Pics of Solara @ F1 Race Weekend (no 56K)

[PhreakdOut]

Tacti and I met up in Indy this weekend for the Formula One race.

We had two day park and camp passes. We came in on Saturday, set up tents and checked out the qualifying races at the track. It was freakin' hot though. $3.00 for a microchip sized tube of sun block seemed like a good deal to me after a couple hours.

Here are a few pics ...











Tacti's One-Off Gold Tails and My Reds






Tacti's Gold Plated Headlights:


Tacti sporting a new Toyota F1 hat & one of many Oil Can sized Foster's


Me, a Foster's and Indiana's Finest ... OK, it was an empty car. The cops must really love F1 races cause there were a ton of them there!


Saturday's Indy Pro Series Qualifying:


The stands are pretty empty the day before the big races. Most of the crowd is at the other end of the track.


The Famous Indy Pagoda:


More Indy Pro Series:


Porsche SuperCup In the Garage:


Now I see how you get access to the pits ...








Finally, Formula One! Holy Crap these guys are fast and loud! I just can't get enough of the 140 dB screaming of V-8s and V-10s.


The Mercedes Benz made a respectable run at it.


Of course Toyota was out there with their car.




The Race on Sunday: As usual, Ferrari takes the Pole and second position. Cripes! When will Ferrari domination end?


I have a few more pictures, but Photobucket keep resizing them down. I'll fix it and post up the rest.

Toyota's Trulli takes 4th place and Ralf Schumacher, who was in fifth place, goes out with a bad wheel bearing.

Here are the results of the race from the Indy website:

INDIANAPOLIS - Results Sunday of the United States Grand Prix at the 2.605-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, chassis-engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):

1. (1) Michael Schumacher, Ferrari, 73
2. (2) Felipe Massa, Ferrari, 73
3. (3) Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault, 73
4. (22) Jarno Trulli, Toyota, 73
5. (5) Fernando Alonso, Renault, 73
6. (4) Rubens Barrichello, Honda, 73
7. (17) David Coulthard, RBR Ferrari, 72
8. (20) Vitantonio Liuzzi, STR Cosworth, 72
9. (21) Nico Rosberg, Williams Cosworth, 72
10. (8 ) Ralf Schumacher, Toyota, 62, wheel bearing
11. (14) Christijan Albers, MF1 Toyota, 37, gearbox
12. (6) Jacques Villeneuve, BMW, 23, engine
13. (15) Tiago Monteiro, MF1 Toyota, 9, accident
14. (18 ) Takuma Sato, Aguri Honda, 6, accident
15. (7) Jenson Button, Honda, 3, accident
16. (9) Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren Mercedes, 0, accident
17. (10) Nick Heidfeld, BMW, 0, accident,
18. (11) Juan Pablo Montoya, McLaren Mercedes, 0, accident
19. (12) Mark Webber, Williams Cosworth, 0, accident
20. (13) Scott Speed, STR Cosworth, 0, accident
21. (16) Christian Klien, RBR Ferrari, 0, accident
22. (19) Franck Montagny, Aguri Honda, 0, accident

Race Statistics
Winner's average speed: 120.644 mph
Time of race: 1:34:35.199
Margin of victory: 7.984 sec.
Cautions: 1 for 6 laps
Lead changes: 2 among 3 drivers
Lap leaders: Massa 1-29, Alonso 30, M. Schumacher 31-73
Point standings: Alonso 88, M. Schumacher 69, Fisichella 43, Raikkonen 39, Massa 36, Montoya 26, Button 16, Barrichello 16, Heidfeld 12, Coulthard 10.

The last pic is of the increadible pace car. The Mercedes AMG CLK 63.


This thing hauled a$$ around the track and sounded increadibly tough. 481 Hp 6.3L V-8 with modified brakes, suspension and exhaust. Very nice!

[Sap Z]

nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dominoSLEV6]

Wow Brian! Lucky!!!!

I would love to go to an F1 race, absolutely love it. I caught a tiny bit of thsi on TV, didn't know you guys made it out. Which by the way I don't thikn I've ever seen any 2 gen 2's compliment eachother as well as yours do. They're great on their own, but they look absolutely sick next to one another.

Looks like you guys had a good time. One day I'll make it up there, or somewhere who knows to an event. It's truely something special to see. I guess they don't do the CART cars turning downtown miami into a roadcourse any more. I've been down there to see the track set up, but never got to an event, I'm sure that would be fun, but would never hold a candle to Formula 1!

-chris

[Biggi_e]

looks at those 2 solaras and porches and ferraris! very nice pics. glad you had fun

[SleeperSolara]

You are so lucky.
Nice pictures man.

[Whatever]

nice pictures. I always wanted to check out the F-1 in real life.

[tacti]

Thanks for uploading pictures.
(I haven't have time yet, and your pictures looks much better than mine.. ^^;)

It was great time, and thanks for let me join you.
will up date my page with some pictures, and probably i will use some of your pictures. hope you don't mind.

I will see you at Elmhurst.

tact

[Mandarinsolara]

sry man but there were 2 cautions at the beginning of the race, i stopped watching bc those morons couldnt make it thru the 1st corner on the track without wrecking.

who wants to sit around and watch them take caution laps? not me

formula 1 needs a good nerf

[PhreakdOut]

sry man but there were 2 cautions at the beginning of the race, i stopped watching bc those morons couldnt make it thru the 1st corner on the track without wrecking.

who wants to sit around and watch them take caution laps? not me

formula 1 needs a good nerf

I didn't hear who was the cause of the wreck. I know rookie Scott Speed was in the midst of it and so was Juan Pablo Montoya. Juan has the experience but not in F1, so I consider him somewhat of a rookie.

I agree the caution is a pain but it didn't last too long. The sad part was that as soon as the first caution went down, there was another incident.

[PhreakdOut]

Thanks for uploading pictures.
(I haven't have time yet, and your pictures looks much better than mine.. ^^;)

It was great time, and thanks for let me join you.
will up date my page with some pictures, and probably i will use some of your pictures. hope you don't mind.

I will see you at Elmhurst.

tact

It was a great time. Thanks for coming! Especially Saturday Night. Chris and Jimmy had a great time too.

Look forward to the pics.

[Down2TheC]

All I can say is "DOH!". Glad you had fun...

[PhreakdOut]

All I can say is "DOH!". Glad you had fun...

It was sad you couldn't come down. I hope the puppy is doing OK.

I ended up scalping the tix for a fraction of face value. Attendance was way down this year and scalpers couldn't get rid of tickets.

It was a great time. The four of us managed not to get thrown into jail on Saturday night. <Very suprisingly> You know, we never could figure out what to type into a navigation system to find a strip club. LOL.

[tacti]

I have updated my webpage, but i decided not to put pictures on this thread...
PhreakedOut has much better pictures, and my pictures are pretty much the same thing as what he has...

if you are interested in, please visit my page
http://web.mac.com/tacti/

I tried couple more times looking for strip club on my nav, but still have no luck.. lol
well.. it should be okay tho, now i know that asking people on the street would be the easiest way to locate nearest strip club!
good time.. good time.

Tact

[PhreakdOut]

I tried couple more times looking for strip club on my nav, but still have no luck.. lol
well.. it should be okay tho, now i know that asking people on the street would be the easiest way to locate nearest strip club!
good time.. good time.

Tact

I hope you Mom doesn't use your Nav and find saved searches for a strip club. lol

If they kill F1, we may have to switch to Indy Cars at the 500. (Oval track though.)