Believe it or not, F1 has been in Malaysia for ages and this is the first time I ever set foot on the Sepang F1 circuit. As a newbie, my first taste of F1 in Sepang started of by witnessing the test drive with a few friends.

For quite sometime, I really couldn’t understand why people would pay hundreds of ringgit to sit there under the HOT HOT sun (or under the shelter of the grand stand if you are willing to pay more, but still it’s freaking hot!) just to catch the wind and sand left behind by the speeding F1 cars. Taking the average speed of a F1 car to be 200km/h, it will only take approximately 3.6 seconds before the car passes a person, assuming the visible racing track in front of him is about 200 meters long. For a racing of 60 laps, he will be able to see a same single car for just 3.6 minutes before the race finishes! It beats me…

Nevertheless, I wasn’t lost long though. I could feel the atmosphere as I approached the grand stand. With the F1 cars’ engines roaring as they passed the grand stand, the unbearable deafening sound came into our ears. Ear plugs didn’t help much. We could hardly hear among ourselves as we struggled to communicate to one another.

The cars sped off in front of us. Before we realised it, they were far gone to the other end and it took only a few moments for them to reappear in front of us. COOL!!! The experience was way beyond words, and the best of all >> it was FOC!