Look Into Tickets Early

Another guide on making the most of the Singpaore Grand Prix spent a lot of time talking about tickets, and we’d direct you back to that guide for reference. The idea, generally, is to book as early as possible (ideally when tickets go on sale in April). This is in part because the event will sell out, but also because you can get some good deals buying early as opposed to waiting until the last minute, or going through secondary markets. Additionally you’ll want to take some time researching the different kinds of tickets you can buy, some of which offer more access throughout the event than others.

Plan On Long Days & Nights

Attending the Singapore Grand Prix is unlike many other sporting events in that it can really take up a full day and night. You’ll want to get to the course as early as possible so as to stake out a good vantage point (within the area you have access to with your tickets of course). Then there’s the actual race. On top of that, however, there is also something of a festival that surrounds the circuit, such that it’s always worth sticking around after the race. At the very least you’ll be able to attend a concert, likely with a fairly major act or two on stage.

Research The Previous Year’s Action

One thing fans don’t always realize until they attend a race is that each grand prix really is its own competition. The drivers are ultimately competing for year-end honors, but there’s value in winning or establishing a streak at a given venue as well – which means it’s always fun to brush up on your history of a grand prix you attend. Taking the Singapore Grand Prix for instance, it’s nice to know that Sebastian Vettel, who’s still competing near the top of the standings, holds the record with four wins at the Marina Bay Circuit. In fact, one write-up last year called him the rightful favorite from a purely historical, technical and skillful level, despite the fact that Lewis Hamilton is always the likely winner these days. This is all fun stuff to know come race day.

Purchase Camera Equipment

This is only necessary if you’re intending to capture good pictures of the action. However, if that’s something you’d like to do, you really will need the right equipment. A standard smartphone camera just isn’t going to get great looks at F1 cars whizzing by at high speed – particularly in the setting of an evening race with lights overhead. We’d recommend if this is important to you doing some research on what types of lenses and shutter speeds people get the best results with at similar events, and preparing in advance.

Learn The Grounds

This may sound trivial, but having a good understanding of the expansive grounds can serve you well. You’ll be navigating in large crowds and with a lot of things going on, and it helps to know where things are and what the best ways to get around might be. You can find a circuit park map for the grand prix online, which makes it fairly easy to study and learn your way around in advance.

I wouldn’t beat around the bush and just share with you the list of performers for the upcoming festival.

• Cobra Starship
• Far East Movement
• Tinie Tempah
• Iggy Azalea
• Orbital
• Infected Mushroom
• Yuna
• Cosmic Gate
• Kim Kat
• Pendulum DJ Set + Verse
• Miguel Migs
• Sub Focus
• Taboo (from the black eyed peas)
• The Cataracs

Pledging state-of-the-art visuals and projections, intense choreographies by world class performers, pyrotechnics and interactive elements, the 1 World Music Festival will fuse the very best facets of music and dance into a perfect musical experience for its cosmopolitan audience. The Festival will bring in both the biggest names in music entertainment and the most exciting emerging talents as well. From Iggy Azalea’s rapping genius and Tinie Tempah’s breakthrough style to Yuna’s poignant melodies, these are the most addictive of musical styles and will hold audiences in absolute thrall.  The freshest musical innovations and its irresistible beats are set to meld with the visual delight of dancing light shows. DJs will spin the night out with sensational rhythms to move an invigorated crowd. If there is one show to attend this year, make this it.

Date: 20th & 21st September 2013

Time: 6pm till late

Venue: Marina Barrage

Details and ticketing at www.1worldfest.com.

Purchase now for early bird offers.

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Also thanking Singapore Airlines, Singapore Tourism Board and Stratworks and all the Rev and Rave partners for making this all possible. I go to Singapore over and over again to cover the F1 race here and so far, I can say, this is the best year for me ever! I was surprised because I thought they will only give me walkabout tickets. But, when I dropped by Swissotel to pick up my tickets, I almost fainted seeing that my F1 passes are for the Stamford Grandstand! It costs around SGD 898 (Php 30,000). I love the fact that I would be able to take more photos of the F1 cars at a different angle. I help the F1 fans and my readers choose the best seats for them and right now, I can comment about the Stamford Grandstand as well!

Here are the photos of Day one with quick descriptions if you click on the picture.

*photographed using Nikon D40 and 70-300mm G Nikkor lens (yes, I photograph using a manual lens) 😀

My tickets! This time I’m seated on the Stamford Grandstand worth SGD 898 (PHP 30,000)

c/o Globe Philippines worth SGD 598 (PHP 20,000)

Accidentally found a nice church somewhere.

Missy Elliot

And these are my Stamford Grandstand tickets ^_^

Thank you Singapore Tourism Board

Had a hard time untying and tying these back on Airport inspection lol

Thank You Singapore Airlines for the best flying experience ever!

Here’s the rest of my F1 photos for this day. Feel free to scroll left and right 🙂

1.  Mark Webber

2.  Fernando Alonzo

3.  Sebastian Vettel

4.  Michael Schumacher

5.  Jensen Button

6.  Filipe Massa

7.  Adrian Sutil

8.  Robert Kubica

9.  Reubens Barichello

10. Jaime Alguersuari

As you can see Mark Webber dominated the race the entire time.  From second pole position to retirement is what happened to the unfortunate Lewis Hamilton for this race.

