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Events An Evening with Steve “Petrol-head” Slater Text and Photos Arthur Claringbould Steve is a F1 commentator for ESPN-Star Sports on TV. He is also the F1 contributor to the Straits Times and Evo magazine. His infectious enthusiasm for motor sports reaches back over 30 years. He initially became involved in the sport as a hobby, while working as an engineer in the North of England, competing in club races and rallies with cars such as Mini Coopers and MG sports cars in the late 1970s. Motoring and motor sport became a full-time occupation in 1985, when Steve became a freelance writer, radio broadcaster and motor racing commentator. In 1989 Steve moved to London and became involved with promoting Canadian brewer Labatt’s sponsorship of British Touring Car Championship motor racing. They went on to sponsor the Williams Grand Prix team, giving Steve his first entrée to the Formula One paddock. In addition to contemporary drivers, Steve has been fortunate to work alongside world champions including the great Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Mika Hakkinen and Jacques Villeneuve. This evening Steve shows, in every aspect of his performance, that his hobby has become his work. However, it is obviously still his passion. The sheer number of facts he knows had Mark Leenders describe him as Steve ‘PDA’ Slater! The enormous number of facts in his presentation could have made the evening boring. The opposite was true. After 2 hours, everyone in the room was still fully alert and interested to hear more. Here is a littlie impression of the subjects Steve mentioned: • The Singapore F1 circuit has 23 bends. This means that a driver has to take a corner about every 2 to 3 seconds and that for 61 laps. • Changing all 4 tires in the pit takes currently 2.1 seconds, using super coordinated teamwork. • Admission fees for the public to the F1 races are among the cheapest in the world. This is deliberately done to keep the public’s interest in attending as high as possible. • During F1 race weekends, there are about 40.000 foreign visitors, of which many are top corporate guests. This leads to a parking problem for private jets at Changi airport. • The carbon breaks of an F1 car are able to reduce the speed of the car with 200 km/hour in 50 meters. • The pressure we feel in a normal car in a fast, controlled stop is about one G. Drivers in a F1 car experiences about 4 times as much in most corners. • To become a test driver in a F1 team, you will need to bring in around $1.5 million in personal sponsor money. This only guarantees you are part of the team, not necessarily that you will be allow you ever to test-drive a car. In other words, every possible aspect of F1 racing was discussed. Of course, there was also a lot to learn about the characters of the current and past drivers. A nice touch was a photo of 8-year-old Vettel, talking to Michael Schumacher. Schumacher will actually drive his 300th race here in Singapore. His 300th race was already celebrated in Belgium but he had not actually raced 2 races that he could have started in there. Asked whether Steve thinks Schumacher will retire at the end of this season, he answers the chance is 50/50. The reason being that Schumacher has not won any race this season. As Steve did the presentation for a Dutch oriented audience, he even discusses the Dutch past and future racers. To the surprise of most of the audience, he does expect Dutch racers to take part in the F1 in the near future. Of course, Bleekemolen and Verstappen were discussed. However, this year Guido van der Garde is a test-driver for Caterham (previously Lotus) and Jos Verstappen’s son, Max Verstappen has been very successful in the European carting championships. This last tournament is not to be underestimated; many of successful F1 drivers nowadays started their career in the carting championships. Steve made us far more knowledgeable about the F1 scene than we were. By now you already know who won the 2012 F1 in Singapore and about the renewal of the contract. Those who attended this great ADB event already knew even before the F1 weekend, thanks to Steve! 6
Business Apps Reviewed – DocuSign Ink and Beepmo Text Jonie Oostveen DocuSign Ink Do you recognize this situation: you are in hurry, not in the office and you need to sign a document. Before the smartphone era you would think “I’ll do this first thing when I am back at the office”. However, now there is a way to sign your documents while on the go. DocuSign has created a nifty solution that lets you sign documents on your smartphone and tablet! After installing this app, you will have to go through the registration process and create your signature and initials (this takes a bit of practice as you are not signing with a pen but using your finger). After that, there are 3 ways to sign a document. First, you can open documents using the “Open In” option on your phone. The “Open In” is supported by Mail, Dropbox, Safari Browser, Documents to go, and more. Secondly, use the “Take a Picture” feature of the DocuSign app, or thirdly, use the “import” button to import docs from Google Drive/Google Docs. Most users will probably use the “take picture” option (you take a picture of the document you want to sign) or the “Mail” option (opens the mail attachment in the app). After the document is opened in DocuSign you can easily add your signature, initials, date, printed name, and other text. All items can be adjusted in size and be move to any position on the document. Once you have signed the document, added the date and your name in print you can email the doc from within the app. Rating : ***** Costs : Free Platforms : iPhone, iPad, Android and Android Tablets URL : www.docusign.com/ink Beepmo Beepmo is a business networking service that uses your location to see which people with similar business interest are near to you. When you create your profile in the app, you have to connect it to your LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter profile. It then uses the info in your public profile to show you other Beepmo users who are close to you and are working in the same industry or have the same interests. The app is especially useful during an event or conference (given that a lot of other attendees have installed it as well) as it allows you to quickly scan who in the audience is interesting to talk to. What is really useful is the Ice Breaker feature. This feature, helps you to open the discussion, it gives you a list of points you can use to open the conversation, such as the number of people you are both connected to on LinkedIn and Facebook, common LinkedIn groups you are subscribed to, which items on Facebook you both “liked”, and people that you are both following on Twitter. Rating : *** Costs : Free Platforms : iPhone, Android, Blackberry URL : www.beepmo.com Wij begrijpen wat u zoekt Het Nederlandse makelaarskantoor in Singapore Hester Calkhoven +65.9011.8055 www.executive-homes-consultants.com EH_ADB_BW 180x56 staff.indd 1 2/7/2012 11:52:44 AM 7
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Page 26 and 27: Not to miss Rugby Sevens Tournament
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