I will be at the F1 race June 8th. First time. I want to see HOT chicks and HOT cars. Any suggestions? I don't think I will try to hook up with an SP that weekend. Just want to do lots of "sight seeing". Maybe I'll get lucky!! Where do all the HOT chicks hang out that weekend? Can you get into the garage area and close to the cars and drivers? I will be in section 33 friday, sat and race day. I hope they will release the schedule at www.grandprix.ca soon. Thanks for the advice.
Montreal Formula1 Race 2008
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i will be there 4 days thurdays i will go see the pits crews and the other will be in section 41a !!!
i will be there 4 days thurdays i will go see the pits crews and the other will be in section 41a !!!
Got Danica?
She will be in Watkins Glen, NY with the IRL July 4th. I have tickets behind the pits for that too. It's about a 30 minute drive from my home.
http://www.theglen.com/
bond_james_bond said:
She will be in Watkins Glen, NY with the IRL July 4th. I have tickets behind the pits for that too. It's about a 30 minute drive from my home.
http://www.theglen.com/
Go to the Thursday Pit Walk
You HAVE to go to the open Pit Walk on Thursday! That is the only time you will get near the pits and cars up close without a fence. This is F1; you problably won't see an F1 driver at all unless you're a VIP sponsor, except in the parade cars before the race.
On Thursday, they will take you in a bus around the circuit to the pits and you can get out and wonder around pit lane and see the garages. They will have some various cars on display, too. Its open 9AM to 1PM only. Enjoy.
Jeff247 said:
You HAVE to go to the open Pit Walk on Thursday! That is the only time you will get near the pits and cars up close without a fence. This is F1; you problably won't see an F1 driver at all unless you're a VIP sponsor, except in the parade cars before the race.
On Thursday, they will take you in a bus around the circuit to the pits and you can get out and wonder around pit lane and see the garages. They will have some various cars on display, too. Its open 9AM to 1PM only. Enjoy.
Doc Holliday said:
There was some in the past :
In 1992 Giovanna Amati raced for Brabham early in the season, but the car was not good, and Amati failed to qualify every time she attempted.
In the early 80's Desire Wilson won the Aurora Formula One series in the UK, which led into her attempting to qualify for the British Grand Prix in an old Williams.
In the 50's Maria Theresa de Filippis took part in several Grands Prix.
Lella Lombardi spent a couple of seasons in Formula One and scored point in the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix.
fjm4lv said:
See whoever you can get your hands on cause they're going to be booked solid for GP. Prebook!
I went to the GP two years ago & to be honest, it turned out to be my worse trip ever to Mtl!
Crowds everywhere i went, food & drinks overpriced everywhere, almost impossible to go downtown at night, hotels at least 4-5 times their regular cost & Mtl is flooded with stuck-up & arrogant Europeans! I mean, it's totally crazy!! Montreal is too small anyways to hold such a prestigious event. During the race, long lineups for the washroom & at the end of the race, you're all bunched up together like sardines & barely moving for about 1-2 hrs. I swear some people will collapse in these lineups one of these days!
Almost impossible to get sps unless you call at the right time & get lucky. Restaurants are always full, bars are always full, stripclubs always full. It's exasperating!!
Most people i know who've been there have told me the same thing that i just mentionned & most will avoid downtown Mtl at that time of the year (including locals & even some well-known sps!). The only person I know who likes being there at that time is Captain Renault.....everyone else hates it & hasn't gone back. Plus, since Villeneuve & Schumi no longer racing, i dont' have anyone else to cheer for & basically don't give a crap who wins. F1 racing sucks!!! Watch the Indianapolis 500 tomorrow at noon & you'll see what real racing is all about!
I'll never go back during GP week again!!! However, i'll be going down during the NASCAR race this year. Sounds like a lot of fun & the drivers are more approachable and not a bunch of arrogant pricks & the fans attending these events are usually great.
Crowds everywhere i went, food & drinks overpriced everywhere, almost impossible to go downtown at night, hotels at least 4-5 times their regular cost & Mtl is flooded with stuck-up & arrogant Europeans! I mean, it's totally crazy!! Montreal is too small anyways to hold such a prestigious event. During the race, long lineups for the washroom & at the end of the race, you're all bunched up together like sardines & barely moving for about 1-2 hrs. I swear some people will collapse in these lineups one of these days!
