Now, without the hindrance of people who fail to understand the sport and its fans, we can truly try to give you the best Formula One site on the Internet.
Some of you will already be familiar with names like Mike Lawrence, Eoin Young, Geoff Collins, Michael Clark and Stephen Simpson.
Although based in the UK, our team is spread across the Globe. Indeed, Pitpass has journalists and feature writers on almost every continent so our coverage is 24/7 and not limited to traditional office hours.
The original site, launched ahead of the 2002 Formula One season, was built and run on a budget that wouldn't keep our rivals in paper clips, yet we persisted. Despite the obvious flaws with regards design and user-friendliness, the poor reliability and painfully slow loading, our readers not only remained loyal, they spread the word, and consequently our readership numbers grew.
Our 'mission statement' is simple, we aim to bring you the best news coverage, best pictures, best feature writers, indeed the best of everything relating to Formula One.
If you have any comments or suggestions as to how we might improve the site, please let us know. That said if you feel we've got it right and that we're keeping our promise, we'd still like to hear from you.
This is Formula One so sometimes we may have to (grudgingly) say no to your requests, but you have our word that we will listen to you and try our very hardest to give you what you want.
In early 2004, just days before the start of the new Formula One season, Pitpass was re-launched, the old, slow, cumbersome site consigned to history, in
its place a new, user friendly, far more reliable version. Yet with the
same first-class content.
The 'new look' site was an instant hit with race fans, and almost overnight readership numbers doubled, indeed month after month we are attracting more and more readers.
Unlike our rivals, Pitpass is not part of a magazine publishing group, sports internet or TV broadcast company - we are fully independent. Which means that there are no hidden agendas, no need to kowtow to the powers that be.
Pitpass can genuinely claim that amongst its 160,000+ regular readership includes many members of the Formula One paddock, including drivers, team principals (current and retired) and even Bernie Ecclestone. They enjoy us, not only for our top news coverage and features, but also because we remember that F1 is still meant to be fun.
Up until now all Formula One fans have craved a pitpass, now you have one. Enjoy!
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