Five Things to Know About the Singapore GP

The Marina Bay Circuit has hosted F1 for 15 years, and the home of night racing has kicked off the trend of city takeovers with floodlit racing, which we're seeing more and more of.

Coming off the back of a positive weekend in Baku, there’s so much more to look forward to as we head to an island nation just 85 miles north of the equator. Here are five things to know about the Singapore Grand Prix.

The four corners that previously took the drivers around and underneath the Bay Grandstand were replaced by a straight that bypasses the complex in 2023 to shorten the circuit length by 135 metres.

For 2024, this new straight will be the circuit’s fourth DRS zone, which might encourage even closer racing, and after 2023’s thriller, that’s something that has us hugely excited.

Singapore regularly sees the race hit the two-hour time limit, so this change should ensure we race the full 305 km distance instead. But what about the old layout? Well, redevelopment work in the area is still ongoing.

Our ever-popular Fan Zone is back in Singapore for the third year in a row.

After wowing crowds in six cities across the globe already in 2024, Singapore's Suntec City will be open across the weekend, with Esports rigs, team merchandise, a FW46 show car, and even more on offer.

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Albon, Vowles, Chadwick and Block have all taken centre stage at the Fan Zone this week, but they aren’t the only headline acts in Singapore.

Even people with no interest in racing flock to the circuit every year to see A-list performances from some of the biggest names in music.

This year is no different, with 14 musical acts taking to the stage across the weekend, including OneRepublic, Lenny Kravitz, Kylie Minogue and Thirty Seconds To Mars.

Rain might fall here sometimes, but the humidity levels are an inescapable struggle for the drivers and teams to deal with on every trip to the city-state.

Night racing helps slightly, with temperatures dipping a few degrees in when the sun sets, but with Singapore's average annual relative humidity being over 80%, this is the stickiest race of the season by far.

F1 Academy returns to the schedule this weekend for the series' maiden visit to the Marina Bay Street Circuit, and Lia Block will be hoping to continue her points-scoring run.

Our young American racer comes into this weekend off the back of top 10 finishes in Miami, Barcelona and Zandvoort, but the unique challenge of Singapore will be something completely new for her.

Jamie Chadwick, our F1 Academy Adviser, is with us in Singapore this weekend and has experience around this 4.9km venue, which will no doubt be beneficial for Lia.