F1 weekend

It was such a sweltering weekend, with the mercury reaching 39 Celcius! Coupled with the crowd and the amount of fuel burnt from so many racing events over the weekend, the temperature around Albert Park must be more than 40 degrees. Not to mention the noise from different type of cars racing on the track - there were many different races taking place since Thursday, such as Formula Ford and GT. But the loudest of them all is the F1 car, only to be outdone by fighter jets exhibition prior to flag off. The most surprising event is perhaps the advertisement by Qantas - a 747 plan hovering slowly right above the park. What a sight. Too bad I didn't manage to capture this would be priceless photo.

As for photos for the F1 action, dissapointingly I've got none from my 2nd floor apartment as the organisers have made every effort to ensure very limited viewing from outside the park. The residents living on high-rise apartments were exceptions. They must have enjoyed the race from their balcony.

Johanna and I have to catch the race from TV screen, but with the loud engine noise coming live from the park. Exciting and eventful race indeed as only a handful of cars finishing the maiden race. Perhaps it's due to the withdrawal of traction control? Ferrari had quite some misfortune this weekend. Hope they can make it up next weekend in Sepang.

Our apartment is the tiny red dot on the track map


Some roads were closed, to be used as entrance to Albert Park


Merchandise stalls


Managed to take this from our apartment. The cars were way too fast though.


Fighter jet exhibition, right above our apartment


Helicopter making live telecast of the race