Teams
Alfa Romeo
Antonio Giovinazzi
AlphaTauri
Pierre Gasly
Daniil Kvyat
Ferrari
Charles Leclerc
Haas
Romain Grosjean
Kevin Magnussen
McLaren
Carlos Sainz Jnr
Lando Norris
Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton
Valtteri Bottas
Racing Point
Sergio Perez
Lance Stroll
Red Bull
Max Verstappen
Alexander Albon
Esteban Ocon
Renault
Daniel Ricciardo
Williams
George Russell
Nicholas Latifi
Former drivers
Karun Chandhok
Jaime Alguersuari
Mario Andretti
Rubens Barrichello
Derek Bell
Enrique Bernoldi
Mark Blundell
Raul Boesel
Sebastien Bourdais
David Brabham
Martin Brundle
Luciano Burti
Jenson Button
Tommy Byrne
Karun Chandhok
Max Chilton
David Coulthard
Derek Daly
Christian Danner
Anthony Davidson
Pedro de la Rosa
Emilio de Villota
Lucas di Grassi
Paul di Resta
Robert Doornbos
Tomas Enge
Giancarlo Fisichella
Christian Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi
Timo Glock
Esteban Gutierrez
Rio Haryanto
Nick Heidfeld
Johnny Herbert
Damon Hill
Yuji Ide
Taki Inoue
Stefan Johansson
Alan Jones
Narain Karthikeyan
Rupert Keegan
Christian Klien
Heikki Kovalainen
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Jan Magnussen
Kevin Magnussen
Pastor Maldonado
Nigel Mansell
Jochen Mass
Allan McNish
Franck Montagny
Tiago Monteiro
Juan Pablo Montoya
Kazuki Nakajima
Shinji Nakano
Tiff Needell
Riccardo Patrese
Olivier Panis
Max Papis
Vitaly Petrov
Charles Pic
Nelson Piquet Jnr
Emanuele Pirro
Antonio Pizzonia
Alain Prost
Nico Rosberg
Eliseo Salazar
Mika Salo
Takuma Sato
Jody Scheckter
Michael Schumacher
Bruno Senna
Scott Speed
Brendon Hartley
Aguri Suzuki
Patrick Tambay
Giedo van der Garde
Mark Webber
Jos Verstappen
Justin Wilson
Markus Winkelhock
Alexander Wurz
Sakon Yamamoto
Alex Yoong
Alex Zanardi
Ricardo Zonta
Dougie
6th September 2009, 11:23
Keith, what about Autosport’s Jon Noble and his NobleF1?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
6th September 2009, 11:54
Added – thanks for the tip.
sato113
20th May 2010, 13:07
and claire williams has changed her account to-
http://twitter.com/WilliamsF1Team
Emma
6th September 2009, 12:47
Thanks for the heads up on those, I’m now following a good chunk of them ;)
mp4-19b
6th September 2009, 13:10
Keith, is that the real vettel? This twitter vettel sounds to me more like a school boy.
cholle
6th September 2009, 13:48
Seems a bit weird to me, too. I noticed he likes using a lot of exclamation points in his tweets. Been following him already, though I’m still awaiting for a solid confirmation it’s really him. Maybe the Red Bull F1 Spy can confirm this?
Jenny
6th September 2009, 14:16
Vettel hasn’t been verified. He’s also using a pic from his Torro Rosso days, doesn’t tally I’m afraid for me just yet, looks like a fake. Red Bull nor Sebastian Vettel have come out and said he has one, and until they do I’m taking it as a fake.
Victor
6th September 2009, 16:08
It’s a bit odd indeed, but a set of replies to Button’s Twitter seems to indicate that it is real. Check a little lower on that page: it seems as if JB was also a bit suspicious about this as well. (JB’s profile was confirmed by Rubens and, as far as I know, the team as well…)
Ubaid Parkar
6th September 2009, 20:45
Brawn/Button/Barrichello twitter accounts are from the Brawn website, so that’s a confirmation in itself I suppose…anyways I am looking forward for some of the accounts to be “Verified” by Twitter themselves…
Slim
6th September 2009, 22:33
His tweets are getting odder by the tweet! Maybe he’s more excitable than we think.
Daniel Netto
8th February 2012, 18:47
Vettel isn’t officially on twitter. Must be a fake otherwise we would of heard more about it!
