F1 season

last SG · 2008-09-19T10:38:36+00:00

Route diversions will probably follow that for NDP Padang road closure... MESSy... haizI understand the diversion notice of SBST.Dont understand a single thi...

SBS2695H SG

SBS 0844 H on Service 195

SBS 3784 C on Service 097

SBS 0105 H on Service 057

SBS 9578 S on Service 010

PH 2298 M on SMRT operated Free Bridging Bus Service

TIB 563 A on Service 961

service_238 SG

Is this Nicoll Highway?

Simple_boi SG

SBS 0844 H on Service 195

SBS 3784 C on Service 097

SBS 0105 H on Service 057

SBS 9578 S on Service 010

PH 2298 M on SMRT operated Free Bridging Bus Service

TIB 563 A on Service 961

Don't get it why you like to oppose the sunlight direction.

From City Hall
SBS2625K on Sv 162

SBS9481L on Sv10

From Chinatown, China Square
SBS505L on Sv57

SBS988B on Sv 70

ngjy22 SG

Is this Nicoll Highway?

River Valley Road

TIB1062Y SG

F1! F1! Practice sessions 1 and 2!!! the review by ZYX.

F1 cars are loud. Esp when the whole area is bounded by large tall buildings, the sound is really amplified.. Imagine u are walking in Marina Square shopping ( i mean i was) then suddenly vroom vroom. Strongly encouraged to go shopping with f1 cars. very adrenalin pumping experince. Sculi overbuy when shopping coz of the adrenaline pumping. lol

Bring along ur ear plugs.

I noticed at Suntec - Marina Sq bridge they allow public to watch f1. Just go there stand n wear the ear plug. At this point cars hurtle down the track at 330km/h. Not a good place to be as cars are revving at full pitch. very very loud. and they go so fast all u see is streaks of whites and blue and the red (Ferrari). This part of the track is the longest most straight point so the F1 drivers will want to really full throttle it down this stretch.

i mean seriusoly, it is so fast, you can see the road asphalt being kicked up by some of the cars and when they go by a stream of road particles fly up and get illuminated by the seriusoly expensive flood lights!

Streategy in play:
Straight down Towards Nicholl HW
Everyone bank right so as to have a wider turning path and to keep speed high while making the turn (less braking). Noticed ferrari once kept to the left instead of right of road and slow down considerably, maybe the driver try a super slow but less turning path at turn 6. wonder if that was the lap that clocked best time I suppsoe the driver was like thinking with lesser path travelled but at two-thirds of the speed while making turn, maybe can overtake someone / or compelte the lap in less time. Reckon at turn 6 one can actually do overtaking!! reckon on Sunday Ferrari will be seen gg inner lane then jump some poor white car.lol

Turn 6:
Another public watch point is turn 6. the Nicholl HW turn. there u can enjoy sounds of cars braking and the pstons pumping as they brake . Then hear them accelerate off/ At turn 6 u can enjoy the accleration power and braking power of a F1 car.

Watch out for ferrari in bright red, easiest to know is ferrari because bright red. lol.

PS:One of the hotels have a projection laser lights showing welcome to Singapore f1 night race.

ZYX

Hmmm... Its loudness is up to 130 dB... No ear plug = jia liak unless you are so getting used to hear it until you season liao.. Lolx..

As for projection laser lights showing "welcome to Singapore F1 night race", is it this place that you saw it?

The lazer wordings are even more harder to capture than Scania K230UB ones.. Even if I increase set my shuttle speed (1/40 sec or slower) and compansate it with apreture value adjustment, part of the words will still be cut off... If don't compansate it, then it will be overexposed for my shots..

^tamago^ SG

will all buses resume their usual route tomorrow?

for most Shenton Way services, it will only resume on Tuesday.

TIB1224Y SG

Fastest speed was about 289+ km/h recorded.

Yes it was a nice experience... Did not check out much of the shuttles, but 1176C and 1220H were some of them...

Heard 40 buses from all three depots.

Apex-LW'21 SG

PA7992X (the bus plus) did the bridging bus service on its 1st day

ftjj0298 SG

Wow! This is what I call 'MRT on the roads'. BTW, Alonso won the F1 Race.

SBS2695H SG

Don't get it why you like to oppose the sunlight direction.

That means I should have stood on the other side of the road?

