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Happy Thread

ChuckJr said:
Good thing the Grand Prix circus has left town, nothing clogs roads up like a couple hundred thousand extra tourists!
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I honestly understand and side with the residents of Miami who didn't want this circus running through the streets of downtown. Weeks of disruption on either end. I can't imagine living in a city where a street course is constructed on main thoroughfares every year.
 
kann said:
I honestly understand and side with the residents of Miami who didn't want this circus running through the streets of downtown. Weeks of disruption on either end. I can't imagine living in a city where a street course is constructed on main thoroughfares every year.
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Always wonder about Monaco. That place looks like a PITA to navigate on a normal day, how they get all the support trucks and crap in there, plus set up for a race, seems like almost too much squeeze for the juice. At least Miami put it in a parking lot where huge crowds (well, Dolphins-sized crowds) are routine.

Even Austin, the track is a good ways from town, but a single little 2 lane road was the only access to it in 2012. They might have added more access since then, but that place is going to need a pretty involved re-surfacing or it won't be on the calendar much longer. It had severe porpoising before it was cool!
 
ChuckJr said:
Always wonder about Monaco. That place looks like a PITA to navigate on a normal day, how they get all the support trucks and crap in there, plus set up for a race, seems like almost too much squeeze for the juice. At least Miami put it in a parking lot where huge crowds (well, Dolphins-sized crowds) are routine.

Even Austin, the track is a good ways from town, but a single little 2 lane road was the only access to it in 2012. They might have added more access since then, but that place is going to need a pretty involved re-surfacing or it won't be on the calendar much longer. It had severe porpoising before it was cool!
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Don't they come in by air and then sea to Monaco? Before all the yachts cram in?
 
ChuckJr said:
Always wonder about Monaco. That place looks like a PITA to navigate on a normal day, how they get all the support trucks and crap in there, plus set up for a race, seems like almost too much squeeze for the juice. At least Miami put it in a parking lot where huge crowds (well, Dolphins-sized crowds) are routine.

Even Austin, the track is a good ways from town, but a single little 2 lane road was the only access to it in 2012. They might have added more access since then, but that place is going to need a pretty involved re-surfacing or it won't be on the calendar much longer. It had severe porpoising before it was cool!
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I bet that Monaco has a pretty good mitigation plan by now, though. Still, doesn't the track take up like half of the Principality? :P. If I had to guess, anything not direct support for the teams and the race is kept far off-site of the course. I recall reading in a driver autobiography (Mark Webber, I think it was) that teams scale back what they bring to the race at Monaco. I've never been to COTA, but been by it once or twice long ago. I recall thinking back in 2013 that it seemed rather inaccessible.
 
xyz123 said:
Don't they come in by air and then sea to Monaco? Before all the yachts cram in?
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There's no airport in Monaco, and it'd need to be big enough to accommodate the huge air cargo ships needed to move 20 entire F1 teams. So even landing in Nice, you'd have to get the stuff to Monaco. Boats are too slow, it's only a week between Spain and Monaco. And you'd still have to get the stuff from the dock to the pit area.

Here's a link, don't know it'll stay active, showing the semis in the pit, and even parked around the swimming pool. I'd drop a pic, but it's .webp format and it won't work..

I don't want to hijack this Happy Thread into a F1 discussion, let's move it to that thread if further discussion is warranted.
 
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