Ubaid Parkar
6th September 2009, 13:28
http://twitter.com/alexyoong
http://twitter.com/steveslaterF1
http://twitter.com/SPEED
http://twitter.com/OfficialWRC
http://twitter.com/LolaRacer
http://twitter.com/Forza_Felipe
http://twitter.com/OfficialBrawnGP
http://twitter.com/clubforce
http://twitter.com/autosportnews
http://twitter.com/autosportlive
http://twitter.com/Planet_F1
http://twitter.com/Gulasahi (Steve Dawson)
http://twitter.com/grandprixcom
Aplogoes if I have repeated some
Ubaid Parkar
6th September 2009, 13:30
Oh i got the above list from official websites etc so they are all verified in my book.
Steve_P
6th September 2009, 13:37
http://twitter.com/VisionRacing
Vision racing from the IRL.
There are tons of IRL drivers and media on Twitter. They’re all very active too!
Steve_P
6th September 2009, 13:54
Keith,
Your link to Sarah Fisher isn’t working. You left the “H” off of her name.
The link is:
http://twitter.com/SarahFisher67
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
6th September 2009, 19:17
Fixed it, thanks.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
6th September 2009, 19:18
Thanks for the links guys have updated the list. Have marked the Vettel one to be confirmed. For media I’m going to stick to just listing journalists – if I put every single F1 site in there the list would quickly become enormous!
TheRedLion
6th September 2009, 19:56
The Massa twitter is not really his, it was made by his friends so that people could send messages of support
Ubaid Parkar
6th September 2009, 21:07
http://twitter.com/TonyKanaan
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
7th September 2009, 0:38
Thanks, added.
Chris Allen
6th September 2009, 23:47
http://twitter.com/GlobalF1
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
7th September 2009, 0:36
Have removed the Vettel one which turned out not to be him. Pity.
wasiF1
7th September 2009, 3:04
Hey Keith
There is Steve Slater as (steveslaterf1) Alex Yoong as (alextoong)
Nikki
7th September 2009, 7:19
So the Vettel one is definitely fake? Had big suspicions, but someone has checked with the real Seb?
cholle
8th September 2009, 16:05
Yeah, it’s most likely fake. Got an email from the redbullracing.com saying: “…beware of some of those Twitters which claim to really be from young German drivers.”
kaddyalonso
8th September 2009, 15:12
Do you know of NanoAlonso is the right one??
Sasquatsch
9th September 2009, 10:47
Forza_Felipe is a tribute Twitter to Felipe Massa, not his own Twitter page.
Link
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
9th September 2009, 20:51
True, but Twitter lists it as a verified account for him.
dsd
14th September 2009, 0:42
Anyone know if @NandoAlonso is fake?
Ubaid Parkar
14th September 2009, 6:41
Seems fake! He does not interact with the the verified Nelson Piquet twitter account but rather nelsonpiquetjr2, he also prefers Sebas_Vettel (who is making sweeping statements against Briatore And Symonds) It is a fake!
Kico
13th March 2010, 10:50
Yes. It’s fake.
Liam
15th September 2009, 21:13
Also is obviously fake but very funny!
Liam
15th September 2009, 21:14
That didn’t work as planned…
What I meant to say was http://twitter.com/fake_hamilton is obviously fake, but very funny!
Ruben
15th September 2009, 21:17
Also our GP2 team: http://twitter.com/oceanracingtech
The tweets are in portuguese though.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
10th October 2009, 15:06
Thanks Ruben, added to the list.
gabal
15th September 2009, 21:26
@nicorosberg is also on Twitter. I think that is him and it is interesting to follow him as his nutritionist (Robin Lindsay – @robinlinds ) is posting updates on his account during races – mainly what she hears on team radio…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
17th September 2009, 11:41
It looks like Ted Kravitz has joined now too, but no official confirmation yet:
http://twitter.com/tedkravitz
Dank
17th September 2009, 12:02
Don’t think it is Keith. His knowledge on Twitter isn’t up to his usual, sharp, self.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
10th October 2009, 8:38
That one’s in the ‘maybe’ pile too.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
10th October 2009, 8:42
New F1 driver added
Nico Rosberg is now on the list:
http://twitter.com/NicoRosberg16
The account appears to have been started for the purposes of running a competition, but hopefully we’ll start to see some proper Tweets from Rosberg himself too.
Jacob Molenkamp
10th October 2009, 9:30
I follow that NicoRosberg16 as well but thought this is done by Philips Brasil for the upcoming GP only.
Further I follow http://twitter.com/Mansell5
which I did not see in your directory.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
10th October 2009, 13:34
They’ve done a few non-competition related Tweets, let’s see if they do any proper Twitter stuff once the content is over.
