From F1 to WRC

So its another testosterone fueled car fest for today and possibly again tomorrow depending on how I feel.

The title of today's blog is reference to the first driver on display in these pictures, Robert Kubica who made the transition from Formula 1 to World Rally Championship. He drove in F1 from 2006 to 2010 but his F1 career ended, ironically because of serious injuries sustained in a crash in the Andora rally in February 2011.

He was one of my youngest sons favourite F1 drivers of that era and so watching him race on Saturday was certainly one of the highlights for him and so I had to include the pictures in my blog.

Monte Carlo or bust!

The next stop on my road trip was Monaco.  After a fantastic drive along a winding coast road and through tunnels (with my sat nav registering 643mph at one point) the view of Monaco gave me a real buzz. 

The second picture shows off some of the classical architecture in Place du Palais in the old part of Monaco near the Princes' palace...

In the third picture you can see that preparations for the Formula 1 Grand Prix are already well under way with the pit garage structure almost complete and the stands along the swimming pool section going up. The next picture is the kerb for the  Fairmont hair pin, the slowest corner on the circuit.  After we had walked around the course I drove round the hairpin and the casino square before heading off to our next stopover...

In the harbour there were numerous boats (I really mean yachts (I really really mean super yachts!)).  You might expect the people who can afford such things to give them tasteful names but as you can see from the fifth picture that is not necessarily the case. 

I took the final picture because it just seemed that you would possibly never see a hoarding like this in any other place but Monaco...

Anyway that is all for today hope you have enjoyed todays pictures.