Finally blogging about the F1 event that we went 2 months back!
It was a gift for the boy for our 8th anniversary! He always wanted to attend one of these races, and with maroon 5 concert appearances, that gave me more reason to purchase! Not that we were much of maroon 5 fans, but we always think their songs are quite catchy and nice.
So the day came for us to collect our tickets! Queue was long but moving really fast so we were done in less than half an hour.
And 2 days later we headed to Padang! We got Zone 4 walkabouts tickets so we can walk around Zone 4 having different glimpses of the passing race cars. And to be honest, they were so fast you can barely take a proper photo of it unless you have a mega zai DSLR.
The area was really huge. Lots of merchandise and food booths were set up. But everything was so expensive! Just the tops are going at a range of $80-$100+. They are also selling umbrellas, caps, windbreakers and alot more.
It's like a big party going on with music and beers going around with food like fish and chips! The experience really felt very angmoh-ish!
We eventually succumbed and bought a cup of beer to cool us down. But I just took a sip and that's about it haha. It's $12 for 1! Not cheap at all lor. Haha.
There is this pit stop challenge where event-goers can try and see how fast they can change wheels. Not easy man.
So after awhile, we plopped ourselves at the Padang field to await for Maroon 5! We wanted to get good views so we were sitting there watching the races through the screens.
And when Maroon 5 came up, the crowd just scream lk nobody business and it became a standup concert really quickly. They performed for 1.5hrs and it was super high and amazing! Definitely enjoyed my first concert with a angmoh band haha. Thumbs up for the experience! (except for the fact that there might be some idiotic angmohs who went abit too crazy and stand throwing bottles?!, or sitting up on their friend's shoulders and blocking other people's view, and getting brushed by people with sweaty arms.)
We had a really smashing night! It's been a kind of experience but just once will do haha. Tickets are expensive but its the experience that counts. And it's been awhile since we were so happening we were home at 1am that night lol.
