 1 Friday 11 October 2013 I check out of the Concorde and catch a cab to the circuit and wait for Dean and Sam to arrive from Singapore. We meet as planned and collect our tickets. |
 2 Friday 11 October 2013 As its nearly time for MotorGP free practice to start, we enter the bottom grandstand. |
 3 Friday 11 October 2013 I brought a pair of earmuffs with me to protect Sam's hearing. I bought these the first time Jenni and I went to Sepang in 2005. |
 4 Friday 11 October 2013 Dean and I protected our hearing with our noise reduction headsets. |
 5 Friday 11 October 2013 MotoGP free practice FP1 begins. |
 6 Friday 11 October 2013 Jorge Lorenzo Spain, Yamaha. Jorge finished FP1 in third place with a lap time of 2 01.236 |
 7 Friday 11 October 2013 Yonny Hernandez, Columbia, Ducati finished 17th with 2 04.785 |
 8 Friday 11 October 2013 Dani Pedrosa, Spain, Honda. Finished FP1 first with 2 01.229 |
 9 Friday 11 October 2013 Valentino Rossi, Italy, Yamaha finshed fifth with 2 02.239. |
 10 Friday 11 October 2013 Rossi follows Andrea Dovizioso, Italy, Ducati into turn1. Andrea finished tenth with 2 03.029 |
 11 Friday 11 October 2013 Marc Marquez, Spain, Honda sweeps through the very tight turn 2. He finished FP1 in second with 2 01.596 |
 12 Friday 11 October 2013 Cal Crutchlow, England, Yamaha finished FP1 in sixth with 2 02.370 |
 13 Friday 11 October 2013 Rossi follows Nicky Hayden, USA, Ducati 2 02.632. Following Rossi is Alvaro Bautista, Spain, Honda who finished FP1 in fourth with 2 01.877 |
 14 Friday 11 October 2013 The results after FP1. Note the very pleasant temperature. |
 15 Friday 11 October 2013 We now walk to the main grandstand and along the way Sam poses in front of an MV Agusta |
 16 Friday 11 October 2013 Italian beauty at its finest. If you owned one of these you would keep it in your bedroom - no other place is deserving enough. |
 17 Friday 11 October 2013 We pass by the Moto3 garages of Luca Amato, Germany, Mahindra; Maverick Vinales and Anna Carrasco,Spain, KTM: Zulfahmi Khairruddin, Malaysia KTM and Arthur Sissis, Australia KTM; Niklas Ajo, Finland KTM. |
 18 Friday 11 October 2013 What surprise. It looks like it might rain. |
 19 Friday 11 October 2013 We get a tropical downpour. It stops and dries completely a short time later. |
 20 Friday 11 October 2013 We plonk ourselves in front of the giant TV which happens to be in front of the Repsol Honda Teams. |
 21 Friday 11 October 2013 Dani Pedrosa leaves for FP2. |
 22 Friday 11 October 2013 Alavaro Bautista gets ready to mount his steed. |
 23 Friday 11 October 2013 The Ducatis prepare to leave. |
 24 Friday 11 October 2013 A very badly injured Karel Abraham is replaced by Luca Scassa, Italy, on an ART (Apilia Racing Team). This is a Claiming Rule (CRT) bike which, although made by the Aprilia factory, enters as a non-factory bike, |
 25 Friday 11 October 2013 Jorge Lorenzo. |
 26 Friday 11 October 2013 Valentino Rossi. |
 27 Friday 11 October 2013 The results of FP2. I arranged for a cab to drop us off and pick us up for 200 MYR each way. We were the only fare he had all day so he waited in the petrol station nearby until we were ready to leave. The three of us then checked into the hotel that Dean had arranged, handiliy located at KL Sentral. |
