Leslie

I remember standing on an orange box at Stowe corner seeing Roy Salvadori roll his Frazer Nash, and Stirling Moss drive in the F1 race as well as the sports car race in an XK120! Those were the days of full blooded 4 wheel drifts and Stirling was very good at it.

Les

Chip

Les,

1951 then?

Chip

Leslie

It was when they used to have the Daily Express Trophy F1 race every year. I was so young I could only just balance on the orange box My dad parked his car in a field and we walked through the hedge by Stowe for nothing!

Les

Scoobychick

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I'd like to go to them all, as well as all of the WRC and IRC rounds. When I win the lottery I'm going to do it

Meanwhile, back in reality - Monaco and Spa

Fat Boy

Monaco - watch qualifying from the side of the track by St Devote - you're literally 10 feet from the cars and it is instantly and sadly apparent that you could never do what they do even if you think you're a good driver. For the race I've sat in the "cheap" seats - Les pelouses rocher- which is basically the rocky lawn or the steep bank below the Grimaldi castle. From there you can see the cars from the moment they come out of the tunnel and all around the swimming pool Tabac complex - plus there is a large screen mounted on the far side of the harbour that lets you keep up with the action you can't see. We used to stay in Biot, which is a little village in between Nice and Juan les Pins - nice place and only 15-20 mins on the train into Monte Carlo.

Spa is awesome as well.

Leslie

Worth remembering if I ever get the chance to go then.

I really enjoy driving Spa on the computer!

Les

Gear Head

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So you like watching people crash and get caught in nasty fires? Hmm, what a true race fan! People like you don't like motorsport for what it is, you just watch it for the carnage. As soon as a lap goes by with no over-taking, you people seem to think either that the sport is crap or that the driver's aren't trying hard enough.

Infact, what you are really saying is that you don't understand motorsport one little bit and therefore get bored when it stops being 'visually exciting'.

Now go and light some matches or something.

urban

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I've only ever been to one F1 race myself - the Indianapolis debut

Whilst the atmosphere is amazing and the real sense for the speed and braking etc is unreal I actually found the race quite boring after a while
OK the first lap and 22 cars taking off at the start really does make the hairs on the back of the neck stand up.

After the first round of pitstops it was nearly impossible to tell teams apart - I found trying to view a helmet ridiculous.
If you've no big screens close by then you're fcuked basically.

Would I go again - probably not

What I do want to go to this year is a Moto GP round.
But again like the comments above it has to be decent weather - so that rules out the UK
I also get rather annoyed by the majority of Yanks - so that rules out the USA also.