I drove the Melbourne GP track!
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2022
- Ever wondered what an F1 street circuit looks like when F1 isn’t in town? Well recently I drove the Melbourne GP circuit and I was surprised at how much work goes into getting the track ready for a race weekend. The Albert Park street circuit is definitely a great track, although I was surprised that I made my way through a car park on my flying lap. Join me in this travel vlog as I make my way from Perth to Melbourne showing you a little of what domestic air travel looks like in Australia.
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Oh wow. It’s remarkable on how a street circuit looks when there’s no race
in case anyone's wondering, Albert Park is, well, a park when there's no F1 going on. the circuit is made of a few roads that connects various sporting compounds, bbq facilities and their respective car parks. when you cordon these roads' connection to the outside of the park, they form a ring around Albert Park Lake and becomes the F1 circuit. i've had bbq there a few times. very nice view of the city. and during race weekends, you can hear the cars if you are within 3km radius of the park. if you can, you NEED to come to melbourne next year for the F1 glory.
you cant hear the cars anymore, when they were the old v10s you could hear it from 10+km away
Yeah in the v10 days you could hear they across the whole city
Just had a realization, since you are away for F1 from March-November/December, you basically only encounter warm weather seasons and skip winter wherever you go.
Wishing your sister-in-law a speedy recovery!
for a reason I never thought Albert Park as a street circuit, was fascinated by how it looks without GP. Also, best wishes to your sister-in-law
I like the multi purpose use of the pit building.
Fascinating to see the circuit like this. Makes me think it's a bit of a shame how much of the view is covered up by the barriers in the Grand Prix broadcasts.
I wish your sister-in-law a speedy recovery!
I drive through the back part of the racetrack almost everyday
Thanks for the drive, what a transformation! Sending lots of healing energy to your SIL.
Completely unrecognizable without the F1 branding and barriers, the Albert Park is beautiful by the way
Hopefully she recovers real soon!
She’s on the mend we believe
Yes I'm glad you got your haircut you're looking a bit Shaggy. That was so interesting to do a lap with all the normal autos and Facilities set up. Quite right about those airfares they're quite astoundingly High. I'd almost say they were gouging you. Thanks for the nice video. Cheers mate.
Fantastic video as always. Fascinating to see the Melbourne circuit when it's not a circuit. Best wishes to your sister-in-law for a good recovery.
Finally, Kim has returned home, thank you so much for season 22!👍👍👍 Albert Park looks very unusual without barriers and fences. We are waiting for season 23 and more fighting and action!!🏁🏎
Outstanding! That was a fantastic way to understand the track! Last time I did that was in Houston Texas for the Indycar circuit
I did a few laps too this year before the closed it to public access. Pretty cool. fastest lap was under 5 minutes at 60kmh 😅
I would love to see one of these track drives in Montreal. Great Video as always.
Wow! Hope your Sister-in-law is/gets better!! Great video and new views of ‘Inside Kym’s World’ in this episode.. Oh, and at 8:56 Kym activates the first of many DRS zones!! LOL..
Great video 🔥🔥
Thanks for video. At present we have same flight shortages and sky high prices in SA.
Years ago we attended the vintage car race through Albany with our friends Tom and Anne Knight. The street circuits looked quite differenr before and the race.
Thanks for the tour of the track on a non race weekend. Such a difference it's unbelievable. Best of luck to your sister-in-law.
Thanks Kym really enjoyed the idea of traveling on the track outside of race weeks. Going for a haircut .... almost bust a gut.
You work hard to keep us amused and educated. Thanks. --BAK--
It looks completely different! I can't imagine the straight at all!
Great video. Fascinating to see the circuit in "street clothes". Best wishes and speedy recovery to your sister in law!
Thanks interesting seeing it in its day-to-day shape. Hope your sister in-law's recovery is speedy.
Great video of the differences between when the event is on and what it looks like when it's opened to the public. It's so much chalk and cheese between the two and showing someone the difference can be unbelievable. I've worked as a volunteer race official for both the Adelaide events and Melbourne. Adelaide had the greatest atmosphere of the two. You could be 50 kms away from the track and there would be indications the Grand Prix was on and the excitement was obvious from everyone there. In Melbourne it's the opposite. You can go into South Melbourne, which is only hundreds of metres away from Turn 4 and you wouldn't know it was happening! I can remember one year I was shopping at a supermarket. I had forgotten I still had my pass on and the checkout chick asked what it was. After I explained to her what it was she said she wasn't aware the Grand Prix was on. We were 9 kms north of Melbourne CBD!
But when it comes to facilities and effort put into the Melbourne event Adelaide had nothing on it. Adelaide was very obviously a temporary race track! The pit building and race offices were built and removed for the event and it's not that they were temporary but they also LOOKED temporary. Generally cables weren't covered unless there were foot traffic going over them. There were no plants of any kind. It was very baron and that was just the F1 pit and paddock.
