# 280: The 5 Greatest Grand Prix on the Planet

An episode of [The Howie Games](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1146329262), 25 Oct 2026, 21 min.

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What makes a Formula 1 Grand Prix truly great? Is it the circuit, the atmosphere, the history, or the chaos that unfolds when the lights go out? In this special episode of The Howie Games, Howie and F1 journalist and author Stuart Bell take a deep dive into the five greatest Grand Prix on the planet, and the stories, characters and insights that make Formula 1 one of the most intoxicating sports in the world. Whether you're a lifelong F1 fan or just discovering the sport, this is your inside access to the stories and insights that make Formula 1 so compelling. Want to get even closer to the world of F1? Check out Stuart Bell's book, Formula One: The World's Most Brutal Sport. Find and purchase the book here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] A listener production.
[0:04] Okay, are you recording?
[0:08] We are joined by a man that's been covering Formula 1, well, let's just say for a long time.
[0:13] He's written a book called Formula 1, The World's Most Brutal Sport.
[0:16] His name is Stuart Bell.
[0:17] Belly, your book might be good, but today you are tasked to tell the audience of the Howie Games, from five to one, alongside me, the Grand Prix you should visit.
[0:29] Five, the fifth best, one, the number one they should visit.
[0:32] Now, I'm putting a precursor on mine.
[0:35] I'm not saying Australia because for me, Australia is number one.
[0:38] I think the job Travis Old has done there in the last couple of years has taken it from what was a superb event to a truly world-class global event.
[0:47] So that's my disclaimer.
[0:49] Couldn't agree more.
[0:50] Okay.
[0:51] I am starting...
[0:53] So mine might be different to yours because I went to all the Grand Prix's in 97, 98, 99.
[0:58] So I haven't been to the American ones.
[1:00] I haven't been to the Middle Eastern ones.
[1:02] And you can choose to argue with me if you wish.
[1:04] But I am starting with number five, the Japanese Grand Prix.
[1:09] Okay.
[1:10] So figure eight circuit, it's decided world titles.
[1:14] I saw Hakanen in 98.
[1:15] Yeah.
[1:18] When Shui got a puncture winner world title there.
[1:20] Michael Schumacher picked up that puncture.
[1:22] McLaren.
[1:23] And incredibly, I reckon the year later, 99, when Shui had broke his leg, he beat Irvine.
[1:30] Eddie Irvine could have been a world champion.
[1:31] Yes.
[1:33] So for me, you go and stay in Nagoya, 50 minutes on the train.
[1:38] Yeah.
[1:38] You get to the circuit.
[1:40] Just a couple of things from my experience with the Japanese Grand Prix.
[1:44] I used to room with a bloke called, a Spanish dude called Javier Belendez.
[1:48] Yes.
[1:49] Javier, God bless him, was a loose cannon.
[1:52] So the Suzuka Circuit Hotel we were lucky enough to stay at.
[1:56] Have you ever stayed there at the circuit?
[1:57] No.
[1:58] Not at the circuit.
[1:58] I stayed at a Rio Khan in Isser, which is a little bit out.
[2:01] Okay.
[2:02] Yeah.
[2:02] So Javier Belendez, because it was the last race of the year, got a little bit carried away with festivities in the log cabin, which was like a pub at the circuit.
[2:11] And going back into the hotel, he let a fire extinguisher off.
[2:15] Are you joking?
[2:16] Wow.
[2:17] At one of our fellow co-workers.
[2:18] Yeah.
[2:19] Exactly.
[2:19] Exactly.
[2:21] And the upshot was to be allowed into Japan for the next Grand Prix a year later.
[2:26] He had to write a formal letter of apology and it had to be addressed to the emperor.
[2:31] The emperor.
[2:32] Of Japan.
[2:34] You're joking.
[2:34] So I also had breakfast next to Mick Hackenden one day at the day he was set up to win the title because he was staying at the same hotel.
[2:43] So if you're in Australia, 10-hour flight to get there.
[2:48] And of all the madness of Europe, there's something special about Japanese Formula One fans that take madness and support to a whole new level.
[3:00] Yes.
[3:01] So number five for me is Japan, Suzuka.
[3:05] You, number five.
[3:06] Austria.
[3:07] Austria.
[3:07] We're in Spielberg at the Red Bull Rink, just over 4.3 kilometers.
[3:11] It's run by Red Bull.
[3:13] Red Bull's a promoter.
[3:15] Red Bull is the circuit owner.
[3:17] They put on massive concerts, easy to get around.
