HURRY - Get your Vegas F1 tickets and room before they are all gone

[98SVT - was 06GT]

https://frontofficesports.com/the-1m-formula-1-vegas-experience/

[FL SAAC]

"Pocket Change"  hold me back !

[QuickSilverShelby]

I was getting the updates for F1 tickets and I was looking forward to going until I saw the ticket prices.  Standing room only for $500 with a grandstand ticket for $2,600, and it went up from there.  You couldn't see a seating chart and you had very little idea where you might be located.  Hotel rooms are $1,000 a night with a minimum 4 night stay but that didn't really matter to me as I have a place in Vegas so my accommodations are already paid for.   

I am certainly not a "high roller" with a private jet and a wad of Benjamins rolled up in an elastic band in my celebrity, bedazzling jeans .  I'm more like a "medium roller", a good solid hundredaire if you will, so I can afford the F1 ticket offerings, but when I saw the prices, and the lack of information, I chose to scream neigh (while spiting out my vodka drink).  I.... will..... not..... drop my pants and bend over for the icy F1 finger and make no mistake, it's thick and it's a wide F1 finger so it's gonna hurt......real bad.   I shall, instead, just watch it on TV, drink my Chivas and hurl insults at the tv in a thick, snooty, superior voice while the race runs.  I will check back in for the 2024 race as I am sure the recession will be in full swing by then and I should be able to get a better opportunity with less........ you know....... F1 R@pe.  Time will tell.

In the mean time, I'll just keep going to the spring and fall NHRA races in Vegas which will cost me the princely sum of $89 a day.  AND the Nitro cars are way faster then a F1 car...... 115 mph faster so I'll take a Nitro car driven by Brittany Force (I love your Brittany ) at 338.48 MPH vs a bunch of dudes topping out at a very, very respectable 215 MPH.  Very respectable.  Good job F1, everyone gets a medal these days so that should apply to the F1 boys too.  F1 is my Silver Medal .

QSS

PS   Don't tell my wife about my Brittany comment, she'd kick my ass.

[Side-Oilers]

QSS:  Agreed on F1 vs NHRA.  My wife and I went the to the NHRA World Finals at Pomona last weekend. Had a blast. My buddy who is a high-up dude at NHRA got us VIP tower passes. 

But we also went into the pits to watch/feel/smell the Top Fuelers light off and get our eyes and lungs burned.

Also had a great conversation with the new Funny Car champ Ron Capps at his pit. I asked him how fast his car would go in reverse, theoretically. He thought about that and said "probably 100 or so, but I don't want to try it." Super nice and friendly guy. Very down-to-earth.

My buddy also got us into the photog area by the starting line. I've been to something like 75+ drag races in my professional life, but the raw-powered performance still impresses.

And the racers/pit crew are much nicer and approachable than I've ever found in Indy or F1.  Well, except for Connie Kalitta. He still looks like he'd bust you in the jaw with a wrench if you pizzed him off.

[Side-Oilers]

Funny Car driver/owner/world champion Ron Capps in action...

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Cruz Pedregon's Funny Car lighting off.  Note the crew is wearing gas masks. 

[QuickSilverShelby]

QSS:  Agreed on F1 vs NHRA.  My wife and I went the to the NHRA World Finals at Pomona last weekend. Had a blast. My buddy who is a high-up dude at NHRA got us VIP tower passes. 

But we also went into the pits to watch/feel/smell the Top Fuelers light off and get our eyes and lungs burned.

Also had a great conversation with the new Funny Car champ Ron Capps at his pit. I asked him how fast his car would go in reverse, theoretically. He thought about that and said "probably 100 or so, but I don't want to try it." Super nice and friendly guy. Very down-to-earth.

My buddy also got us into the photog area by the starting line. I've been to something like 75+ drag races in my professional life, but the raw-powered performance still impresses.

And the racers/pit crew are much nicer and approachable than I've ever found in Indy or F1.  Well, except for Connie Kalitta. He still looks like he'd bust you in the jaw with a wrench if you pizzed him off.

I know, right!  The burning eyes, the smells, the interaction with the teams and drivers in the pits.  It's the greatest.

