Vroom! Vroom!
The sky was clear, the weather was cool, the wind was breezy. Perfect day for a Formula 1 street parade. You can feel the buzz as the city closed its riverside streets to traffic in preparation for the big event. BMW-Williams and Minardi were set to unleash their cars in the streets of Melbourne and Ferrari drivers were set to show up at the Town Hall. A sea of red shirts highlighted the late morning, packing the barricaded track-turned streets. Red flags and banners were waving to announce the arrival of the motor racing circus.
Clowns dressing up as pit crews, drummers, and men on stilts entertained the crowd as they waited for the open wheeled V10 powered land jets to roar through the city. Following the dignitaries riding on BMW convertibles that were Melbourne's Lord Mayor, his deputy, senior city council members, and Freddo the Cadbury chocolate frog mascot (don't ask), the event began.
While it was never going to be as exciting as the actual race itself on Sunday, The crowd was in party mode. The Vodafone Formula 1 live site at Federation Square was packed. Heat of the sun tempered off by the breeze, people waited in anticipation with cameras at the ready and earplugs on standby.
A black Minardi driven by F1 rookie Christijan Albers burnt rubber and broke the 30Kph city speed limit with a roaring thunder as he took the car for a spin down Flinders Street, headed left towards the Arts Center by Princess Bridge, did a 180 back towards Swanston before turning right down Russell Street and back to the pit lane at Flinders before handing it over to his Australian team boss Paul Stoddart for another two laps.
A red Holden Commodore and a blue Ford Falcon V8 supercars took over the streets before Williams test driver Antonio Pizzonia flew in his BMW-Williams for three laps and left layers of black rubber donut marks all over the track. Engines turned off, drivers rolled out, crowds cheered as Stoddart, Pizzonia, Albers, and local star Mark Webber greeted them.
The atmosphere electrical, the noise deafening, the smoke rises as the race is on for the first round of the 2005 Formula 1 Grand Prix series.
Clowns dressing up as pit crews, drummers, and men on stilts entertained the crowd as they waited for the open wheeled V10 powered land jets to roar through the city. Following the dignitaries riding on BMW convertibles that were Melbourne's Lord Mayor, his deputy, senior city council members, and Freddo the Cadbury chocolate frog mascot (don't ask), the event began.
While it was never going to be as exciting as the actual race itself on Sunday, The crowd was in party mode. The Vodafone Formula 1 live site at Federation Square was packed. Heat of the sun tempered off by the breeze, people waited in anticipation with cameras at the ready and earplugs on standby.
A black Minardi driven by F1 rookie Christijan Albers burnt rubber and broke the 30Kph city speed limit with a roaring thunder as he took the car for a spin down Flinders Street, headed left towards the Arts Center by Princess Bridge, did a 180 back towards Swanston before turning right down Russell Street and back to the pit lane at Flinders before handing it over to his Australian team boss Paul Stoddart for another two laps.
A red Holden Commodore and a blue Ford Falcon V8 supercars took over the streets before Williams test driver Antonio Pizzonia flew in his BMW-Williams for three laps and left layers of black rubber donut marks all over the track. Engines turned off, drivers rolled out, crowds cheered as Stoddart, Pizzonia, Albers, and local star Mark Webber greeted them.
The atmosphere electrical, the noise deafening, the smoke rises as the race is on for the first round of the 2005 Formula 1 Grand Prix series.
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