From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: F1 Race Weekends
Date: 20 Nov 92 10:56:57 ACST
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In article <1992Nov18.150629.3574@meaddata.com>, andyw@meaddata.com (Andy Welter) writes:
> What are F1 race weekends like at most F1 venues?
> 
> At Indycar road races you get plenty to watch... practice and qualifying sessions
> on friday and saturday, a trans-am race on saturday, and a half dozen other
> support races like Toyota formula atlantic, sports 2000, Barber Saab, etc.
> 
> I think Winston cup races usually just have the main event on Sunday and a Grand national or Arca race the day before (plus qualifying and practice).
> 
> Do you get as much to watch in F1 or is it usually just the big boys going at 
> it?

Apparently it depends on the venue.  At Suzuka there is little else except the
big boys going for it.

Here in Adelaide we get the Grand Prix rally coming into town on the Thursday. 
This is organised by sections and includes everything from vintage cars to
Cobra replicas, Lamborghinis, the Porsche, Ferarri, Bugatti, Maserati etc clubs
and so on.  Then at the actual event racing of all categories such as Karts,
Superkarts, Formula Vee right through to F3000, Group N (historic race cars), a
celebrity race in whatever cars Holden wants to provide, touring cars, formula
Brabham, formula HQ (race a pretty well standard holden HQ - sorta like racing
your average family car of 15-20 years ago except that everyones car is exactly
the same with no real racing mods - great to watch, cheap to compete), and so
on.  There is something on the track from 9am until 6pm every day.  This
includes demo runs and practices and so on.  There were about 9 parachute
drops, 3 or 4 aerobatic displays, drag racing, we have had a chopper race a F1
around the track (chopper won), and a whole pile of other stuff.

The actual GP finishes at about 4:00 on the Sunday then after that there's a
concert which this year had the stars of the local production of Jesus Christ
Superstar (Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens, John Farnham, and a couple of other
acts), but in the past we've had Cher (she was crap - on and off in about 30
mins) and other international guests I can't remember.

There's a whole bunch of parties everywhere (Adelaide's a pretty boring place
other than at GP time so the whole city gets into it), and we have everything
from $300 balls to $30 for "all the beer you can drink" events.  This year I
went to a 1920's show which was absolutely fantastic.  Lots of fun and a great
atmosphere.  Adelaide has a reputation for being somewhat conservative (by
Australian standards) but everyone has a wild time over the event.

There's more but I guess you get the picture now, so if you want more details
e-mail me and I'll post you a timetable of events.

regs

Rob

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