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Formula 1 in London?
July 07, 2004

This rather grainy image is the best I could get out of nigh on 90 minutes waving my camera over the heads of a small segment of the half a million people that turned out to see eight F1 cars dash past us in Regent Street yesterday. Even at a relatively slow 75mph they were pretty hard to catch!

They apparently started at Waterloo Place, bottom of Lower Regent Street, then went up Picadilly Circus and into Regent St itself...
After that, up to DH Evans. Turned right through the pedestrian precinct outside the London Palladium, then on to Marlborough Street opposite Liberty's, before turning back onto Regent St for a run back down to Waterloo Place.

Initially we [Jake, Sam and Me] tried to find a spot around the Pall Mall end, where all the pit area action seemed to be going on, but everything was fenced off for the hoi polloi... so we fought our way past numerous arsey policemen and round the back streets onto Regent Street itself. It wasn't until eating pizza after that I even realised I had got this shot [Martin Brundle in a Jaguar I suspect]. I only caught fleeting glimpses of the other cars as they flashed by and never imagined I'd actually get a shot of one.

The best moment was when a bunch of road sweeping trucks went past preparing the surface and everyone cheered.

I'm all up for a London GP but the organisation is going to be horrendous. God knows how they will cordon off the appropriate areas to charge punters to see this. Apart from The Mall and Park Lane I can't imagine how they could seat enough people to make it pay and keep it safe! I'm surprised none of the people climbing up lamp posts and on bus shelters etc werent injured. especially getting down. Some of them had climbed the walls between shops and were on their balconies.

Somewhere in this BBC Report I believe they have a speculative route mapped out... But it is nothing more than a reporters dream... But Ken Livingstone thinks it could happen in 2007... He's always been an optimistic soul though hasn't he?

OK... No more sporty posts. I promise!!!

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