OT: No, I'm not excited., Formula 1 coming to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving Options

[VegasRacer]

[GregAmy]

Cost-effective tickets are unobtanium. All general aviation airplanes are being charged a $3000 landing fee, even Cessnas (I don't know if that includes tie-downs). I'm told just getting into a casino this week/end may require having Taylor Swift on your arm.

I'll watch the spectacle for free from my commando-chair. With beer. I'll look for someone sporting a 914 t-shirt!

GA

P.S., I' m quite salty about this event, but certainly not surprised at all this. Miami led us this way and I figured Vegas could be worse; it is. This, from someone who's been attending F1 races for many decades (Dallas 1984 was my first one, I watch Mansell push his car across the line 150 yards away. Honestly, the Can AM races were more exciting, love those big 'Merican0engined monsters...)

Montreal is a good venue, if you have seats. GA is the sux, as you can't see much along the track from ground level.

We did all eight Indy F1 races, which cost us about $300/yr for four seats - yup, four - at the top of the grandstands right at Turn One (with a Jumbotron) and that included Fri-Sat general admission (all seats at the venue were GA on Fri-Sat, including those all along the front straight, you could walk in and grab any seat you want/ and/or move around the excellent viewing berms).

F1 ain't for the masses any more. Hell, maybe it wasn't ever...

[wonkipop]

I'll watch the spectacle for free from my commando-chair. With beer. I'll look for someone sporting a 914 t-shirt!

GA



F1 ain't for the masses any more. Hell, maybe it wasn't ever...

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) the chair is where i watch the melbourne F1 race from.
at the track sucks.
20 years ago it was ok at the track. not now.

F1 at Adelaide in the 80s was a phase still for the masses.
the crowd was 90% masses who loved the smell of petrol in the morning.
brilliant event.
turbo cars. senna. mansell. and BERGER.

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these days i try and get to bathurst for the 12 hour enduro.
there is no track like it anywhere.
much much much better than anything F1 can dish out.
+ you camp at the track. more or less still the LeMans style experience of the 60s and 70s.
making plans for next feb now.

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[championgt1]

I'll watch the spectacle for free from my commando-chair. With beer. I'll look for someone sporting a 914 t-shirt!

GA



F1 ain't for the masses any more. Hell, maybe it wasn't ever...

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) the chair is where i watch the melbourne F1 race from.
at the track sucks.
20 years ago it was ok at the track. not now.

F1 at Adelaide in the 80s was a phase still for the masses.
the crowd was 90% masses who loved the smell of petrol in the morning.
brilliant event.
turbo cars. senna. mansell. and BERGER.

-----

these days i try and get to bathurst for the 12 hour enduro.
there is no track like it anywhere.
much much much better than anything F1 can dish out.
+ you camp at the track. more or less still the LeMans style experience of the 60s and 70s.
making plans for next feb now.

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Bathurst is on my bucket list!

[ClayPerrine]

I'll watch the spectacle for free from my commando-chair. With beer. I'll look for someone sporting a 914 t-shirt!

GA



F1 ain't for the masses any more. Hell, maybe it wasn't ever...

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) the chair is where i watch the melbourne F1 race from.
at the track sucks.
20 years ago it was ok at the track. not now.

F1 at Adelaide in the 80s was a phase still for the masses.
the crowd was 90% masses who loved the smell of petrol in the morning.
brilliant event.
turbo cars. senna. mansell. and BERGER.

-----

these days i try and get to bathurst for the 12 hour enduro.
there is no track like it anywhere.
much much much better than anything F1 can dish out.
+ you camp at the track. more or less still the LeMans style experience of the 60s and 70s.
making plans for next feb now.

---

Bathurst is on my bucket list!

Ours too. Maybe we can get wonkinpop to arrange a group tour for us??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[wonkipop]

I'll watch the spectacle for free from my commando-chair. With beer. I'll look for someone sporting a 914 t-shirt!

GA



F1 ain't for the masses any more. Hell, maybe it wasn't ever...

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) the chair is where i watch the melbourne F1 race from.
at the track sucks.
20 years ago it was ok at the track. not now.

F1 at Adelaide in the 80s was a phase still for the masses.
the crowd was 90% masses who loved the smell of petrol in the morning.
brilliant event.
turbo cars. senna. mansell. and BERGER.

-----

these days i try and get to bathurst for the 12 hour enduro.
there is no track like it anywhere.
much much much better than anything F1 can dish out.
+ you camp at the track. more or less still the LeMans style experience of the 60s and 70s.
making plans for next feb now.

---

Bathurst is on my bucket list!

Ours too. Maybe we can get wonkinpop to arrange a group tour for us??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

be only too happy.

texans are top of my list of human beings. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
followed closely by all other USA human beings.

you ain't seen nothing until you see one of those euro enduro class porsches come over sky-line and drop through the esses to the dipper.
the corkscrew at laguna seca is good. but bathurst is one insane notch up from that.

this year we are taking the daughter of the man who provided and prepared the devil's # monaro (#13) that won in 68. she is pretty excited about going. she has never been.
she will be royalty on pit row but she does not know it yet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

bit of an expedition even for me.
2 day drive if you don't want to share the road with roos at sunset.
2 days up. 3 days there. 2 days back.




but i don't wish to detract from the thread of the spectacle of F1 at vegas.
suspect that @VegasRacer is really going to enjoy himself.
also suspect that the televised spectacle of night time vegas and F1 is going to be pretty good in the transmitted visual world - regardless of on track experience.

to me the track in Austin looks pretty darned good.
but of course i am judging it off TV.

i did watch interlagos last week. that was heaps fun to watch. go Alonso!
all the action is further back this year. numero uno M V is kind off in a lonely world that is kind of boring at the front. but back a few places and its all action. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)