I’ve had a look at the Mansell one before but I haven’t seen any indication it’s genuine. Have you?
Jacob Molenkamp
10th October 2009, 13:47
I don’t know either if the Mansell one is genuine, their haven’t been any tweets since August but it has a lot of followers
Andy
10th October 2009, 17:00
What about @Kimi_Raikkonen (http://twitter.com/Kimi_Raikkonen)? Is it real? He’s got 12,166 subscribers including Nico Rosberg.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th October 2009, 21:09
I’ve had a look and I can’t see any indication it’s real.
Bullfrog
10th October 2009, 21:22
Twitter is ideal for Mansell and Raikkonen – at least you don’t have to listen to them…
Usually worth a listen, in my opinion, is@MauriceHamilton – have you come across him yet?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th October 2009, 21:10
Thanks, added him!
David Pedro
25th October 2009, 12:59
Hi there,
just to say that the Ivan Capelli you placed isn’t the real one. It’s actually a Brazilian journalist, ho happens to have the same name…
Quite a coincidence, hen?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th October 2009, 21:08
And he uses an avatar that looks like Capelli in the Leyton House!
Oh well, I’ll strike him from the list.
Kico
25th October 2009, 22:20
Keith,
F1 media
Felipe Motta – Radio Panamericana
http://twitter.com/felipemottajp
Luis Fernando Ramos – Racing Magazine
http://twitter.com/blogdoico
Tatiana Cunha – Folha de Sao Paulo
http://twitter.com/titacunha
cholle
27th November 2009, 13:12
Some MotoGP drivers:
Jorge Lorenzo – @lorenzo99
Ben Spies – @BenSpies11
Bradley Smith (125cc) – @BradleySmith38
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
28th November 2009, 20:41
JR Hildebrand added: http://twitter.com/jrhildebrand
Spiffy
28th November 2009, 22:50
Sort of related: Mike Conway. Seems legit, he has interacted with Tomas Scheckter. Worth an add?
http://twitter.com/mikeconway24
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
29th November 2009, 10:16
Thanks Spiffy have added it.
Kico
28th November 2009, 22:57
Non-F1 racing drivers
Indy
Ana Beatriz Bia
http://twitter.com/anabeatriz_bia
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
29th November 2009, 10:15
Added, thanks!
Kico
6th March 2010, 23:49
Non-F1 racing drivers
Indy
Ana Beatriz Bia
Change:
“Just to remember that now I am @biaracing here at twitter”
http://twitter.com/biaracing
Jeroen
8th December 2009, 20:55
Hi Keith,
Some suspects to check:
Jacque Villeneuve: @27villeneuve
Robert Kubica: @fakeRobKubica
Martin Brundle: @fakeMartinB (funny!)
Eddie Jordan: @fakeEJ
David Coulthard: @fakeDC
Flavio: @fakeflav
Funny, but I think fake:
@FakeAlonso
@fakeschumacher
Cheers from Holland,
Jeroen
Gianecchini
8th December 2009, 22:05
http://twitter.com/NicoHulkenberg
Damian
9th December 2009, 3:39
ex Ensign F1 driver, ex Top Gear presenter, ex 5th Gear presenter – Tiff Needell
Not verified as yet but I’ve been following for a while and seems reasonable that it realy is him, whadayathink?
Damian
9th December 2009, 18:12
Epic fail on last post, lets try again
http://twitter.com/tiff_tv
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
8th February 2010, 8:28
Thanks Damian, added.
Daniel
7th January 2010, 2:10
Toby Fernandes :L
jo
18th January 2010, 17:24
You know the driver accounts that start with the word ‘fake’, they are… FAKE! They don’t pretend to be real and are often pretty funny.
liam
18th January 2010, 17:31
Martin Whitmarsh seems to have started tweeting too, his photo is classic!
http://twitter.com/fakewhitmarsh
Bob Drury
19th January 2010, 7:53
Hi here’s a driver you could add to your directory. 2003 Le Mans winner Guy Smith @GUYSMITH16 Now driving with Dyson Racing In the ALMS.
Steve_P83
25th January 2010, 1:38
A few IRL teams and drivers you don’t have listed are on Twitter as well. I think you could actually make a seperate IRL listing because almost every driver on the grid uses Twitter…I’ll only post the most interesting ones though.
