I too was here for my first F1 event and this will...

I too was here for my first F1 event and this will easily be one of my favorite memories and an experience I won't soon forget.

First off getting to and from the race on raceday was fantastic, they provided free parking which I would recommend. They had hundreds of school buses from all over Texas transporting people from the exhibition center we parked at for a 15 minute ride to the racetrack. Going to the race there were hundreds of us in front of us as we waited for the buses, Circuits of the America had everything so streamlined it only took about 10 minutes to get onto the bus. After getting off there was a 15 minute walk from the drop off point to the track.

Once inside it's like being a child your first time at Six Flags or Disney World, you have no idea what to do but you want to see everything. My friends and I got there early enough to walk around the track a few times (which is no easy feat by the way), the drink prices were what you would expect, they also had Circuit of the America glasses to take home with their Long Island Ice Tea's which my girlfriend made sure to get. They had good amount of food trucks but the lines for those had to be at least an hour a piece, I am sure next year there will be a ton more. But regardless there were over a dozen different types of stands to get food, the bathroom situations worked out well, and the general admission seating areas weren't nearly as packed as I expected. They said about 120,000 people showed up but with how spread out everything was you could hardly tell just how many people were actually there. The race of course was fantastic my friends and I were near the food areas in the corridor underneath the grandstands when the race started. And the vibrations and rumbling/reving of the engines was the most intense and surreal experience I have ever had. My friends and I sat right near the grandstands against this VIP food building which worked out quite well.

After the race the 15 minute trek away from the track landed us like 5 thousand people back in line for the buses to take us home. I thought great this was it it's going to take forever to get back, surely enough it was only about 20 to 30 minutes before getting on a bus which was not at all what I was expecting, again Circuits of the America did a fantastic job streamlining and organizing the entire transportation process. Nothing is worse than having a trip/experience ruined on the way out by having to wait for hours. Only thing is my friends who paid for parking to wait quite literally for 2+ hours to get on a bus to take them back to their onsite parking. Just goes to show to utilize the free parking.

Anyways I was most impressed with the entire experience and would absolutely go back again. In fact my friends and I plan on making it an annual thing (I mean how could we not), and hopefully the future experience are half as good and incredible as this one.