Seen.By.Ice.Queen: coming to my senses

The Thunder Asia Mosler Racing Team, featuring Singapore's own Melvin Choo, and ­Martin Short who was co-driving the Mosler MT900R, had an eventful weekend at th­e Super GT Round 4, held in Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia from June 1­9th to 21st, 2009. The debut of the team at the Round 4 race finished at a respe­ctable 13th position despite mechanical failures due to the heat.

Prior to the big race, I had the honor of a private tete-a-tete with Melvin Choo, checking out the machine itself and also meeting the Race Queens, Nana-chan and Yu-king.

Here's the 1-on-1 with Melvin Choo:

The Race Queens say their Hellos to Singapore:


And I got to pick up some trivial while chatting with Melvin as well. Did you know that...

There is no air conditioning in the race cars
Despite the thick race suits that these race car drivers have to don for the rac­e, there is no airconditioning in the race cars because air-con sucks too much e­nergy from the automobil and adds unnecessary weight to the machine.

Race car drivers lose weight and height after each race.
Due to the intense heat in these speed machine, race car drivers lose alot of wa­ter after each race, hence contributing to the weight loss.

Being strapped down so tightly in their seats causes spine compression that resu­lt in height loss of up to a couple of inches after each race. Thankfully, the s­pine resumes it's 'suspension' and the height loss is only temporary.

Anyways, I do hope to be able to be at one of these races some day. Maybe I can go hang out with the boys when they practice as well. Sponsorship anyone? :)