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[Moka]

Yes DD, same seats. As you know they are good ones.

[bud]

Yes DD, same seats. As you know they are good ones.

looks like good seats on the hair pin, are they one of the dearest? i was on pit straight just after the pit exit, was alright seeing the cars come out the pits but the rest of the time they were flying past.

[Moka]

Yes DD, same seats. As you know they are good ones.

looks like good seats on the hair pin, are they one of the dearest? i was on pit straight just after the pit exit, was alright seeing the cars come out the pits but the rest of the time they were flying past.

I know where you sat Bud. We sat there when I went to my first race in Montreal (1991). Over the years we have sat in various grandstands, but we consider this Grandstand and these seats to be the best and have managed to hang on to them since '03. They are "Silver" and this year cost about Can$400.00 for 3 days.

This is where RK had his off last year and Massa had a huge crash there a few years ago. There is usually lots of action.

Last year I couldn't go and DD bought them from me.

Not sure if I'll continue to attend after this year. When you include everything (tickets, hotel, meals, transportation, wine, wine...did I mention wine) it is expense and there are other things I'd like to do, but I hate to give up these seats. We'll see.

[beeday]

yes, it is quite expensive if you total everything. that's why i haven't gone to watch a GP yet. but i do hope that i can soon.

[f1ea]

That is certainly an experience and memory to be cherished forever.

This post will be a bit "anecdotal"... for the romantics

The experience was surreal. Back then there was not as much media exposure in my part of the world (can you imagine the world without the internet??) so everything about F1 was really fantastical and otherwordly.

Maybe it was my age or the era, but the drivers were like super heroes. And to be honest, I don't remember much about the race itself, except that it was chaotic and I kept trying to maximise my "Senna time" peeping as much as i could. In the end, someone had to tell me Senna had won, because were so few cars left racing that i really didnt know when the race itself was over... But the experience was incredible, the race was loud and chaotic and the drive from the french side to meet the italian side was crazy. There are no words to describe the passion surrounding Ferrari then and there... i probably had the longest walk of my life though.

we didnt really know there was history in the making there, but I just saw the grid, and there were some interesting people, besides Senna (the master of Monaco) and Prost (in the #1 ferrari), relevant in some way to what is F1 today: Aguri Suzuki, Nelson Piquet, Gerhard Berger...