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[JG]

I am curious about how old you are here on this forum, dear Autosport Forum readers, at times I feel old here (48).

If this poll been done already, I am sorry, but I could find it.

[dn12005]

44 and on the way to 45.

[Sin]

I'll be 34 on the 26th. Have a birthday 1 day before Nico Rosberg, but he's a year older than me. Started watching F1 in the 2000, when I was a teenager. Had a big crush on Frentzen as 14 year old girl (for whatever reason xD) on him and Brian from the BSB. Brian is still a bae... Frentzen well not so much, but I still like him is a cool dude. My current fav driver is Seb. I kinda was very fangirlish back in 2012/13. Still like him a lot but I think I have calmed down on the fangirling part. I also enjoy all the streams going on by F1 drivers now.

 

Well this topic was just about the age, but oh well, you got me talking

[Atreiu]

Alan Jones was WDC on the year I was born.

[Laster]

33 - It gnaws at me every time someone on here says the likes of Vettel or Hamilton are passed their peak.

[Sin]

33 - It gnaws at me every time someone on here says the likes of Vettel or Hamilton are passed their peak.

Yeah... xD... I get the feels I get the feels....

[Spillage]

26 going on about 80.

[PlatenGlass]

42 but I like to think I'm a youthful 42! So Mark Webber was the last F1 driver older than me, although Kimi Raikkonen is still "my generation" and I consider Alonso to be too if he comes back.

It's kind of weird that you spend all your time growing up with all the drivers older than you and then all too quickly you're older than all of them! I'm younger than Schumacher was when he finally retired though!

[MikeV1987]

32

[pdac]

Having worked in Market Research for many years, I should point out that (in the UK, at least), whilst the younger and older groupings can vary somewhat, the usual breakdowns are:

 

18-24

25-34

35-44

45-54

55-64

 

It's always split between 4 and 5 - not sure why, though.

 

That would have put be in the 55-64 range, but here I'm in the 51-60 range

[taz]

I'm exactly one week older than Nico Rosberg

[Alan Lewis]

Alan Jones was WDC on the year I was born.

John Surtees...

[Anderis]

A bit shocked by how few people under 20 are here (0 out of 65 at the moment I'm posting it!).

 

On my first F1 forum I posted there were a lot of them. It was just 10-13 years ago. How quickly world is changing nowadays. 

[Radoye]

will be 47 in 3 months time

[danmills]

About 34 I think

[noikeee]

A bit shocked by how few people under 20 are here (0 out of 65 at the moment I'm posting it!).

On my first F1 forum I posted there were a lot of them. It was just 10-13 years ago. How quickly world is changing nowadays.

F1 has been finally gaining young fans again recently. I think that's more a reflection of people in their 20s and teenage years not really using online forums, than a lack of young F1 fans.

[pitlanepalpatine]

A bit shocked by how few people under 20 are here (0 out of 65 at the moment I'm posting it!).

 

On my first F1 forum I posted there were a lot of them. It was just 10-13 years ago. How quickly world is changing nowadays. 

 

 At the risk of sounding like an old grumpy pants I think fora/forums are an old person tool in the age of twitter. snapchats and tictoc(is that even how you spell that?) where people don't want to discuss things anymore but leave 1 liners or 140 char statements and only care about the likes on their hot takes   For people who feel they can talk to F1 personnel directly why would they read what scrubs like us have to say. 

[Marklar]

F1 has been finally gaining young fans again recently. I think that's more a reflection of people in their 20s and teenage years not really using online forums, than a lack of young F1 fans.

Yeah, you can find them on reddit and twitter, but those are also the worst places in general

26 here

Edited by Marklar, 10 June 2020 - 18:29.

[M66R]

I'm 31

[KWSN - DSM]

A bit shocked by how few people under 20 are here (0 out of 65 at the moment I'm posting it!).

 

On my first F1 forum I posted there were a lot of them. It was just 10-13 years ago. How quickly world is changing nowadays. 

