A1GP Sepang Night Race on Nov 20th?
A1GP Malaysian round will...
race at night in Sepang International Circuit on 20th Nov?According to an exclusive scoop by Pitpass, a high level source has confirmed that round 5 of the inaugural A1GP will be held in Malaysia's Sepang International circuit at night with both the Sprint race and the Feature race to be run from 8.00pm Malaysian time.
The source said that "It would be amazing to watch..." And no doubt the Malaysian fans will turn up in force to cheer their team on.
There are the elements of the cars' batteries and circuit lighting to be worked on but Sepang is not new to night racing having run the 12 hour Merdeka Millenium Endurance races a number of years.
Night racing is also not new to top level single seater racing with both the IRL and ChampCars having done that in America.
Definitely too, for the fans, it will be much cooler to watch than in the heat of the often 40 degrees Celsius afternoon Malaysian raceday.
Strangely though till now, the Sepang circuit has made no announcements of ticket prices with only a little over a month to the event.
Racing for Malaysia do hope that with this Pitpass scoop and this follow up more Malaysian fans will be informed and make plans well ahead of the 18-20 Nov weekend for the first ever "World Cup of Motorsports" on Malaysian soil.
With the Malaysian team comprising Alex Yoong and Fairuz Fauzy doing well in the opening two rounds, this is too good to be missed.
- Max Revson
posted by Journeyman at 1:04 PM
9 Comments:
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That's crazy. Sepang does not have enough lighting for a night race. And there's no way the A1 cars can be modified to use headlights!
no lights make for better racing for the spectators, no? kidding!
we shall see. in any case we know sepang will do its level best to make it great.
racing at night? that would be a 1st other than the endurance race. I don't remember seeing any flood lights on the track, other than the one at the start/stop straight.
It'll be nice to see those cars racing in the dark!
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personally, I don't think racing open wheel cars at night is a good idea apart from having a novelty effect and benefitting european TV viewers. I don't think it is safe as the viewing range is limited, and for spectators... well let's just say that Monday morning is a tough waking up.
Can it be possible that Team Malaysia will have a better home ground advantage with a night race?
Britain was fast in Brands and Scheider was fast in Lausitz, no?
Ok what at night. Since the malaysian drivers are very familiar with the circuit. So they surely can make a good end in the night races! I'm positive! (:
Night racing is very interesting, would be fun but again, how will we the spectators be able to see clearly and also how will the drivers be able to see. If that is resolved then why not! It will be great fun ...
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