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Agree with you! (But I'd extend the year back to the '50s ...)

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Not sure what to make of “Rule #3” of this show :unsure:
I’m guessing “volume matters” :ROFLMAO:
 
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equiprx said:
Around the same time frame is the Hillsborough Concourse de Elegance.
I went years ago and it was great, but I can't afford it now.
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It's gotten out of hand, IMHO. We used to make the "Annual Pilgrimage" to Watkins Glen for the US Formula-1. A couple sleeping bags, some eats 'n beverages in a cooler and the weekend was always enjoyable (and affordable). Now, any F-1 event ticket here is the price of a three-day ho$pital $tay. Or a couple mortgage payments.

We've relatives in Miami, they invited us to stay with them if we wanted to attend that F-1 event. But the cost of the tickets for all three days was north of $5K! We had better seats by staying home and watching it on-line! F1-TV is ten bucks a month and FULL of some of the best viewing and information on the circus.
 
DrEntropy said:
It's gotten out of hand, IMHO. We used to make the "Annual Pilgrimage" to Watkins Glen for the US Formula-1. A couple sleeping bags, some eats 'n beverages in a cooler and the weekend was always enjoyable (and affordable). Now, any F-1 event ticket here is the price of a three-day ho$pital $tay. Or a couple mortgage payments.

We've relatives in Miami, they invited us to stay with them if we wanted to attend that F-1 event. But the cost of the tickets for all three days was north of $5K! We had better seats by staying home and watching it on-line! F1-TV is ten bucks a month and FULL of some of the best viewing and information on the circus.
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Back in the late sixties, one of my coworkers asked me if I wanted to go to the US F1 race at Watkins Glen.
We drove up there from Long Island in his new Fiat 850 Spyder and slept at his friends dorm at Cornell.
It was the first F1 race I ever saw and I'm guessing the admission was less than $20.
Most of the race is a blur but I remember the winner finished the last few laps on three wheels with a broken rear suspension.
That was the most exciting thing I had ever done and became a life long fan of International racing.
A few months later we went to the Can Am races at Bridgehampton.
I didn't get to another event until around ten years ago when I heard about the Monterey Historic races at Laguna Seca.
The best part of that was walking through the pits and paddock, meeting the drivers and owners.
 

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We would "camp" in one of the marque specific "corrals" at the Glen. The last year we went, the Elan was needing a water pump so we took my GTV. Managed to coerce the Lotus corral to let us in after a few of the "regulars" vouched for us. I wandered around with a couple Nikons and a bag, had unchallenged access to the whole place. Wouldn't happen today.
 
Went to the Glen a couple of times in the 70s for the F1 race and for the 6-hours. Slept in the back of a station wagon one October. Got up one morning to find it had snowed during the night. Walked past the muddy Bog and saw the burned out vehicles. The garage was nothing more than a steel building with (4' high?) chain link fence separating each stall. There was an aisle down the middle for spectators. Mechanics and drivers were very accessible.
 
DrEntropy said:
It's gotten out of hand, IMHO. We used to make the "Annual Pilgrimage" to Watkins Glen for the US Formula-1. A couple sleeping bags, some eats 'n beverages in a cooler and the weekend was always enjoyable (and affordable). Now, any F-1 event ticket here is the price of a three-day ho$pital $tay. Or a couple mortgage payments.

We've relatives in Miami, they invited us to stay with them if we wanted to attend that F-1 event. But the cost of the tickets for all three days was north of $5K! We had better seats by staying home and watching it on-line! F1-TV is ten bucks a month and FULL of some of the best viewing and information on the circus.
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What's next - "by the hour" tickets?
 
The last "unfettered access" event we went to was in Daytona for the 2016 Ferrari "Finali Mondiali." Da 'mits had the camera, made some stunning shots. That was before I'd jumped back into photography. But the event was interesting enough.

Some notables were there:

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And as for seeing events of interest, you don't get stuff like this on ESPN!

Screenshot from this year's Monaco event:

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Only time I went to the Glen was when my old friend Bart was racing his Alfa Veloce. I was his pit crew. He didn't win. He's in Sarasota now. 89 years old and still a car nut.
 
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