Karoline and I were fortunate enough to get V.I.P passes to the Detroit Red Bull Air Race, and I have to say that Red Bull is a company that pulls out all of the stops in presentation.
What made this race cool is that it covered both Canada and America. Both sides of the river front were covered in a sea of humans.
The V.I.P area was pure luxury. The whole nine yards, waiters and all of the trimmings. Leather seating everywhere, Palm trees and Birds of Paradise by every table. The food was catered by the famous Rattlesnake Club and it was very good! The salad was over the top and the drinks were on Red Bull with waters side bars everywhere.
In the morning we ran down to Detroit City Airport which was the base for all of the teams. This was an open to the public meet and greet event and it was cool. We got a chance to check out all of the planes and meet the pilots.
Thumbs up to the pilots who really took the time to share the moment with the fans. Very cool.
The weather was another question. Super windy conditions kept the Air Race Pilots on the ground saturday. They did have a super good group of stunt pilots who came out and did some awesome areobatics as well a passover by an F14 and a few of the Red Bull planes.
We missed Sunday due to my nieces graduation so I can't say either way how it was. A few of my friends were there and all said it kicked ass.
At any rate, the course looked tough and were on the grid to be at one of the events next year whether it returns to Detroit or not.
You can find more photos on my MY SPACE page if you are interested in all of the photos we shot.
Cheers,
Jim