@RyanBriscoe6
@scottdixon9
@EJVISO
@RyanHunterReay
@mariomoraesindy
@jsummerton
@penskeracing
@DRRIndyCar
@PantherRacing
@kvracing
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
8th February 2010, 8:28
Great stuff – all added. The Indy Car guys are really good for this.
cholle
27th January 2010, 14:28
Jaime Alguersuari: http://twitter.com/JAIMEALGUERSUAR
adaptalis
28th January 2010, 12:06
i think the Mercedes GP link is still directed to the Brawn one. Try http://twitter.com/OfficialMGP
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
8th February 2010, 8:29
Fixed, thanks.
Victor
29th January 2010, 10:48
Jonathan Legard: http://twitter.com/legardj
Confirmed by the guys from 5Live F1.
Skett
1st February 2010, 17:36
Williams F1: http://twitter.com/ClaireVWilliams/
As listed on the official Williams F1 website
mlbjs
2nd February 2010, 8:55
@hollysamos seems a goner? found @hopintung but he seems lazy. anyone in Valencia give him a shout please?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
8th February 2010, 8:29
I think Holly Samos is on maternity leave, would explain the radio silence.
bfo
3rd February 2010, 1:09
Felipe, told us in his on-line chat, at Ferrari, that he does not have a twitter account! :)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
8th February 2010, 8:31
Seems he’s not actually going to use the account that was set up for him, which is a pity. I’m taking it off the list, it hasn’t been updated by November:
http://twitter.com/Forza_Felipe
If he’s not actually using it, it shouldn’t be a “Verified” account really.
cholle
17th February 2010, 9:45
It was used, though, during the karting event last December. I think it’s actually his manager or brother who was posting on it.
Felipe could be making better use of it, really.
jitesh
5th February 2010, 10:09
what about indian journalist Raja Sen at @rajasen? witty, powerful f1 commentary.. even though he mostly writes about films and other stuff, his #f1 tweets are the stuff of legend, especially when he livetweets a race.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
8th February 2010, 8:32
Interesting suggestion – I’ll follow him for a bit and then decide, don’t want to recommend him if he’s not doing much F1 stuff.
40_thieves
7th February 2010, 21:53
Hey Keith – I’ve set up a Twitter list, with most of the F1 related people above. You can subscribe to this so you don’t have to click through all of the links above, and still get all the tweets. Click here: http://twitter.com/#/list/40_thieves/f1
CC
8th February 2010, 12:06
Lewis Hamilton on Twitter. Looks genuine going by the Twitpic pictures of Lewis and his brother Nic. http://twitter.com/LewisHamiltonF1
Holly Samos link does not appear to be working! “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!” error message.
Not got @5liveF1 listed!
Dank
8th February 2010, 12:12
Doesn’t look very real to me. Appalling grammar and spelling as well (I know he’s not William Wordsworth but still) and random snaps…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
8th February 2010, 12:33
Looks fake. Perhaps we should have a list of known fakes as well to stop people getting confused?
Damian
8th February 2010, 17:20
Almost F1 Driver Perry Mcarthy, his book is well worth a read as well.
@Original_Stig
António Sousa
12th February 2010, 13:25
Hi Keith,
Just read a blog post from Joe Saward (http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-return-of-team-lotus/) where he mentions (2nd paragraph) that Mike Gascoyne is also using twitter.
I searched it and came out with http://twitter.com/MikeGascoyne
BTW, brilliant live coverage from Jerez :-)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
17th February 2010, 9:21
Cheers Antonio, added him to the list.
xintelinsanex
13th February 2010, 14:19
It looks like the Lotus Twitter account you have listed doesnt work. A quick check of the Lotus Racing website says their Twitter account is @MyLotusRacing.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
17th February 2010, 9:21
Fixed, thanks xintelinsanex.
James
17th February 2010, 10:03
@Kimi_Raikkonen is a fake account
Antonio Sousa
19th February 2010, 12:50
Hi Keith,
Just a note about Nico Rosberg’s twittwer account, which in fact was created for “a promotion from Philips Consumer Lifestyle Brazil”. At least that’s what it says in the last tweet made, back in October, at the time of the Brazilian GP. ;-)
Martin Brown
19th February 2010, 13:16
Hi Keith,
How about @sschaumloeffel ? She appears to be the Lotus F1 team press officer. I.e this cracker of a tweet: http://twitter.com/sschaumloeffel/status/9228062966
Martin
JPN
19th February 2010, 13:57
http://twitter.com/williamsf1
Nico Hulkenberg (http://twitter.com/NicoHulkenberg) follows.
