by Red Bull Racing, Dec 1, 2011
Vettel Index Fingers Around The World
Today's window reveals the 'Vettel Finger Project'. An initiative of Kati at the Sebastian Vettel fan-club with help from Vettel fans around the world.
The project was hand-delivered to us just after qualifying at the Brazilian Grand Prix last Saturday by Francine.
Here's the story as told by the creators and deliverers themselves:
Kati S-V.org - Project Creation
Every year we do something special for Sebastian and this year we got a suggestion on Twitter and decided to ask everyone to use Seb pics showing his finger on his birthday. After that, we decided to also use the idea for the project, but ask the fans to make their own pictures, and then print a poster with them. I take everything to São Paulo every year personally (I met Britta last year to deliver it), but this year I was stuck with work and no tickets, so I asked Fran to do it for me. I thought it'd be a great way to show Sebastian fan support in the chase for his second world title, and that NO, we are not tired of his victory-finger! haha
Francine Bassols (pictured) - Project Delivery at Interlagos
When we arrived at the entrance on gate A a policewoman asked me to open my bag for security check and started fiddling around looking at what I had in there. She looked at the poster, took it off and asked what it was, I said it was a poster. She said that I was not allowed to get into the grandstand with the poster, so I said, "Are you kidding? Why?" and she got kinda mad at me (I was really just surprised that I could get in with magazines, makeup, flag, camera, etc, but not with a poster). She said that it was not allowed and that I should tone it down. I then asked very politely, "But why can't I get in with the poster? I have to give this to a friend later, I can't just discard it." (I wasn't about to explain to her the whole story).
She then said, "This is law in Sao Paulo. You can't get into the track with posters or banners." I thought it was very odd because I had never heard of it, so I asked, "Law? Really?" and she said, "Yes, where are you from?" I replied, "Porto Alegre." She then said, "Yes, well it's the law in Sao Paulo, you cannot go in with posters or banners. You should really check what the law says before coming."
I was very amazed at what she said. Hello, I live in the same country as you, rules and laws shouldn't be so different. I thought that was very strange because it made no sense. Could I hurt someone with a poster? Could I sneak something in with the poster? No. But anyway, I thought, "ok, then I'm missing qualifying. I'm not going all the way back to the hotel to stow this and I am delivering this for the S-V.org Team. I promised to Kati, I promised to Laura and I'm doing this as part of the team."
I was ready to sit down on the kerb and wait for quali to be over and for you to tell me where I could find you and then I had an idea. I looked to the other side of the street and there was a security post, so I thought I'd check if I told my sad story (lol) if anybody could stow away the poster while I got inside with my friend and watched quali. We walked over, explained the whole story and everybody there said that they had never heard something so absurd as "You can't get inside with the poster because the law says so in Sao Paulo." I immediately felt angry at the police guard at the gate and thought she was just deliberately being a pain, and the security guys said they would stow it away at their watchpost and I could go and enjoy the qualifying session. I asked if it wasn't a problem for them because I really wanted to be able to deliver this to a friend and they said it was fine and told me to enjoy the event, that they would be there until 7 anyway.
So off me and my friend went. We were able to watch quali and when we got out we got the poster back and met you! And the rest is history, you know what happened next!
If you have any fan creations you think would be worthy of a window in our Countdown to Christmas then please send them to feedback@redbullf1.com and don't forget to tune in for Day 2's season highlight tomorrow...
Credit: Red Bull Racing Formula one Team (www.redbullracing.com)
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