Did anyone hear about this in the news today?

They are closing the Sydney Harbour Bridge for a few hours so Mark Webber can zooom across the famous landmark. It will be beamed to audiences worldwide to promote the Grand Prix which is coming up in Melbourne.

Should be an awesome sight seeing an F1 race across the bridge!!! :eek2:

Bet the Melbournianites must be bitter about that. :D

lol promoting melbournes event in sydney :P

Bet the Melbournianites must be bitter about that. :D

Not bitter at all just amused that you are so excited..
A wee bit jealous are we Sydney? How pathetic to get soo excited about ONE car doing a publicty stunt when the the F1 Race in Melbourne and beamed to an estimated 600 MILLION people around the world every year!
:runaway:

LOL.
Does sound VERY VERY cool, guaranteed world wide news item for sure given the Sydney backdrop, esp a helicopter view of it all. The more I think about it the more excited Im getting. Is there a better way to promote the race ? Dont think so.

Yes there is, by having the race :P

I'm fine with watching it here and i might go to the free public day. You can hear the cars from my ouse, about 15km from CBD.

lol promoting melbournes event in sydney :P

Kind of disappointing really in that respect. They coulda used the Bolte Bridge or another Melbourne bridge instead.

But i guess the promoters wanted a world icon.

Anyways no complaints, we get to witness something spectacular! :cheers:
And im also looking forward to the actual race in Melbourne :cool:

PS. Barneybuck, the "publicity stunt" has been organised by the promoters of the Grand Prix themselves, so just appreciate what will be an incredible sight!

Why not do the full circuit while a F1 car is in Sydney. From Harbour Bridge to Cahill Freeway then down the Eastern Distributor, then M5...

Do the full LOOP! Just like in Monaco!

HAHAHA yeh or like the course they have on Project Gotham 2 where they weave through the rocks area!!!

Anyways signs saying the Bridge is closed from 5am to 10am on the 5th [from memory] so not sure if this is the day?

I'm fine with watching it here and i might go to the free public day. You can hear the cars from my ouse, about 15km from CBD.


yeh ?? u must have good ears mate, i live 14km from the CBD and i cant hear a thing cept for the F/A-18 warming up before its flypast of pit straight :)

Well seeing the track is several km from the CBD...*slaps head* :)

Webber will drive over the bridge just after 8am tomorrow. Channel Ten will do a live broadcast of this from 8am.

Yeah, track is closer to my house, and well inbetween the city and my house it is relativly flat, you can just hear the whine of the engines, sounds cool.

also the rouletts flightpath is over our house, they turn around nearlly directly above, so you see them a few times flying around here.

where is it elsternwick? the F/A-18 used to do its final approach right over my mates old place which was on nepean hwy just before glenhuntly rd, was tops always have the GP party there just for that :) anyone see Webber going over, i set my alarm at 8 for it got up had a look, was pretty good i guess, just weird to see the bridge closed, but webber did a few nice laps of it, took him all of 6 seconds to cross it :) was such a nice morning here, and nice day now for that matter :) i think next year it should be done over the Bolte Bridge.....

Did anybody watch it?

Sounds like its more of a Sydney harbour bridge borrowed to promote Sydney more than the GP.

I was done in part to film a commercial.

I was done in part to film a commercial.

Aaaah now it makes sense.

I should have slept on, and watched whatever footage they used this afternoon. Shame he didn't do any doughnuts:D

I guess there will be cleaners getting those burnt rubber marks off?

I should have slept on, and watched whatever footage they used this afternoon. Shame he didn't do any doughnuts:D

He did one on the northern side of the bridge as he turned around to make the return journey. I thought his drive was an awesome sight.

Also it is believed he drove his car at 180km/h, twice the speed he was allowed to drive. It took him only 10 seconds to drive from pylon to pylon.

Any promotion is good for Melbourne. No need for snide remarks about Melbourne jealousy. Now that we've whet the Sydney apetite for F1, we await their spending $$

Yeh looking forward to the actual race now.

Anyone have any Vid footage? or links to it? i missed it, just read the page on it in the paper today.

EDIT:
Barsby, i'm just off Glenhuntly Rd....other end, about 300meters from the end of the tram line :P So in Carnegie, not the jets, but the Rouletts.

i think they have changed the flight path, i have not seen them this year yet, unless they do it this weekend.

Umm.. @Fabian, you sure it was 180? I thought it was 90 or something not so fast. Well he didn't look to be sweating it you know, at least on the speed part. :)

90 was what he was supposed to be going but he actually went much faster. You can work it out given the time he took to traverse the distance between the pylons.

if u look at the aerial view of him from the chopper, he is definately going more than 90km/h without doubt he is going at least 140km/h.

The news says he's travelling twice the speed limit, so I say around 180km/h?

I knew this would happen to this thread. This was a F1 sydney promo. For sydney to bid for the 2011 GP and sydney will bid for it.

