I remembered in 1997 as an overseas student in RMIT Melbourne, the first ever Melbourne F1 Grand Prix came to town. It was held at Albert Park a big lake park on the other side of the Yarra River. On the first day of the trials, the car engines can be heard as far as Flemington & Parkville (near the vicinity of Melbourne Uni). I was staying at North Melbourne then and can hear the engines roaring like mosquitos (eeeehhh…ehhhhh..). F1 created lots of excitement for Melbourne and the then premiere of Victoria, Jeff Kennett managed to lure them. Adelaide, traditionally was the only city that had F1 Race but due to unpredictable weather of South Australia, makes Melbourne a perfect place for F1 car races. Now Melbourne is truly and exciting city since 1995. The Australian Open (Tennis) opens there, The F1 GrandPrix races there and the Largest ca_i_ o (oops) IR in the southern hemisphere, CROWN CASINO, is there. World Class airport. Voted Most liveable city etc etc.
Lets hope this IR and F1 thing can bring something positive to singaporeans, If not ……..Cheesebun liao…..
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Singapore F1 Grand Prix Route – a view from the top
May 14th, 2007
If you manage to get your hands on a copy of TODAYonline, you will see this.
This is a map shown the best F1 views in town, briefly there’s a couple of locations where fans can and get up close and personally in the race; mainly there’s the Pandang (20K-25K seats), at the Marina Bay(23k seats) and the Marina Channel (15K-20K seats, this is also where the finish line and pitstop will be)
Personally I would go for those seats at the Marina Channel, I love to caught the action in the pit stop and the F1 babes. (who doesn’t? 
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For those with wings, here’s another view I googled up for you.
My sources tell me that the first rate will start in August 08, so make yourself available during that period, you won’t want to miss the first race! Even better book a hotel room!
Source from singeo.com.sg & TODAYonline.
- extracted from http://www.internetfamous.net/2007/singapore-f1-grand-prix-route.html