[3:20] You've got the beautiful Styrian Mountains around you.
[3:23] It is a magnificent location.
[3:25] It is magnificent.
[3:25] There's loads of hotels around there.
[3:27] Spectacular racing, spectacular views.
[3:30] You've got, obviously, all the –
[3:33] beer steins that you can drink.
[3:34] There's a lot of beer.
[3:35] Where are you staying when we go to the Austrian Grand Prix?
[3:37] I'm probably staying... Graz?
[3:40] Yeah, probably Graz.
[3:40] Yeah.
[3:41] Okay.
[3:41] And, yeah, I just think it's one of the European heartland tracks.
[3:46] I'm not choosing it personally.
[3:47] Okay.
[3:48] I don't mind it.
[3:49] I did nick the Australian flag off the roof of the Austrian Grand Prix circuit when I was de-rigging and I still had that Australian flag.
[3:58] Okay.
[3:58] Okay.
[4:00] No, I get where you're coming from.
[4:02] I get where you're coming from.
[4:04] My experiences might be slightly tarnished by having to de-rig the Austrian Grand Prix and a lot of Germans come from across the border.
[4:11] Okay.
[4:12] And after all the beer you're talking about, we everywhere, including on all the cables that I had to rig, which is probably a bit of a flat memory for me.
[4:20] But I can accept that it's a nice Grand Prix.
[4:22] So I'm starting Japan, you're going Austria.
[4:25] Four, I talked about the passion of...
[4:30] Oh, Japan.
[4:32] You've been to the Brazilian Grand Prix.
[4:34] This is an event that I can't sell highly enough, although it comes in at number four.
[4:39] So I saw Villeneuve, Hakenen and Hakenen win there in 97, 98, 99 at the Autodrome Jose Carlos pace at Interlagos.
[4:47] Yes.
[4:47] First time I went there, 97.
[4:51] It was a city then of about 20 million people, Sao Paulo.
[4:55] Okay.
[4:55] I remember going to the supermarket and, you know, you go to the Coles here in South Melbourne, there might be six checkouts.
[5:00] There was 100 checkouts.
[5:02] Yes.
[5:02] And I was like, this is a big place.
[5:04] Yeah.
[5:05] But the passion of the Brazilian fans, my first memory, the race finished and the fans started lining up against those big fences just before the end of the race.
[5:16] And as soon as the race finished and the cars had stopped racing on the track,
[5:21] They jumped over the fences and all the garages were trying to get all their nose cones and stuff inside the garage as they were slamming the garage doors.
[5:30] And I saw a bloke walking out with a Williams nose cone on his shoulders.
[5:35] Wow.
[5:37] I mean, that is my number one.
[5:38] That's your number one?
[5:39] That's my number one.
[5:40] Wow.
[5:41] Well, you've gone bang, number one.
[5:43] And let me tell you why.
[5:45] Because in, say, 2018, I'd been working so hard and I probably would have written, out of every 10 F1 magazine features written in this country, I would have been doing eight or nine.
[5:57] Wow.
[5:58] So I was doing a lot longer.
[5:59] You're flat out.
[5:59] I was flat out.
[6:00] And I was, at the end of the year, I was absolutely just burnt out.
[6:04] And I thought, I want to get the soul of Formula 1 back into me to be able to, you know, I don't want to leave the sport.
[6:10] So, yeah, Sao Paulo it was.
[6:13] And I was just, I did Rio first just to, you know, get a bit of.
[6:16] Get your eye in.
[6:17] Absolutely.
[6:17] But I found the Brazilian fans.
[6:20] Passion.
[6:20] Yeah, the track is legendary.
[6:23] You get out of the back of the paddock and you can see, you know, 80% of the track.
[6:26] The media pass allows you a view over that centre-esque.
[6:29] Yeah.
[6:29] Yeah.
[6:30] It is brilliant.
[6:31] And that year was, I think, the first year I went was 2019, was the 25th anniversary of Ayrton Senna's passing.
[6:39] And they had, I think it was his MP4, 8 maybe, and it was just, you could hear the roars of the crowd over this car.
[6:47] It was just magical.
[6:49] And so I was, for me, you know, the Brazilian food's fantastic.
[6:54] You know, the Kuiper India's deadly, but, you know, but it's...
[6:57] So Kuiper India's a drink?
[6:58] Yeah.
[6:59] And then the restaurant, when you go to, do you go to Churrascaria?
[7:02] Yes.
[7:02] So this is a full meat restaurant and you have a little card and when you want more service of the meat, you leave it on green.
