Singapore: the world turned upside down

Singapore offers a time difference of six hours compared to France and the majority of Europe but all the pilots, who have barely finished the European season, remain on Old Continent time. Wake up takes place between 12 p.m. and 14 p.m., and the pilots have a late breakfast to start the day. The first free practice session takes place this Friday at 18 p.m., the second at 21:30 p.m., and it is in the dead of night that drivers and engineers will debrief the data collected during these sessions, before going to bed in the early morning.

The Singapore Grand Prix is ​​special in more than one way, with its urban layout and its night race. This weekend, the Formula 1 will experience its second night Grand Prix, after the 2008 edition where Fernando Alonso imposed itself in the circumstances that we now know well.

On Saturday, Grand Prix spectators will not know the identity of the pole sitter until 23 p.m. and the traditional press conference will end shortly before midnight. But next weekend, the drivers will have to switch to Asian time, when traveling to Japan. In the land of the Rising Sun, the racing schedules will not be modeled on Europe, and it is on the Old Continent that we will have to adapt to follow the ballet of single-seaters.