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The bottom team in the standings is powered by the same Mercedes engine as the top team. By your logic the Mercedes engine must be the worst of the bunch.
Even my man maths tells me there more to this F1 lark than the engine. The Mercedes F1 team is leading because they and their drivers are doing a better job.
I would go to the right of the screen, so you can look a little left and see the screen and T7 at the same time, withou having to turn your head.
The T1/2 infield bleachers are accessible to everyone with a Zone 1 ticket. It gives good views but alas no view of a big screen so difficult to keep track of how the race is unfolding. You need to walk over the bridge over the main straight to get to it.
The two points they open access to the track after the race on Sunday are either end of the pit Grandstand.
https://ibb.co/jmu0j5I have traded tickets plenty of times with those I have met in the hotel or in the circuit, but not normally for the Sunday. I haven’t check this years prices but the Stamford may be a straight exchange with the Premier Walkabout Sunday ticket. Having done both Esplande and Stamford, I would choose Stamford again.
For next year, remember if you book via the ticket hotline on The official Singapore F1 website, you can choose you individual seats by seat and row number (I prefer to be high up and by an aisle). You can choose to pick up tickets in Singapore on arrival if you think you might be off early on travels and postal tickets arrive after you have left.
My Singapore F1 tips guide is still somewhere on the forum.
Water is the only thing you can take in. A cold bear will become pretty much warm beer inside 15minutes outside a fridge so little point trying to smuggle it in when you can buy at pretty much regular prices at the 7-11, Glutton Bay food centre and Singapore Food trail food centre all within the circuit. These are regular everyday places that find themselves ring fenced within the circuit for 3 days, not the F1 specific overprices pop up stalls.
2014 was my favourite, well from after the safety car.
Yes Singapore is not the most exciting to watch TV but it’s the best of the 11 different Grandprixs I have attended over the years and the only one I returned to ( will be X4 this time) more besides my home GP (Silversone)x9, despite the distance and cost.No, I am flying out of London. It’s my TA forum name. I wrote a Tips list ( also published here somewhere) which might be useful for first timers…..
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/GoListDetail-i23030-Singapore_Formula_1_Grand_Prix.htmlNo, I am flying from London. That’s my TA forum name. I wrote an extensive Tips list for the F1 for fist timers. It’s reproduced here somewhere too.
I have been a few times and will be in T2 as well. The schedule won’t be know till the FIA confirms the the timings of the support races and practise sessions ( typically late August). Usually the headlining end of day concerts at the Padang stage start on the half hour after FP2, Qualifing and the Race. With the race on Sunday pretty much lasting the full 2 hours, there is precious little time to make your way to the Padang in time for the start of the concert. The smaller concerts in Zone one stage tend to be before inbetween track sessions. It right next to the back of T2 Grandstand.
If you are scouting a route back to the Padang, best avoid anything that takes you through the pedestrian underpass by Turn 8 which is a bottle neck as roadtrack behind the Bay grandstand. They do open the track infront of the Bay Grandstand on the Sunday though exclusively for those in Zone 1.
I was in Esplanade block A3 last year. I much prefer the higher rows and an aisle seat closest to to the edge of the stand. As I mentioned elsewhere, you can ring the telephone hotline and have you pick of seats. During the super early bird sale period ( now finished) they were only selling upto row 10, but they may well have opened up the whole stand now.
They normally open up a gate between T1 and T2 grandstands ( and another at the other at the start of the straight) to allow access to the track at the end of the Grandprix. You might want to make a move for it as soon as winner crosses the line. monopods are allowed but cannot be used in the grandstands, you need to keep it collapsed.
Oh it rains somewhere in Singapore every day, so the general weather forecast you read in the news is pretty much the same everyday. Showers are normally short sharp burst. Its less likely to rain in the evenings. weather radar is what you need to predict when you need to find cover. There are few apps now that are very good.