As we were walking in there were loads of people selling binoculars and ear plugs. A few friends of ours went last year and told us to bring ear plugs however, Grant filled me in on the deal that F1 changed the required/allowed turbo's for the cars this year so it wasn't nearly as loud as I thought it would be and as it was in the past.
Bill's co-worker Gary from the UK secured our tickets while in the UK which was really great and a much easier process for us and so Gary, Grant (another co-worker who came into town for work meetings this week), Bill, Mr. Fu and myself headed off to the track on Sunday morning! Since Mr. Fu drives like a race car driver we asked him if #1 he'd be able to work on a Sunday to drive us to the track and then we figured, rather than have him sit in the car he might as well come into the stadium and watch if he's interested in racing! He agreed as we thought he would!
This guy was the TV camera right behind us. He had a nice little hammock in his boom lift to take a snooze between the Carrera Cup and the Race.
We lucked out according to Gary as we got to see a pre-race race of what's called the Carrera Cup - a race of only Porsches. So that happened around 12:30 and then at 3 the real thing started!
Lewis Hamilton, a Brit, held the lead for the entire race and it was definitely an exciting first time for me to be at a race. Being my first time I hope Grant wasn't mad that I picked his brain on the drivers, countries, strategies, etc., he didn't seem to mind too much and we had some good laughs throughout the day!
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