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To: zonder who wrote (48381)	10/24/2003 1:41:06 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 57110

Couldn't stand the noise (literally, my ears started to hurt from the inside) although I had ear plugs and left. I have been watching it from higher and higher balconies ever since :-) Ah but that is not noise, that is music highly tuned from the best engineering minds and motors in the world... I do acknowledge that being that close I would have to use earplugs too... Anyway, it is a veritable experience - not just the race but the whole atmosphere. Understood... the noise, the smell, the people (read women) and everything else... Monaco is the last TRUE street car race; for a while Long Beach attempted to emulate Monaco, but it came short by far... These are the same streets that drivers from other eras raced each other and regardless of time and technology, the key to winning at Monte Carlo is that of perfection, you cannot make a single mistake in this track, the guardrail is there to make sure of it, you simply have to drive the perfect race... The downside is 200,000 tourists crammed in a town of 30,000 residents. Argh. Wave your hand and you hit a drunk tourist. Forget traffic. Forget getting a phone call through. Forget sleep, for anywhere in Monaco, there is no way anyone can sleep through the 9AM practice runs of those mechanical monsters... True... and the crowds would drive me nuts.... particularly drunk tourists... so I sympathize in this respect... Still, the Monaco Grand Prix is a superb experience and you have it in your back yard... not a bad compromise I suppose...