Beat me to it. As cold hearted as it is, it’s always fun to flip the “South Florida is gonna be underwater!” discussion to: and nothing of value will be lost.
Beat me to it. As cold hearted as it is, it’s always fun to flip the “South Florida is gonna be underwater!” discussion to: and nothing of value will be lost.
You can also jeer at the ‘boat people’. (The rich people who take the boat from the casino to the other side of the inner lake to the Paddock Club.)
Things have changed. In 1975 I drove and cruised in Miami with my Honda Civic with Quebec plates and winter tires ;)
I’d love to go to Montreal... I’ll add Austin in 2013 was a great poor-man’s race... I based myself in San Antonio, and bought a grandstand seat for maybe $200 on stub hub (which I ended up never using after the start) and spent the whole day walking around the track and enjoying the atmosphere, taking photos and…
My favorite article this year.
Can confirm Montreal. Me and Mrs. BirdLaw attended in 2015. People, price, venue, weather, are all top notch and welcoming as can be. The rumors are true, Canadians rock. Plus, do you think at Miami one could get this close to a post-race Hami?
Miami will soon be underwater anyhow. I will miss the Cuban cuisine but that can be made anywhere nowadays.
Yeah, this is the kind of take I still come to Jalop for. I don’t know of another car site that would be willing to publish something like this, thank you.
You thought you didn’t belong...but did anyone else? Were you ever treated by anyone like you had no business being there?
I signed up for the ticket pre-sale for the Miami GP. The cheapest seats I could find were $1300ish. Needless to say I didn’t go. $600 would have been hard to swallow but I could of rationalized it. I’d love to see a how to go to a GP without a 2nd mortgage.
Drop any US GPs, go to the Montreal GP, you won’t have any of those “not part of it” feelings. Montreal is really open to all during the GP. Yes, you will have glamour but not rejection (bars, restaurants, etc.). Everyone, rich or plebs, just want to enjoy it. Other GPs such as Spain, Italy, Hungary, Brazil, etc. are…