Each year Montreal turns into summer mode with the arrival of the Crescent Street Grand Prix Festival presented by Corona Extra. The world's most popular motorsport street festival brought more cars, more pro driver autograph sessions and more pit-stop friendly challenges with more personalities than ever. The most popular bands over the last 15 years will came back and rocked festival goers with sound and rhythm.
Covering two full blocks on Montreal's most famous downtown restaurant and bar street, from Sherbrooke to Ste-Catherine, the Crescent Street Grand Prix Festival presented by Corona Extra brought between 400,000 to 500,000 visitors every year.
For its 15th anniversary, Crescent Street offered more cars with the return of Dodge and Fiat vehicles, along with Alfa Romeo as the official automotive sponsors of the event. The Alfa Romeo Pit Stop challenge was successful where celebrities, athletes and the general public testes their skills at a timed, tire-changing activity like the professional race car drivers experience. Race fans enjoyed a visit to the Fiat and Dodge Zones, where they checked out an array of performance-inspired vehicles including the Dodge Challenger Shaker, Dodge Dart Scat Pack, Fiat 500 Abarth and Fiat 500 Sport Turbo.
Presented by TW Steel, Sergio Perez, the Mexican driver for the Sahara Force India team signed autographs on the Corona Extra Stage.
Crescent Street Grand Prix Festival presented by Corona Extra has been the center of some of the biggest street parties over the years with the presence of great bands that rocked the street with their music. For its 15th anniversary, organizers of the world famous festival brought back the most popular bands from past years. Thanks to Labatt Breweries and its Corona Extra brand.
Peel Street
As every year, many activities were presented all along Peel street downtown Montreal. We admired Ferrari's cars, some porches, Lamborghinis and other exotic cars.
The lounge Glenmorangie with DJ Jason Mamane was very animated. The delicious mark of single malt Scotch whisky captivated our senses and especially the cocktail mixed with Canada dry and mint war out of this world. Congratulations to the owner and manager of this great initiative. The music was fantastic. We met a group of tourists coming from the United States but originally from Trinidad of Tobago who said: "Montreal is an amazing city; we enjoy being here especially during formula 1. I love Moet Chandon and Glenmorangie. It is delicious. We will come again next year for sure"