Race 2017 F1 Singapore Grand Prix Full Race Replay

Race 2017 F1 Singapore Grand Prix Full Race Replay

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Race Info
Date    17 September 2017
Official name    2017 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix[2][3]
Location    Marina Bay Street Circuit
Marina Bay, Singapore
Course    Temporary street circuit
Course length    5.065 km (3.147 miles)
Distance    58 laps, 293.633 km (182.455 miles)

Singapore Grand Prix What to Watch

There isn't much of a contrast between the long straights of Monza and the winding streets of Singapore on the 2017 Formula One schedule.

When Formula One held its first night race in 2008, the venue, which is hosting its ninth world championship race this year, set a new record. Abu Dhabi and Bahrain have subsequently followed suit by hosting their own races under lights, so worries about the lighting quality were soon forgotten.

How well visibility would be in a wet race on a street circuit with artificial lights is still unknown, though.

Street circuits typically use this type of track. Numerous quick, tight turns are interspersed throughout, which lowers the average lap speed and puts a lot of strain on the brakes. This year's brake zones will be shorter but more intense due to the new generation of Formula One vehicles.

The course has undergone three modifications since its first race in an effort to increase overtaking possibilities. However, it is still a circuit that was obviously intended more as a picturesque tour of the city than as a driving test.

Every Singapore Grand Prix up to this point has included one or two Safety Car periods due to the difficulty of recovering stalled cars. 

Since it's a temporary location, the track usually gets better quickly during the weekend. Between the first practice and qualifying, lap timings can increase by three to four seconds. Naturally, most teams have designated stacks of ultra-soft tires in this area.

Although Singapore's five kilometers contain 23 turns, at least seven of them don't require any braking. There is a purpose-build segment at the start and finish of the circuit.

At turn one, which runs straight into the next two turns, locking the front tires is simple. There are two turns to the right, and if the driver cuts this corner, they will have to take a different path back to the track.

The vehicles enter the track's longest flat-out sector at turn five. There may be more opportunities for overtaking at Memorial Corner (turn seven) because this is the kind of fast, sweeping bend that the current generation of vehicles should be able to handle considerably more rapidly than last year.
With a series of right-angled turns, the track starts to resemble a normal street circuit from this point on. When track restrictions were being enforced more strictly, the curb at the turn seven exit was a problem area; but, however, expect the stewards to be more forgiving of drivers who go off there.

The ages of eight and nine are likewise slow. In the past, Turn Ten had a three-part chicane with aggressive curbs that resembled something from a late-Champ Car street circuit. Due to the paucity of accessible run-off, it became even more tight in 2013 but still a sharp right-hander.

More recently, the turns that lead to the cars crossing the Andersen bridge were changed. Unlike earlier, the cars now cross the tiny bridge on the other side. Though it hasn't had much of an impact on the race, this has made turn 11 slower and made turn 13 a straighter approach.

After turn 13, there is a brief lull before another hammering of the brakes and drivers. The most strenuous portion of the lap starts at turn 14, a tight, right-handed hairpin, where they frequently dart right and left through steep bends.

The sixteenth birthday is a tricky curve. They veer under a grandstand at turn 18, but there is very little runoff and accidents happen frequently. Before the faster turns 22 and 23, which return the vehicles to the pit straight, the 90-degree turns continue through turns 19, 20, and 21.