Montreal 2011 - F1 race

Practice - Friday

I was out already at 6:00 a.m. It was cold! but i was wearing only a t-shirt and shorts. It was cold!

To my surprise i was the only one in the metro going to the track! Even that i know it was friday, i remember going like 10 years ago and it was pack! No today! I used to follow people, this time i really had to look where i was going! Adventure!

I went to get a ticket with no problem at all at their box office at the track!
Got to the gate at 6:45 a.m. not many people either, no line-up! It was cold! what a hell?!!

Gates open at 7:00 a.m. sharp! Went in looking for coffee!!! It was cold and cloudy!
After going to the usual places, that i knew, i realized were the wrong ones!
But finally i found coffee/cheese pie (greek), good one, plus I lost 10 dollars, i believe, as it was cold, and windy, and cloudy, and hungry!

It was nice to see the little changes around the track, less places for GA people to watch. Thank you GP Canada!

It was cold, cloudy and windy, but by 10:00 a.m. the sunshine was there to stay!

I have to admit Lewis' car sounded sooo sick! Specially when braking farted like there was no tomorrow! His engine sounded sick, really sick! Jenson was good!

The engine which killed my ears was the Renault, OUCH, seriously!!
Very smooth the rb, i have to admit! and the Mercedes, the rest . . . ok.
I'm still have a buzz in my right ear!

Nico's engine was really smooth, a pleasure!

But in all means, i missed to see those cars and listen in person those roaring engines! Just plain and simple: BEAUTY! Except, of course, that the rear wing is absolutely awful, still!

Hoping to see more fans going to the track, but not really, they really bather me! lol

FULL of ferrari fans! as usual, disgusting, specially kids, very few McLaren and almost none rb.
FULL of ferrari fans! I couldn't talk to anyone, as i have nothing in common with them. Made sure they could see my tattoo!! lol

I always have fun going to the track! Always! \o/\o/\o/ but not when it rains though! ;-)

My camera decided at the end not to work! but with a few hits, its working again! hopefully! ;-)

Another update tomorrow! Stay tuned!

Now hockey game!
ciao!!

Practice - Saturday

Bad weather plus i knew who was gonna be on pole, decided to do something else! Many things to do around Montreal, but needed to be inside as weather didn't collaborate through this whole weekend at all.

We went to the Beer World Festival!! They opened at 11:00 a.m. so Eric and I met at that time. It was very cold, windy but not rain.
We spent the day in there, drinking and drinking and drinking! Just a break to watch F1 qualy, which i couldn't resist plus we needed a break from the beer!
I was right about the pole position guessing person!

We had a beer glass, which appears in the pictures and 10 coupons each! To do the testing, some places you needed 2 coupons for 4 oz! or 3 or 4 for more!
Usually they were very "generous"! . . . we had fun!
Then, we went for a walk to downtown, passing by Crescent again and looking for a McLaren wine which Eric said he saw it but we couldn't find it this time at the liquor store. Maybe sold out?

We ended up having dinner at a nice restaurant after walking for hours! I had noquis! I needed some carbs or something that could absorb all the alcohol i had in me!

Race day - Sunday

I decided to wake up early and see how the weather was. I checked all kind of websites, apps, tv (english and french) and all said rain and thunderstorms, no good!
At 5:00 a.m. alarm went off! As i didn't have a ticket, needed to be there early as i did on friday!

The sky didn't look good, i checked again all the websites, tv, everything! It was cloudy, windy and cold. After thinking a lot, at 6:00 a.m. i said to myself, it's a NO go! :(
I wasn't happy!

By 9:30 i was in downtown walking through the malls as it was cold outside. What i really like about Montreal are their malls, they go forever and they are like labyrinths!! So i started playing if i remember my way back the same way! There were so many ways, it was fun!
Stores were closed, they open at 11:00 am.

At around 11:30 i left and went to a supermarket close to the hotel, got a baguette, old fashion ham and coca-cola, ready to watch the race!

To my surprise the tsn (RDS) french has a coverage before the race! It was good, didn't understand much but i least i was watching the track and their affairs!

The race came and stay for longer than expected!
Once again Lewis was the point of debacle to everyone. Everyone has different opinions and i won't try to convince others of my believes.
I like Lewis for his passion. I really think that he is "genuine". He is one of, or if not, the only one on the grid with a sense of just racing! Pure and simple racing!

If you race, you must take risks. Sometimes you are gonna be right, other times wrong, as, and i can believe i'm going to say this, Schumacher said, sometimes other drivers won't give in, sometimes they will, and that's the difference.

If we try to take that passion away from Lewis it will be wrong. Mature? Lewis is mature already, he proved many, many times. Should i remind you about the Canadian GP in 2007? Safety car, many times and everyone was pondering Lewis? Well, what happen nowadays? It's just something to talk about!

My believe is that this season the cars are more doable of really racing, more passing and therefore more tempting to go for it, which is Lewis weaknesses! . . . or not! And the McLaren cars are not bad either!

As every race in the rain, the unexpected always happens! That's why i don't like them! I knew that something was gonna happen to Lewis as he was like a sandwich between a few other great drivers!
Saying that, by now, other drivers should be aware of his presence when close by and pay extra attention when Lewis is behind them. Not saying that they should let Lewis go easy, but check your mirror more often!
Lewis will not sit behind a car and just wait for some miracle presented itself and allows him to pass! eh, no! don't people know his history? didn't people read his book? don't people know where he's coming from? Well, they better learn, and fast! But i do understand the reporters, they have to talk about something!

I already said this, and i will say it again, i never liked Senna in his racing days, for many reason, but after reading his book, i understood him. I can see the same pattern in Lewis.

Drivers should know each other, they should know who could do what! and what i have being saying is: why not spotters as in Nascar? to advise each driver who and where is around them. How they will do that? No clue! i don't get pay to tell them everything. I'm not in the maFIA operations! So, they better think themselves.
They introduce so many stupid rules anyways!

To finish, after 4 hours of F1 racing, outrageous weather, Jenson Button wins in Canada!
I left the hotel with a huge smile, couldn't stop smiling, 'til i started seeing the people coming from the track. Of course most of them ferrari fans! It was a nice pleasure looking at them seen them with their heads down and quiet, very quiet! Priceless! I couldn't stop smiling anyway!

And did you know that there is a group of protesters against the Canadian GP?? I didn't know it 'til now i was watching some F1 news in french! Interesting! but they are crazy!

Ok, and that was my weekend! If wasn't for the weather could it been one of my best!

Until next time!
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