We love this circuit!
Yep it’s Singapore time again and although the circuit doesn’t provide any great memorable corners, like Eau Rouge in Belgium, it still looks totally awesome at night time and there’s still something oddly alien about watching an F1 car driving around a floodlit circuit.
As to who’s going to win the race this weekend we reckon it’s a bit like Monza – we haven’t a clue! Red Bull certainly look on the pace but maybe have to resort to running with lowered revs to protect their engines (or face a five place grid penalty for using up their 2009 engine allocation if they have a failure). You also have to expect McLaren to be extremely competitive this weekend – a Mercedes engine, superb mechanical grip and a fully functioning KERS system. Lewis will also be determined to make up for his crash in Italy so if you’re a betting person then you could do a lot worse than putting your money on the Brit for a win this weekend.
Over at Brawn GP you’ve got an interesting situation with the drivers title now more or less between Rubens and Jenson. The latter seems to have found his racing mojo again and the Brazilian seems to have shaken the paranoia monkey off his back! The Brawn car should certainly be on the pace this weekend but will it be a race winner? If not then qualifying is going to be more important than ever and, yes we’ve read the stories about how clean the championship fight will be for the remainder of the season, but you still have to wonder – we’ve already seen Rubens lose the plot once this year!
Enjoy the race. It’s sure to be another cracking floodlit event.