LewisC
22nd February 2010, 11:31
http://twitter.com/OfficialMercedesGP doesn’t seem to exist…
Even @jakehumphreyF1 doesn’t seem to know what the real one is though. @MGP doesn’t look right…
Joei
23rd February 2010, 22:20
Another non F1 driver for the list – http://twitter.com/augustofarfus
Augusto Farfus (WTCC).
(linked to on his official website)
Chris
26th February 2010, 6:36
Mark Webber is now on Twitter — @AussieGrit
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
26th February 2010, 8:00
Am trying to find out if it’s real. Can anyone offer and proof?
Dank
26th February 2010, 8:15
Have contacted a chap within the team to inquire. Shall let you know.
Dank
26th February 2010, 9:45
Confirmed.
Strange, of all the drivers, I thought Webber would be the least likely to join Twitter!
cholle
26th February 2010, 17:44
@redbullf1spy has confirmed the identity @AussieGrit and it is indeed Webbo!
http://twitter.com/redbullf1spy/status/9671253240
Soggous
26th February 2010, 7:52
Hi Keith
I noticed you weren’t sure about @tedkravitz. He is real, I had confirmation from @5livef1 a while ago, and I think another of the BBC team confirmed it recently.
Sarah (@soggous)
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
4th March 2010, 17:42
Thought I’d added him a while ago – will fix that now.
Kate
26th February 2010, 14:58
Hi Keith,
Lee McKenzie changed her twitter username so the link you have no longer goes to her page.
She’s now http://twitter.com/LeeMcKenzieF1
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
4th March 2010, 17:41
Changed, thanks Kate.
CC
4th March 2010, 13:34
Renger van der Zande is on Twitter, @Rengerzzz
confirmed by Lee McKenzie
http://twitter.com/LeeMcKenzieF1/status/9967410538
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
4th March 2010, 17:41
Thanks CC, he’s on the list now.
Enigma
4th March 2010, 16:04
Justin Wilson changed his account to @JustinWilson22
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
4th March 2010, 17:42
Wish people would stop doing that! Updated.
Gianecchini
6th March 2010, 21:19
Good evening Keith! http://twitter.com/realTimoGlock
I think it is the real Timo Glock, because he post same stuff on his official FB as show up as tweets on twitter.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
6th March 2010, 23:37
Thanks for the tip I’ll have a look.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
7th March 2010, 9:28
Yep looks like it is him!
Gianecchini
7th March 2010, 2:45
Thanks to you too.
jenn
7th March 2010, 16:44
hey!!
what about the cool and good kart driver Brad Brunner http://www.twitter.com/bracula ?
Raddie
8th March 2010, 20:21
Former F1 pilot Derek Daly – http://twitter.com/DerekDaly500
Leslie Johnson
12th March 2010, 15:42
http://twitter.com/ubaidparkar
This guy is with http://www.f1pulse.com
Ubaid Parkar
28th April 2010, 12:14
Can you delete this post? I am not exactly on the field like the others.
FSimRacer
13th March 2010, 10:35
Hi! Keith and everyone, just saw this on BBC Sport F1 Live Bahrain GP qualifying… http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8564532.stm
It has a post from Fernando Alonso on twitter @NandoAlonso http://twitter.com/NandoAlonso
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
12th April 2010, 9:55
I don’t see anything on that page linking to that account, and I don’t see any other indication that account may be genuine.
Jarred Walmsley
25th March 2010, 4:44
You might want to either remove or shift USF1 to the old teams list
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th March 2010, 5:58
True, but they are still officially entered in this year’s championship and they may yet have something to say via their Twitter account so I’ll leave it on there in the meantime.
Jarred Walmsley
25th March 2010, 8:27
Fair enough, giving them a bit more benefit of the doubt then I personally would give them but what you said makes perfect sense. Do StefanGP have an account?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th March 2010, 9:04
In their death throes the only place we heard from USF1 was on Twitter.
I’m not aware Stefan GP has an account and last time I looked their website wasn’t there either.
Vaibhav
26th March 2010, 7:38
I would like to suggest that you add former A1GP champion and Swiss driver Neel Jani ( @neeljani ) to the directory too , under non-f1 racing drivers. And Also former Jordan/ Williams driver Narain Karthikeyan (now racing in NASCAR Trucks) is also there ( @narainracing )
cholle
26th March 2010, 12:55
Cosworth’s Twitter account: http://twitter.com/cosworthf1
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
26th March 2010, 20:43
Added them, thanks cholle.