F1

Saturday, I joined the Irish and English expats for a day at the races, F1 that is. Opting not to splurge on Sunday's final, we settled for Saturday's qualifying runs and other assorted vehicular buffoonery (e.g., F3 events, celebrity races). The key to any Grand Prix event appears to be noise - if it's loud, it's welcome. In addition to the cars themselves (which are extraordinarily loud), there were fly-overs by various bits and pieces of Australia's military arsenal, and rock and rollers such as Wolfmother were on the scene as well.

One of the more amusing (albeit complete time-filler) events of the day was a "speed comparison." Essentially, they let a production BMW set off down the track, followed 1.5 minutes later by a V8 Supercar, followed another 1.5 minutes later by an F1 auto. Guess which won?

I'll post some photos from the track as soon as I get around to it - can't guarantee good quality. It's tough to take pictures of objects moving at 300 kph.