Where to watch Formula 1 race

Posted by Kevin (West Sacramento, California, USA) on 11/04/14 04:32 AM

We will be in Paris on Sunday, 23 November, the day of the last Formula 1 Grand Prix of the 2014 season. Can anyone suggest a good venue, restaurant, sports bar, club, etc... where they will have the race on. The race is in Abu Dhabi at 14:00 Paris time. I know some of you will wonder why I would want to watch a race when I am in Paris, but that is part of the reason, I want to watch the race with other race fans in a country that is a major engine supplier to the sport. Besides that, it is the third day of our trip, and jet lag always hits my wife the hardest on that day so it is usually a lazy day anyway. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin

Posted by Sam

Green Bay

11/04/14 05:17 AM

21145 posts

Paris has tons of sports bars. Just google them. My favorite might have the race on, but I know for sure they will have the Green Bay Packer-Minnesota Viking game at 19:00 Paris time.

Edit: www.allomatch.com is the French Sports Bar search site. I see The Auld Alliance Scottish Pub is televising the Formula 1 of Brazil coming up. Reckon they will have the one in Abu Dhabi as well. 80 Rue Francois Miron in the Marais

Posted by Roberto da Firenze ⚜

San Francisco Bay Area (USA)

11/04/14 05:39 AM

16054 posts

By that time Hamilton will have already won the championship while his Mercedes will have won the constructors' trophy. However F1 is very popular with Europeans (Including myself, in fact I was glued to the TV on Sunday to watch the U.S. GP from Austin) so every single bar will be showing the GP.

Posted by Nigel

Northamptonshire, England

11/04/14 09:11 AM

33820 posts

major engine supplier to the sport

Did you mean major supplier of rubbish engines to the sport?

Don't bet on anything being locked up next week. With loopy Bernie's stupid double points plan Lewis could win next week, having won by far the most Grandes Prix and still loose the crown.

It shouldn't be hard to find in Paris.

Posted by jkc

Massachusetts

11/04/14 12:09 PM

715 posts

Bring back the Tyrell P34.

Posted by Kevin OP

West Sacramento, California, USA

11/05/14 05:34 AM

281 posts

I am a big Lewis Hamilton fan, and I have looked at numerous ways the points could fall out over the next two races. The crazy double points bit really throws a loop into it, which is why I will be in front of the TV on Sunday to watch the Brazilian GP, and then want to watch the Abu Dhabi GP while on holiday. Thanks for the suggestion on how to locate a sports bar to watch it. As for the Renault power unit, well...didn't they, in conjunction with Peugeot and Volvo provide the engines for John DeLorean? When I was a kid my favorite drivers were Mario Andretti and the late Ronnie Peterson, driving for Lotus, so I am glad to see Lotus going to a Mercedes power unit next year (even if it is only Lotus in name). I will root for Hamilton regardless. Oh, and if we go back to Tyrrell and 6 wheels, lets have Dyson come up with a new vacuum cleaner ground effects system, bag less of course.

Posted by jkc

Massachusetts

11/05/14 11:01 AM

715 posts

Sir Jackie Stewart was my favorite. October, the US GP at Watkins Glen every year, always surprised at how damn cold it was camping, the huge mud pit when it rained and the nut jobs trying to drive across it. One year someone stole a tour bus and tried to drive that through the mud pit, needless to say.

I always loved the sheer thrill of hearing a 12 cylinder Matra scream.

In the 70's while hitchhiking through Europe i made it a point to be in Monaco for the GP - wonderful, but definitely not my tribe.