Sepagi di A1GP

Memang dah lama nak pergi tgk A1 GP ni. Ada la jugak once or twice dapat ticket free tapi malas nak pergi. Akan tetapi, coming into this race Malaysia team was in number one spot with 28 points. Wah wah wah.... walaupun aku tak pernah mengundi di pilihanraya, when it comes to sporting events - akak so the patriotic one.

We'll we got not one but 5 free tickets. Semua kat grandstand. If it's F1, dah ribu raban dah tu. Walaupun kerja the night before, I forgo my sleep and drove to Sepang Circuit with my dad, sister, brother and two nephews.

Aha.. so the very good, sebab orang tak ramai, parking murah and parking dekat pulak tu (tak macam F1). We got tickets for the whole 3 day shebang - from practise session on Friday to Feature race on Sunday. Since this is the first time (plus aku still kena keje malam tu), we agree to just watch the sprint race.

Mula-mula nak duduk depan Malaysia pit. Lepas tu gatal nak duduk kat starting line pulak. After half hour of taking pictures, the race is finally going to start. Yipeee. The boys are excited and gelak2 kan aku konon berlagak nak pakai ear plug. Sekali tu bila the engines are fired up, semua rasa macam telinga nak tercabut! Baru kau tahu labu! For the sprint race, after the first safety lap with the safety car, they will immediately sprint down the lane as soon as the safety car dives into the pit. Huyooo..everyone is on their feet now..adrenalin pumping....Come on Malaysiaaaaa...... here comes the car..camera readdyyy..... Ehhhhh tetiba ada tayar bergolek depan aku. Damn it! There's a 3 car pile up at the corner coming into the grandstand. Jealousnya orang yang duduk kat corner tu. Check out here for pictures of the crash.

The race came to a complete stop. Red flag out. Lorrrr. Team's that are out India, USA and tah sapa. The cars were totalled out and they had to bring out the cranes to pull the cars out. 15 minutes later, the race start again. All cars managed to clear out the first corner this time. The race is ONNN. Yeay Malaysia is now on 8th spot. From where I sit, I can see the straight line in front of the pit right down to the first corner, as well as the naik bukit part behind the pit area. So we were counting the cars to see Malaysia no berapa. Eh... mana pergi the yellow car ni? Looorrrrrr Malaysian car picked up a puncture pulak and was limping to go back to the pit. There goes the race. Malaysia ended up in 15 spot, way out of the point positions.

Walaupun kecewa, we had a great time. Keluar tu ada pulak rows of Lotus and Ferari. Apa lagi posing time people! We had lunch and went back to catch the feature race pulak. Maybe it's not Malaysia week. We lost the lead as the team ended 10th in the feature race. Malaysia was in position for a podium finish, tapi biasak la.. ada mis comms pulak, the driver went into the pit when the crew was not ready for him. So salah sapa tu?

Whatever pun, next year nak pergi lagi (with free tickets of course :))

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