[7:10] And then when you just need a spell, you put it on red like a stop go.
[7:13] Yeah.
[7:13] And it's so good.
[7:14] It is.
[7:15] I mean, the one that everyone goes to is Fogga de Chow.
[7:18] Right.
[7:18] Fogga de Chow.
[7:19] Was that in town?
[7:20] That's in town.
[7:21] So stay in town.
[7:22] If we're giving you advice, don't stay near Interlagos because it can be a bit sketchy.
[7:25] So probably stay somewhere near the Powlista Avenue or somewhere, then get the train out there.
[7:30] Or you can stay in Morumbi, which is a rich area, not far from the track, and that's where the center grave is.
[7:35] Morumbi, okay.
[7:35] Yeah.
[7:36] So make sure you visit the center grave.
[7:38] Can you go visit the grave?
[7:39] You can.
[7:39] Right.
[7:40] And it's just beautiful rolling hills, and it's celebrated, obviously, flags and lots of stuff, and that was...
[7:46] That was awesome.
[7:46] I mean, that's, to me, feeling the history of the sport, and you can feel the ghost of the past there, you know?
[7:52] It's like when you go to Adelaide, you know, when I would go there, I could feel the ghost of the past there going through that first chicane, you know?
[7:59] So, obviously, not the same history, but…
[8:01] There are certain circuits like that.
[8:02] Right, so you've jumped straight to one.
[8:04] So I've gone Japan five, Brazil four.
[8:07] You've gone Austria.
[8:08] Then you still need to give me your number four.
[8:10] Yes.
[8:10] Which is?
[8:11] I would say Belgium.
[8:13] Belgium.
[8:14] It's not easy.
[8:15] Spa, Frankl, Shop.
[8:16] Exactly.
[8:16] It's not easy for the fans to stay there.
[8:18] You want to stay in Liège.
[8:19] Yeah, which is a fair trip.
[8:21] Yeah.
[8:21] Rains a lot.
[8:22] It does.
[8:23] But in terms of flat-out blasts, I mean, look, you know, it's now taken on an alternating deal with Barcelona, which is a bit of a shame, I think, but it's just one of the iconic classic tracks.
[8:32] It is.
[8:32] Flat-out blasts through that Arden Forest.
[8:35] So you need to be somewhere up the top of the Eau Rouge to see them come up there.
[8:38] 185 miles an hour through...
[8:41] Just swinging up with flat out.
[8:43] I mean, you know.
[8:43] I remember the first time I saw that, Stu, I remember seeing Villeneuve go over there in a practice session.
[8:48] Oh, yeah.
[8:49] And so what we're talking about is you're going down the straight, then you're going up what is a steep hill, and you have no idea what's in front of you.
[8:57] You know, they try to do it flat.
[8:58] So if a car's had an accident at the top, which involved what happened to Jack Villeneuve.
[9:02] Yeah.
[9:03] Yeah, I have no idea.
[9:03] Like, that is old-school balls-to-the-wall Formula 1, I reckon.
[9:07] I think he had a bet then that he was like, the mechanics said he couldn't do it flat out.
[9:10] Whether you go flat, yeah.
[9:11] Exactly.
[9:12] And what happened?
[9:13] Well, yeah, it's right under the barrier.
[9:14] But just... Big crash.
[9:15] And, I mean, 98, that's one of my all-time iconic races if, you know, you want to watch, go back into the history and that huge 13-car pile-up after last horse.
[9:24] And that's a hairpin.
[9:25] Absolutely.
[9:26] After the field was wiped down.
[9:27] Oh, this is terrible.
[9:29] Oh, this is quite appalling.
[9:31] This is the worst start for a Grand Prix that I have ever seen in the whole of my life.
[9:36] Unbelievable.
[9:37] And then just, you know, the punch-up between, well, almost punch-up between Schumi and Coulthard.
[9:41] He's going to have it out with David Coulthard.
[9:43] All that carnage was just, what a race.
[9:45] Right, I like your number four.
[9:47] Okay, number three.
[9:49] where I saw, I reckon, my favourite result, apart from Jack Boone of winning a title, in 98 to see Michael Schumacher in a Ferrari first and Eddie Irvine in a Ferrari second at Monza.
[10:05] So the lifeblood of the sport is Ferrari.
[10:09] And the lifeblood of Ferrari is the Tifosi, the Italian fans, which is why I'm saying to everyone, you need to go to Monza.
[10:16] So it's the Autodromo National Monza, otherwise known as the Temple of Speed.
