 OT: No, I'm not excited., Formula 1 coming to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving |
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| VegasRacer |
 Nov 6 2023, 06:25 PM
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QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Nov 6 2023, 04:16 PM)  It's going to be a long, hot day for you. Night Race. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_flagge24.gif) 50 degrees. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/splat.gif) |
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| Van B |
Nov 6 2023, 07:02 PM
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I’m in Vegas this week for work… what a mess this race is gonna be!
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| wonkipop |
Nov 6 2023, 07:31 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,757 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille
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QUOTE(GregAmy @ Nov 6 2023, 01:26 PM) 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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| TP914 |
Nov 6 2023, 08:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 67 Joined: 6-August 23 From: OC , Calif. Member No.: 27,504 Region Association: Southern California |
I will be watching from my couch (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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| championgt1 |
Nov 6 2023, 09:36 PM
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Don't embarrass me Filmore! Group: Members Posts: 2,681 Joined: 3-January 07 From: Tacoma, Washington Member No.: 7,420 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
QUOTE(wonkipop @ Nov 6 2023, 05:31 PM) QUOTE(GregAmy @ Nov 6 2023, 01:26 PM) 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! |
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| ClayPerrine |
Nov 7 2023, 03:36 PM
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Life's been good to me so far..... Group: Admin Posts: 16,312 Joined: 11-September 03 From: Hurst, TX. Member No.: 1,143 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille
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QUOTE(championgt1 @ Nov 6 2023, 09:36 PM) QUOTE(wonkipop @ Nov 6 2023, 05:31 PM) QUOTE(GregAmy @ Nov 6 2023, 01:26 PM) 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) |
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| Tonyooc |
Nov 7 2023, 03:51 PM
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I was there in October, they already are setting up on the streets. That's gonna echo going down the strip. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
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| wonkipop |
Nov 8 2023, 01:00 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,757 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille
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QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Nov 7 2023, 03:36 PM) QUOTE(championgt1 @ Nov 6 2023, 09:36 PM) QUOTE(wonkipop @ Nov 6 2023, 05:31 PM) QUOTE(GregAmy @ Nov 6 2023, 01:26 PM) 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) |
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| wonkipop |
Nov 8 2023, 01:21 AM
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QUOTE(Van B @ Nov 6 2023, 07:02 PM) I’m in Vegas this week for work… what a mess this race is gonna be! secret mission to the skunkworks at area 51? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
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| GregAmy |
Nov 9 2023, 08:46 AM
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This schedule is pure madness...times are ET.
11/16 11:25 p.m. Practice 1 11/17 2:55 a.m. Practice 2 11/17 11:25 p.m. Practice 3 11/18 2:55 a.m. Qualifying 11/18 11:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Pre-race 11/19 12:55 a.m. Las Vegas Grand Prix I'll definitely be watching that Sunday afternoon. Madness. They're predicting to possibly set a record for the LOWEST air temperature in the history of F1...might be as fun to watch as if it was raining... |
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| VegasRacer |
Nov 9 2023, 11:41 AM
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QUOTE(GregAmy @ Nov 9 2023, 07:46 AM) . . . might be as fun to watch as if it was raining... Depending on which forecast you choose to believe, perception chances are from 2% to 48%. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pat.gif) |
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| VegasRacer |
Nov 13 2023, 11:05 PM
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ELVIRA Group: Benefactors Posts: 8,762 Joined: 27-March 03 From: Between Scylla and Charybdis Member No.: 481 Region Association: None
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I have Good News and I have Bad News. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)
The Good News: I am no longer part of the F & C (Flagging & Communications) Crew. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_flagge24.gif) I have been reassigned to be an Intervention Marshall. My new responsibilities will put me on the Hot Track in Full Nomex gear as a First Responder to extinguish fires, extract drivers, push/load disabled cars and clear bits of carbon fiber, wings, wheels and all other foreign objects from the racing surface.  The Bad News: All Photography (including cellphones) is Strictly Prohibited anytime the Track is Hot. If caught, they would pull my credentials and escort me from the event. (I love you guys, but not that much.) |
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| wonkipop |
Nov 13 2023, 11:22 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,757 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille
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neat. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
duck your head when lance stroll comes around. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
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| ClayPerrine |
Nov 14 2023, 06:15 AM
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Life's been good to me so far..... Group: Admin Posts: 16,312 Joined: 11-September 03 From: Hurst, TX. Member No.: 1,143 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille
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QUOTE(wonkipop @ Nov 13 2023, 11:22 PM) neat. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) duck your head when lance stroll comes around. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) At least you don't have to worry about Major Spin (Mazepin). I swear he could crash a wheelchair while sitting still. |
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| GregAmy |
Nov 14 2023, 07:12 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,490 Joined: 22-February 13 From: Middletown CT Member No.: 15,565 Region Association: North East States
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Wicked! Please post your assignment here when you get it so we can watch for you...
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| Front yard mechanic |
Nov 14 2023, 08:31 AM
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Hide a mini cam in your beard (IMG:style_emoticons/default/elvira.gif)
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| GregAmy |
Nov 14 2023, 08:38 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,490 Joined: 22-February 13 From: Middletown CT Member No.: 15,565 Region Association: North East States
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QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Nov 14 2023, 07:15 AM) At least you don't have to worry about Major Spin (Mazepin). I swear he could crash a wheelchair while sitting still. Let's not forget the King, Andrea De Crasheris, errr De Ceasaris. I believe it was Guy Ligier (Team Ligier) that fired him on the spot after Andrea walked back to the pits after a rollover crash, stating "I can no longer afford to employ this man". Then there was Crashtor...err Pastor Maldonado...didn't he have his own website, something like "where did Pastor crash today..."? |
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| ClayPerrine |
Nov 15 2023, 06:54 AM
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Life's been good to me so far..... Group: Admin Posts: 16,312 Joined: 11-September 03 From: Hurst, TX. Member No.: 1,143 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille
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QUOTE(GregAmy @ Nov 14 2023, 08:38 AM) QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Nov 14 2023, 07:15 AM) At least you don't have to worry about Major Spin (Mazepin). I swear he could crash a wheelchair while sitting still. Let's not forget the King, Andrea De Crasheris, errr De Ceasaris. I believe it was Guy Ligier (Team Ligier) that fired him on the spot after Andrea walked back to the pits after a rollover crash, stating "I can no longer afford to employ this man". Then there was Crashtor...err Pastor Maldonado...didn't he have his own website, something like "where did Pastor crash today..."? Here is a list of F1's greatest crash kings. https://racingguider.com/ranking-the-10-mos...ers-in-history/ And You forgot "Hunt the Shunt" Here's a different list, with videos: https://www.goodwood.com/grr/f1/the-five-mo...one-f1-drivers/ |
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| VegasRacer |
Nov 15 2023, 02:34 PM
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| VegasRacer |
Nov 15 2023, 08:23 PM
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