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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Its currently almost the middle of the promotional exams period. All I want is for it to end as soon as possible. Its getting on my nerves.

So, two days ago, the first F1 night race was held in Singapore. At about 7:55pm, I found a website to stream the race from. I know its on TV, but I like to be able to use to computer at the same time. Interestingly, there was a chat box beside the stream, so I could see the comments and reactions of the people who are watching it. Seems like a lot of people hate Hamilton. For some reason, I got glued to the race. I initially only wanted to watch it and do some other stuff at the same time, since its all about watching cars go around a track for 2 hours when it only takes 2 minutes to make one lap.

So... I ended up watching the whole race.

Personally I thought it was a very interesting race. It might have been caused by unfamiliarity, the street circuit, the bumps, the narrowness, or the heat. Whatever the cause, it made the race interesting to watch. A crash early in the race, which I keep thinking its some evil conspiracy by the Renault team. You see, Alonso fuelled light because he expected a crash to happen early in the race, and so he went to the pit stop the earliest. 3 laps after he pits, his teammate crashes. All the other cars now were low on fuel expect for Alonso. So after that, Alonso remains first for most of the remaining race.

There was debris on the track somewhere early in the race. Some black thing that I think dropped off someone's car. Another car knocked it off the track onto the wall, then it bounced back into the track. Meh.

Then I saw Massa drive off with the fuel hose attached. Saw one of his pit crew fall to the ground, saw the fuel hose flapping in the air as Massa drove on. Lol. Then I see the pit crew sprinting from one end of the pit stop to the other end, and it seems its quite hard to remove the fuel hose. I wonder what would happen if Ferrari's pit stop was near the entrance. He'll either drive off into the race without knowing that there's a fuel hose attached to his car, or he'll have to stop in the middle of the track.

I saw two cars skid, maybe there were more that weren't shown. They didn't crash though. Raikkonen crashed late in the game, a pity his tire didn't roll onto the track. It would have made things even more interesting. You have to feel sorry for Ferrari though, they totally screwed up this race.

Lots of sparks flew from under the cars. I wonder what the road is like now.

posted @ 9:24 pm
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