To cover up our lack of new ideas for a blog competition, once again we’re pretending that we’re adapting Whose Career Is It Anyway? to be topical and vaguely related to something of middling importance happening this week. For the week that’s in it – and for your information, it’s going to be a week of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button making patriotic noises about winning the British Grand Prix only to witness Sebastian Vettel disappearing over the horizon – WCIIA? goes Formula One for a week.
Don’t let that minor change in format discombobulate you – it’s pretty much the same as always. Except this is the worst map I’ve done for the competition. The scale is terrible – in real life, western Europe is nowhere near the size of all of north America and until now I never realised that taken out of the context of Asia, Japan can look like pretty much any bunch of islands – in this case not dissimilar to the Outer Hedbrides off Scotland’s west coast. And I’m not sure that’s a place with enough glitz and glamour to have ever been a destination on the Formula One calendar. The below chequered flags represent the entire collection of F1 victories of one particular driver.
That’s it – pretty straightforward. As ever send your answer to
competitions@paddypower.com with the subject line “Vrooom Vrooom, is this really a sport any more?” You’re allowed to have more than one guess, but within reason. Anyone who copies and pastes the A-Z of F1 drivers will get disqualified.
We start the prize at a princely sum of a €/£50 Free Bet, but we’d like to inflate more than Ashley Cole’s ego after he heard that Cheryl wants him back. ‘How do we do that?’ I’m kind of hoping you’re asking right about now and I’ll tell you. Retweet this tweet and/or share this post on facebook (there’s a subtle signpost to the relevant button below) and we’ll add £/€1 to the prize for every time it happens. Last week it turned the prize into a £150 Free Bet and I’m led to believe that’s already been spent on backing Vettel to be a dot on the horizon by about the 4th lap of the British Grand Prix. Get your answers in before 1pm on Sunday 10th July. That’s clearly a few hours earlier than the normal midnight deadline we give you, but – who knows – maybe that’s because there’s a chance the map may need updating by the time the race ends. Or maybe it doesn’t and that was a red herring to make your job more difficult.
Conditions
- Maximum size of Free Bet will be €/£150, regardless of the number of Retweets/Shares beyond that.
- Paddy Power decision is final and moaning will result in a taunting.
- Entrants must have a valid PaddyPower.com account and be old enough to remember a time when Michael Schumacher was a highly rated youngster and not an aging money-grabber.
Well was snookered by the boxing one but think i may be in the right ballpark here
Yep, you’re right Phil. And so are quite a few other people. Grrrrrrrrrr….
I should have let people think that was the Outer Hebrides.
If your name is Paul, I’d have another go and if your name is Sanjeev, I’d have one more go before you get disqualified for using the ‘carpet-bombing’ approach. Badly, I might add.
I think its a Brazilian driver
That’s an interesting view Prem. I cannot either confirm it’s accuracy or mock you for it’s inaccuracy.
All I can say is if your name is John L., Martyn, Betty or Bradley, have another go.
And yes Tina, that means this week’s carpet bombing have worked a charm. And to your credit this week’s carpet-bombing was more of a fireplace rug-bombing.
I know i am wrong it has to be an ENGLISH man.
lol i had a list as long as my arm ready for the next assault if they were wrong
hey what was so wrong with my entry aidan…do i jus need to name one driver whose won at all these places in the map??
Hi Sanjeev.Apologies, it’s my fault for not explaining it better.
We’re looking for one name. Each flag represents every race won by this driver in his F1 career. You’re allowed to have more than one guess, it just happened none of your’s were right. A lot of them were good guesses, so I’d say you’ll work out the correct answer before too long.
Best of luck.
thanks aidan for explaining this so well….will try to work out the correct answer soon
Must be just me whoes finding this hard.am I right in saying thats 10 wins in total thoughout his ENTIRE F1 career? At first I was trying to think of someone whod one twice in norway…then realised that is belgium?i can onlly think of one name but to say he only had 10 wins would be disrespetful the guys a legend.
Im not sure thats Belgium. I could be wrong…
each flag represents 1 win? or can they represent multiple wins?
I have gueesed the righ person, i hope you got my email on the day of comp
took me about 3hours or more to finally work it out lol
That cant be beligium or my guess is wrong… i didnt even bother with map or guessed abother way.. but just looked and my guy didnt win at belgium
also my other guesses i was gonna go with as there are only a few other people they havent won in eaqch particular place… and one was on 11 wins not 10
lol ok phew my answer still right as worked out where it is… and now looked at each place and my guy is right :-0
its a *************** …
What part of; As ever send your answer to
competitions@paddypower.com with the subject line “Vrooom Vrooom, is this really a sport any more?” could you not understand? Moron.
In my finest cockney rhyming slang,
you are a James hunt
got it
does every correct answer win?
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Aidan,do i have right ?! is it answer **************
Big mouth u ruined it
Big mouth u ruined it … It’s a comp and u told everyone the answer you bloody idiot..
Is it Nigel Mansell
I love the terms and conditions, Schumacher shout = excellent