Almost impossible to get sps unless you call at the right time & get lucky. Restaurants are always full, bars are always full, stripclubs always full. It's exasperating!!
Most people i know who've been there have told me the same thing that i just mentionned & most will avoid downtown Mtl at that time of the year (including locals & even some well-known sps!). The only person I know who likes being there at that time is Captain Renault.....everyone else hates it & hasn't gone back. Plus, since Villeneuve & Schumi no longer racing, i dont' have anyone else to cheer for & basically don't give a crap who wins. F1 racing sucks!!! Watch the Indianapolis 500 tomorrow at noon & you'll see what real racing is all about!
I'll never go back during GP week again!!! However, i'll be going down during the NASCAR race this year. Sounds like a lot of fun & the drivers are more approachable and not a bunch of arrogant pricks & the fans attending these events are usually great.
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What could I expect to see if I go to the open house? They tell you how to get a pass but nothing about the open house.
CaptRenault said:
What could I expect to see if I go to the open house? They tell you how to get a pass but nothing about the open house.
Great race today (Indy 500), won by Scott Dixon of Ganassi Racing. I love oval racing & find road racing (such as in F1) to be extremely boring. One thing that disappointed me the most when i attended the F1 GP two years ago was that fact that once the race starts, you basically don't see much else. Cars simply zoom past you at incredible speeds & you barely see them go buy. At least in oval courses, you can watch the racecars racing for pretty much the whole time. But if your preference is F1 road racing where you barely see the cars going by, with racers coming from mostly Europe, Scandinavia & Asia (a few are from latin america) who look like midgets & where many are very effiminate men, well, F1 racing's for you. Oh yeah...it's always the same guys that win...kind of gets boring after a while knowing that even before the season starts, only a handful of racers have a chance to win the championship. Kind of reminds me of Major League Baseball. 
Yes it was a good race today. I'm also watching the 600 now. Won't watch it all. I have other things to do. I listened to some of the F1 Monaco race this morn and was at an ashpalt modified race in Oswego NY last nite. DIRT racing is big around here and I'll catch a few races this year. I would usually be at Watkins Glen for the Daytona Prototypes June 8 but have decided to go to Montreal for F1.
I mean no disrespect, but this "my racing is better than your racing" just doesn't work for me. Most watch racing on TV. What's to miss? Sure, I won't have eye contact with every car for the whole race in Montreal. But I'll be watching the rest on a GIANT JUMBO-TRON. I'll be out doors and around other people (especially HOT CHICKS!!). Hope you'll be a little more open minded in the future and try to enjoy some other forms of racing.
I mean no disrespect, but this "my racing is better than your racing" just doesn't work for me. Most watch racing on TV. What's to miss? Sure, I won't have eye contact with every car for the whole race in Montreal. But I'll be watching the rest on a GIANT JUMBO-TRON. I'll be out doors and around other people (especially HOT CHICKS!!). Hope you'll be a little more open minded in the future and try to enjoy some other forms of racing.
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About a month ago, I bought tickets to TKO MMA, which is like minor league UFC, mixed martial arts, at Bell Centre. To my horror, my regular hotel was fully booked, and so were all the others. So I googled, and sure enough, it is Grand Prix weekend. I finally found a $400 per night hotel, and I bought general admission tickets for Saturday at the GP, so I will check it out. I used to be a huge GP fan, my favorite drivers were Peter Revson, then Gilles Villeneuve, then Ayrton Senna. After that, I gave up.
C Dick said:
Which hotel has jacked up it's rates for you to pay that much?
I also used to be a huge F1 fan...but that's all in the past.
CaptRenault said:Obviously the F1 GP is not for everyone. Doc, I know you are exaggerating, but I felt it necessary to offer a counterpoint to some of your outrageously inaccurate characterizations of the GP weekend. Simply put, it is the biggest, best weekend of the year in Montreal. It's not for everyone. But anyone who loves Montreal should experience it at least once. If, after that, you decide that it's not for you...eh bien, tant pis pour vous.
Je suis d'accord avec vous capitaine, the GP is not for everyone. I don't like crowds so that's a big part of my problem with the GP. I would like to thank you for arguing some of my points & I will consider your suggestions when i'm in town in a couple of weeks if i decide to head over to the GP. Who knows, maybe i'll like the experience more the second time around. Heck, i absolutely hated Mtl when i first went there 20 years ago & look at me today!
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