First view of the racetrack from the Turn 12 Grandstand
View from our Turn 5 Grandstand seats. Good thing we got these pictures on Friday – we never went back to the seats again!
Panorama of Turns 3,4,5 from our seats (believe this one is courtesy of Aaron)
F1 in Texas / F1 in America. You can’t make this up!
Finnish fans
Scoring tower showing Practice Session 3
A car screams by under the pedestrian bridge at Turn 3
The “Ice Man” cometh – and he brings fans. (Kimi Raikkonen)
Panorama from Turn 1 atop the hill
Awesome commemorative glasses; drinks, however, not as good as Deep Eddy sweet tea
Fun with landscaping decorations inside the main gate
GT3 Porsche heading toward Turn 19
Um… Turn 19. : )
Caught up with a couple of my race-crazy friends.
Historic Grand Prix cars
UT Marching Band getting ready to parade down the front straightaway as part of the Sunday pre-race ceremonies
Back-marker cars duking it out into Turn 1 on about Lap 6
Kimi Raikkonen heading up to Turn 1
More early race action at Turn 1 – Jenson Button and company
Great view of sweeping Turn 2 from the pedestrian bridge stairs
Just-tall-enough Ferrari fan watching Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso go by
Turns 16,17,18 and looking across at Turns 1 and 2 during the race
Over-cooking the brakes a bit going into Turn 14, and the scoring tower
Fernando Alonso in the 1st Ferrari
Louis Hamilton chasing Sebastian Vettel for the lead
Parting shot of the viewing tower constructed to give the Circuit of the Americas some sculpture flair
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