Austgentina – Part 1: Formula One First view of the racetrack from the Turn 12 GrandstandView 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 fansScoring tower showing Practice Session 3A car screams by under the pedestrian bridge at Turn 3The “Ice Man” cometh – and he brings fans. (Kimi Raikkonen)Panorama from Turn 1 atop the hillAwesome commemorative glasses; drinks, however, not as good as Deep Eddy sweet teaFun with landscaping decorations inside the main gateGT3 Porsche heading toward Turn 19Um… Turn 19. : )Caught up with a couple of my race-crazy friends.Historic Grand Prix carsUT Marching Band getting ready to parade down the front straightaway as part of the Sunday pre-race ceremoniesBack-marker cars duking it out into Turn 1 on about Lap 6Kimi Raikkonen heading up to Turn 1More early race action at Turn 1 – Jenson Button and companyGreat view of sweeping Turn 2 from the pedestrian bridge stairsJust-tall-enough Ferrari fan watching Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso go byTurns 16,17,18 and looking across at Turns 1 and 2 during the raceOver-cooking the brakes a bit going into Turn 14, and the scoring towerFernando Alonso in the 1st FerrariLouis Hamilton chasing Sebastian Vettel for the leadParting shot of the viewing tower constructed to give the Circuit of the Americas some sculpture flair
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