The city's done a great job with this race. Here's what you do. Walk to the metro station. Ride the metro to the bus station. Take a free bus to the track (it runs every few minutes). Walk through the cooling stations, grab a free bag of cold water, head for the viewing area, and cover your head with an umbrella (for the sun, the rain part comes later). At the end of the day, reverse course, except stop for a beer on the way back from the metro.
Our view of the track:
Our tickets were in the Bronze 1 stands. These seats are on the other side of the track from the garages, but it's up higher and there seemed to be a breeze most of the time. If you look at these stands on TV, they look like there's very few people with seats and lots of general admission folks standing around. Actually, there are no general admission people around the Bronzes...all those people standing around have seats but aren't in them. Pati saw our seats once but we never sat there either. We sat on a wall at the top end of the stand for the entire weekend.
Just before the race started, a storm came through, thunder and lightning and the whole bit, but our side of the track got the least of it. About 10 minutes of rain and it was over. The race was great. Here's Lewis Hamilton (British, Mercedes), Fernando Alonzo (Spanish, Ferrari), and Daniel Ricciardo (Aussie, Red Bull) in the late laps, racing for the podium:
Ricciardo passed both of them in the final laps to win his second race. His first race? Montreal, and we were there. Lewis' car caught on fire during Qualy 1 and he never set a time, started from the pits, but still wound up on the podium, the jerk. Also there was some controversy about team orders telling Hamilton to let team mate Nico Rosberg pass him...he refused.
So here's live action from the Hungaroring!
We'd say that this is one of the best races we've ever seen!
