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I wound up taking over 1GB of photos over the 3 day weekend. An awe-inspiring event.
As far as my first F1 race is concerned, I'm just simply blown away. Perhaps the most awesome spectacle of car performance I've ever seen. TV simply does not do justice to the actual speed these cars travel at. For both rounds of qualifying myself and the wife sat at the turn one area, and the braking point was just incredible. The fastest guys were braking AFTER the 100 meter mark. That's from over 200mph. Not much distance to scrub off that much speed. Plus, once they entered the corner, no speed was scrubbed off. Their overall corner speed was just simply amazing.
And don't get me started on the sounds. Again, TV does not do it justice. Just to give you an idea, one car doing a practice start is enough to vibrate the grandstands next to pit lane. I've been going to races all my life, and I've never had to wear earplugs before. Here I had to buy and wear some. The sound is just immense. Plus there are sounds that TV doesn't pick up that well, like the backfiring of the engine as the car brakes for the corner. I didn't realize that an F1 car backfires as much as they do until I heard it in person.
Overall, it was just an awesome experience. Just amazing. If you are even a little interested in F1, you must see it in person. You don't know what you're missing if you don't.
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"The problem with quick and dirty, as some people have said, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten" - Steve McConnell
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