Formula 1 - Marina Bay

The Marina Bay GP was driven in Sinapore on 23.9. We went to see it with the finnish guys Joonas, Aki, Ville, Juha and Aki's friend Tapsa. We paid 107 euros for the tickets. They didn't allow us to sit at grand stands but we had access to the wide area and the best corners. The day included four races and the concert of Katy Perry as the official afterparty in the area.

The day started in the afternoon with Ferrari Challenge. That was quite impressive to see those sports cars doing the thing they are designed to do. Right next to us there was an incident and spin after about half of the laps had been driven. Unfortunately the circuit staff were unable to get the wreck out so the race was finished with the safety car on the track.

Ferrari Challenge

180 degree spin

After Ferrari Challenge the next race was GP2 race. During the race we were walking much around the area and didn't really follow the race that much. The cars looked very much like F1 cars.

GP2

Lotus F1 team merchandises

Since the GP2 was finished we were hungry. As everything in the race area was very expensive and our tickets were multiple entry we decided to go outside to eat. We missed the whole Porsche Cup race because of that but we wanted to be ready for the F1 race. Once we got back we looked for a good spots to view the race and went there to wait the race to begin. The race was cool and surprisingly easy to follow once you learnt to recognize drivers from their helmets. I hardly saw the screen so I had to count the standings in my head. Our spot between T7 and T8 was good as we saw some nice overtakes and the Schumacher's accident was just behind the corner. The winner of the race was S. Vettel and Kimi was 6th. It was really hard to take good photos from fast cars in the dark.

It was hard to get a clear shot.

After the race we were all quite tired because of standing for long time. We went to see Katy Perry right away but didn't really watch it to the end. Next day we all had flights to take and didn't want to risk it with too hard partying. I flew to Vietnam and from there I got to Cambodia but I'll write about that later.

The concert