The Adventures of MDawg II

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Imagine the level of comps that must be available in that place.
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At your level you might end up being given ALL of the comps!

The F1 Vegas paddock experience is mostly about gourmet food stations and an uncrowded lounge where the race is on multiple screens showing different angles and a no host bar with top shelf alcohol including fairly high end champagne. As far as viewing the actual race, the luxury suites are on the third level and above the track. Outdoor viewing is split level (two rows) with standing only no seats.

You may also go on the roof which is fourth level of the paddock and look down on the track looking either straight down below or the other direction towards the strip.

While we were there, I wasn't sure how to gain access to the first level but that’s generally not an option for those on the suite level anyway.

I think it’s really more about the experience than having the best view because to get that best view you have to stand outside and stay there by the edge if you leave to get food or a drink you’re going to lose your spot.

If you want to be seated and see the races there are grandstands all along the track including t mobile at the Sphere and other grandstands right here at the paddock. Those do not include access to the gourmet food stations or luxury suite seating.

The food stations are high end think lobster, truffles on ravioli pasta, lamb rib rack, short ribs with goat liver, sea bass and much more including salads and desserts.

The paddock is at the finish line though which means something because at any other spot you’re not going to see that grand finale.

F1 did sell out completely.

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Outdoor viewing is split level (two rows) with standing only no seats.

This is the view you got from directly outside the suite.




Some of the suites were more filled than others. Since I am connected with so many casinos in Vegas, we could walk around and enter a number of suites, but they were all basically the same - high end liquor, wine, champagne, and non alcoholic drinks, with luxury seating in the suite, and the standing only right outside on the balconies to watch the track.

I believe there was a suite for Master Card, and I joked that these must be people who spend at least a million a year.

The food was all right outside the suites.








This is similar to how it's been when we have gone to Allegiant for Raiders games - although there, the individual suite does have some food in it, but the best food is outside and available to all suites.

To access the suites besides your paddock ticket you needed a pink wristband. After the race, to go down to the track and walk it, you needed a blue wrist band. The wrist bands were how they controlled who got to go where.

Verstappen (Red Bull racing) was in the lead for most all of the race, and won. Red Bull racing uses their own cars, powered by a Honda engine.



Last year Russell (Mercedes) won. He came in second this year. I took the above picture well before the end of the race, but Verstappen was already in the lead.

Norris and Piastri (both McLaren) were disqualified for illegal plank wear. F1's rulebook states the thickness of the planks underneath both cars must be no less than 9mm, but McLaren's two cars were found to be below that after Saturday night's race. Now Verstappen is tied with Piastri with 366 points for F1 races so far.

F1 was cool. But two of my recent sessions, one I was down a tremendous amount, came back to win +$11K and quit, the other was smooth sailing to a +$200K win.

Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.

And this is the MDawg challenge.