Grand Prix festivities underway on Crescent Street
Posted June 15, 2023 4:02 pm.
Last Updated June 15, 2023 7:02 pm.
The festivities for the long awaited Grand Prix in Montreal revved up on Crescent Street Thursday.
Elizabeth Giguère and Samantha Isbell both players for La Force Montreal, Quebec’s first professional women’s hockey team since 2019, took in all the festivities, the first Grand Prix for both of them.
“The energy is electric here,” said Isbell. Giguère adding how great it felt to see the city come to life getting ready for the weekend.
For NHL players Vincent Desharnais and Pierre-Olivier Joseph, both from Laval, they say they love to take part in the festivities. Desharnais saying, “it’s always a fun weekend.”
“It’s an event that doesn’t happen a lot,” says Joseph, inviting all those at home to come and enjoy the festivities, “the more Quebecers the funner things are,” added Joseph.
The weekend filled with activities and things to do for all ages attracts in many from across the world, and Canada to Montreal to take part in the Grand Prix Festivities.
“We hope the race will be awesome,” says Dietrich Rottmann a Formula 1 fan, travelling from Guatemala to Montreal for the first time to take in all the weekend has to offer.
“Since we were kids, my father loved to travel to the Grand Prix’s around the world,” added Rottmann, who is hoping to see Aston Martin cross the finish line first come Sunday’s race.
