact with F1 cars have occurred?
