Qualifying

We took the Monorail to Sentral where we picked up the Air Asia Skybus special to the Sepang circuit. The trip was pretty easy and we were entertained by our friends team T-Shirts that had Malasian GP (spelt incorrectly) on the back - Oops !

On arrival we we advised that no food or drink could enter, so downed a couple of litres of water before going in. We found out that this was a way to make you buy the overpriced rubbish they had inside. Or in our case, how we could come up with ideas to smuggle in the next day.

Charly enjoying the zoom zoom

At the main enterance we left our new friends to head around the other side of the track to our stand, this was trickier than expected as there was no direction or signs on where the shuttle buses run from, after asking, and getting blank expressions, from about 6 people who apparently worked there, we found our own way.

The stand had a good view of a number of corners and first on was Malaysian Super Series - a mixture of cars ranging from Ferraris, Lambos, Astons, Porches plus a random mix that even inclued a Fiat 500 Arbath, much to Charly's pleasure !! It was a 10 lap race that consisted of a car stalling at the start, another rear ending it, 7 laps with the safety car then 3 where one Lambo and one Porche had a little race of there own.

Little accident in the Super Series

After that we had a short break then the GP qualifying. That was when we really understood the necessity of the earplugs as the noise was intense. Unfortunately we only had one pair and I wore the noise reducing headphones, that are not made to reduce such loudness, but did manage to cut down the bleeding from my eardrums.

All in all it was pretty predictable, and Vettel cruised into Pole.

After, we headed back to the city which took about 2.5 hours and was very hungry so went straight out to food street and visited our favourite Chinese, yummy !

GP tomorrow, bring it on !

written by  chrischarly on April 9, 2011 from Sepang, Malaysia
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia
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