You just have to scan the pilots' Instagram stories to realize it: Singapore is a physical challenge as much as a technical one. In 2022, in a Monegasque gym, next to Novak Djokovic who must have been extremely surprised by the outfit chosen by Nyck De Vries, the Dutchman worked physically… a hat on his head and a good wool on his shoulders. Same winter tunic for George Russell which dripped like a poorly wrung towel, while Carlos Sainz, he filmed himself pedaling on an elliptical bike in a hammam. The 20 dragsters on the grid know it: due to the proximity to the Earth's Equator, the humidity level is constantly close to 80% during the Singapore Grand Prix, while the temperature almost never drops below 30° vs. Bodies suffer, so we might as well prepare them to withstand the 60 degrees of ambient temperature recorded each year in the co
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