"hedbutter" (hedbutter)
10/20/2018 at 17:37 • Filed to: None
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Oppo- has anyone attended the F1 race have any tips for a first timer ? Some friends and I want to attend next year, but don’t know where we want to sit or where to stay (RV rental vs hotel and shuttles, etc).
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> hedbutter
10/20/2018 at 18:00 |
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Tweet Stef, she lives in Austin :D
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> hedbutter
10/20/2018 at 18:03 |
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My sister + her husband and I all went last year, stayed in different Airbnb’s and just rented a car to carpool to the track. Traffic really isn’t bad if you aren’t trying to get there at the last second.
We had GA tickets and watched some of the practice sessions from Haas Hill and the race from Turn 1, but we had to get there the second the gates opened to stake out a Turn 1 spot.
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> hedbutter
10/21/2018 at 01:09 |
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I went in 2015 (and got very, very stuck in the park and ride FM whatever mud pit with a few thousand other mostly rental cars. ). Next time I go, I’ll probably spring for a better parking option that is either solid or otherwise further improved than literally being a mowed pasture . The general admission ticket for the weekend was awesome, and you want to go for the whole weekend. The historic and other support races are seriously cool, too.
The GA ticket lets you walk around the entire track, but not get into the stands. There are grassy knolls all around the track to watch from, and that lets you see most of the track. There are large video screens all over the place showing the F1 world feed, so you always know exactly whats going on.
My favorite place to watch was turn 11. Could see the cars coming down over turn 10 (which is a bit off camber so there usually some slip angle), there was passing into turn 11, and you could see the cars almost all the way down the back straight. You also got the hear the cars run all the way up through the gears all the way down the back straight. I also dug that the turn 11 area had noticeably less people, there wasn’t a line for the port-a-pott ies, and the food options seemed a bit better and without lines. T he folks that made the trek out to the hairpin (and it is a long walk out there ) were also generally cooler and more laid back. If I were to compare a fan area to oppo, we’d be hanging out the other cool kids that knew up on the hairpin.
If I were to buy grandstand tickets, I would probably do the grandstand on the outside of the turns 9 and 10. Up on that hill, it would provided a view similar to the grass area on the hairpin plus a t least the 7-8-9 complex.