The Brazilian Grand Prix Sao Paulo

It's on the list for next year !!!!!

I am a big F1 fan, and have been following the sport for decades. I have been to many races at Silverstone in the UK, as well as Monaco and I was also at the infamous Abu Dhabi race in 2021.

I have been trying to go to Interlagos for years, but very time business gets in the way - same this year. But I bet it is an amazing atmosphere and experience.

For our US friends, F1 is similar to motor racing in the US - but you have to do more than put your right foot flat down and turn left!

11/01/23 For our US friends, F1 is similar to motor racing in the US - but you have to do more than put your right foot flat down and turn left!
   

    -@Peter Itamaraca

There's a US Grand Prix - I know because there are newspaper stories every two years or so.  For years it was run about a hundred miles from my hometown, not that I ever knew anyone who went to see it. 😏

@abthree

Actually there are 3 per year now - Miami, Austin and Las Vegas

F1 is now US owned...

Attendance is usually in excess of 400,000 people per weekend event...

11/01/23    F1 is now US owned...
Attendance is usually in excess of 400,000 people per weekend event...
   

    -@Peter Itamaraca

In three of the hottest places in the US - they're certainly true believers.

My husband was named for Emerson Fittipaldi, so I can claim to live with a permanent reminder of Formula One greatness.

I lost interest when Senna died.

Nascar is the low tech conga line of auto racing, and F1 is the high tech conga line. Very little passing anymore, as all the cars are so equal and hobbled by ridiculous regulations.

I'm still going to Interlagos however, just for the experience. Here in Canada it's impossible to go to Montreal due to cost. I've been to Monaco in the off season, can't imagine what a race week costs.

Funny story. At Posto 2 on the beach in front of the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio, there is a life size bronze sculpture of Senna on the podium raising his arms. You can stand on the #2 and #3 steps beside him for a picture.

It just appeared overnight one day out of nowhere a few years ago. There was no idea who did it, but no one dares touch it years later. It's always crowded.

Love F1 cars but for the engineering feats - not for the racing atmosphere.... 

Would be more interested in the E-F1 where everything is electric and possibly the robotic F1 version - where pilots are used mainly to train the robot - which is much safer for the human....  And I cannot wait for the VR experience to be broadcasted.

But I do remember that preparing for the F1 event required sewer manhole covers to be welded shut as the air vortex in the wake of the vehicles would pull those covers in the air as if those were just sheets of paper.

I will enjoy the experience vicariously - as this is a good tradition to keep until the eco-friendly and safer version becomes mainstream in the future.

Yes!  We are going to the Grand Prix in SP starting on Friday.  Our son and his wife are flying in from Amsterdam tomorrow night for the weekend and I am very excited.  We went last year also.  I'm honestly not a F1 fan but it is very fun to go watch the race live.  Also it is impressingly well organized and the police presence is unbelievable so it is very safe.  I can recommend. 

Ahhh the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo....

Biggest occupancy rate for legit lodging, and no so legit one.   

And a match to Superbowl  in the sheer number of converging hookers into town.

@sprealestatebroker

And for those who do not know the meaning of the word hooker.. it's a prostitute.

The name was originated thanks to a certain Civil War Army Captain ( or Colonel, for all I care ). His bronze sculptured statue of himself over a horse, oversees

the Boston Commons, right besides the staircase that leads towards  the entrance of the State House, by Beacon and Park Streets. 

Before the State House at Beacon Hill ever existed, there was just an elevation where is now the building.   There, a garrison with in training soldiers bound to

fight the American Civil War were lodged into barracks.  They would spend time at the hill, when not training west of the city, can't remember whether it was Concord or Lexington.

In those days, there was no penicilin or any other remedy for eradicate transmisseable veneral diseases. Transmisseable Venereal Diseases inflicted more losses to regiments than some scuttle on the fields.   So the good ole Captain Hooker took upon himself to procure for a few soiled girls who where disease free to exclusively service his fighthing regiment. Boston being a seaport city, local men consorted with girls working out the docks by Commercial Street.  The now North End Italian  enclave was a seedy conjunction of taverns of ill repute. Besides girls, wagers and brawls were a constant scene for the entertainment of sailors and local genteel.

You can hardly fathom the picturesque North End lent to these types of crowds, on days of yore,  before the Italians took over the neighborhood with their homes, bakeries, and barbershops.   

Every time the garrisons strode west for training, the handpicked girls were put on wagons and tail end the line. The locals, in mockery, would scowl at the scene by saying in a deprecating tone.... " There goes the Hooker's Girls".   Beacon Hill, as known today, became then known as Mount Whoredom.

    Yes!  We are going to the Grand Prix in SP starting on Friday.  Our son and his wife are flying in from Amsterdam tomorrow night for the weekend and I am very excited.  We went last year also.  I'm honestly not a F1 fan but it is very fun to go watch the race live.  Also it is impressingly well organized and the police presence is unbelievable so it is very safe.  I can recommend. 
   

    -@Droplover

If you are not really a fan, please tell your son and his wife that you are Lewis Hamilton fan! Should be fun!

In Portuguese......"Piranha".......is commonly used for describing a street working girl.

    In Portuguese......"Piranha".......is commonly used for describing a street working girl.
   

    -@Gasparzinho 777

There are quite a few - names, not girls, (but what do I know?) - garota de programa, for example...

@Peter Itamaraca i didn’t want to  go there but we are all Hamilton fans.  i can’t stand Verstappen eventhough i’m dutch.

