I have to admit I am not a great advocate for Singapore’s GP. Why? Because it is no longer a pukka motor race, it is an entertainment venue with a car race thrown in to give the entertainment some kind of raison d’etre.
And just who will be there to entertain you? From the Singapore GP website, you are going to get, The Killers, Liam Gallagher, Martin Garrix, Dua Lipa, Simply Red, The Sugarhill Gang, Joe Hahn of Linkin Park, End of the World, aka Sekai Noowari, Young Fathers, Sampa The Great and Björn Again. And how many of those have you ever heard of? Or am I just a dinosaur these days?
Back to the racing (what it is supposed to be about). Will Ferrari find even more horsepower? Will The Finger make more mistakes? Will there be any last minute DCM’s (Don’t Come Monday) to change the driver pool? Looking at it dispassionately, the WDC is Vettel’s to lose and thus gifting it to Hamilton. We will all know by Sunday night.
The marketplace is certainly in a state of flux with newer drivers replacing new drivers and some very old drivers and owners of older teams changing. It will be an interesting three months ahead.
The latest driver change is at McLaren where British whizz kid Lando Norris (currently second in F2) to take over from Vandoorne who has just not made the grade against Alonso.
Monagasgue Charles Leclerc who has done well in the Sauber team in his first year in F1 is reputedly going to Ferrari, so where does Kimi Raikkonen go? Or what about Grosjean? Once the bête noir on the grid, he has done fairly well this year, but he’s been in F1 for about 10 years, so has reached retirement age.
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