Yes this is delayed post. Was burnt out on Sunday night after spending the day at Albert Park, and of course the net was down on Monday. It's still really slow right now but what can you do?
So how was Sunday? Besides being intolerably hot of course. I'm guessing Mother Nature finally decided to give us some weather she'd been holding back from Summer. I'm not laughing. I want my cold weather back. Now.
Back to Sunday. No one from RMIT was in any bit keen to leg it over to watch the race, so it was just Johnny and his harem coming down from one Monash campus, and Shawn from another. Oh and for those out there who know and love Johnny, he's in good hands. Apparently the girls have been feeding him regularly so he's nice and plump. So as promised here he is with his new haircut from hell.
Back to Sunday. No one from RMIT was in any bit keen to leg it over to watch the race, so it was just Johnny and his harem coming down from one Monash campus, and Shawn from another. Oh and for those out there who know and love Johnny, he's in good hands. Apparently the girls have been feeding him regularly so he's nice and plump. So as promised here he is with his new haircut from hell.
Oops a little too slow. Nevermind I'll just...
catch him unawares :D
So off we went to the track, 5 of us in total (excluding Shawn who was already there). Johnny and the girls (who insists on calling him 'JohnJohn' and go into excited giggles whenever I call him Johnny). Sarah, Nancy and HuiTing. Yepp I think I got the names right. Had to double check at the end. I was never good at names.
Albert Park was packed and most people had come prepared with beach chairs and picnic mats. The early birds were clustered at choice spots beside the track and we were lucky to find a spot on a slight hill across from the decidedly small Jumbotron screen.
Albert Park was packed and most people had come prepared with beach chairs and picnic mats. The early birds were clustered at choice spots beside the track and we were lucky to find a spot on a slight hill across from the decidedly small Jumbotron screen.
Of course there were some who were more interested in taking a nap on the grass in the sun rather than staring out at the track but with the temperature as it was, who could blame them? Besides, the real action wasn't starting till 5pm and it was barely 2pm when we reached. The girls went off in search of refreshment while Shawn and Johnny seemed more interested in finding some pit babes and grid girls to snap photos with. Of course with Johnny, that refers to taking photos with babe in picture, while with Shawn, it's more a matter of snapping them unawares. I shan't elaborate heh.
With the temperature showing no sign of abating, a walk around Albert Park was on the cards. There's this lake right smack in the middle of the grounds and they'd erected a long pontoon bridge right across it. It consisted of floating plastic blocks that were fun to bounce on. So you could practically bounce/flounce your way across. On the other side were lots and lots of cars on display. From modern Lamborghinis and Ferraris to classic hotrods, they had it all. In fact, I noticed a vintage car being driven back on the roads after the race so that was really something.Shawn was basically taking pictures of every single car. His reasoning? He'd borrowed the camera off a friend so he was going to make good use of it. And what do you do with a hundred pictures of different cars, I wonder. He's not exactly a car nut. Here are a few anyway just to let you guys have an idea of what was going on there.
The racing wasn't bad in general. It was just so lopsided. There was Jenson Button, racing away at every opportunity and then the rest of the field fighting among themselves. Sure there were one or two safety car deployments which forced the field to bunch up again but once the yellow flags were retrieved, off Button went again. Webber, once again was terribly unlucky in his home race, Barrichello extremely fortunate to be invoved in two accidents and yet fare better that the other cars he was involved with, and Hamilton driving really lousily in a car that was not up to scratch but yet still snagging third place. Unbelievable.
There was much talk before the race about this being a twilight event, but honestly that probably only came into play in the last two laps or so and it wasn't too much of a different spectacle really. Though it did make for some really nice photos.Near the end, the Jumbotron was warning people not to spill onto the track while the cars were still racing. Why anyone would even consider doing such a stupid thing, I have no idea. But once the cars were past the chequered flag and Button had driven past on his victory lap, everyone made a beeline for the track.
I saw some dudes bending down to 
pick up pebbles and hastily shoving them in the side of backpacks as souvenirs but nothing topped a particular guy who probably decided to go for broke. Here he is on the left. Brazen eh? Me, I took a simple photo on the track as a memento. Nothing too drastic unlike Johnny who was photographed kissing the track. Shawn and Nancy got left behind but that story's probably for another day's telling.
pick up pebbles and hastily shoving them in the side of backpacks as souvenirs but nothing topped a particular guy who probably decided to go for broke. Here he is on the left. Brazen eh? Me, I took a simple photo on the track as a memento. Nothing too drastic unlike Johnny who was photographed kissing the track. Shawn and Nancy got left behind but that story's probably for another day's telling.
Melbourne Grand Prix '09
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