After a bit of wandering about looking at the various pre-event activities, Emily met Rory the racing car, we went back to our spot the day before hoping to get a nice patch to sit. Unfortunately, race day must have had about 3 or 4 times the number of people so we could not even get close. We sat back a bit for a while and waited in hope that after a couple of events and over lunch we might get lucky.
About 3/4 hours before the race we managed to get into a spot which had a nice view and sqeezed our butts in and sat down.
The next few hours were about survival and defending every inch of grass that we managed to claim.
With about 30mins until the race started the crowd swelled and it became a bit of a crush as everyone was clammering for a view of the first corner. There was the customary fly overs and warm up lap and then it was off.
During the race the crowd thinned out a little and we could relax. We also had a nice big screen right in front of us with the commentary over the tannoy so we could keep track of the race positions.
Amazingly Button won! Sadly Webber was not so lucky.
As soon as the cars finished announcements were heard asking for people to stay off the track. This just seemed to encourage everyone and people climbed like monkeys over the 15foot fences and raced up the pit straight to get a view of the podium.
After a very tiring weekend we wearily headed home.
It was amazing to go the the GP, something I have always wanted to do. I am not sure if anything could have lived up to my expectations of what I thought the race would be like, but seeing the speed and experiencing the noise and vibration from the sound of the cars was incredible. Something I will never forget.
I think if we ever go again I would like to do it in style with a grandstand ticket. Might need to win the lottery for that one tho :(
