Singapore F1 Grand Prix - The Race Day

Clip taken on Turn 11...

Well there have been a bit delay before i blog the last day of Singapore Formula 1 Night Race Street Grand Prix. The last 3 days has been very tiring for me.. Sleeping at 2am and got to wake up early for work the next day... Then after work, head for the F1 Grand Prix circuit.. I'm sure those F1 drivers had more rest then me.. But who care.. for the pass three nights i have been enjoying myself very much..

Day 3 this the race day... I meet my friend for dinner before we head to our favourite viewing spot.. Turn 11.. From my pass 2 days i learned that Turn 10 is an accident prone turn.. and Turn 11 could be the over taking corner.. We deploy our self at Turn 11... Hoping to see some action... We reach Turn 11 at 7pm.. and there was already a huge crowd there... The Walk-about Stand was filled with spectator (Guess these people also did their homework too)

While waiting for the race to start at 8pm.. I chat up with an Australian guy, from Melbourne.. He been to Singapore a few time.. and watch many F1 races in Melbourne.. and this is also his 1st night race in Singapore.. He is here to support McLaren.. we chat about previous great drivers of McLaren like Ayton Senna and Alain Prost.. and we also discuss about the types of F1 engine being use.. like the V12 Engine, Turbo Engine, Traction Control.. etc.. And only rich teams could afford better engines... thus FIA change the ruling.. All cars can only use V8 Engines and displacement of 2400 cc.... He told me he will be back for more next year..

The whole atmosphere is awesome during the race day.. can see supporters from different part of the world.. The British supporting Lewis Hamilton in McLaren, Singaporeans, Finnish, Brazilians and Italians cheering for Ferrari drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Messa.. There are also Toyota Supporters and Spanish going for Fernando Alonso of Team ING Renault.... Every supporters are very sporting... sharing the race information within each other.. (We don't get to see hooligans style here)... You can hear the "OOh" when Felipe Messa blunder in the pit stop.. and "Yeah..." when Lewis Hamilton move back to 3rd placing... Kimi Raikkonen smashes his car at turn 10 with only 4 more laps to go.. and the crowd when crazy... I can see Kimi Raikkonen' Ferrari slowly stop in front of us.. Cameras starts clicking... and a disappointed Kimi Raikkonen climb out of his car, walk towards the official car.. everyone claps and cheer for him...

A very disappointing race for Ferrari.. and a triumph for Renualt's Driver and Ex 2 times World Champion Fernando Alonso in his 1st Grand Prix wins of this season... The driver left a good memories for all Singaporeans - Burn tyre marks on the road of Singapore..

I will rate this Singapore Formula 1 Night Street Race a World Class 5 stars rating.. for the awesome experience and presenting Singapore landmarks to the World.. I'll be back for more next year...

Singapore F1 Day 2...Qualifying Rounds (FEEL THE RUSH)

Some of the Vintage cars display

Team Toyota Zoom by

Porsche Support Race

William Zoom by.. See how fast...

Merchandise Shops..

Aston Martin Race... Singapore Street Circuit during day

Ferrari Merchandise Shop..

Well Second Day of the Singapore F1.. The crowd is much larger than Friday night.. This is the qualifying day.. So I'm expecting the driver to push their cars to the limit.. Kimi Raikkonen crash on Turn 10 during practice.... But he sprint back again during the qualifying rounds.. Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella also smash into the barrier and had to be lift off the track.. When the drivers are under heavy pressure and the street circuit is showing no mercy... More accident will happen..

Last ninth i over heard a group of Singaporean Ferrari Supporter.. chatting about how great Raikkonen and Messa were.. and then soem of their ladies friend approach. and one of them ask the girls.. "Who U support?" and the girls reply "McLaren".. Then one of the Ferrari fans shouted "McLaren Boooo, Alonso Boooo!!" me and my friend goes HUH? Alonso in McLaren, that was last year... Hahaha... That guy should have done his homework.. before he speak to any of the fans.. a disgrace to Singaporean.. hahaha.. There are so many die hard foreigner fans...

Still not enough for the roaring F1 engine sound.. I'll be back on Sunday night for the Race... Hungry for more action....

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...

Tomorrow is the first day of F1 in Singapore

Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix - Night Race Circuit...

My 3 days Singapore Grand Prix Pass....

Yeah Yeah Yeah..

Tomorrow Singapore will be on history.... The first Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix and also the World first Formula 1 night race.. I'm sure this will be a very different experience for all the Formula 1 drivers... racing in the night.. a new street circuit.. unknown climate condition... like "2Fast 2furious" dashing at full throttle on Singapore street.. with Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Central Business District Silhouette, The city Hall, Stanford Westin, The Padang and the Marina Square... It will be a great night scene for the tourist.. and the world to see..

Due to inexperience, most track side hotels are still not to their target.. Still got rooms available... They have over price their room rates... They even reduce price and minimum night stay.. I'm sure next year the hoteliers will price the room rates better..

I'll be going for the 3days Formula 1 race with high expectation...

Hong Kong Police send me email...

Yesterday i got a shock when i arrive for work in the morning.. Right on my table was an email.. from the Hong Kong Police's Detective Station Sergeant asking for information on 4 of our customers that was detain in Hong Kong for "Conspiracy to Defraud"..

I was wondering how the Hong Kong police got my contact and name.. then only realised when i check with my Hong Kong operator... They are the one who gave the detective my contact.. It was for real and not a scam email.. anyway.. these customers where send by their company to Hong Kong for business trip.. and got detain by the police there on 3 Sep 08..

I always watch Hong Kong detective drama and never know one real Hong Kong detective email me...

Office PC down... and Recover...

On Saturday.. Suddenly my Office PC's monitor.. screen black out a few time.. i saw suspecting the monitor was down.. i begin to swoop with the spare PC's monitor.. and it works.. also my monitor works on the sare PC.. (scratch head).. then screen black out again. this time i suspect the monitor cable is spoil. so i swap the spare monitor cable to my PC.. and Tah Da!! it works.. so i throw away my PC monitor cable and brought a new one for the spare PC... i quickly save all my working documents into my back up thumb drive...

On Sunday it work perfectly well.. till i finish my work and right before i back up into the thumb drive.. "Boom" Black out again... and this time no matter how i tried.. the screen never lit up... Die loh... Monday i was off.. and my colleague told me that my PC's still in coma...

Yesterday.. It's still the same.. so i got no choice but to swoop my PC for the spare PC.. The spare PC is running on Windows Vista Operating System.. got a hard time figuring out the new feature.. after much orientation.. i realised that Windows Vista is better than Windows XP.. Much better feature.. and easy to use also...

So last night when my boss, take a look at my PC.. he was suspecting that the graphic card is spoil.. we took it out and and use the motherboard built in VGA... and "Tah Da!!!!" it works...

Singapore F1 fever...

The Singapore Formula 1 fever has hit me already... I have been having sleepless night these few night thinking about the first Singapore F1 Grand Prix... Some more it is a night race.. i was so excited as i don't know what to expect for a night race.. The first in Formula 1 history...

Today i went to World of Sports to check out on the Ferrari's T-Shirts.. the cheapest will be around S$70++ and more.... It was so expensive.. i rather not buy... But for those Ferrari owner.. It is cheap.. IF one can afford a Ferrari, what is S$70++ to them...

I was think of bring my camera on the 3 days of races.. but on second thought.. it might be ban.. cos using the camera at night it need flash and the flashing lights will affect the driver's vision..