Formula 1 - 2012 - Page 50

This is a view from the tower.
It cost $35 just go up the tower and you only get 10 minutes to enjoy the view! @_@ It was a 45 minute wait in line too.







Super blurry, but I got it. :D Hammy waving on his cool down lap!

The girl volunteering for the store had no idea who either of the drivers were...so she kept getting confused and was giving me the wrong die casts T_T;


some of the city buses had advertisements for the fanfest in downtown Austin. There was a Button bus too!


The entrance!
SO CLOSE and so much walking!


this guy.


The collector's glasses!
You get them by ordering a $12 "Circuit of the Americas's Signature Tea" (basically a long island ice tea).

or you can just have them substitute any $12 cocktail you want. We just ordered the tea.
The opposite side of the glass shows the track (including elevation changes). It's pretty neat!


I crappily painted my nails in team colors prior to leaving :'D The orange/red is a bit off, but hey, close enough, right?

It should have been a three-way title battle which is my big disappointment with the year. I think Hamilton has driven amazingly well this year and factors outside his control have gone against him. Interestingly enough Ron Dennis gave Hamilton the McLaren F1 he promised him if he could deliver the team three titles when his Mercedes deal was announced. He said Lewis would have won those if the team hadn't let him down. Top bloke that Ron. This year has been riddled with errors from McLaren, pit-stop problems in Aus and Malaysia cost 13 points. Onto a gear-box problem in China(3), more pit-stop issues in Bahrain cost 8 minimum. He would have won in Spain but only managed eighth due to his penalty, that's 21 lost. Pit-stop issues again in Monaco (these are all consecutive races) cost him points, until finally a flawless weekend from McLaren in Canada where Lewis wins. Then he had pit-stop issues again in Valencia which caused Maldonado to be near him, who punted him off for a loss of 15 points. Retirement in Germany followed a poor British GP, and that retirement would be the first of many. He then played the "Game of Thrones" (win or retire and interesting enough a game he plays in North America through his entire career) in Hungary, Belgium, Italy and Singapore which cost around 35 points. Rear roll-bar failures in Japan and Korea caused poor finishes, hard to know what was lost here, but certainly 10. That just leaves his Abu Dhabi retirement which cost another 25. That is 132 points lost without looking at the German GP, he is 83 points behind Vettel. Taking into account Vettel's problems over the season and taking away the points he gained from Hamilton it would be very close between the two. It isn't too hard to see why Lewis has looked for pastures new