Grace Young22 said:==== Montoya is out there driving. His transmission just gave up the ghost. It's pathetic. He's sitting stuck in the gravel trap. ====
Oxa and I have been talking about making the trip out to Imola every single year since 2001, but somehow, we just never actually pull the trigger.
The idea of heading to China, Brazil, or Japan sounds incredible, but... honestly, I think I’ll have to settle for Imola in the near future, which, to be fair, is a place I absolutely love. 🙂
Don't sweat it. Those agencies don't handle trips to Formula 1 races anymore. 😉 One of them called it quits right after that trip to Imola, and the other one just stopped organizing those kinds of excursions a little while later.
Morgan Murphy7 said:Who's actually going to stop you once you finally decide to just step inside your own head and stay there? Are you getting closer to the track?
We just couldn't quite find our rhythm today. That's a pretty great way to put it. 😁). The logistics were a disaster, and the organization was even worse; I actually watched a few of us end up having to buy tickets right at the gate, just five minutes before we were supposed to be heading onto the track. It was some kind of shady, high-stakes collusion between two different agencies. Honestly, I’d rather just forget my first trip to Imola ever happened. That second trip out to Imola was honestly something special.
Morgan Murphy7 said:Elizabeth Hughes, how many buses run out that way?
We headed out around midnight and didn't roll back in until sometime the next morning... maybe 9 or 10. I remember telling myself right then that I was never booking a race through a travel agency again. It was my first time at a race, and honestly, the stress alone nearly killed me. To make matters worse, by the end, we were parked so far away that Michael Schumacher and Mika Häkkinen looked like tiny little ants in the distance. Fast forward a year, and we did the whole thing ourselves, driving our own car on our own terms, and it was absolutely incredible. 🙂
Oxa and I headed out to Prato. Personally, I thought the place was incredible. We were standing maybe 50 to 100 yards from the barrier, which was only a few feet from the track itself. Neither of us felt like wearing earplugs. We just sat there and soaked up every single vibration in the ground as the cars screamed past, living for every bit of the noise. 😁
A week later, I couldn't even hold a conversation on the phone because my hearing was totally shot, but honestly? It was worth it. 😁
Aaron Palmer55 said:How on earth did she manage to overtake five solid drivers in this race?
Look, one lucky race doesn't suddenly make someone an elite driver. He just caught a break. If a couple more cars had dropped out due to mechanical failures, we might have seen Rosa standing on the podium, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.