[Yogafist]

Sign me up. I first attended the Long Beach Grand Prix back in the mid to late 70s, I think it was Formula 1 at that time. I have probably attended that race 30 to 35 times and it was always a great experience. Heh, I was even there when they were filming the movie Driven, with Sylvester Stallone and they drove a camera car by telling the crowd to cheer. I think the best races came during the CART era. I’m not a fan of all the tracks they run now, and I certainly don’t know how they call the cars open wheel any more, but this is the only series I still make an attempt to follow.

[DAC21]

This will be about my 25th LBGP the first being 1978 back in the F1 days. Will be hanging out at Bubba Gumps in the early AM for Bloody Mary’s while the practice laps are going on. That’s fun as there are no crowds yet and the cars are all of 20 feet away as they maneuver around the fountain.

Then I will be in Grand Stand 36 for the race which is at the end of the Shoreline straight away. There is a lot of heavy downshifting / braking and and some passing. Some big screens are real close as well as it’s pretty much impossible to see much of the course even being near the top of the Grandstand.

[mabarker1]

Kool !!!

[Lockbox]

F1 at Long Beach was interesting. They used big round machined aluminum “washers” in place of the tire / rims to move the cars back to the garage. In the Pits you could walk among the most famous people in F1. Very interesting street circuit design with a few very interesting corners. Last corner would make or kill a lap.

Not like racing today…