McLaren Mercedes Merchandise, thanks to Lenovo Malaysia!

Having the chance to be one of few to experience what is it like to be in the garage of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 team was simply AWESOME !

All this were made possible by Lenovo Malaysia !

So a big big big thank you Lenovo Malaysia and also not forgetting Lenovo Singapore !

While i was still in a state of awe the days after that, i received an email again saying there’s a package for me and i decided to collect it on my own. I was given a bag filled with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Merchandise.

Ahhhh, damn nice can !

Since this experience was published in the papers, they took the liberty of putting the article in a transparent frame for me

I finally had the chance to try it out after being down having fever, sorethroat and cold for the past few days. Not the best representation but it’s better than nothing i guess

Thank You Lenovo Malaysia !

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 Garage Tour by Lenovo Malaysia

More than a week ago, i received an email from a representative from Lenovo asking me to block my Thursday as i was chosen to experience the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 Garage tour by Lenovo Malaysia. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to get close to this mean machines and also the team behind it. I was dumbstruck when i read the mail. I have attended F1 races a couple of times but never had i gone to the garage. Actually i did go to the garage once but that was during the Porshe Race a year back.

I was asked to be at the Lenovo office by 9.30am and upon arrival, i was greeted by Blake who brought me to the office pantry where everyone was having breakfast, Nasi Lemak. I was joined by 2 journalists, Brian aka Goldfries and the staffs of Lenovo including Mr Khoo who is the Country General Manager.

After breakfast, we moved to the conference room where we were all briefed by Mr Khoo on how Lenovo and McLaren Mercedes works together in F1. Last year, Lenovo pumped 2100 equipments into the team and redesigned their IT infrastructure. All these to help the team have more computing power as well as shorter time to process data that is being sent to and from every split second.

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Flash Mob and the Stig at Lotus F1 event, Pavillion

I had the privilege to be at the Lotus F1 Homecoming event yesterday which was held at the Pavillion Kuala Lumpur. It was the first time the F1 cars were unveiled to the country and everyone was there. Datuk Tony Fernandez who is the man behind the resurrection of Lotus F1 was unable to be there as he was in South Africa seeking for more sponsors, i think

Those attended were Former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir, CEO of Sepang Circuit, the Naza brothers, the Lotus F1 drivers, team principal.

This event also marks the entry of Maxis as one of their sponsors, hence the Maxis logo at the side of the car nose tips.

I met up with Biresh who is the PR, Marketing & Communications Manager of Tunehotels.com. He briefed on what was the agenda like and since i had more than half an hour to spare, i lingered around. Later on i met 2 more other invited guest, Mohd Zaid and Taylor Ling.

As it drew closer for the event to start, more and more people packed the center atrium to have a glimpse on what’s going on.

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Sepang F1 Circuit, Malaysia

The past few years i have been fortunate enough to find myself among the fans in the grandstand and last year, i was invited by Bernard. In 2009, Jenson Button and Brawn GP were making all the headlines in F1. Already being ditched by Honda before the 2009 season even started, no one, no one expected them to be in the position that they were at by the end of the season.

The Sepang Circuit notoriously known for it’s crazy weather change lived up to it’s nickname as the Hottest and Wettest F1 race amongst the circuit. You could have a blazing hot sun at the beginning of the race and a heavy downpour to end the race in style.

Having the race in the month of April which is the month where the wind changes around South East Asia, heavy downpour are very unpredictable, thus playing an important part in the race in terms of tires being used. I could remember how Ferrari were stuck with 2 cars in the pits years ago to change to wet tires but Schuey eventually won the race.

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OMFG, Kimi won !

Formula one couldn’t have had a better final race than this. Though i am a fan of Kimi, i never had much hope of him winning the title before the race. In fact, i told Lingster that if Kimi wins the title than he would be luckier than Schuey who beat Hakkinen in one of the races where Hakkinen was leading for the whole race but only for his car to break down a few hundreds of meter before the finishing line … and i thought i would never see anyone that lucky again.

Kimi
To be honest, Kimi probably could stir things up but i doubt he would win. Unless he gets first place, Hamilton gets either a 7th or 8th finishing while Alonso finishes worst than third placing which is a bit too much to ask.

That was what i wrote 2 weeks back -_-” Kimi needed that exact sequence and that’s what he got. He finished in first place, Alonso in third and Hamilton in seventh.

1	Kimi Räikkönen	Finnish	Ferrari	110
2	Lewis Hamilton	British	McLaren-Mercedes	109
3	Fernando Alonso	Spanish	McLaren-Mercedes	109

Hamilton will definitely be the one to be watched out in the years to come. Whatever it is, Kimi is finally crowned the champion

Now i can sleep soundly