[10:21] They've been racing there since 1949.
[10:24] It's in a park.
[10:25] I think it's called the Royal Villa of Monza Park or something.
[10:27] So it's this beautiful green area.
[10:30] The old banking you can go and see, which is like a velodrome that they used to race around at the back.
[10:35] Unbelievable.
[10:36] Have you seen that?
[10:36] Yes.
[10:36] Well, it's- It's way steeper than you think.
[10:39] How the hell are they racing cars around there?
[10:41] I can't even imagine.
[10:42] You can't even stand on it.
[10:43] No.
[10:44] You almost want to just come down from it because you're like, I shouldn't be up there.
[10:47] It's like the old Skeletrics track.
[10:49] It is.
[10:50] The banking would go around there.
[10:51] Yeah.
[10:52] So if you go to Monza, so it's northern Italy, you can stay.
[10:56] I reckon we used to stay in Milan, which is a magnificent city.
[11:00] Now, if you've got the big coin, just do yourself a favor and maybe go and stay at Lake Como.
[11:04] Oh, yeah.
[11:06] Stunny.
[11:06] And then one of your way down, like alongside next to George Clooney up in that part of the world.
[11:11] Sure.
[11:11] But I think for the passion, for anyone that wants to go to a Formula One race, number three is Monza for me.
[11:19] And if you are lucky enough to see an Italian driver win in front of the mad, it's like IPL.
[11:25] It's like India winning a World Cup in India or...
[11:29] You know, like Brazil winning an enormous game in Sao Paulo.
[11:35] To see Ferrari win in Monza, I don't think he can be beaten in Formula 1, which is why it's number three for me.
[11:41] And that's the, again, what I was getting at with Brazil is the beating heart of the sport.
[11:45] Yeah.
[11:46] You can feel it.
[11:46] It's not like these, look, I love it.
[11:48] It's not confected or manufactured.
[11:50] Yeah.
[11:50] No.
[11:50] And look, I love the new venues.
[11:53] We've got potentially a Bangkok Grand Prix coming up in a few years.
[11:55] That'd be fantastic to go to.
[11:57] But it's these circuits where you're just like, you walk in and you are just humbled by what's gone on before.
[12:06] And yeah, the people love it.
[12:08] The pasta track side.
[12:10] You just love it.
[12:11] So yeah, I'm with you.
[12:13] And, you know, I should try and give – from these races we're talking about, looking on the F1 website, we're talking three-day grandstand pass, anywhere between sort of $2,000 or $3,000 Australian dollars.
[12:27] For people listening, there's a general idea of what it's going to cost you.
[12:29] If you want to go on a grandstand – if you're going all the way to Monza, you might as well go Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
[12:33] Of course you should.
[12:34] You're not just turning up for the race.
[12:36] Okay, so my number three is Monza.
[12:37] Your number three is –
[12:40] Silverstone.
[12:41] Silverstone.
[12:42] Yeah.
[12:43] The British home of Formula 1 also can be wet.
[12:46] Yeah.
[12:47] Amazing track.
[12:47] Why Silverstone?
[12:48] I think it's just, I mean, again, it's the home of British motorsports where the Formula 1 World Championship began in May 1950.
[12:54] Yeah.
[12:55] And, you know, I stayed in Silverstone Village.
[12:58] Did you?
[12:59] Yeah.
[12:59] And so you walk to the track.
[13:01] It's got that festival atmosphere, British festival atmosphere.
[13:04] Everyone's partying.
[13:05] First time I went, I think, was 2013.
[13:08] Right.
[13:10] And, yeah, I remember it's so hard.
[13:12] You know, when you've got a job to do, you suck in the media centre.
[13:15] But I always get out on track.
[13:17] And I remember being at Maggots and Beckett's, and there was like a place to get a bacon sandwich and a coffee.
[13:23] And I remember just...
[13:24] watching Hamilton come through in the wet.
[13:28] With your bacon sardine and a coffee.
[13:29] And your coffee.
[13:30] And you're just like...
[13:31] This is one of the ones ever.
[13:32] Exactly, exactly.
[13:34] Lewis Hamilton wins the British Grand Prix.
[13:37] I like that.
[13:37] I like that.
[13:39] So I haven't been since 99, but to me at that stage, there was only one road in and one road out.
[13:45] So my main memories of Silverstone were the traffic, but I presume that has been well and truly changed now.
[13:50] Yes, yeah.
[13:50] There's been an arterial road change there now.
[13:52] Okay.
