Transit Sound of Smoke - New Years Eve 2006/7 at Sepang International Circuit
Well you can tell how good this event was, it took me 6 months to bring myself to look at the pictures and sort them out, upload them and blog about it.
Transit Sound of Smoke was quite possibly the worst rave to ever take place, it wasn't publicised - no one had heard of it and there was a massive one a few days earlier on the 29th at Sunway which everyone knew about (Velocity KL).
The official low down on the event was Transit: Sound Of Smoke @ Sepang International Circuit, KL - Cars, dance music, the great outdoors.
Yeah right? Dubbed as Malaysia’s first-ever high speed drifting event, Transit is the amalgamation of the Saturday Night Drift events held at the Speedway Plus Circuit Elite Highway.
Expect to see over 50 expert and 150 novice drivers burn some serious rubber on Sepang’s tracks.
The drift event begins at 3pm and was to carry on for 50 hours of non-stop music and drift as some kind of stupid record in the name of 50 years of independence, isn't that tune getting a little well worn?
We were planning to party to DJs Jungle Jerry, Groovedoctor, the lovely Desire, DJ Love and WllythKd as they took us on a musical drift with sounds ranging from deep sexy tribal house, progressive, melodic and hard trance and everything in between. (Source)
We were buzzin for a rave.
Check out the pumping crowd as we approached.
Looks fairly reasonable right?
Well it just got worse as we got closer..
There was only about 12 people there, so the whole partying on down thing didn't really happen.
Well seriously I'd say maybe 250-300 people...certainly not the billed 10,000.
We spent most of our time taking pictures....of each other taking pictures of each other, yeah something like that - there wasn't exactly a lot of photographic subjects.
BMW Sauber F1 Pit Lane Park & Paddock Lounge with Intel - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Intel kindly invited me to the BMW Sauber Paddock Lounge today for a cocktail party in the heart of KL, it's between the KL Mosque and Darby Park in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.
Basically the place is a mini F1 mockup with demonstrations of the various technologies involved in F1 racing.
It includes a mini-pitstop where you and your friends can race against the clock to change the tyres and refuel a real F1 car.
It also has some simulations and a mock-up of the F1 driver training area with some reaction testing equipment and weights.
I was there for a cocktail party with Intel, apparently Intel Core Duo is used in the computers controlling the F1 cars and helps to process the vast amounts of data that the cars churn out allowing the team to manage the car more effectively.
The party was fairly well populated with the usual suspects on show (X3, 6 series, 7 series and 5 series) plus journalists from most of the popular publications.
It was a really hot day, especially by the side of the mini track where they were having RC car racing.
And Joey G the Malaysian VJ was the emcee.
They shot a video of a professional dancer and edited the video live on a Core Duo powered machine to demonstrate the strength of the processor, 2 people were using the same computer at the same time with dual head monitor output on huge plasma TVs.
It was pretty impressive that the machine handled all the encoding and video editing without stuttering.
Timo Glock the BMW Sauber F1 test driver was there as the guest.
The best part was the guy on a massive kick-ass bike doing crazy stunts at high speeds, he was the man!
He started out with a front wheelie.
