We Went To A Grand Prix!
Posted on 03 September, 2024
Joshua and I were very fortunate last weekend to be able to go the Italian grand-prix at Monza, thanks to a friend who works for FOM (the management company for F1) and arranged 'VIP' passes for us.
We stayed in an Airbnb in Milan and got to the circuit by train/bus each day — which works really well, so long as you don't mind queuing a lot (we thought it was bad on the Saturday after qualifying ... and then found out what bad really is after the race on Sunday). There was also quite a lot of walking involved — we covered something like 35 miles over the three days.
Takeaways:
- We should have booked seats in a grandstand — we watched most of the actual race in the fanzone, which was fine
- Commentary at the track during the race is much worse than TV commentary! It didn't help that a lot of it was in Italian (which I only speak a tiny bit) but it was also just not very good
- As a result, we actually knew less about what was going on during the race than we would have done if we'd been watching at home (I think this is quite common)
- Everything else about the weekend was fantastic — F2 and F3, F1 practice and qualifying, historic cars, the paddocks ... thoroughly enjoyed all of it!
Highlight of the weekend has to be getting to walk the pit lane on race day.
We found the pit lane!
(The less said about Piastri's overtake on Norris on the first lap, the better!)
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