Sepang

[wevster]

Great circuit, looking forward to this race

[Sandpit Steve]

Sponsor Gulf Air is about to launch flights from Bahrain to Kuala Lumpur. Convenient!

https://x.com/gulfair/status/2081483846634106902

[C69]

Good to have it back on the calendar.

Interestingly, half of the current drivers participated in the last F1 event to be held there nine years ago. Alonso, Bottas, Gasly, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, Ocon, Perez, Sainz, Stroll and Verstappen all competed in the race, while Leclerc got to drive in a free practice session.

[PhilAsia]

I would go just for the banana leaf curry opposite the closed market..., but the cars this season are dodgy as!

[INeedAHero]

I wonder if they have enough time to sell the tickets.

Schumi the best driver in the world and the best number 2 driver according to Eddie Irvine.

Schumacher comeback race in 1999 when he had broken his leg earlier in the year at Silverstone. He was at home, resting, when his boss, Luca De M called his house. Mick, his son answered and said Dad was playing football. Which made Luca realize he was not coming back to help unless he was strong armed into helping Irvine winning the championship.

Came back, helped Irvine move into first position whilst at the same time, holding the Mclarens back. Awesome race.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Had a fab time..even thought we only got 40 minutes of racing! (Hence my earlier post about a local time lunch time start is needed.)

Also tinged with sadness though, it's where we lost Marco.

[thegreenhell]

October is the start of monsoon season, I think.

[PhilAsia]

thegreenhell said:

October is the start of monsoon season, I think.

It is. Although KL has a tropical rainforest climate all year round, which makes rainfall a regular event.

[thegreenhell]

Extra seasonal rain in addition to the regular daily rain, then.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

thegreenhell said:

October is the start of monsoon season, I think.

We were there in March for 10 days. Every day at about 16.00 there were torrential storms.

When we were at the track our stand was struck.

[TheDeuce]

Imagine that - a tropical downpour at the Bahrain GP!

[PhilAsia]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

thegreenhell said:

October is the start of monsoon season, I think.

We were there in March for 10 days. Every day at about 16.00 there were torrential storms.

When we were at the track our stand was struck.

Yup, 4pm for about 30mins to an hour. And, as you say, torrential!!

...but warm

[PhilAsia]

thegreenhell said:

Extra seasonal rain in addition to the regular daily rain, then.

[Sandpit Steve]

PhilAsia said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

thegreenhell said:

October is the start of monsoon season, I think.

We were there in March for 10 days. Every day at about 16.00 there were torrential storms.

When we were at the track our stand was struck.

Yup, 4pm for about 30mins to an hour. And, as you say, torrential!!

...but warm

I remember that in Singapore, almost every afternoon you’d get a quick cloudburst, but thankfully the place was well set up to deal with floodwater as it happened all the time.

2009 was a memorable wet race in Sepang. Highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6uU1mHJToU (F1 content, won’t embed).

[AlmondGreen]

Seems like Malaysia is getting the race on the cheap. Apparently Bahrain is footing almost all the costs with Malaysia only paying around RM16m (USD 3.8m ) mainly to upgrade the track. The downside to this is Bahrain is setting the ticket prices, which means it will be a lot more expensive than it used to be. Still it’s a great circuit and I’ll definitely be there.

Edited by AlmondGreen on Thursday 30th July 13:58