Ah racing.. the smell of ozone and polution in the air.

Screw the planet, lets race.

Now you know why NASCAR is a growing sport here in the USA.

One of the days to head up north, as all the hicks are in town

wow.. that was bit of an overshot. I knew there was going to be lots of people, but some 50,000! Good thing I didn’t bother to go watch it. Of course it’d been interesting to see a live F1 car, especially because I live only 15-20 minutes away (a short walk + metro).
I’m also glad I didn’t have to go anywhere through the area that day!

I’m a huge gear head, but this was extraordinarily lame. If you want to see race cars, go to a race. I wasn’t very impressed with the racing side of things.

However, it was fun just to watch all the people. If you like the atmosphere of all those people together, like at a concert or something, then it was a lot of fun.

Hank – Don’t you mean /more/ hicks? It’s a small town and it was a free event…that’s enough to draw lots of people on a slow day.

I bet they all where stadilainen. Hicks (like me) go to watch a ralli and want to eat dust and grit!

Yep, the real hicks line up for ralli and tractor pulling championships.

Instead they should have drove trucks around the “circuit” with walking speed…people dancing on the floats and loud techno music coming out of the huge loudspeakers…that would have been an experience! I didn’t came too “see”/hear this City GP..I knew it’s going to be BS!

BuAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA WITUN PELLET,how there can be so stupid peoples in finland , whats special is to see the f1 car? -nothing it is just a fast car thats all…. even i can make such car as toyota f1

Well, fire is even older thing than F1 cars, but every time, when some building catches the fire, there are soon enough spectators to block the path of fire brigade. I think Hannu Karpo or somebody did a candid camera style TV stunt, where some shithouse by the road was set on fire and soon there was some 50 cars parked all over the place and almost somebody selling hotdogs. I bet it’s the same phenomenon.

Not to mention Armi Kuusela’s Philippino husband way back in the 50′s. I think there were some newspaper articles speculating, whether his forefathers were cannibals.

Is something would be big, plenty, close to you everyday life, colourful, soundful, useful and sometimes even fun, would you be interested? Most chidren are: that is cars.

If something related to cars represents the mechanical extremes, technological extremes, the ultimate marketing and co-operation strategies, and an element of danger, would that be interesting? It is F1 racing, and it is one of the favorite sports in the world.

About climate change and cars: the jury is still out in many respects here.

BTW, me and my 3 year old qued for 2-3 hours in the crowd and in the hot weather to get to the “simulator” which was a fiberglass formula replica with EA F1 2002 game running on the big screen in front.

He enjoyed it enormously, having waited it all summer. And I of course enjoyed his joy. Then we went to Kiavopiha were there was another competing “simulator” with McLaren gear and Infogrames GP4 game. They had broken the pedal input, but I fixed to be on “automatic” driving a a que of people (MOSTLY kids) enjoyed driving, although the wheel and pedals were now “off”, anfd the driving (in Monaco!) was done by the computer.

“Instead they should have drove trucks around the “circuit” with walking speed…people dancing on the floats and loud techno music coming out of the huge loudspeakers…that would have been an experience!”

Oh but that’s what they do in February every year. We call it “penkkarit”.