[13:53] Because it used to be a frickin' nightmare.
[13:54] Oh, absolutely.
[13:55] 2000, I think it was the – people didn't even arrive for the race.
[13:58] Right, because there was that many backed up.
[13:59] Yeah, and it was incredibly wet, but yeah.
[14:02] Number two, I have been very lucky to go to all sorts of sports events.
[14:07] I've been to the Monaco Grand Prix three times, again, with our bang on about at 97, 98, 99.
[14:11] And –
[14:15] for all the crap racing that we see at Monaco year in, year out.
[14:19] Like when Ricciardo won there, he couldn't get out of third or fourth gear, could he?
[14:23] But he's still able to win the race.
[14:24] That's right.
[14:25] It's redemption day for Daniel Ricciardo.
[14:28] But for everything about the pageantry of the sport,
[14:33] I think Monaco.
[14:35] So stay in Nice, go up.
[14:39] You don't want to be staying in Monaco because unless you're a crypto king or a bank robber.
[14:43] Yeah.
[14:44] Where have you stayed when you've been to Monaco?
[14:46] Bolio, it's just outside of Monaco.
[14:50] Okay.
[14:50] Beausoleil.
[14:51] Right.
[14:52] Yeah, so just over the border.
[14:53] So the first time or the second time I went there, I had a –
[14:59] a girlfriend who came and stayed when we were in Menton.
[15:02] Okay.
[15:02] So Bernie was paying the bills.
[15:03] I was working in production.
[15:05] Fantastic.
[15:05] So you go up and back from Menton and she came and got her a spot around the track and she watched it.
[15:10] And as I checked out on the Monday morning belly,
[15:14] They said, oh, you've got to settle your bill.
[15:15] I'm like, oh, no, it's on the company.
[15:17] And they said to me, so I'm earning 15,000 pounds a year, okay, working for Bernie in TV production.
[15:26] So it was $30,000.
[15:27] This is 1998.
[15:28] It wasn't very much.
[15:30] And as I go to check out, they said, no, but you had an extra guest with you.
[15:33] I said, no, I just said my girlfriend was staying with me.
[15:35] They're like, yeah, but the room is booked for one person.
[15:38] So you need to pay for the second person.
[15:41] And I'm like, just hang on, hang on, hang on.
[15:45] And the boys are behind me, I work with, and they start sniggering.
[15:47] Anyway, the bill was about, from memory, about $3,000 Australian dollars, because it's gone pre-week.
[15:55] Yeah, of course.
[15:56] And they'd said, well, she stayed for three nights.
[15:58] We've seen her come and go.
[15:59] It's $1,000 a night.
[16:00] So I was earning 30 grand a year.
[16:02] So 10%.
[16:03] That's crazy.
[16:04] Yeah.
[16:04] It went...
[16:05] Yeah.
[16:05] To pay the bill.
[16:06] So you need to get your accommodation right when you're in Monaco.
[16:09] You do.
[16:09] I mean, that's why they had it on Thursday because they would get the, you know, four-day minimum.
[16:13] Yeah, that's right.
[16:14] That's right.
[16:15] Yeah.
[16:15] So I just think –
[16:18] If you want to see fantastic Formula Line racing, don't go to Monaco.
[16:22] But if you want to see the full pageantry of the sport and the money and the excess and the boats, I'm going with Monaco at number two.
[16:29] I agree with that.
[16:29] And, you know, it is so narrow.
[16:32] Just you cannot believe a Grand Prix car is going through there at the speeds they do.
[16:36] You know, I think that's – it almost defies belief in physics because, you know, you watch them come through Casino Square down to Mirabeau and all the corners still have the original names.
[16:46] It's not turn one, two, three, four.
[16:47] Yeah, it's beautiful.
[16:48] You know, it's Tabac, it's the swimming pool I've seen, you know, the lower ice castle, all that.
[16:53] It's amazing.
[16:54] And yeah, everyone is going to be taken by it.
[16:57] So you're going number two, Monaco?
[16:58] Yes.
[17:00] One of my main memories of Monaco was being in the tunnel back in the days where the cars sounded like Formula One cars, and you had your earmuffs on because I was helping in a cameraman in camera position there or something of the like, and I just went in there for practice and for two minutes took my earmuffs off, my headphones off, and you're nearly bleeding from the ears.
[17:22] Yes.
[17:22] But that was like old school.
[17:25] Formula One, like you feel it in your nuts type stuff, those cars.
[17:28] That sound.
[17:29] Yeah.