Any promotion is good for Melbourne. No need for snide remarks about Melbourne jealousy. Now that we've whet the Sydney apetite for F1, we await their spending $$

Dont worry you got a fight on your hands.

I knew this would happen to this thread. This was a F1 sydney promo. For sydney to bid for the 2011 GP and sydney will bid for it.

There's no doubt it was a Sydney promo, but not for a future GP. There is serious talk from Adelaide about trying to get the GP back but I'm pretty sure it will stay in Melbourne - as I think it should. The only other serious contender would be the Gold Coast. They'd give up there little go-kart race for F1 in a second. I'd love to see F1 on the Gold Coast.
This is all assuming F1 will still exist past 2008 and the GPWC situation is fully resolved.

blah blah blah blah blah blah, sydney can bid for whatever they want, but Albert Park is a purpose built track, and thats something Sydney will never have close to the heart of the CBD, fuck i am sick of hearing about Sydney booooooring......the fact is, Melbourne have the GP til 2010, then the option of a 5 year extension, so basically its upto us, sydney can bid all they want, wont get them far....i think this thread has run its distance...its going no where. Beat this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/barsby/williams3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/barsby/williamscloseup.jpg

and they wouldnt let people near the Williams on the bridge for safety reasons ....

I assume that was directed at Citystyle rather than me.

I assume that was directed at Citystyle rather than me.


correct

in those pics, waves of people as far as the eyes can see over 150,000 of them too.

I knew this would happen to this thread. This was a F1 sydney promo. For sydney to bid for the 2011 GP and sydney will bid for it.

How delightfully evil!

Umm.. @Fabian, you sure it was 180? I thought it was 90 or something not so fast. Well he didn't look to be sweating it you know, at least on the speed part. :)

The Herald/Sun has estimated that they may have been going at 200 kph = Awesome.Could be damp at the weekend which will make the grid positions more critical than usual.

03mar05

FORMULA One cars sped around the streets of Melbourne at more than 160km/h yesterday.



The Herald Sun used a laser speed-measuring device to record the cars on their inaugural street parade, at which speeds were limited to 80km/h.
A touring car driven by Marcus Ambrose reached 157km/h as it crossed Princes Bridge, while the Formula One cars were too fast for the speed gun to take a recording.

Some observers estimated the speed of the Minardi and Williams cars at more than 200km/h as they raced from St Kilda Rd into Swanston St.

While fans who lined the parade route were thrilled with the unexpected taste of high-speed action, others were angered.

Melbourne City councillor Fraser Brindley said the cars should never have reached three-figure speeds.

"That's not good -- it's not what we were told was happening," he said. "The safety is a really important issue at this sort of exhibition. We don't have the barriers to properly mitigate against accidents." Cr Brindley said the high speeds were particularly dangerous considering many safety barriers were not filled with water before the event.

"The safety provisions put in were borderline at best . . . the event was unsafe," he said.

What a silly thing to do in a city that doesn't have the event!

Too late to say that.. Beside Melbourne's got no harbour bridge:D You gotta share us some of the F1 fever. jeez man I mean you get freaken Open Day, the the whole damn GP weekend :yes:

prolly the nearest thing sydney has to screaming engine is screaming girls is idol grand final in the opera house.

What a silly thing to do in a city that doesn't have the event!

Its promoting it for sydney and with the events of today. I would expect sydney to snach it from melb in a few years.

Too late to say that.. Beside Melbourne's got no harbour bridge:D You gotta share us some of the F1 fever. jeez man I mean you get freaken Open Day, the the whole damn GP weekend :yes:

prolly the nearest thing sydney has to screaming engine is screaming girls is idol grand final in the opera house.

people from melb get all protective its not melbs event and bee glade that you have it at the moment. it did not stay in SA long did it.

how can this thread be still goin

p.s. citystyle ur a shit stirer

Its promoting it for sydney and with the events of today. I would expect sydney to snach it from melb in a few years.

where would it be held? Eastern Creek? pffffttt

fact: Albert Park will be host to the Australian GP for a good couple of years. Queensland's got the Gold Coast Indy, NSW the Bathurst 1000, WA has the Rally Australia, Victoria's actually gets two big events, the Australian F1 GP and the MotoGP round in Phillip Island.

oh yeah and SA gets the Clipsal 500.

where would it be held? Eastern Creek? pffffttt

fact: Albert Park will be host to the Australian GP for a good couple of years. Queensland's got the Gold Coast Indy, NSW the Bathurst 1000, WA has the Rally Australia, Victoria's actually gets two big events, the Australian F1 GP and the MotoGP round in Phillip Island.

oh yeah and SA gets the Clipsal 500.

We don't have anywhere - it would have to be custom built. But it's a moot point because it's not going to happen. If they did want to custom build a track, they're not going to build it anywhere near Sydney because the land is too expensive.
The only decent alternative is a GC street circuit.

But the Grand Prix's in Melbourne and that's what we should be talking about.

But the Grand Prix's in Melbourne and that's what we should be talking about.


amen to that

^ :cheers: yeap, just 25 more minutes