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F What?

By jeni | September 29, 2008

Oh sorry, that’s F1. As in Formula One. Formula One racing. Fast cars. Vroom vroom and all that jazz. Last night was Singapore’s first ever venture into the fabulous world of F1, and it was also F1’s first ever night race, so it was a big deal. Singapore used this race to “put itself on the map” (I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this phrase.) I don’t know what map, and I don’t know where on the map it goes, but Singapore is now officially on the map.

Many of Singapore’s city streets were closed off to make the racetrack, which had lots of twists and turns and gave the drivers a nice tour of Singapore. Not that they could see anything going 300 kilometers per hour (see how I used the metric system there?). Tons and tons of people went down to see the race, paying thousands of dollars for passes to get into the grandstands. We didn’t have tickets, but we got lucky enough to go to a hotel room overlooking part of the course for wine and cheese. There was even a car in the lobby.

We didn’t get very many good shots because we were so high up, but here’s the part of the course we could see from the balcony. You can see the Singapore flyer in the background, and the course is the part that is all lit up below. They had to have super powerful lights because even one shadow could cause major wreckage.

The cars were incredibly loud and it was kind of hard to tell what was going on without the help of an announcer, so we spent a lot of time going back and forth between the balcony and going inside to watch the race on TV. All in all, it was pretty cool to see the first Formula One night race and see it live. I dreamt of racecars all night long. Kind of like when you play to much tetris, and you see the blocks turning over and over in your mind even after you’ve turned the game off. I’d say I had at least an equally good time watching the race as I do playing a good game of Tetris. Not bad. Not bad at all.

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