F1 Night Race Singapore

The F1 Night Race - 2nd time to be held in Singaproe will be on 27 September 2009. Lewis Hamilton has qualified to take the Pole at this year's race. Happening this year, Renault Team was handed 2 year suspension after they were found guilty of asking Piquet to crash his vehicle on the race day. With the economy just recovering, ticket sales was at 95%. Not too bad. A concert with top artistes like Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, etc... may have been the crowd puller. The News is in.... Lewis Hamilton came in 1st for the 2nd Night Race in Singapore. He led all the way from the start ahead of 2nd by about 9 seconds.

After finishing 5th in the Brazil Grand Prix on Sunday 2 November 2008, Lewis Hamilton was crowned Formula One champion. Lewis Hamilton, the McLaren driver became the youngest ever champion in Formula One history and the first Briton to take the title since Damon Hill in 1996.

This is going to be piece of history of F1 in Singapore held on 28 September 2008. Singapore Grand Prix or Singapore GP is the alternative name of this F1 Night Race. It is the 1st Night Race in the WORLD!. Yes! The roads involved in this F1 Night Race has been going through some redesign and resurfacing to accommodate this race of the year. To the Singapore Government, this is a major tourist attraction of the year, one way to generate revenue for the city state. The have already spent well over $100 million for this event.

Tour packages for the race are out for grabs. Ranging from SIN$4,000 for 2 to as high as $11,000 for 2.... and I think there are higher priced packages. It comes with F1 race tickets, air fare and 3 night of hotel stay. You can get more information from various singapore hotels websites, I am sure you can get better deals at some hotels. Newspaper reported that some are looking into hotel accommodation in Johor Bahru which is just over the causeway. That is about an hour away from Singapore city area where the F1 Night Race will be staged.

If you can plan for your own tickets and air fare.... which are quite standard items... but hotels in Singapore are charging almost 3 times the regular price for one night stay. The price can range from SIN$250 and above. Hotels are also offering certain attractive packages just for the races. Over the news, some F1 Race enthusiasts have resorted to Budget hotels like Hotel 81, Fragrance Hotel, or even backpackers hotels which charge about $30 to $40 a day. Those hotel rooms which are very near the race tracks will definitely cost extremely high.

For the moment.... now to test the F1 Night Race in Singapore. The following may be here as this race. Kimi Raikkonen & Felipe Massa (Ferrari), Lewis Hamilton & Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren-Mercedes), Robert Kubica & Nick BMW Sauber), Fernando Alonso & Nelson Piquet Jr (Renault), Jarno Trulli & TImo Glock (Toyota), Sebastian Bourdais & Sebastian Vettel (Toro Rosso), David Coulthard & Mark Webber (Red Bull), Jenson Button & Rubens Barrichello (Honda), Nico Rosberg & Kazuki Nakajima (Williams), Adrian Sutil & Giancarlo Fisichella (Force India), Tamuma Sato & Anthony Davidson (Super Aguri)....they should be here .

The schedule for the race is as follows... 26 September will be Practice on the track. 27 September will have track practices and also the qualifying race. Then the grand finale on 28 September at 8.00pm Singapore time, the 1st F1 Night Race will be flagged off. It is going to be exciting!

This picture was captured at Royal Plaze on Scotts, one luxurious hotel along Scotts Road near Orchard Road. They had a F1 Race Car made of Chocolate, taking 51 days to prepare and assemble. It's made of 31Kg of White Chocolate, 45Kg of Milk Chocolate and 14Kg of Dark Chocolate. This is one of many ways hotels are creating the atmosphere for F1 Race in Singapore. There is a contest and there are prizes to be won too!

Just found out that for business, a few shows are in town. The Singapore MotorShow 2008 at SUNTEC City Convention Centre, and the Luxury Jet Show at Seletar Air Base..