The Team Principal

Six

Bahrain and the start of a new season in Formula One and I was ready to lead my amazing team for this entire season. And I can't wait. 

Myself and the team arrived on Tuesday morning which gave us a couple of days to prep ourselves for media day. Now media day isn't my favourite day of the race weekend because it's long and can sometimes be quite stressful if something is to go wrong. If something goes wrong on media day, it definitely sets a mood throughout the paddock and within teams. 

Tuesday afternoon and a majority of Wednesday was setting up the garage and building the cars, ready for the weekend. Also, on the head of media James, told George and Nicholas who we were paired with for the driver press conference. 

"Ok, so I'm just here to let you know who you are paired with for the driver press conference tomorrow afternoon. So, you are paired with each other for the conference tomorrow and you'll both be going first. It's at 16:00, so please don't be late. Frankie, you'll be watching the conference from the back of the meeting hall that it is being held in. Make sure that you have your face masks on at all times duration of the conference" James stated to me and the two drivers. In responding to what James said, both drivers nodded. James then walked away and headed upstairs in the hospitality unit to his office for the weekend. 

The rest of Wednesday, went pretty quick, the garage was set up, along with the pit wall and the cars were built ready for a weekend of racing. I just can't wait to hear the roaring sound of those car engines, as they are fired up when they are about to leave the garage because that sound is like music to my ears.

Over the duration of the weekend, I send mum various updates about how the team is doing and to let Grandad know as well. Knowing them, they will be watching the entire weekend, cheering the team on from the living room at either mum and Marcs house or grandad's house. I know my grandad, he will be looking out for me, to see if he can see me on the television, whilst I'm probably sat on the pit wall looking at all the data that is coming in from the two cars that are going to be out on the track. 

 I quickly ran up the stair on the inside of the hospitality unit and went to my office and grabbed my rucksack. I locked my office door and headed back downstairs, to go and wait for Nicky outside before heading back to the hotel, for a good nights rest, because I most certainly need it because I'm shattered. As I get to the bottom of the stairwell, I could see my handsome boyfriend, waiting for me. 

"You ready to go, my beautiful," he said in his usual cheery voice. "Of course I am, I am shattered and hungry but I mainly want to get some sleep. Is it alright if we get room service tonight because I really can't be bothered to get all dress up to go and eat in the hotel restaurant? I just want to sit in bed, eat some Mushroom parmesan pasta and watch re-runs of Friends and cuddle with you" I said as I was about to yawn. "Of course, we can do that. I'm pretty tired too but not as tired as you. Now let's get back to the hotel and order some food" Nicky said with a smile as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder, as we walk to the exit of the track. 

Nicky drove us back to the hotel in the hire care and the drive wasn't that long as it was around 15 minutes. I started to doze off the minute the car started moving because I was that tired. Well... yes I did fall asleep on the way back. I could feel my boyfriends hand on my thigh and I placed my hand on top of his. We intertwined our fingers for a little while but then I woke up, feeling a tad refreshed. Those 40 winks might have helped a little bit but not much. 

Once we arrived back at the hotel, we went straight up to our room and when I opened the door, I literally dropped my bag on the ground, kicked my shoes off and they ended p on the other side of the room and I finally flopped down on the bed. Nicky ordered our dinner, we both went for the Mushroom Parmesan pasta, I had mine with extra cheese and some chips and Nicky just had the standard version with a side salad. 

The food had arrived at our room within half an hour, I was already in my PJ's and under the duvet, all cosy ready to eat some yummy food and watch one of my favourite classic shows, which is Friends. I could literally watch that show all day every day. I waited for Nicky to sit down on the bed before I pressed the play button. 

We both finished our dinner and we had already watched 2 episodes. Nicky being the angel he always is, took our plates and placed them on the desk by the window. He then walked back over to the bed and got under the covers and pulled me close to him and we continued to watch the tv show. 

By the time we were on the 5th episode, I was sound asleep with my head laying on my boyfriend's chest and his arms wrapped around me. He decided to switch the TV off, placed the remote on his bedside table and fell asleep within minutes, as it had been a long day for him but an extremely long day for his team principal girlfriend.

Tomorrow is a new day. It's media day. Let's pray that nothing goes wrong.