Date: 30th June 2007
Time: 0800hrs - 1800hrs
Venue: Sepang Pit Access Carpark

Janet and myself went for Tribe Toyota's Driving Dynamics course run by YS Khong & Family. It was a great event where we learn slalom, corner and braking techniques, understeer and oversteer, ABS and non-ABS collision avoidance in dry and wet condition!

Yes, it was a great learning experience coupled with loads of fun; generated by the good organization by Siti Aishah and the Tribe team and the "sporting" spirit showed by the participants!



Program details:

08.00am - Registration & Light refreshments @ Paddock Suite
09.00am - Word of Welcome by Master of Ceremony & Event briefing
09.30am - Introduction to Driving Dynamics
12.45pm - Lunch @ Paddock Suite
01.30pm - Continuation to Driving Dynamics
04.45pm - Slalom Competition
05.45pm - Prize Presentation
06.15pm - End

Photos and videos here: http://lancechee.multiply.com/tag/driving%20dynamics%2007

Saw a lot of Singapore registered cars having a track day at Sepang track last weekend. While taking photos of the "fun", I thought to myself, why are there no Malaysia registered cars on track?

Well, a few things came into mind...
1. Expensive to buy those nice cars - government policy
2. Expensive to maintain those nice cars - same as #1
3. Expensive track charges - international price perhaps? Not meant for majority of Malaysians to enjoy motorsports unlike other countries...
4. etc

I feel sad...

More photos here: http://lancechee.multiply.com/photos/album/15

Finally finished loading all my media from last weekend's assignment (personal).

A bunch of us from the Photography Club were on our annual pilgrimage to Sepang for the Super GT Championship (Round 4). Our "leader", Dennis Woo gave us a plan where we will cover 2 days worth of event.

Day 1
We arrived during the qualifying session on Saturday (23/6/07) and went straight to "business". : )

Managed to shoot a couple of pan-shots; no flames this year! They are tough to catch! I like the activities at the pits (garage) as well. The engineers and team members show much dedication to their duties! <salute!>

At around 1pm, we lined up and joined the "Pit Walk". As we only had 45 minutes for this, the situation was tense and there's a sense of "rush" all the time. Funny thing was, we were too early - the garages were not ready for us yet and we "wasted" a couple of minutes before the racing queens showed up.

Nonetheless, I had a great time! The queens were very friendly and professional. Most of them pose well and gave each and every photographer some "personal time" to get their shots. <kudos!> As Dennis mentioned before, SuperGT Queens are the best way to get introduced into Portrait Photography - these ladies sure know how to pose and show their best side!

After the "Pit Walk", most of us decided to go off early. From past years, we have learned NOT to drain our energy too early in the event. Some of us stayed back to cover other motorsports event that were held.

Day 2
Arrived slightly later than yesterday; already the whole Sepang track area is BUSY. Buses here and there, car parks were full and most people have to walk at least 1km to the grandstand! It's especially tiring if you're carrying equipment and "rush" - late late late!

I missed the warm-up session and decided to meet up with the rest of the gang. We consolidated our 4R prints in order to ensure higher success rate in getting the queen's signatures during Pit Walk.

Pit Walk was crazy! The amount of people were tripled! Sunday is NOT a day you can get good portraits done easily. Fortunately, most of us were only after the queens signatures! I love the look in the queens' eyes when they see their photos from the previous day; most will be happy to autograph the photos, but there are some queens which were stopped from doing this by their managers! I don't understand why... <angry!>

Later in the day, a few of us joined the starting grid formation event. This is something I'll never forget!

Drivers and engineers were busy putting finishing touches to their machines while the queens were busy posing and answering questions from the media - Japanese journalist mostly! Ha ha ha, me no speak er no Japanese... sorry.

I must say that the starting grid formation event (albeit only 20 minutes) is the HIGHLIGHT of the whole 2 days! I really appreciate the chance to cover this.

Went home early to avoid the post-race mad-rush!
Grateful to all my friends for their help and taking photos of us photogs!



Here's the links to some of the media available:
Photos & videos here: http://lancechee.multiply.com/tag/super%20gt%202007

My Super GT Photos from 2006: http://lance.fotopages.com/?entry=845734

Here are links to more photo galleries featuring Super GT 2007!