 

Indictment against the sport and the steps taken last 15 years then.

 

56 here, so ruined before they started tearing it apart.

 

[Garndell]

I turned 37 today, at 04:10 to be precise.

[KWSN - DSM]

Yeah, you can find them on reddit and twitter, but those are also the worst places in general

26 here

 

Darn it, I had you about my age.... clearly you are a lot smarter and well thought than the 26 year old KWSN - DSM was.

 

[TennisUK]

41.

[pitlanepalpatine]

Darn it, I had you about my age.... clearly you are a lot smarter and well thought than the 26 year old KWSN - DSM was.

 

 

What's scarier is Marklars been giving out about Karma since he's been about 21 

 

forgot to mention I'm 36

[jonpollak]

Hello my name is Daisy.
I’m 17 transgender and I like long walks on the beach and making mouthwatering recipes for my friends.
You can find me on Tinder.
Screenname: ClamBanger

Jp

[pacificquay]

41

[Yamamoto]

I registered as soon as I got out of the hospital, so I'll have to revisit and vote next April when I'm represented in the poll.

[M66R]

I don't know why but I have chuckled for a good minute at ClamBanger

[427MkIV]

I'm 51, and with a 7-year-old son some days I feel 21 and other days I feel 81.

Edited by 427MkIV, 10 June 2020 - 20:02.

[jAnO76]

I turned 37 today, at 04:10 to be precise.

🎂

[absinthedude]

47. Old enough to remember Ronnie Peterson and to have used the internet before the WWW was invented....

[BlackCat]

born on the same day as Jo Gartner.

[math44]

32. Born on the same day as Sergio Canamasas. I don't know if it's a good thing.

[Cliff]

33 like my favorite driver's number.

[LucaP]

29...30 in a week :/

[Anja]

I was born in the same year as the guy in my profile pic. 

[Mc_Silver]

29

[Coral]

55

[HeadFirst]

Born on Mother's Day 69 years ago, though most days I don't feel a whole lot different than at age 49. Love F1 today, as much as I did when I was 14.

[Con1]

52. Old enough that in my first pack of F1 Top Trumps James Hunt was a current driver. Or, to put it another way, just older than Michael Schumacher.

[Cornholio]

Always felt like I was one of the older ones on here (by quite some distance) but turns out I'm more or less in the middle (36, in the majority 31-40 group)

[krapmeister]

45 but my kids think I'm ancient.

[IridiumBoy]

They can say whatever they want. But we are all still kids inside 

 

Look at me daddy, without hands! 

 

Look at me daddy now, without teeth! 

 

[Flasheart]

Up until Christmas Day I thought I was 43. My sister then told me I was out by a year (the wrong way). Bloody spoiled my lunch.

[1969BOAC500]

Umm...getting on a bit. That's me on the left in my avatar - leaning on a Lola T70 driven by Peter Revson & Denny Hulme ( and it was an actual, not  a 'historic' race....   )

[R Peck]

John Surtees was the world champion the year I was born.

 

The first race I ever went to, the 1975 International Trophy was one of Graham Hill’s last.

[Collombin]

John Surtees was the world champion the year I was born.

In which sport?

[Chillimeister]

I share my birthday with Heinz-Harald Frentzen but I've never been runner-up in the WDC.

[monolulu]

I’m 71 & still enjoying F1!

[noriaki]

Yeah, you can find them on reddit and twitter, but those are also the worst places in general

26 here

There was a poll on reddit/f1 saying 75% of their users were under 30 and 25% under 20. The largest nationality group was Americans and many had started watching just recently.

Compared to AS, there is a lesser appreciation of the history of the sport, as well as a pronounced Ferrari/Vettel/Kimi love in visible over there. But as a major positive at least they dont complain so much about the sport yet as we do, because they havent watched for 10 plus years like 99% of the folks here have, and become bitter about its changes just yet