Paddock Life

Shanghai International Circuit 2015 - Lamborghini Super Trofeo
-I was Imported-

Hardcore racers may feel the notion of a paddock-turned-gallery is a stupid notion. But in the arena of professional racing, marketing grabs onto every opportunity, remember, companies are paying huge amounts of money to compete and there's a good reason to do so, winning races has sold cars since our automotive beginnings.

Soaking under the hot sun in Sepang International Circuit, along with hundreds of racers, crews and media members.  Imagine, looking in from this dazzling big picture of every races by getting closer on how paddock life is?

First, we all love the media centre! That’s where you see the people getting busy for briefing or bustling along behind all media. However, the paddock is where the team meet race after race and it really a place where almost everyone knows the name of everyone else. 

Lamborghini Super Trofeo, MSS, S1K and etc etc seems huge and impenetrable but when a paddock pass or media pass beeps you into the middle of the circuit…its like entering a small community. A community that includes people from different races, background, mother tongue and all of whom come together to work as a team and race and race and race.

Some members of the race family will even cross over into lifelong friendships away from the track. After all, these are the people who are prepared to sit next to you on long-haul flights time and time again, are people who we often spend more time with than our actual families...

Everyone has a job to do but after many years of working in the sport, most people know each other so people are often nodding hello as they walk from place to place.

As the saying probably goes, you can take the person out of the paddock but you can't take the paddock out of the person.