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Perhaps I can help a little! I was there in 2017.
It’s really easy to get to the track by public transport. I was staying in a hostel outside of the city centre and as I recall it took about half an hour on the metro to reach the track, which has its own station. Though on race day it was a lot busier and took a bit longer, and if you wanted to stay in the city centre it would take a bit longer, but still quite doable I reckon. Language wasn’t a problem, I don’t think, there is lots of English signage and a few English speaking locals if you really need them.
I bought a ticket for the main grandstand, and since the stewards weren’t inspecting tickets for each specific part of the stand, I was able to roam along its length on both tiers, so you can get a pretty good range of views. Virtually the only corner you wouldn’t be able to see from any point in that stand, though, is the hairpin where all the action takes place- it has its own grandstands.
However, there was very little going on besides the F1, so be prepared for lots of sitting about watching empty tarmac. We had Asian Sportscars, and the drivers played ping pong before the race- that was about it! Though perhaps they’ve added to the programme since then.
What a sad state of affairs. The worst thing is there’s no real prospect of change while the same hardliners are in power and the irrational Iranophobia persists.
It’s also such a shame that the Bahrain GP is causing such damage to F1’s reputation. I know that’s a very trivial complaint compared to the woes the Bahraini Shias are facing, but F1 has been a huge part of my life since I was a kid, and to see quite how rotten and amoral it has become is really quite saddening.
Great work Guilherme! I’d love to see them ranked in order of what they’re paying or how much space they have, but presumably that information isn’t available
Can I do the full grid myself?! I’ll keep it as realistic as I can without being too boring
Red Bull:
1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Jean Eric VergneMcLaren:
3. Heikki Kovalainen
4. Timo GlockFerrari:
5. Kimi Raikkonen
6. Jules BianchiMercedes:
7. Sebastian Vettel
8. Paul di RestaLotus
9. Fernando Alonso
10. Michael SchumacherForce India
11. Rubens Barrichello
12. Nico RosbergSauber
14. Felipe Massa
15. Romain GrosjeanToro Rosso
16. Mark Webber
17. Neel JaniWilliams
18. Vitaly Petrov
19. Jarno TrulliCaterham
20. Jenson Button
21. Kamui KobayashiHispania
22. Marc Gene
23. Sergio PerezMarussia
24. Adrian Sutil
25. Daniel RicciardoOh yeah, I completely forgot about that! Probably because Saward’s love for Liuzzi seems to have cooled considerably this year
I don’t like Vijay Mallya at all (I particularly hate that preened goatee of his), but I’d always take what Joes Saward says about him with a pinch of salt. Saward seems to have built up quite a vendetta towards him
Interesting theory @the-edge, you might well be right there. But right now I can’t help but be against simply on principle
The Adrian Newey Facts that were popular a few months back used to make me laugh. They were just a rip off of Chuck Norris Facts but with an F1 theme:
http://twitter.com/#!/neweyfacts
And the photoshopping of Mark Webber’s head onto anything and everything still hasn’t grown old!
I actually think he’s done a decent job, at least relative to my low expectations going into the season. I think most of us (with one notable exception) would rate him less highly than Nico Hulkenberg, but his pace relative to Barrichello has generally been quite a bit better (I don’t have stats to back that up, it’s just the impression I get). I suppose it all depends whether Barrichello is performing at the same level in 2011 that he was in 2010…
Prisoner Monkeys: “Take Vitaly Petrov as an example – a lot of people thought he was out of his depth in 2010, but he’s really come back in 2011 to the point where he’s almost a compeltely different driver”
Erm… I’d take exception to that. Other than his podium at Melbourne, he’s been pretty mediocre, and the trend seems to be of him getting even worse, which is worrying
Obviously, there are lots of countries on the F1 calendar with dodgy human rights records. But only in Bahrain do I really get the feeling the race is really intertwined with the fortunes of the entire country. Hosting the GP will give the regime there a huge boost, and that can only be a bad thing
By fascınatıng sorry, I obvıously meant fascınatıng story. I can’t edıt my post for some reason, so I can’t hıde my foolıshness
I’m not sure how serıously to take that @magnificent-geoffrey, but thank you!
I have a new one too. It’s just a pıcture of Ned Flanders, wıth the word ‘Flanders’ wrıtten below. Fascınatıng sorry, eh
I think we might have to wait a long, long time for a new engine manufacturer (other than Pure). The global economy seems to be in freefall yet again, and it’d be amazing if any big manufacturers would be willing to even consider throwing a load of money at an F1 project until the economy has stabilised
