Friday, September 26, 2008

Singapore F1 Grand Prix Practise Session

All Picture taken from Channelnewsasia

After dinner @ Central with my brother.. We both walk tho the F1 race venue.. We can her the roaring engine sound as far as Clarke Quay.. Thus i was getting very excited to reach the venue fast... The sound of the roaring F1 engine grew louder as we approach Boat Quay.. There were so many foreigners on the heart of Singapore soil.. Drinking and chatting along the stretch of Boat Quay pubs and restaurants.. I can see that this event is bring so many dollars into Singapore's economy.. The whole city comes alive...
When we reach gate 5.. the police did a security check on us before letting us in. There right in front of us.. we can the F1 cars zoom by...It was so damn shoik to hear the roaring F1 engine zoom by.. we then head to the walk-about stand for a better view of the circuit... i whip out my camera and start clicking.. but non of the shot manage to capture the cars.. (That is why i can't provide any photos now) so i switch on the video mood.. and manage to capture some action zoom by... The cars were travelling so fast..
We decide to change another location... and head towards the Esplanade bridge.. Wrong decision.. Straight course.. and the cars are zooming at the speed of 300km/h.. we watch a while before changing another location (that is something good about Walk-about Pass, you get to change location if you are bored) This time we move near to the NDP Floating Platform area.. The view was great.. we can see the cars slowing down to take on 2 corners.. Then we moved on to another location... and another location...
There are merchandise stalls, hawker center, Beer stalls, Bands performing, Percussion band drumming, Antique cars exhibition, arts performance, DJ spinning dance music..etc.... a carnival atmosphere.. and it was really nice to see F1 cars zooming along Singapore street during the night..
Most of the drivers are still not familiars with this new circuit.. Many make a wrong turn and some brush their car nose into the concrete barriers.. and many hit the glass patch.. I was following on Liewis Hilmiton and Fellipe Messa... Hilmiton was adapting to this new street circuit very fast.. and was good at handling the sharp corners.. While Messa still struggling a bit..but is more confident on second practise session.. I believe most of the drivers should be very familiar and confident of this narrow street circuit by the 3rd session....
Still hungry for more action from Singapore F1 grand Prix for the next 2 more days...

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