I carpooled with my coworker in his supercharged Mazda Miata. We left San Diego around 8:20 AM and got to Long Beach a little before 10:00 AM. We walked the Expo floor and picked up random freebies. The 3 most "useful" freebies were: 1) Firestone cap signed by someone, 2) calendar, and 3) a small bottle of hot sauce.
During warm-ups
Check out the Honda Accord safety car
In the pit around for the Speed GT challenge cars
Audi R8
Audi R8 engine
Nissan GT-R model by Tamiya
Me with some other type of models ;)
Overview shoot off one of the bridges
Turn 1 with some cars
That's Danica Patrick
Under yellow flag
We were in Grandstand #6
Indy Car Race 2009
The video I shot of the first lap that day.
So after this experience I don't really believe it's worth watching one of these professional races in person. Unlike football, racing fans rather have seats higher up. You're basically baking under the hot sun for the whole race, and you get to see very little. On TV, you get to see and hear what's going on around the whole track. In person at the track it's really hard to hear, plus you should be wearing earplugs. However, in person you can feel the cars as they drive by and smell the burning rubber. I would love to go to ALMS and check out the Acura cars in the pits.
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