MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Posted (3 years 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 5374 times:
I have got well over 500 photoss from during the 4 days of the Grand Prix, so it isn't easy to get a gallery together. All photoss are my own originals. Not one of them are borrowed or taken from any web site.
I will try my best to give you my impressions of the event for being a local. I have decided to organize the gallery into different sections, with few comments unless necessary.
Feel free to add your own comments as this new thread develops. I will have to use several posts for all the different questions as I would like to post as many pictures of the event as I possibly can.
This year's official T.shirt design
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FOOD
This is a most important part. A Grand Prix goer cannot go without food. My exclusive GP food supplier, the traditional Boucherie des Arcades and Condamine market.
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 1, posted (3 years 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 5342 times:
GP 2
Car pictures close-ups - Many of these boys will be racing in F1 in the near future, or at least trying to join F1.
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Total F1 Logo
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Avenue du Port, transformed into a giant GP2 garage.
FREE PRACTICE SESSIONS
From up on Le Rocher
There are some fantastic views guaranteed on the racing track and pit lane from up there, although you need to be a bit adventurous to get these views. In some places it requires quite a bit of bravery.
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Racing track views
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FREE PRACTICE
from right above the Rascasse corner
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TO BE CONTINUED...
Pit Lane
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
kevinl1011 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 2964 posts, RR: 51 Reply 5, posted (3 years 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 5296 times:
Wow! What an awesome event to attend! I was watching the TV coverage thinking how great it would be to see that race.
Great mix of photos. They ought to give Bill142 some wood. You give a good impression of the people and places, not just the cars. And if you lean real close to your monitor screen, you can almost smell the money.
EZEIZA From Argentina, joined Aug 2004, 4929 posts, RR: 28 Reply 11, posted (3 years 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 5080 times:
The last sequence in Rascasse is amazing! A shame the iron curtain was there, but one can clearly feel the action!!
Damn I miss going to see a F1 race! I hope they'll return to Buenos Aires some day ...
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 12, posted (3 years 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 5078 times:
There will also be pictures without "the iron curtain" and maybe a lot more!
Be patient, they'll be coming. This is a countless number of hours I am putting into this, at the GP and after.
You just need to be patient.
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
EZEIZA From Argentina, joined Aug 2004, 4929 posts, RR: 28 Reply 20, posted (3 years 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 4863 times:
Quoting BlueElephant (Reply 18): I want to know one thing. How do you get such great access to everything?!
I was wondering the same thing!
I had been unable all day to see the new pics .. they were not showing up for some reason, but know that I saw them .... wow! I don't think there's a single inch that you haven't covered!!
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 21, posted (3 years 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4835 times:
MONACO GP 2010
DRIVERS
We all have our favourites. Drivers pictures will be posted in no particular order just as they came. First come first served.
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PARTIES
La Rascasse
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Harbour pub
Dual Indian Empress mega-yacht and Force India yacht party
hosted by Vijay Mallya Owner of Kingfisher Airline, Kinfisher Beer and Force India Formula 1 team
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La Rascasse - the Saturday night - with a live band and a different woman
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An old friend, Andrea Coscia, happened to be in town. He is the Captain of Signora del Vento, a beautiful Italian tall ship.
They were preparing the boat, chartered by Lancia, the Italian automobile firm to celebrate the launch of a new car. A party for the rich and famous was hosted on the boat. Among guests, Prince Albert of Monaco and his girlfriend Charlene Wittstock.
Stunning guests came to the boat party hosted by Lancia. Every invited celebrity, ranging from film to industry, was asked to sign their names on the car. Then they proceeded on board Signora del Vento. There were many guests, a great most of them I would not even recognize. They all remained anonymous celebrities. I thought some of the drivers would be there but none of them came.
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Princess Caroline
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Prince Albert and Charlene Wittstock. The Prince and Charlene also signed their names on the car.
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The maybe Princess to be.
