that might be the case, at any rate the most of the camera angles we not that great.

I just got back.. I can't put into words the emotion that envelops you, the first time you hear an f1 car take a lap.. it's intoxicating. No youtube video can capture this. It was fantastic. I'll post up some shots soon.

man i wanna go!!!!

What a BLAST! Can't wait to go back tomorrow.

Sorry for the crappy pictures, but...

The Observatory Tower (gotta hit this tomorrow)


Turn 2 F1


Turn 1 Historic Grand Prix


The Pits


Veryon SS in the Parking Lot


GT3 RS in teh Parking Lot


Jensen Button Shot


Ferrari Challenge Shot


GT3 Cup Shot

Freaking host crashed on my on upload.. This is all for now.. I'll try to upload the rest tomorrow.. going to Up early..

Streaming on-board cameras here: http://stream.speedtv.com/mercedes

waiting for more pics

With grojean 5 spot penalty he will be a row behind Alonso, hopefully he doesn't punt him out of the race in turn 1. As much as I want seb to win his third title, I'd like for Alonso to be in it to the end.

As long as he let's the Williams' through before he starts wrecking people, I say .... .

Who do you want to win?

Let me know if you want a bigger pic of any.. Just not all of them

I'll post up some more now that imgur is working.

Did some nice slow shutter shots today.. need to dredge through 600 shots though.

More pictures (Day 2)... and I still suck at shooting.

Waiting to Go Up


From the Top of the Tower



Shots from the Ferrari Challenge



Shots from the GT3 Cup Race



Shot from the Historic Grand Prix Race


F1 Fan Fest Downtown

More...




















STIG.. FTW!! Literally.













Suddenly.. NOS = Pull tire..








Look Ma, 3 Wheels




I actually missed the spin-out in the background until I looked at the pics.. the overtake was way more impressive.. lol.

Majofo, how did you like turn 4 (5?)? I think that is where I want to sit the next time.

Turn 5.. it's nice. It definitely can get wild and it's definitely a passing section, but all downshifting. The plus side is if you get the high corner you can see to turn 6. Any spot in turn 5, you can see the straight across the way. What stinks about the north end of the track is all the great amenities, food vendors and entertainment is at the south end and walking through the sea of people is tiring.

Honestly, most of the turns are good.

11 is good, because if their brake freeze up, that's the place to see it.. and after the hairpin, warp speed.. upshifts.. mmmm...

15 is good, especially the corner or end seating because you see them coming down the straight and through the chicane.

19 is good, but it's VIP seating. I have no idea how to get in that circle. Anyways.. when the race heats up, that's where it goes down. There is general admin seating on a hill coming into the turn.

Of course the grandstands and turn 1 are good. That's a crazy "tower" they built at turn 1. lol.

I think my next seats are Monaco.

GT3 Cup Race






Ferrari Challenge - Race 2








F1 Driver's Parade










The Camera Copter


The Warmup Lap






Pre-race Ceremony






The Race






The Podium

Also.. Hamilton FTW!!!

awesome pics guys!!! So how was the experience of going to an F1 race???

Have you guys seen any other types of races, how does it compare haha, just curious

This is my first race so I can't compare it. All I have to say is it was a great experience.

Well I've seen Indy and several Nascar races.. Both don't compare. Nothing against both of them, but it's not nearly as intoxicating. It's really crazy to appreciate what these guys are doing, and how they did it in the past. It's like taking a top fuel car around a twisty track.. incredible. Bruno about ate it at turn 5 during a warmup lap but got a handle of it. It was incredible.




I will say.. the bumper cars with 458's aka. Ferrari Challenge was a lot of fucking fun to watch. Bunch of crazy assholes in 458 Italia's. Poor 458's..

Yeah, those guys are a bunch of honeybadgers It was entertaining though.

More like honeybadger mixed with tasmanian devil mixed with redneck..

Majofo and KR - thanks for posting up pics and sharing your experiences. Very cool stuff.

Awesome pics, Awesome pics. I really wish i had been able to make it. Next year nothing will stop me from going!

I imagine you would be in pit lane beating the crap out of all the drivers for wrecking those f-cars.

I was going to make a new thread.. but thought I'd bump this instead so newbies can soak in the awesomeness of the inaugural race.

Tickets just went on sale.. get them quick.
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0C004A6E11BB7A2A

I'm on Turn 9 this year.. Fuck yeah!!

Well.. what a clusterfuck. They are just now mailing tickets.

Anyone else going?

Poor fuckers who put their home address and decide to fly in early, especially overseas, will have to request reprints at will-call.

Yeah, blame that on COTA, not F1. Tickets come so late. Same thing happened with MotoGP. For that race I actually had to go to their headquarters downtown to pick up my parking passes, ON OPENING DAY.

I'm not going to F1 this year. I will be going to MotoGP next year though.

I blame all of the above. It's unbelievable how ticket holders for their inaugural season got it earlier than this year.

Thinking of parking at a farm this year to save some coin.

Who to ban, Joe or Champ? https://acurazine.com/forums/sports-talk-fantasy-leagues-38/f1-circuit-americas-13-thread-898459/

Ban champ.. going on Saturday, but not Race day.. n00b.. I mean, not that it matters.

btw.. ticketmaster just sent me an email yesterday.. "just printed your tickets purchased March 2013, we will be mailing them by US Mail soon."

Fucking great weekend, will post pics soon..

Still fucked up logistics, some gun scare race day morning, no GT3s, and dumbfuck ticketmaster.. sent me some cheapass tickets, not the commemorative ones. I spent nearly $1k at the track, at minimum they should give us nice tickets.

I actually got the commemorative GA tickets after the race. Some of the volunteers had stacks of them, giving them away. But yeah, I heard about the nightmare with the tickets... I just bought a Sunday ticket. I wasn't going to go at first, but I decided at the last minute to go. I couldn't miss it. Had a blast, as usual.