Oceane SG

I think the thing which gave me the most interest in was not the cars itself...

...its that the Lavender & Kallang F1 shuttle buses (using Volvo B9TLs) had their own timesheets, service numbers and duty codes. Lol.

TWS4793 SG

That means I should have stood on the other side of the road?

I believe that you're standing over at one point of North Bridge Road before City Hall MRT Station, the side nearer to the F1 track.

YES, that was what he meant. You'd most probably had not done any homework by looking up at the map, which can actually help you plan where it's most feasible to take. Actually I think it doesn't kill to bring along a map for bus spottings.

Take a look (I chose the location based on my experience with the area - simply remembered it since Funan DigitalLife Mall is just nearby):

SBS 0569C on Service 124

Scania SG

f1 car photo taking?! @ Suntec Ctiy bridge?!!

Wow, those cars are going at 330lm/h, so fast and its at night. How do i get a pic of my Ferrari then? Heres how i did it.

First of all, u'll need ear plugs. As most of the time you'll end up be sticking your fingers into your ears and you can hardly snap any pic. So Lets stuff those ear plugs into our ears first.

The follwing applies to DSLR camera users For those with DSLR, you'll have absoultely no problems getting your shot. But u'd have to have a fast finger for that DSLR shoot button. zoom tiak tiak tiak ( three shot tap) is how it works. try a few shots to see how fast ur DSLR can react. shd be dang fast. and u'll do fine Settings can refer below. Belwo is for compact camera users like me,

For compact camera users , first thing to do is go to your shutter burst mode. At this mode, Your camera essentially can shoot many pics at one go. Under M settings play around with your ISO to get a highest shutter setting. At there u can go up to shutter 1/500 with ISO 400 (grainy pic is inevitable). I left my aperature at F/2.6
For DSLR users, i was advised that u shd try f stop 6 or 7 for typial night shooting of fast moving objects.

After that is a matter of using ur ears, detect the car coming and just hold the shoot button for at last 5 seconds and the camera will just go tiak tiak X14 shots If u r lucky the F1 car u want will appear in the middle of your shot. lol. its a game of lottery for compact users. But good news is practice laps are usually done many times so u'd have many many chances to get the shot.

And one shot shooting (normal shooting) will not work. because compact cameras react slow. so the advice here is to use shutter burst. I shoot at about 1 sec before F1 car appear. Watch ur compact camera screen as u shutter burst, you can see the car appear on screen if u success.

yup thats how i did it. u guys try it too.

ZYX

You wrong spot lah, Suntec not exciting, must go somewhere where the cars are at low speed, Suntec all the cars just speed through, can't really see which team.

ZYX2005 SG

You wrong spot lah, Suntec not exciting, must go somewhere where the cars are at low speed, Suntec all the cars just speed through, can't really see which team.

i had mentioned turn 6 in my post. it was reported wrongly. it is turn 7. at turn 6 is where cars go around 280 km/h, urn 6 also mans near millenia walk there. I meant turn 7 at nicholl HW there.

i went turn 7 to se the cars slow down and then pick up on speed. thats where u can hear the cars braking n acclerating. a good mix of sounds.

ZYX

ZYX2005 SG

Buses under f1 floodlights

Reported in the media that F1 cars uner the lights are shiny and nice.

It seems the same for buses as well. Do try a few shots before they remove the strucutres and lights.

I will make it a point on f1 season that when they test the lights a few days before hand the race, one should go down to the f1 circuit n shoot buses in the lights.

ZYX

kitoshizc SG

Apparently some buses (Svc 130 and Svc 57) were seen plying the diverted routes via middle road and north bridge road even after the roads were open today again.

nenepokey SG

Apparently some buses (Svc 130 and Svc 57) were seen plying the diverted routes via middle road and north bridge road even after the roads were open today again.

not sure for SBST, but for SMRT route diversion is until 2 Oct, which is Thursday.

SBS n SMRT SG

Massa loses......sad

sbst275 SG

dunno... SMRT svs still 'affected' by F1.. at NAC bus stop still dun have display of Sv 167, 171 & 700

by right it should be left w/ Sv 130, 195 & 961 affected cos of Coleman St area there

TIB1224Y SG

Massa loses......sad

Red cars go fast, but forgot the pipe.

Not the first time it seems.

This time is yellow car fastest...

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