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Signora del Vento - Undoubtedly the most beautiful boat at the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix. After the party and the race, they were going to Cannes with Lancia for an event at the International Film Festival.
On Sunday evening, a giant spontaneous party was organized by Red Bull at the Red Bull/Toro Rosso paddock for their winners Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. The Miss Monaco Grand Prix was there. She seemed to be a very friendly girl.
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The harbour was filled with yachts bigger and smaller. Bigger yachts that could not be moored stayed out at sea.
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Every yacht celebrated in their own manner. Here two gentlemen having a go at ping pong.
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McLaren team party on one of the yachts. Jenson was there, Hammy had already left.
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Necker Belle - Richard Branson's catamaran - He owns Necker Island in the Carribean thereforre the yacht's name
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Signora del Vento seen from a distance
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Happy group of Grand Prix partiers singing out loud to passers-by. The new building has a direct multi view on the race track
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Skid marks on the race track after the race
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A marvel of an old Rolls Royce down by Saint Dévote.
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The history of Saint Dévote, Saint Patroness and guardian of Monaco.
This is where I will end my 2010 Monaco Grand Prix pictures report.
I must say thank you to all those who have worked very hard for making this event possible - most of all to the ACM and to Prince Albert of Monaco for hosting this most fabulous event every year, still the world's best Grand Prix without any doubt.
I also have a list of bad people, celebs and anonymous, also one local business owner but I prefer to keep their names to myself.
Rendez-vous next year for another Monaco Grand Prix!
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
kevinl1011 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 2964 posts, RR: 51 Reply 22, posted (2 years 12 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 4635 times:
Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 21): This is where I will end my 2010 Monaco Grand Prix pictures report.
Wow!
Your photobucket must be busting at the seams. So...what was your most memorable moment? If it were me, meeting a legend like Jackie Stewart would be it. Looks like you had the experience of a lifetime.
...and could you please give us the f-stop and shutter speed for all of those shots?
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 24, posted (2 years 12 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 4612 times:
Quoting kevinl1011 (Reply 22): ..and could you please give us the f-stop and shutter speed for all of those shots?
Quoting Stealthz (Reply 23): Now, now Kevin... you must know an artist will never divulge their secrets!!
The secret is that there is no secret. I took all the pictures posted here with a very common type of "tourist" camera. Nothing special or sophisticated here. I only wish I had the Canon EOS with the mega lenses like the pros (and less pros with the $$$$) but I don't. Can't have everything, at least not in my case.
If you know how to do pictures, any camera will do a good job. It is a lot more difficult of course, but it's feasible. Also, knowing all the little corners in the place and how the organization in Monaco puts things together is certainly helpful, but any newbie to the Monaco GP could do the same, by reading all that is on the official Grand Prix site and exploring the place ahead of time.
It's a fight and it's exhausting, standing for hours and hours during the 4 days, non-stop, from morning til night, before, during and after the race looking for drivers, and then some of them show up unexpectedly and spontaneously. It's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time just like for everything else. I tend to stick out of the chasing crowds. I am not that age anymore, those who want their programs signed at all costs chasing out from one driver to the next.
I see so many who are not even capable of telling who is who. They don't know, they cannot tell who is who in the teams and don't recognize the drivers, not the teams either, even still they push and get in your way. This is why I like to wait until they just show up without having to pursue them like most of people do. Also I know some hidden accesses not known to the public... ha ha!
You will be surprised that a lot of autograph chasers don't even buy tickets for the practice sessions or the race, not even the cheapest tickets. All they are around for are the freebies. Many of the signed programs end up being sold on ebay every year.
To each his (her) own as they say.
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
25 kevinl1011: Heck no! I'm the furthest thing from an "artist" there is! But thanks for letting me in on that little "artists" secret. Awesome! He seems to be a ge
26 jetmech: Thanks MC, very nice of you to share your photos! Regards, JetMech
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