Sunday, September 28, 2008

F1 Mania!!

Had in mind to go down to the city centre to catch the F1 race....yes...the first night race in S'pore...but b4 that, headed down to Tiong Bahru Mkt with the guys in the office for a quick dinner, where I was intro-ed to some really good prawn mee by Wee Kiat...(it's recommended from some food programme on channel U...some makeover thingy where they get famous chefs to help out or something...)

Comes with ribs too...and the good thing is the soup ain't too salty...


Next stop: to City Hall MRT...but we sorta hor lan a bit in Outram trying to find our way to SGH and eventually to the nearest MRT...feels quite silly....but anw the road traffic was already piling up due to the upcoming F1 practice race...

Finally reached City Hall MRT and right outside of Raffles City Shopping Centre where the crowd has already built up...Scenes and videos below....

Ain't too dark yet but the cars were already off!!


Oh wow the crowd just gathering outside the gates as the first of the cars zoom off!

Hear the engines go off!! Incredibly deafening!!




Trying a close-up now...


And night finally arrived....





Wee Kiat and Jue Ran went home after that and Zhiwen went to look for his friends, so I was left alone, so I decided to go about hunting for good F1 seeing spots without paying tix...(yesh yesh...cheapo cheapo but that's what everyone's doing....:p)

The first spot...round the corner of City Hall MRT...better than my initial position, at least can see the cars coming in at a turn...but still not good enough....


Walked to Marina Square and found another better spot at the Citylink exit...a whole straight road opposite the spectator's stand...

Incredibly funny cos ppl in the spectator's stand spend $$$ in there and on the opposite end here I am watching the same thing and being a cheapo!! :)



Think the sound of the engine got wayyyy much louder here....


Walked further down the corner to Milennia Walk area...chanced upon what I feel as the best location to watch the F1 for the night....it's over at Turn 7, where I got cars coming in fast before the turn, slowing down during this turn and 3 cars messed up due to taking a straight road missing the turn....Location was so good that I even got to sit on the barrier near the track side with 2 ah bengs and 2 ladies that randomly came up chatting with me and asking if this was a good spot too....lol


Yes...many other people like me camping arnd...sat on one of those construction barriers...





Haha...this car seriously messed up...I guess that's what happens when the driver loses his concentration and misses the turn...


A view from the other side...the stretch before Turn 7 where the cars came in real fast before hitting the turn...

Yeah...it's all a blur trying to capture the cars...


So think showing videos would be better....




Left after a while cos the sound was roaringly loud and my ears were ringing and tingling real bad...so retreated to take photos of a model car in Raffles City Shopping Centre...sponsored by RBS, Hamleys....think is the AT&T Williams F1 team driven by Nico Rosberg...






Sure was a F1 themed night out!!

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