@Droplover

I think I am in love with you...!

    In Portuguese......"Piranha".......is commonly used for describing a street working girl.
   

    -@Gasparzinho 777

Not precisely...

Piranha, in the popular verbiage, means Gold Digger.  No ifs or buts.

A Streetwalker, has different adjectives...

If she is working on a coastal region, such as Santos, the old timeys would refer to them as "Secretarias do Cais" or Pier Secretaries.   Santos being a seaport town, it brought in Shipping Vessels galore, and the vessel crew attracted working girls of all price ranges.

The common street walker is known in the popular lore as prostitute or "prostituta".  If she is ranked as a  lowly "Skank" or Skankarella" then she might be a "Prostituta de Baixo Calao" or "Meretriz". The places where they ply their trade are known as "Zona do Meretricio"

Actually, "Zona" as short for "Zona do Meretricio" is any physical place where sex is traded. It can be a brothel or a conjuntion of buidings  , or a strip ( Just like Sunset Boulevard in LA ), or a clustered and segregated enclave  such as the one by Campinas-SP ( Itatinga ).

A call girl or Escort,  is commonly known as "garota de programa" which is an acceptable designation term to themselves. They rather be called a "garota de programa:" than a "prostitute", the later carries a negative conotation.  The adjective fits them to a tee,  whether they are operating as outcall or incall ( brothels, strip joints ).

The equivalent to a tramp as gotten many adjectives over the years.. "vagabunda" , even "piranha" at times. The latest on the choice of adjectives is a "Perigueti" which means a dangerous girl.   A spitefull girl, might call the other "aquela vagabunda" meaning the other made a pass at her possession ( a,k.a. boyfriend ).

The perigueti is not necessarily a pro in the strict sense, as she might not engage in promiscuity for the sake of money. Often found in the urban jungle, she fashions loud, tight and revealing  atire, might fancy a few tatoos, and is sexually liberated. A Brazilian version of Madonna from the eighties.   She targets men not for money but rather for score keeping and bragging rights.  She is loud and crass. 

Say a nice, straight laced girl has a steady boyfriend. Once spotted by a Perigueti, the boy friend will be fair game  to be pried away from the nice girl, as a trophy. The Perigueti might engage in sex and then discard the boyfriend, not before making the world know she has had him. Another Joe for the count. 

You will often hear periguetis  calling her consorting  mates "Amiga" ( sounding as Ahy aaamiiiiiga )  , which as a vague term to not express friendship but just a way to say "darling", "dear".   

Just beware just because a girl sports scant and tight clothing, does not mean she is fair game.  Revealing attire is embeded in the Brazilian culture, and it means she wants to world know how eye candy she is, even if she is taken off the market.

    I lost interest when Senna died.
Nascar is the low tech conga line of auto racing, and F1 is the high tech conga line. Very little passing anymore, as all the cars are so equal and hobbled by ridiculous regulations.


   

    -@Gasparzinho 777

Really!!! Senna made such a difference!

I'm a Midwest Council Sport Car Club (MCSCC) person from the past (1973-1984), mostly as a corner worker, and a great fan of motorsports, but I mostly turned it all off after the death of Senna. He brought something special to the sport. It was awesome to watch him perform.

I'm also an ex-aficionado of most all types of motorsports (ice dicing to rallys) and a huge fan of motorbike sports but all of that died when I came to Brazil and found few people in my region involved in amateur motorsports.

No ice-dicing here!!!!

@mberigan

Just like Gilles Villeneuve, the great Canadian F1 driver...........you could really tell when the driver was doing his thing. In today's F1 races, well, it's just not the same........hasn't been since the early to mid 90's IMHO.......all due to technology and rules.

@sprealestatebroker

Here's one you probably have heard before for a sports gold digger........"puck bunny".......as in professional hockey groupie........your Brasilian equivalent is "Maria Chuteria".........the football groupie.

    @sprealestatebroker
Here's one you probably have heard before for a sports gold digger........"puck bunny".......as in professional hockey groupie........your Brasilian equivalent is "Maria Chuteria".........the football groupie.
   

    -@Gasparzinho 777

Puck bunny is new to me.  I remember Baseball Annie, Cleat Chasers, not Puck Bunny.

Back in the 80's there was also "Maria Gasolina" . You had a ride, you had companion.  Matter of fact there was a lyric that came about that time....  "Maria Gasolina, da Maquina Divina...."

I missed everybody here 🥺.. Never a dull post 😲😲🤣🤣🤣🤣……

It’s like a one stop shop..I came for one thing and got everything else I needed also.

Definitely hate I missed this event..

I will look at next year.

Any other small racing events??

@antonioggriffin I will try to come up with more creative posts for the future. I have spent decades in Brazil and remember when Coca Cola had a really big sports event on Copacabana Beach with separate stadiums for Tak Kwon Do, Tennis, Soccer and more all built with Grand Stands on the Beach.

Roddie in Retirement

"Maria Gasolina" .
    -@sprealestatebroker

Asked ChatGPT about Maria Gasolina and got the following:

Maria Gasolina is a fictional character that is popular in Brazil. She is often used in memes and jokes on social media, and is known for her humorous and relatable personality. Maria Gasolina is also a nickname that is used to refer to any woman who is considered to be outgoing, energetic, and passionate. The origin of this nickname is not entirely clear, but it is thought to have originated in Brazil's Northeastern region. Maria Gasolina is often used in a positive and playful way, and is not considered to be offensive.

Interesting description....