By Jay Paloma

I thought seeing practice sessions during the first two days was exciting enough…to have seen Formula 1 machinery and hearing internal combustion engines at their peak. It was NOTHING compared with the excitement and mayhem at the start of the race.

In practice sessions, no one was actually up against each other…it was every car and team for themselves. One would be lucky enough to have seen 2 to 3 cars on the same place at the same time. But 20 cars passing the same area in a little over than 10 seconds was simply indescribable!

Maybe the medical community should confirm if adrenalin levels in the bloodstream are directly proportional to the decibel levels picked up by the ear.

You wished you were here at the starting line of the F1 Grand Prix race in Singapore? Wish granted, or let’s just say, “Watch this video” that I took.

Here’s Day 1 Practice Session. This is Turn 13, just off Anderson Bridge here in Singapore.

After seeing the F1 map, and noticing that Turn 13 is a tight left turn from a 10-meter wide Anderson Bridge to Esplanade Drive, I knew that the race cars would run slow in this section. The fact that the cars are facing the walkabout area before making that left turn makes it a perfect spot to take pictures and a video.