Friday Night Formula 1

Tonight was just the warm up sessions for the racing, but that doesn’t mean that I was willing to miss more than a few minutes of the action!

Having nipped out of work quite early at the end of the day I headed straight over to Nick’s office to hand over his ticket for the day and to make our way over to the entrance gates to the event.

              Once we were in (with poncho and ear plugs purchased) we very quickly found the guys who had flown in from Thailand for the event, helped by the fact that they were at the very first place selling beer that we stumbled across. We bought a nice cool beer to recover from the slightly too warm walk over, and then it was time to go and look at some cars.

Apparently machines spend almost an entire day scrubbing down the roads of Singapore in the days when the track is closed off to ensure that it’s 100% safe for the speed that the cars will travel. Unfortunately, this level of cleanliness is actually a bit dangerous, so Friday hosts a series of classic car races, with the crazily loud old engines flying around the track ‘laying down rubber’ to get it all ready for the big boys. The current F1 cars then had two blocks of time to practise on the track and get used to the corners and all those other things that they do during practise laps.

              Whilst we watches the cars as much as possible, the main action ended pretty early on Friday night, so we went and found a bar that was nestled next to one of the live performance stages to have a couple more drinks whilst enjoying the festival atmosphere.

As the Phuket boys tried to work out whether they needed to go to a karaoke bar or nightclub, Nick and I made our excuses and headed home ready for a full weekend of fun!