In Melbournes case almost everything is made to look like it had always been there. As in the photos in this video, you can see in the paddock area, even the existing trees had pots of flowers put around their bases. In front of the offices, where the Australian Grand Prix Corporation are based during the event, there is a wooden deck made specifically for the 4 days and then torn down. At that deck there is a coffee vendor, seats tables and even a couple of couches. Melbourne's effort for presentation is the biggest I have ever seen for a race event.
But if you asked me which event I would want to go to and that be the only one ever again it would be hard to choose. Because there has been great racing at both.
Get well soon to your sister in law! Thanks for the great video, as always top notch.
Cheers.
Legend mate
Yep, it’s official. I like these sort of videos, rather educational. Thanks for sharing…
Hi Kym I hope your sister in law get well very soon. All the best for her man.
awesome video Kim
That "haircut" bit was hilarious! Love your videos mate, cheers!
Absolutely unbelievable!!!! I can’t get my head round that track. Awesome yet again!!!
Do we get to see your journey and flights home after Abu Dhabi???
Great to see you at home. At least no quarantine in the hotel like last year!!
Unfortunately there’s no Abu Dhabi travel vlog!
Completely unrecognisable irl compared to the race week
My thoughts exactly!
lovely outro at the barbers
wow how nice the Melbourne Albert Park
Awww Kym as always loved watching, though I hop it would be under better sircumstances, hope your wife’s sister is feeling better
God bless her. I hope she’s getting better soon
the tumbhnail really got me, i thought for a second kym really driving in a readbull events XD
Chaddy is a massive development. A far cry from the humble shopping centre it used to be. Wishing your sister in law a full recovery.
Thanks Kym, I hope your sister in law is doing better now. All the best.
Danny, brave decision, all the best mate from WA
The last time I went Oz I visited Melbourne and just had to walk the track as it was a short walk from where I was staying in thr CBD
Very nice! One can do exactly the same on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Hope your sister-in-law gets better very soon.
AMAZING THANKS FOR SHARING CHEERS, SAL
Really nice!
Really interesting. Cheers.
Different isn’t it? Thank you for sharing 🌞
Like most everyone here have commented, I wish your SIL a speedy recovery and be back at 100%. That is the most important takeaway from this video, the trip around the AP circuit is very interesting but a distant second to her health.
She’s gonna be in there for a couple more weeks but hopefully the IV antibiotics do their part.
i saw you walking down the pit garages on the sky f1 "notebook" show after the abu dubai grand prix, i thought oi i know who that is :) :)
My dear friend was a FIFO and that poor fellow used to have to fly BNE-PER on a Virgin Aircraft in Economy once a fortnight. Then connect to a charter to deep WA from Perth. Nightmare stuff! Very lucky to get that aircraft PER-MEL Kym. In Australia and in and out of Australia we are experiencing record yields and record loads for Airlines. So prices are high, problems are many and service is low.
Thanks for the impressions from Albert Park when there is no F1 going around. Regarding the flight prices in Australia - it's the same in Germany with no competition either. Since airberlin gone bankrupt a few years ago Lufthansa Group is now the only domestic airline with horrendous prices.
Hope your sister in law gets well soon.
I am usually not bad in recognizing F1 Tracks, but I have to say I almost completely cannot recognize the Melbourne GP circuit not on a race weekend. Thank you for showing us a lap around the track on it's regular days.
My pleasure
@Kym Ilman, same thing in Canada. It is cheaper for us to vacation internationally than travel in our own country. Hopefully your sister in law gets better.
Interesting video Kym. That Qaintarse screws people at every turn doesn’t surprise me. I worked at Perth Airport for a few years and have lost count of the amount of times people were complaining that Qantas just don’t care about their passengers or their baggage. If they weren’t the national carrier they would probably have folded during Covid. Interesting comparison with Virgin Business Class. My wife & I flew back from Sydney a couple of years ago on an A330 and it was the same or better than the Qantas one you featured. We bid online (I think it was about $150 each on top of the fare we paid, which was a bargain Premium Economy fare) and got the seats. Excellent for a 4 1/2 hour flight.
Kym, nice video. Yes QF biz class, they have lost all sense of service quality, much like US Carriers. Tix prices, you are right! The flight ticket prices inbound and around Oz have gone through the roof. I’m flying back to Oz from Europe now, first time since CV, mainline airlines Eco tickets are what Biz used to be. Biz are now what first used to be, and bizarrely first have only marginally increased, and are relatively not bad in comparison with J and Y class
Best wishes for your sister in-law Kym ❤
hm, that is very interesting, maybe you should do a side by side comparison of the public road vs the F1 track, its very interesting how an F1 race can transform a country or a city
hope your sister in law gets well soon!
interesting to see how things are different in another country
Kym tickets for next years race are selling very fast, most the main grandstand’s are sold out already
My favourite city
You should call this "Kym's TMI Video", as you reveal your second born, your wife in bed, your sister in law in hospital, and yourself getting a haircut. 😂 I was hoping the barber would do the "Stay Passionate!" line while still shaving your head and you pretending he cut off your ear. Best wishes to your SiL for a speedy recovery!
