We set down at Melbourne airport to rain and cold weather, the temperature had dropped from 40C to less than 20C in the space of a few hours. Well, we reasoned it had to improve. We watched practice in our hotel room, and the rain got worse and worse. In fact qualifying was put off until the next day.
When we went to the track, the weather was cool but not cold, with the occasional shower. As the day wore on it got windier and colder. Here is what we looked like just before the main race:
3 tragics at the track
That jacket cost me a few dollars about 10 years ago at a Nike sale - Never pay retail! - and it has saved my life on a few key occassions. This is one of them. Likewise, my husband has his handy fold up jacket on, and son has the emergency plastic poncho. This brings me to one of life's lessons. You must own a wind and waterproof jacket - with a hood - that can be scrunched up into nothing, and take it on every trip you go on.
Americans call them windcheaters, and the only quote I could find came from a Blackadder episode:
"In a desperate last throw of the dice, Baldrick is sent to the House of Lords and Blackadder is left with nothing but a catskin windcheater and a broken turnip"
Well the F1 experience was just that, an experience, seeing cars worth lost of money, not too many fashionable people due the weather, and expensive promotional clothing we did not feel tempted to buy, along with a great race. A once in a lifetime thing, and it made me realise THE RACE SHOULD BE HELD IN SYDNEY!
The transport would be better, the weather would be wonderful and people would not take their children along as they are more sensible. So I am thinking of starting a petition...........
