Batmobile on display at British GP. Photo via jalopnik.com

Team Toyota has joined forces with Warner Brothers Pictures. Oh god no, there’s no Joker on the F1 circuit for Batman to hunt, but more of a promotional gimmick

With the release of Batman movie, the seventh installment if I’m not wrong, being that British F1 is in the same week as the movie release, the two signed a deal

Toyota will sport Batman artwork on both their Toyota’s TF108’s cars and also on Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock’s overalls

Fans at the GP also will get to see Batmobile and Bat-Pod vehicles, which is currently being on displayed there

There was a demonstration of TF108 with Batmobile yesterday

After the end of this F1 season, David Coulthard will retire from driving. He would still be involved in behind the scenes work of testing and developing with the Red Bull team

Will it be a swansong season for Red Bull’s David Coulthard? I hopefully do as I’ve always love how the Scot bring his certain unique of driving panache to the F1 scene

David Coulthard started his F1 career at age of 23 years old back in 1994. He is lies fourth on the all-time scorers list of driver points from his long career in F1.

He has won thirteen grands prix, including two at Monaco, which made him the first British driver since Jackie Stewart to take victory there

Coulthard reason for retiring is “desire to stop while I am still competitive and enjoying the immense challenge that Grand Prix driving represents”. He will now seek other challenges leaving behind a great F1 legacy

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Map of F1 circuit road with affected roads closed

More than 100,000 people are expected to throng downtown Marina and Padang area as F1 hit town this coming September 26th to 28th.

All I can advise from prior crowded events in Singapore (not in this magnitude of course) and my F1 events, take the public transport, bring your sunblock, earplugs, wear light, put your cherished items at the hotel safe deposit and drink lots of water. Have patience too, as you’ll be elbow to elbow more likely

Well here are the list of streets with dates affected

1. September 20 to October 2: St Andrew’s Road and Connaught Drive
2. 23-30 September: Marina Centre
3. 26-28 September (F1 Race Week): Raffles Avenue, Republic Boulevard and Nicoll Highway will be pened from 5am to 9am
4. Free shuttle bus to race area: Via Bugis and Raffles City MRT stations
5. Recommended taxi drop off point: Suntec City

Well I was reading plenty of blog entries of people picking up their F1 tickets at a local blog aggregator Ping.sg and it got me wondering where is mine instead? Well it seems the email confirmation by Singapore GP Pte Ltd got into my spam inbox. How it got there, beats me.

Luckily I did a search on my gmail or I’ll kept on waiting for eons like a fool. I’m so excited now of course! Why must it be night time now, and the pickup facility close obviously, haiz. Well I can wait just a little bit longer. I’m picking it up tomorrow!

Well F1 people, if you have yet to get your tickets, maybe you’re in the same situation as me. Well I’m reproducing the confirmation F1 email below. Yours should be the same except for differences in confirmation number and perhaps the date of collection

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