Fernando Alonzo always does a good job every time he’s racing on his hometown and he garnered second! Woohoo!!!

AND!!!

SHCUMI finally improved!!! 🙂 This is his best performance so far and I still am waiting for a super comeback… C’mon Shcumi, you can do it! 🙂

Nico Rosberg though is nowhere to be found in the top 10 :(  This was because his right break at the front had a little bit of fire… Awww… he was doing so well…

Anyway, that’s it for now… next up is the Grand Monaco on May 16 8pm (Manila time)

Monaco!!! is the most luxurious city for the race… I would love to witness F1 here… for now, it’s in my dreams… In 3 years, I’ll be there!

Anyway, to sum it all up here is the F1 2010 Sepang Grand Prix Malaysia Grid for tomorrow.  Notice that Mark Webber got the pole position for Red Bull – Renault and Nico Rosberg got the Second spot on the grid for Mercedes, leaving Schumacher a bit behind on 8th place.  Still, not bad… but by now, we all think Schumi’s performance will improve and to think that he is the “Rain Master” in F1, he did not shine at all this time.  We’ll see tomorrow if he scores it up for Mercedes.

 

source: F1 Fanatic blog

*All pictures are copyrighted and property of flaircandy.com. Pictures can be grabbed with the author’s permission and credits to my site flaircandy.com. All pictures in this article are taken by Nikon D40 kit lens and 70-300mm Nikkor G.  If you want to see specs of the picture, kindly click on it to be directed to my Flickr page and view exif data.

I was browsing through my pictures and I realized that I have not uploaded all of the pictures from the 2009 Singapore Formula 1 night race.  Last year, I still had a day job and I was too busy to upload the pictures and blog.  When I was in Singapore, I did not have the liberty to touch my computer and update my blog all the time which is sad but you know why…

Anyway, to those who are going to this year’s Singapore Formula 1 then good luck guys and I envy you… Michael Schumacher will be there!!!  Oh, I love F1… I’m still working my way to be the first female driver in the Formula 1… time will come lol 😀

 

This is Lewis Hamilton walking around the Singapore F1 Track.  In this picture, you can only see a part of his leg and arm… I wasn’t able to get a good picture that was because I was so STARSTRUCK like I just **froze** there for like 5 seconds **faints**

I also saw Jensen Button cycling around the track but he was cycling to fast I wasn’t able to take pictures 😀

Day 1 – Singapore F1 Practice

September 25, 2009

I was seated at the Bay Grandstand yellow seats Row 6 Seat 26.  I took advantage of the special password given to me for booking.  It was too damn hot… This picture was taken at around 3pm and there were not much people but the sun is still hot!!! Make sure to apply sun block!  I swear, I would have wanted to walk around the track on a bikini – that’s how hot it is!

I tried to stroll around the Bay Grandstand area to look and search around for the best seats in the Bay Grandstand area.  This picture was taken at the super top seats in the Bay Grandstand Area. After checking the entire place, I would say that the best seats would have to be in the left most part (facing the track) on the Dark Green seats of the Bay Grandstand area.  I will blog about where to position yourselves nicely and what best ticket seats to buy for the Bay Grandstand area so please visit my blog often to get updated.

This is practice Friday and you can see Giancarlo Fisichella driving the Ferrari F1 car.  You can distinguish between Fisichella and Kimi Raikkonen based on the stickers behind their helmets.  The orange sticker is Fisichella, the yellow is Kimi.

We had a nice view of the Singapore Flyer by our side while the race is going.

This is the view from the top-left most part of the Bay Grandstand Area.  You will see a nice view of Singapore river and the skyscrapers 🙂

Bay Grandstand Tickets

Romain Grosiean of Renault had an accident on the practice day.  He bumped into the wall where we were at 😛

This is Reubens Barichello of Brawn GP.

I also had a good shot of Renault’s F1 car 🙂

Day 2 – Singapore F1 Qualifying

September 26, 2009

Red Bull F1 Car at the Singapore F1 GP Night Race 2009

Brawn GP F1 Car at the Singapore F1 GP Night Race 2009

This is probably the best panning shot I ever had… too bad there were grills 🙁

 

Force India F1 Car at the Singapore F1 GP Night Race 2009

Kimi Raikkonen – Ferarri F1 Car at the Singapore F1 GP Night Race 2009

Giancarlo Fisichella – Ferarri F1 Car at the Singapore F1 GP Night Race 2009

F1 Fans and the Singapore Flyer

Dusk and the Formula 1 Fans are ready for action!

Cute F1 Mascot

The moon and the beautiful shaped sky

Pink and Blue cotton candy skies at the Singapore F1 night race

Day 3 – Singapore F1 Race Day

September 27, 2009

I need to put these pictures on Thumbnail because there’s too many.  If you want to see a larger version, kindly click on the picture 🙂

The album includes:

• An almost close-up picture of the F1 Drivers (all of them)
• Portrait shots of spectators using my 70-300mm lens
• Aston Martin Cup cars

I did not take any more pictures of the F1 cars as I was concentrating on the race itself as well :)  I was just on guard if ever there will be a crash in front of us or whatever but good news, no major accident… so there you go…

Pitstop and Portrait Pictures

Please also check out the Singapore F1 pitstop pictures I took and the pictures of spectators.  I really enjoyed taking these photos using my Nikon D40 kit and 70-300mm nikkor lens 🙂

• pitstop pictures
• spectator pictures