JOYA380B747 From India, joined Mar 2005, 434 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (7 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 885 times:
The cars and equipment usually arrive to the venue in the beginning of the week in which the race will be held, i.e. Monday and Tuesday (12th and 13th), since first free practice sessions of each race begin on Thursday of the race weekend.
But since there is a fortnight between the Abu Dhabi and Austin races, and this is a new track, race equipment might just start arriving few days earlier.
Expecting a couple of Aerologic/DHL charters into KAUS
If it wasn't for AI and those money mongers sitting in the parliament, 9W would have been as big as SQ...:(
airplanebrain From United States of America, joined Mar 2011, 13 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (7 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 884 times:
"The first of six 747s carrying about 200,000 pounds of equipment for next week’s Formula One race arrived at Austin-Bergstrom InternationalAirport today."
airplanebrain From United States of America, joined Mar 2011, 13 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (7 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 884 times:
The article includes a nice video of the plane and the unloading of the cargo:
Aesma From France, joined Nov 2009, 4935 posts, RR: 9 Reply 6, posted (7 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 884 times:
Depending on the track some things are shipped (as in boats) weeks in advance. On another forum I'm a member at we have a logistics guy working for Ferrari and he explained it to us.
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LoneStarMike From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 3654 posts, RR: 38 Reply 8, posted (7 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 884 times:
strangr From Australia, joined Apr 2012, 110 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (7 months 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 882 times:
some pictures I took this year @ Melbournes Albert park. These photos were taken on the Wednesday arvo, just before the track officially closed for the public to use.
I believe the Aussie GP is the biggest logistical Nightmare as the teams are so far from home base
Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3102 posts, RR: 47 Reply 10, posted (7 months 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 882 times:
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LoneStarMike From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 3654 posts, RR: 38 Reply 13, posted (7 months 1 week 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 873 times:
Quote: With an influx of international race fans set to begin arriving Tuesday, workers have completed an expansion of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport’s customs facility that will double its capacity.
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The changes will allow agents to clear 150 to 170 passengers an hour through customs — flights with predominately foreign nationals on board take longer to process, officials said — up from 80 to 120 an hour before the expansion.
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The customs facility expansion, which cost about $250,000 and took only a couple of months, likely will be in place for about three years. The Austin City Council in October approved a $6.3 million design contract for what would be a four-story, 40,000-square-foot addition to the terminal — construction should cost another $40 million or so — that would permanently expand the customs capacity to 350 passengers an hour or more.
That project, Austin officials hope, could draw regular European airline flights to and from Austin, but would also speed the handling of F1-related arrivals in future years.
PanHAM From Germany, joined May 2005, 7839 posts, RR: 27 Reply 14, posted (7 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 873 times:
Quoting strangr (Reply 9):
I believe the Aussie GP is the biggest logistical Nightmare as the teams are so far from home base
These pictures show very well how this is organised. The material is ready packed on aircraft unit load devices, just need to be trucked to the aircraft and loaded. Customs is done on site at the race track and the ULDs are sealed. Not having been involved directly with it, the most likely is that all this travels on a Carnet ATA and arrangmenets for the clearance are done months ahead.
The circus could not operate otherwise. Glad to see that it seems to work fine in the US as well, AUS is new territory for the F1 but DHL has obviousy cleared the track. The time when the circus is in Europe must be like a holiday for the circus. Just trucking over the road and no customs handling.
RGElectra80 From United States of America, joined Dec 2008, 358 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (7 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 867 times:
Here are some outbound goodies from the F1 GP, if any of you AUS spotters can get out there this morning. I wish I could but I lack the focal length to make any good pics, although there are virtually no places for AM spotting for the likely runway they're using anyway.
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