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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (353)	3/10/2004 5:25:34 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 764

I might be wrong about this (as girls often are about manly sports!) but it seems to me that the Ferrari cars are just too advanced over the others for the competition to mean anything anymore. Personally, I would love to see Montoya take on Schumacher in a Ferrari... Coulthard only "technically" lives in Monte-Carlo - i.e. has a home here that he shows as his principal residence, for tax reasons. Have I mentioned we don't pay tax on personal income? :-) Anyway, one thing I thank Coulthard is having financed the chic Columbus Hotel that opened a couple of years ago in Fontvieille. Thank God we are not condemned to the archaic styles of Hotel de Paris and Hotel Hermitage anymore! columbushotels.com although it is not the same driving around a street at 30 - 40 mph in normal traffic... as it is to ... rush into a corner at about 120 mph and braking hard to take the turn at around 80 - 90 mph True. Although nowhere on that circuit in MC would anyone would be allowed to drive above 50 km/hr in normal days :-) In fact, I remember being told that MC is the slowest F1 circuit, and its highest speed of slightly above 200 km/hr is achieved at the exit of "the tunnel" - i.e. as the car comes out from under Grand Hotel. [I would HATE to be a guest in that hotel during GP - imagine the NOISE!] I once watched the GP from in front of the Metropole - that is, that road that slopes down immediately after the Casino. It is one of the sections of the circuit where the cars slow down the most, down to about 70 km/hr. I kept hearing these strange loud explosion noises (2-3 of them) each time a car passed by. I guess what they are is no mystery to you, but I was amazed to hear that was the noise of their gears shifting down! :-) It must be nice to live in MC... Live and breath the Grand Prix... (not to mention a million other reasons too) My personal favourite reason for living here is the "weather", closely followed by "no traffic", "no pollution", and "proximity to everywhere I would want to go on a weekend". Oh and have I mentioned "no taxes"? -g- This GP, I won't be cowering in my bed trying to sleep in MC, though. I did a couple of years of that, and finally got it through my head that it is not a good idea to party until 7AM and then got painfully woken up with the screech of F1 cars practicing at 9AM, in four days in a row. No sir. This time, yours truly is going to be renting out her apartment to some unsuspecting tourist who has only watched GP on TV thus far and has no idea how loud they can be, and sleep in Menton myself :-)