[Fot] F1, was Re: Frequencies for the weekend??

[Bob Kramer]

Ditto for me. Watched the race starting at T11 and walked back to our seats at
T2 . Saw a lot of action at 11 but passing wasn't all that common. It will be
great to race the TR's there. Thank you Bob Blake.

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On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Duncan Charlton <duncan.charlton54 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ed,
> I gotta say this was done right with few exceptions.  Crowd control didn't
> seem to be an issue very often (although you didn't want to get caught on
the
> wrong side of the pedestrian bridge at lunchtime) and there were may places
to
> get a good view.  We ended up watching from turn 19 where we could also see
> turn 20, turn 1, and the Jumbotron directly across from us.  Turn 11 was
> probably better even thought you can't see as much of the track.  There
were
> many passing attempts there and the Jumbotron screen is close and easy to
see.
> The slope is steep there (for those with general admission tickets) so
one's
> view wasn't as likely to be blocked by somebody in a folding chair camping
out
> in front of you as was the case at turn 19.  We had a grandstand seat at 6,
> which I chose after studying the track map -- problem was, although we
could
> see a lot of the track from there, not much action occurred there.  I
bought
> the seat just in case the weather turned out to be rainy.  I'm very
familiar
> with the type of soil where the track is, having owned property with the
exact
> same type -- it's called "black gumbo" for a reason.  It sticks to your
shoes
> and before you know it you have six pounds of clay attached to each foot.
> Many of the general admission observation points had little or no grass
> growing yet and were covered with this soil.  Most attendees will never
know
> how nasty it would have been to have to walk through that soil, which would
> have been tracked everywhere.
>
> At any rate, it was great fun to be there.  Not sure I'll do it again since
> I'm not that big a fan of F1 but it was nevertheless a good time.  I
imagine
> the other CVAR attendees would feel the same.
>
> Duncan
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