Sunday is the race day for Malaysia F1 Grand Prix, and I'm very lucky enough as my father handed me 2 ticks for the big event! Hahah, thanks to the sponsor Astro!
Without the sponsor, I wouldnt want to fork out that much money just for this tick!
Money and Ben went there on Saturday for the qualifying round, while I went for the race day with Money, since the tick is valid for 3 days.
Journey to the circuit was a breeze at the beginning, credit goes to the KL-Putrajaya highway. Well, the rest of the journey was bumpy from the junction turn to Sepang circuit's direction. We've to make way for the King's car, you know, VVVIP's treatment, he's the no.1 man in the country. I took a vid of the King's car escort moving beside our car, will post the vid once I upload to Youtube.
Thankfully there's still parking lots there, lots of 'em waiting for cars to fill 'em up! Dont expect shaded parking lots though, it's just merely a cleared palm oil tree ground.
OK now, let the pics do the talking.
(There's quite a lot of pics here, please be patient! Click for larger pics.)
Reached F1 circuit!
Take pic with some nice and cool Mercs cars! Love 'em!
Mercedes CL 500! First sighted in Malaysia! It's name almost completed "CLF" lol.
Walking to our seats.
Ferrari's merchandise booth.
Max zoom from my camera, showing the pit. (I'm standing out of the fence)
View from my seat.
Binocular view of the crowd seating at the far opposite field.
Mercedes ML on standby, with some crews.
Circuit map from my booklet.
Cars warming up.
Fellipe Massa's car (Ferrari).
One of the safety car, a Mercs C class wagon AMG model. Too bad didnt take the new SL AMG....
I like this car's colour, Torro Rosso.
Ferrari car VS the crowd.
Another fast car pass-by.
Crew watching from the big screen.
This cameraman probably got the best view of the track.
Massa's car stranded. Not a clear view, but you can see a red figure stuck below the RBS sign.
View from my seat
Raikkonen close up.
The car I like has been tolled due to engine failure, oh well.
Final score: #1 Raikkonen (Ferr), #2 Kubica (BMW), #3 Kovalainen (McL-Mercs)
Well, it was really a whole new experience for me. I'm not an F1 fan then, but now I'll be keeping an eye on this sports then, heh.
One thing I dislike is the noise made by the car, too loud until my ears could be deaf if I didnt put on the earplugs. They say wanna reduce pollution, yet this sports create such serious noise pollution huh.... contradicting!
I've got some vids to be shared here, but I've to process them in Movie Maker then upload to Youtube, before sharing it here with you all! :D
Update:Videos are ready now! [Link]
Ya... I don't know anything about F1 either, so your blog is my very first introduction to the sport. Thx for the info. It seems to be a popular sport so i better learn something about it!
ReplyDeleteHi kutu cat,
ReplyDeleteGlad my post somewhat helps you to figure out this new sports. It's kinda exciting. :)
Like you, I'm still new to it.