Singapore F1 Tickets on sale, website overwhelmed

At 3.30 am Singapore time this morning I received an email from the official Singapore F1 website informing me that as an ‘Engage’ subscriber, I was receiving “an exclusive sneak peek” at the ticket prices for the big event. It also announced that the tickets would go on sale at 9.00 am today, giving me 5.5 hours of exclusivity, less of course the four hours that I was actually asleep during that period. I now see that the press seemed to have even more of a ‘sneak peek’ than I did and in fact I was the last person to know that tickets would be available today. Oh well.

Regardless, I tried to log on to the ticketing website at 9.00 am, and, surprise, surprise, no response. Multiple tries and a few hours later I finally managed to get into the ticket buying process, until I received the half expected error message when I was actually getting close to the payment stage. It’s now nearly 5 pm, and the website is still unusable.

As you might guess, I’m not feeling very ‘exclusive’, in fact I’m feeling more than a touch annoyed, as clearly the only time the website will start performing is when the tickets have sold out.