Race of Champions Ins and outs.

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Another one signs up and another one drops out.
Jason Plato will be team mate to Couthard.
But Travis Pestrana has had to drop out due to a broken hip and ankle. Still no replacement for Webber yet either and only a few days left.
 
My tickets turned up yesterday, it looks like I'll be checking my photos to see who turned up to race :D
 
nilagin said:
But Travis Pastrami has had to drop out due to a broken hip and ankle.
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noooooooooooo he's my favourite!!

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out of all the entrants last year he was by far the friendliest. He made a special effort to come over and shake my hand.. it was the first time i've been star struck in a long time!

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but the good news is that they are letting media shoot from row 1 this year instead of row 14!! Last year they covered up the first 13 rows, so maybe they have opened them for spectators this year
 
badgerbaiter said:
but the good news is that they are letting media shoot from row 1 this year instead of row 14!! Last year they covered up the first 13 rows, so maybe they have opened them for spectators this year
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I'm a spectator :D and I've got seats on row 19 :)
 
19 ?? lol im around 30....lucky git ;p
 
Webber has been replaced by a Spaniard in Team Australia, how does that work. Also Jason Plato appears to be in his own team, currently without a team mate. Coulthard has no team mate either. Don't know why they haven't been put in the same team. Travis hasn't been replaced yet.
I'll be in level 2 Block 226 row 10 over by the crossover.
 
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Plato..excellent...he wont take any nonsense, probably cause a ruck...
 
badgerbaiter said:
at least you be high enough to get some of the heat rising :)
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I don't know we were on the second row or level two last year and it got a bit nippy. I'm wearing thermals this year.:lol:
 
We're on level one, Wembley moved our seats two rows back as :-

seats are being removed to allow vehicle access
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It sounds like we may be rather close to the action :D
 
mrgubby said:
We're on level one, Wembley moved our seats two rows back as :-



It sounds like we may be rather close to the action :D
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on a couple of sides, they remove the first 15 or so rows to make room for the track.. so that could be it.

hard to see on this pic, but the first rows where i was sitting were removed, and also rows on the right hand side. I'm pretty sure the track is the same this year

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btw feel free to say hello to me! I'll have a light blue jacket on with possibly a red alpine stars vest on over the top.. and of course a TPF camera strap!

oh and i'll be in my own world, so it might take a bit of shouting and possible physical violence to get my attention
 
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for those of you who havent got tickets, aparently autosport will be broadcasting it live on their website.


personally ill be on a plane so wont be able to see anything
 
whitewash said:
for those of you who havent got tickets, aparently autosport will be broadcasting it live on their website.


personally ill be on a plane so wont be able to see anything
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ask them to bolt a sky dish to the wing

whereever you are going, it will be warmer than wembley :)
 
It's on Eurosport on Monday at 10:30pm. Or live on Sky Sports on Sunday from about 1ish.
 
time table

Sunday 14 December 2008
08:00 Media Accreditation and Media Centre Open
08:30 &#8211; 10:45 Free Practice and Warm Up
11:20 &#8211; 12:30 VIP Paddock Visit (no media access to paddock)
12:00 General public admitted
13:00 &#8211; 13:40 Abarth 500 ROC Celebrity Challenge
13:55 &#8211; 14:15 Chris Hoy v Lewis Hamilton ROC &#8220;Man vs Machine&#8221; Challenge
14:30 - 16:30 The ROC Nations Cup
16:35 &#8211; 17:15 Exhibitions
- Lewis Hamilton and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1
- X-Fighters Freestyle Show
- David Coulthard Wings For Life F1 Demo
17:30 &#8211; 19:30 The Race of Champions
22:30 Media Centre Closes
 
Looks like scalextric on a big scale to me
 
A couple of shots from the event, thought I'd put them here as they are just 'Snaps' :D

(borrowed my parents S8000 rather than risk smuggling in my 30D )

Celebrity + car + slippy track

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Hamilton has a terrible life...

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DC parked it in the barriers.... for a change ;)

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Hamilton & DC did burnouts on the white board which were then signed. They are to be auctioned for charity :clap:

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Really? I watched the whole thing on the live feed and it was great.. it was pretty much TV quality. It got juttery during a few bits for probably not more than 30 seconds. Were you on a decent connection? The wireless laptop couldnt handle it but my wired up pc could.

- Surprising to see Hamiltons car on the dry tires. Normally when getting the cars to do donuts and spins, they put extreme wets on as they overheat and just slide everywhere. Was the track at Wembley so wet they had to do the opposite?

Regards, James
 
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Jamesbuk said:
Really? I watched the whole thing on the live feed and it was great.. it was pretty much TV quality. It got juttery during a few bits for probably not more than 30 seconds. Were you on a decent connection? The wireless laptop couldnt handle it but my wired up pc could.

- Surprising to see Hamiltons car on the dry tires. Normally when getting the cars to do donuts and spins, they put extreme wets on as they overheat and just slide everywhere. Was the track at Wembley so wet they had to do the opposite?

Regards, James
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I saw the start of a race and the middle. APart from that is was just frozon.

Come the next race, start and middle. Frozon

etc
 
badgerbaiter said:
i thought there would be an influx of photos posted on the forum, but only mine so far :(
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People were probably put off taking their 'Pro' ;) cameras by the warnings on the tickets. I gave up trying to get shots with my borrowed camera due to shutter lag & glacier speed AF :(
 
mrgubby said:
A couple of shots from the event, thought I'd put them here as they are just 'Snaps' :D

(borrowed my parents S8000 rather than risk smuggling in my 30D )


Hamilton has a terrible life...

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Fraction of a second and a level apart.:lol:

Sadly I was sat next to a 40+ feminist Schummacer fan. She kept screaming everytime "The Chin" came out. Kept willing Lewis to spin off on his F1 demo laps and then decided to start moaning about the chear leaders and how some of them were obviously bottle blondes. All from a woman whose geeky 'Emo' daughter had died black hair.
 
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