OT: Question for Canadian listers and F1 fans.

[MSegal at STSSystems.com]

Hi Will,

Even though I live here in beautiful Montreal, I've only actually attended
the race once, and that was on a Saturday practice.  I can tell you that the
noise these guys make can be heard just about anywhere in the South-Western
half of the city, and that's pretty loud, considering Montreal is a city of
over 3 million people!

There are lots of places to get tickets on the web.  Some of them also offer
Hotel packages as well.  Here are a few of them:

https://www.grandprix-tickets.com
http://www.f1tickets.org/
http://www.showtimetickets.com/

http://www.grandprix.ca/ (Official Sponsor website)

If you go to the Official Website above, under the INFORMATION section,
USEFUL LINKS, there are links to other useful sites for Montreal, including
Tourism, Transit, Hotels, restaurants, etc.

I should warn you, that Montreal is well know for it's Festivals, we have
some of the biggest around, including the Jazz (23rd year June 27-July 7),
Film (Aug 22-Sep7), Fireworks (Jun15-Jul28), Comedy (20th year Jul 11-21),
and of course, our Spring favorite to kick off all the fun, the Pothole
Festival. There's even the Tour de l'Ile Bicycle tour (June 2), which is in
the Guinness Book of Records, as the largest organized Bike Tour in the
world.

But I believe the F1 weekend is one of the biggest weekends of the whole
summer.  The city is booked solid, between the F1 teams themselves, the
Press, the tourists who come for the races, etc.  It's not uncommon for all
the hotels to be booked solid that weekend.  Often the high-end restaurants
and clubs raise their prices (because they know they can, and because they
know the people who come to this weekend have lots of $$$$).

You're biggest problem is probably going to be accomodations.  But then
again, you're probably coming from the US, so right away, you're talking a
40% discount on the Canadian dollar (lucky you).

But it's great.  Even general admission tickets, you can watch them go
around, see the track from different places.  You can hear then everywhere
on the island.  There's usually small events in the city that weekend as
well.  They usually close off the streets to traffic around the big night
clubs, due to all the people.  Last year some of the car clubs put together
a mini-show, and one night the streets were lined with all Ferraris, the
next night Porsches, etc.  If you like to party, there's nothing else like
it.

If you're just coming for the "show", to see a race, take in some nightlife,
etc, but don't have to see the F1 guys race, this year we're also hosting a
CART race, in August I believe.  It's the first time in Montreal.  They're
going to be racing on the exact same circuit as the F1 cars.  Cart is a lot
less "snobby" than F1, you're allowed to walk through the pits to see the
cars up close, and best of all, the tickets will be half the price of the F1
tickets, and they'll be soldout as fast as F1 tickets are.

Anyways, I hope you find this information useful.  Have a nice drive!!

Mitchell Segal


-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:30:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: William Ng <audi200quattro at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: willng at netzero.net
Subject: OT: Question for Canadian listers and F1 fans.
To: quattro at audifans.com

Folks!

Although it's kinda late in the year, a bunch of my friends are interested
in going to the Canadian F1 race in Montreal this June(?).

I'd like to know if it's still possible to get tickets (at a reasonable
price) and hotel reservations in Montreal or nearby, for a group of 6-8.

Any advice from F1 fans whom have planned this sort of trip to this event
would be greatly appreciated. Even if tickets for the race is no longer
possible, we'd like to still make it up there for the festive racing
atmosphere.

Thanks in advance!
Will


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William Ng
1990 200 quattro
audi200quattro at yahoo.com    willng at netzero.net