Race of Champions on TV this Sunday
Discussion
Well it was a chilly day so watched the first hour of the Nations Cup at home and then 'er indoors saw Mr Hamilton snr, so we decided that LH may be doing something at the interval between Nations Cup and RoC. Drove to North Greenwich tube station was at Wembley within the hour. On the walk up to the stadium there were a lot of people heading out of the stadium for the tube.
Got inside and surprised how empty it was.
F1 'display' was obviously limited, the stunt guy on the bike was pretty ordinary, the guy in the Mitsu Evo was pretty good.
After 2 hours and at the end of the event it was pretty cold, so those that had been there for 5 hours must have been frozen.
Exit from the stadium was very good even though we were on the upper tier straight back to the Tube jumped on the one waiting and back at North Greenwich in 40 minutes.
2 things of note...the amount of support Schumaker had....and he appeared to be enjoying himself and how disappointing Peta Solberg was
Oh and it was a pity for the Roc the Focus WRC and Aston Martins were only used the once
Got inside and surprised how empty it was.
F1 'display' was obviously limited, the stunt guy on the bike was pretty ordinary, the guy in the Mitsu Evo was pretty good.
After 2 hours and at the end of the event it was pretty cold, so those that had been there for 5 hours must have been frozen.
Exit from the stadium was very good even though we were on the upper tier straight back to the Tube jumped on the one waiting and back at North Greenwich in 40 minutes.
2 things of note...the amount of support Schumaker had....and he appeared to be enjoying himself and how disappointing Peta Solberg was
Oh and it was a pity for the Roc the Focus WRC and Aston Martins were only used the once
HAHAHAAlexS said:
woof said:
be interested to hear from those that went - the stadium emptied considerably one the sun when down and the temp dropped
(still cant' believe they didn't put a slidding roof on that place)
I thought Wembley did have a sliding roof, but its stuck open at the moment.(still cant' believe they didn't put a slidding roof on that place)
I was wearing a t-shirt, thin jumper, thick jumper, heavy jacket, Thinsulate hat, thermal long-johns, jeans, two pairs of socks, shoes and Thinsulate gloves and I was still cold. I couldn't feel my toes at the end.
Wifey was worse - she was actually shaking with the cold and I had to keep buying her coffees.
To be fair though, we had been in those seats from 1.45pm to 7pm near enough.
I had a great time though. I think there was, what, a total of 30 mins where something wasn't happening in the 5 hour show. That's pretty good going I reckon.
Wifey was worse - she was actually shaking with the cold and I had to keep buying her coffees.
To be fair though, we had been in those seats from 1.45pm to 7pm near enough.
I had a great time though. I think there was, what, a total of 30 mins where something wasn't happening in the 5 hour show. That's pretty good going I reckon.
JonRB said:
I was wearing a t-shirt, thin jumper, thick jumper, heavy jacket, Thinsulate hat, thermal long-johns, jeans, two pairs of socks, shoes and Thinsulate gloves and I was still cold. I couldn't feel my toes at the end.
Wifey was worse - she was actually shaking with the cold and I had to keep buying her coffees.
To be fair though, we had been in those seats from 1.45pm to 7pm near enough.
I think Jon and I must have made it in about 2:30 and neither of us expected it to be that cold, so I just had a t-shirt and coat (the worst bit was there was a jumper in my car a few miles away)!Wifey was worse - she was actually shaking with the cold and I had to keep buying her coffees.
To be fair though, we had been in those seats from 1.45pm to 7pm near enough.
I'm surprised my toes, fingers, ears and everything else didn't fall off through the cold.
GolfGT said:
AlexS said:
woof said:
be interested to hear from those that went - the stadium emptied considerably one the sun when down and the temp dropped
(still cant' believe they didn't put a slidding roof on that place)
I thought Wembley did have a sliding roof, but its stuck open at the moment.(still cant' believe they didn't put a slidding roof on that place)
I went and thought the whole event was excellent. 5 hours almost solid entertainment with hardly a pause, a real achievement. Whilst the course was a little Mickey Mouse, the racing certainly wasn't and they put real effort into putting on a good show throughout.
Highlights:
- Schumacher, the guy was awesome and entertaining to boot (e.g. his 'race' with Kovalainen).
- Andy Prialx's race against Muller in the Astons... Muller crossed the line sideways then spun it into the barrier (and the Astons were not seen again)
Lowlights:
- someone forgot to tell the food staff about the interval, took an age to get served as they were completely unprepared
- the c-c-c-c-c-cold, someone shut the roof! Oh, you can't....
Highlights:
- Schumacher, the guy was awesome and entertaining to boot (e.g. his 'race' with Kovalainen).
- Andy Prialx's race against Muller in the Astons... Muller crossed the line sideways then spun it into the barrier (and the Astons were not seen again)
Lowlights:
- someone forgot to tell the food staff about the interval, took an age to get served as they were completely unprepared
- the c-c-c-c-c-cold, someone shut the roof! Oh, you can't....
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