Sepang F1 2012

Every week on Monday, I tell myself to take it easy during the weekend; to just chill and do nothing. It never happens. Secretly, I am glad it is so.

Over the weekend, I headed down to Sepang for my virgin experience of a live F1 race. My ears were cherry popped by the sound of the cars zooming pass! Orgasmic! Ok... the choice of words is going a whole different direction.

The qualifiers on Saturday was great. Traffic wasn't bad. Parking wasn't difficult. The weather was great for racing... Blistering hot!

Beautiful day for an F1 race



Yeah, I wore a t-shirt and jeans on a blistering hot day...

The place was buzzing with activity and people having a good time.

I had problems trying to snap pics with my iphone...



Safety car



SLK 200 upclose...

A friend of mine commented that the thing he looked forward to the most in the F1 race are the grid girls. I beg to differ. Give me this beauty over the girls anytime, man!

And of course... the Ferrari fan

The Qualifiers ended with the two McLaren cars in front with Hamilton taking pole and Button behind him. Good 'ol Schumacher came in third.

On race day itself, the weather was bad and traffic was "ridonkulous". I had to summon my off road rally driving skills to make it on time. Upon arrival, parking was "ridonkulous to the power of 2". Again, when faced with escalating "ridonkulous-ness" I had to pull off crazier antics which includes... Wait, hmmnn... which I shall not mention here... to find a parking.

I was drenched; this time in my shorts, singlet and slippers... how nice! Only one good thing from the rain though...

Yeap... Grid girls! Ok, so now... Grid girls vs SLK 200? Images are powerful, aren't they?

Heavy rain... Safety car out with Hamilton trailing behind. So much drama in such short time...

The red flag came out after that and race was suspended. I was keeping my fingers crossed. I didn't want the race to be called off! I was praying hard for the rain to subside and for the race to resume.

Teams busy getting their cars ready...

Thank God the rain subsided and the race was scheduled to resume behind the safety car.

With the safety car out of the picture, the race began proper.

Track spray was still pretty bad though...

A poor pit stop was costly for Hamilton which saw Alonso take the lead with Perez from Sauber in 2nd.

Perez was just phenomenal. He was doing a great job closing in on Alonso but alas, the Spaniard took it for Ferrari. It would have been awesome if Perez took it!

The sun was out proper after the race, just in time for sunset which was quite pretty.

After the race...

Sepang F1 Circuit does look pretty at sunset

My bro, Merv decides to practice his marching drills

A few more sunset shots and then I promise I'll stop

Decided to stay back a little longer to capture this one...

And finally, this one... Ok, no more!

It was an awesome experience. The next time someone tells you that watching the race on Tv is better than watching it live, please ignore that person. Go catch this!