Dad's Day Driving ~ Canadian Grand Prix Watch & Driving Sims @ DRS 15Jun25

We hustled back from Summit to meet MLC and LPC at the Denver Racing Social (DRS) for an F1 watch party of the Canadian Grand Prix on Dad's Day. Matt found and booked the event for especially me as it included not only totties & nosh and a nice video theater for the F1 race, but a dad & kid team event in a killer race car driving simulator.

We got some practice on the Canadian GP track and with the F1 car in smaller sims before loading into the main show. The sim rigs were very cool and sophisticated and the DRS vibe was good; owner Andrew (left in pic) was cool and helped a lot and the day's sponsor catered in a great Mediterranean buffet. We believed we had a shot (lowest average summed best laptimes of teammates) despite the experience of some of the other sons. That was naive ~ I sucked with lots of un-smooth moves and Matt was sufficiently aggressive to not post a clean lap. The jiggyness of the $100K sim rig was a distraction, but very cool. Even my Apple Watch suggested I had fallen hard and was in-process of emergency calls ~ also a distraction.

To get a sense of it, here's Matt driving the '24 Mercedes F1 car in the DRS Sim around the Montreal GP track for a bit.

Denver Racing Social is a unique experience in Colorado; they regularly cast their races and competitions of members to members and others. They even have post race interviews. Heh heh. There were plenty of keen cars in the lot, including Matt's own 911 with his new plates.

So, back to the real race... George & Kimi performed well as the Mercedes car tends to improve in colder climates and weather, which Canada was this day. McClaren was faring well till a fav, Lando Norris, made a bonehead play on his teammate and wrecked out of the race with just a few laps to go. Letha was aghast at the situation but liked Kimi's 1st podium and even George's first win this year.

Dad's Day 2025 was a blast; thanks for coming out everyone; especially thank you MLC for leading a fun memorable day.