GP day! - Blogabond

After a night of trying to sleep with ringing ears, we awoke, got ready and met the team to head to the circuit. On the way there we devised our smuggling plans to get some water and food in, due to the poor security we didn't have to try too hard, and really only needed a sacrificial bottle filled with tap water to give them a sense they had found and confiscated illegal contriband. However, Charly still insisted in putting a banana down the back of her trousers just in case !?

Camera heli coming back in

Heli

Another cheesy C and C photo

We saw the second Super Series race, which was slightly better than the first and then the JK series which were smaller Formula cars, pretty average. We did find out that we could pick up radio on my phone so we could listen to the Circuit Radio station, pretty useful to work out what was going on. Another way to find out what was going on, was to take a photo of the TV screen and zoom in, especially useful during the F1 race.

How we worked out what was going on in GP - zoom zoom !

All the flags before the race

Grass hill stand

Nice circuit view from the heli

Starting grid before the race

Zoom Zoom

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The race was pretty predictable, and we were hoping for rain to mix it up a bit. All in all an awesome experience to see it, hear it and get the great atmosphere.

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Vettel on victory lap

From our stand at the GP

After the race we decided we would try and walk back to meet the guys at the main entrance, which was a bit of a mission taking an hour up and down hills, the whole way we saw no shuttle buses, and then just before the end realised why, when we saw them all parked up not being used !

All the shuttle buses parked up, thanks !

We met the guys, got some pics at the entrance then headed over the where there was a free concert by some Asian superstar called Rain, we entered and immediatly where given vouchers for a free Chivas Regal and Coke in return for contact details. Don't worry we didn't use all our friends !:-) We did however work out that we could exit, rip off our wrist band, and re-enter to get more tickets. I figured that they wouldn't notice the 6ft, ginger big bloke keep coming in and I was right, making 3 circuits, twice with 2 tickets (one for Milko). The free whisky passed the time and we watched a beauty contest and they kept promising Rain, but as per the race, it/he never came, so we all got bored and decided to head back.