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The rarely updated blog of Joel Dixon
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Vroom Vroom, sniff!
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 02/03/2005 20:19:00I have never been a huge fan of motorsports. I've never gone to the Australian Grand Prix - even though it's held in Melbourne. I'll usually watch F1 when it's on the television, but I'd never set the VCR for it (most of my friends do). I generally like watching most sports, but I could never see the advantage of watching one corner of the race in person when I could watch it all from home if I was so interested.
But I think I may have to give it a shot next year. At lunch today I watched some of the F1 cars doing a few laps of the Melbourne Streets.
First thing I noticed, I couldn't see a thing. I had arrived a little after the start time, and it was completely packed. I couldn't see the track they were going down, even though I was about 20 meters away. I did, however, hear the cars!
As soon as the Minardi came up our section of the track, the sound was deafening and the smell was overpowering - but I quite enjoyed it. Even though I couldn't even see the car, I started to understand what the point of seeing the race was. When I got into a better position (I could actually see the car), I was amazed at how fast it was. They were probably only going half their max speed (as they were in the middle of the city), it'd be good to see them at full speed.
Perhaps I'll actually go to the race next year (or just buy some high-octane fuel to sniff).
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the man with no name |
yeah i've never checked out an f1 race but lately i've been thinking about going to see the montreal grand prix as it's coming up in june. # Posted - 06/03/2005 01:47:00 |
| blah |
So you went to the grand prix? I am going to the grand prix in Montreal in June. What kind of activities were going on in the city on the race weekend? Were the beautiful people out in force? # Posted - 14/04/2005 14:30:00 |
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