The music on the Qantas flight is unbelievably loud. I hate this trend of music on planes during boarding
I hope your sister in law gets better. Love from Orlando Florida
Daaaaaayum! I thought flying out of Hawaii was expensive and you’re just flying what I consider an easy short flight. I looked up the cost of a flight to Australia once when considering races that are relatively close and I don’t remember what it was, whether it was how long the flight was or the cost or both but I gave up that idea real quick.
Wishing your sister in law a speedy recovery.
Oz has always been a rip-off for air fare. In 2009 I flew from Belfast to Melbourne for £777 (that included a return). I let the return lapse. Leaving Oz, it cost me $1350 one-way to Paris. Ouch! I'm back in the UK & flights here are relatively so cheap. I miss the Australian sunshine, though.
From the video cover, we can finally know that kyms a redbull fan.
I’m a fan of every team!
Best wishes for your sister in law ❤
niceee!
Wow the track is really unrecognisable when it's not in race configuration. I also didn't they'd remove all the gravel traps
Great video Kym. Hope your sister in law gets better soon. Only 40kph on an open road with no sidewalks!? Are all speed limits in AUS very low? In the UK that would probably be a 40/50 mph road
I too was surprised by the speed limit!
Granted I do not live in Australia to know what the average speed limits look like but this may be a means to keep people from speeding through the area to get a “racing feeling.”
Traditional speed limit in Australia around residential is 50kph and 100kph on open road. However 40kph usually in built up areas around schools and sports fields like Albert park
I'm guessing part of it is probably also trying to stop people being tempted by a higher speed limit from trying to replicate the Grand Prix themselves...
Actually kim it's 4.6km from the central CBD I use to lived in albert park and had to run around the lake for phy edu when I was at high school and hated every min of it back in the 60's
That turn is exactly 2.7km from the centre of Melbourne as per google maps
@@KymIllman its 2.2Km to the base of the CBD, it is 4.6km though if you were driving
A haircut? @Kym Illman … I hope you they gave you a discount. 😂
A sudden discomfort and Coke. L O L a friend of mine used to call it that when you drink too much of it.
I’m flying from Alaska to Missouri tonight and I paid $700 for first class that price is absolutely ridiculous!
Melbourne is a lot of fun really good food I have a really enjoyed my time there.
Rod Laver arena is right around there isn’t it? Also the MCG?
Loved the Video Kym!!
Great to hear!
I swear, I feel like I'm Kym's hype person. I brag about his videos to my friends. They're always like how do you know all this....I say its Kym.🤣🤣🤣. I mention him as if we're friends
Happy to have you in that role.
Hey Kym they don’t use the A330 from Perth to London! They use this Domestic flights, Asia, NZ, Honoulu and LA.
Think he was more referring to the seat..
Effectively the same seat on Qantas's 787s and 380s (with some minor differences).
Agree with Kym on airfare pricing but this seems to be happening globally - the airlines are making a motza (but they all lost a lot over Covid) and ultimately you need profit to pay for new planes and reward shareholders
Yes. Same seats though.
I hope there are no speeding fines around Albert Park in the Tesla ;)
Relax JB. No surprises coming.
@@KymIllman 😂😂😂
Hey, I hope the sister in law gets well soon!
Wishing Tonya well.
Ton’s fine. her sister is not quite as healthy at present.
🤝🏿
dear! How are things?.Thank you~ epic content.)
What happens to the lane markings during the race?
They are painted over
Ehn 🤔
Kim having a haircut
Barber's mood :😂😇
Kym. I think you gave your money to the hairdresser... like me. jajajajajaja. Huuuuuge hugs from Colombia
When do they start to prepare ? Doesn't it take weeks ? months ?
it gets worked on in stages, over about 3 months. the road is kept open, although not really needed, as it was purpose built for the track, and only closes for about a week.
Kym getting a haircut 😅
What is the sweater "hello Panda" about?
It covers my body and keeps me warm.
Kym have you had the Southern Comfort Eggnog?
Never heard of it. Although eggnog is not a big thing in Australia.
How long does it take to set it all up?
8 weeks.
A similar US domestic flight would only provide you a stroopwafel and a pounding headache
I know all too well. Unless you go Jet Blue.
Thanks Kym,
Just curious, I live in Thailand and had a mate go to Oz recently. He was shocked at how everywhere is preferred cashless. What are your thoughts about a fully cashless society?
Cheers 🍻
So many businesses won’t touch cash now. I can take it or leave it.
it's nice to see Melbourne GP track not as GP Track
Hope your sis in law get well soon.
Hoping your sister in law gets better soon!
Love the videos and content, but hate to break it to you and be nitty picky but the Perth to Heathrow flight is a 787 Dreamliner not an A330 :/
Did you consider compensating your GHG related to your travel? Could give a twist to your chanel!
Don't they use the B787 for the Perth to London flight?
Yes - the -9 version is the world’s only plane that can currently do it.