Eric Tan | seventh heaven

So, 4 of us woke up at 6am on that morning to Silverstone, it was all because Joey said the race starts at 8:30am and if we couldn’t get there on time, we will miss a hell lot of things. It will take 1 hour and 10 minutes to the circuit, according to my GPS, and we left Benji’s around 7.

However, things don’t always go as planned. We stopped twice during such a short journey. First we stopped for our breakfast because we were starving, the second stop was because of the breakfast we had. We arrived at the circuit almost 1 hour later than we planned. Some of the proud Ferrari owners (note their private number plate that could worth as much as the car) were just arriving to participate the parade, so we were not too late, I suppose.

We could hear the roaring engines while we were looking for parking spaces. My heart beats twice the normal pace when I heard the roars, I love Ferrari!

We were lucky because we were not too late, it was the practice laps for the FXX. I manage to get a few pictures of them flying in front of me.

Then we quickly proceed to the grand stand because the F430 race was about to begin, I didn’t want to miss the start. The start was amazing! Imagine 20 something modified F430 roaring together just 20 metres in front of you, I almost deaf, I’m not bluffing.

And lucky us (?), we witnessed a very exciting (??) accident at the beginning of the race. We were so exciting and focus on the accident that we forgot to take photo, well, nobody gets hurt, even after a few 360 degree spins and nearly hit the walls, the drivers managed to get away and continue the race, what a skill!

I never so hate fence before, we snapped a lot but we couldn’t get decent one because of the bloody fence in front of us, and I only have a 18-70mm lens [sob sob]. We proceed to hunt for babes and sexy cars since the race was getting boring, really boring, and the fence really pissed me off.

This is a boring chapter, cause there are nothing much to show, but I promise to show you some interesting photos in the next chapters, stay tuned

Tags: Ferrari, Silverstone