[17:29] It's just that is iconic, that tunnel sound.
[17:32] Yeah.
[17:32] What a place.
[17:33] Just what an incredible place.
[17:35] So you've gone Brazil.
[17:36] So you've already shot off with your number one.
[17:37] And I struggle to argue with that.
[17:41] I think have you – I'll go with my number one then, but –
[17:46] From your list, there's the only one I didn't really feel.
[17:49] That was Austria.
[17:49] Okay.
[17:50] Is there anything you haven't felt from mine so far?
[17:52] I've gone Japan, Brazil, Monza, Monaco.
[17:54] They're pretty hard to argue.
[17:56] They're all classics.
[17:57] Classics.
[17:57] They're all classics.
[17:58] And I think, you know, I'm a hardcore purist, but I also see that people want to go for a holiday.
[18:03] Yeah, entertainment.
[18:04] And so, you know, Singapore's the only other one that I would say, oh, China.
[18:07] I went there last year to China.
[18:08] That wouldn't be on most people's bucket list.
[18:10] But it was smooth as silk when I went there.
[18:13] China was.
[18:13] Yeah, and it used to be, when it first came on the calendar, the stands were filled with military and school kids.
[18:19] Right.
[18:20] Now it is full of...
[18:21] Embraced.
[18:21] Yeah, absolutely.
[18:22] You've got a station inside the track.
[18:25] As a circuit, it is gargantuan.
[18:27] I mean, I came through on the taxi, I was just like...
[18:31] Look at this.
[18:32] Like, this is just the biggest thing I've ever seen in my life, you know, and it's on a different scale.
[18:36] And when you go into Shanghai, you know, I did a couple of food tours in Shanghai and I was just like, you know, this is totally different to everything I've experienced and delicious.
[18:44] Okay, so you've thrown China in there.
[18:46] But my number one Grand Prix to visit is, and I went for the first time last year, I took my beautiful wife, Erica, and we went to Singapore the week after the AFL Grand Final.
[18:57] Great.
[18:58] I'd never seen a Formula 1 car at night.
[19:01] Right.
[19:02] Brought a whole other dynamic to it.
[19:04] Absolutely.
[19:05] The city was clean and efficient and friendly, and you could walk around at 1 a.m. in the morning and feel completely safe.
[19:15] The Metro, whatever it's called.
[19:17] The MRT.
[19:18] The MRT was superb.
[19:20] It was easily explained.
[19:22] And as well as the race, George won it.
[19:26] George Russell wins.
[19:27] Over the course of the weekend, included in your ticket, and again, it's similar.
[19:31] It's sort of two and a half, three grand.
[19:33] Elton John played.
[19:34] I had to actually write these down.
[19:35] Elton John on Sunday night, the Foo Fighters, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lewis Capaldi, and Crowded House.
[19:42] So for your $2,500 to $3,000, you see the Grand Prix.
[19:46] I don't know who's – I say that again.
[19:48] Elton John, the Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Lewis Capaldi, and Crowded House, and that's included in your ticket.
[19:52] Yeah.
[19:53] Yes.
[19:53] So you wander out at the end of the Grand Prix and there's bloody Elton John singing Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting.
[19:59] At the paddock stage where there's 60,000 people.
[20:01] Going off their chops.
[20:03] Absolutely.
[20:03] And that's been happening since 2008.
[20:04] I've had a lot to do with that race and seeing the organisers, you know, each year they try and reinvent what's going on.
[20:10] I mean, obviously, Australian Grand Prix are doing great things now, but these guys have been spending $135 million on their race every year and seeing the level of branding, seeing
[20:21] all the stages throughout.
[20:23] I think they had Seal, even on a smaller stage.
[20:26] Off the side.
[20:26] And you're seeing all these huge acts all over the place.
[20:30] And yeah, going to Singapore, that mix of Chinese, Indian, Malay cultures, the food, the hotels, everything is stunning.
[20:36] So yeah, I'm with you on your number one.
[20:38] And Signs?
[20:40] Slightly political, but signs around the traps basically saying if you're involved in any form of public violence or disturbance or rioting, you'll be put in jar for seven to ten years, fined, and my particular favourite, given a public caning.
[20:54] Okay.
[20:55] Streets, safe as.
[20:57] They are indeed.
[20:58] Safe as.
[20:59] I wouldn't want that.
[21:00] No.
[21:00] I don't need a caning today.
[21:02] Well done, Belly.
[21:02] Grand Prix's to visit.
[21:03] Well done.
[21:04] Thank you.

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