My uncle, Walley Protz, has been in drag racing for 65 years.  He turns 80 in 2023 and he knows a ton of people in the drag racing world.  It's unreal.   During the spring NHRA drags in Vegas this year, he brought me into the pit box's of a bunch of the Nitro funny teams and he was introducing me to all the crews and families who have been drag racing longer then I've been alive and I'm 53 freakin years old.  It was awesome!!!  Walley's been around drag racing longer then god. 

In my pee brained mind, a NHRA drag race, along with the interaction with the drivers, crews and families, may be the epitome of the racing world.  Not only because of the insane speeds achieved at a NHRA race and the interaction with the drivers and crews, but because of the family like experience down in the pits.  It's the cats ass.  I really like F1 but nothing.... nothing compares to a NHRA event.  The mind numbing, ground shaking, bladder/bowel releasing runs achieved by the women and men at a NHRA event are incredible.   Hell ya!

If you've never gone to a NHRA drag race, you gotta go.  Go stand as close as you can by the track and you'll be shocked, awed, and you might even soil yourself....  in a good way.

QSS

[crossboss]

Two words: RIP OFF!!
I live in Vegas, and would love to attend this event. The greedy made it impossible for the 'regular' fans to enjoy it.

[5566]

https://wc4.net/dm?id=8A6BDEED45E2B2481C9E0DB2DCFFAADA62371395E38E5671

Not as bad as the Wynn, but still pretty expensive.

[TA Coupe]

QSS

PS   Don't tell my wife about my Brittany comment, she'd kick my ass.
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Mine would probably try to get me a date with her. Twice she got me a stripper for my birthday party 😊
She even saw my picture of me holding porn star Sunset Thomas with her arms around my neck and me holding her legs spread out in front of me and all she said was "it looks like you had a good time last night" She was completely naked too. I'd post the picture but I would be banned for life.

            Roy

[98SVT - was 06GT]

https://wc4.net/dm?id=8A6BDEED45E2B2481C9E0DB2DCFFAADA62371395E38E5671

Not as bad as the Wynn, but still pretty expensive.

I love this caveat: "After purchase, you will be contacted with additional details regarding your reservation." It's also non refundable so when you find out your seats are in the first row with a view of 20' of straightaway you are an owner. But it does include food and non-alch beverage. I'm assuming a dried out sandwich, bag of chips and a water. $25 per cup beers will be available.

Gotta admit NHRA and drag racing is a lot of fun. Up close, family atmosphere, etc. Anybody remember the old tradition of tipping the Hydrazine bottle a little too far at the last race of the season (usually Bakersfield) - you had all winter to rebuild for next season? https://www.dragzine.com/news/flashback-friday-the-story-of-the-leathal-fuel-called-hydrazine/ 

[Steve McDonald Formally known as Mcdonas]

QSS:  Agreed on F1 vs NHRA.  My wife and I went the to the NHRA World Finals at Pomona last weekend. Had a blast. My buddy who is a high-up dude at NHRA got us VIP tower passes. 

But we also went into the pits to watch/feel/smell the Top Fuelers light off and get our eyes and lungs burned.

Also had a great conversation with the new Funny Car champ Ron Capps at his pit. I asked him how fast his car would go in reverse, theoretically. He thought about that and said "probably 100 or so, but I don't want to try it." Super nice and friendly guy. Very down-to-earth.

My buddy also got us into the photog area by the starting line. I've been to something like 75+ drag races in my professional life, but the raw-powered performance still impresses.

And the racers/pit crew are much nicer and approachable than I've ever found in Indy or F1.  Well, except for Connie Kalitta. He still looks like he'd bust you in the jaw with a wrench if you pizzed him off.

Connie can repeat a tapestry of swear words that could make a sailor on shore leave in a Singapore whorehouse blush.
and yes he has been known to throw a wrench, can of oil, fist, and other assorted items
He is a legend

[TA Coupe]

Connie has also been known to fly goods in need during times of crisis for free.

         Roy

[FL SAAC]

Yall better stop writing and buy the tickets

I hear these tickets are flying off the shelf

[Don Johnston]

It's an auto race.  That's why they keep driving up the prices.