This change was planned since 2019. Due to Covid the plans to remove the grandstand and the floating football pitch were postponed.
Crashgate corner could disappear from Singapore Grand Prix track
A four-corner stretch of Singapore's Marina Bay circuit could be altered for future races due to planned construction work in the city.www.racefans.net
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I don't think you've read it properly. A 50kmh speed reduction because they've tightened it up, rumble patches which are like the ones you get in motorway edges and bevelled kerbs replacing the steel ones which are much more forgiving. So, slower speeds, more forgiving kerbs combined with rumble pads, not more aggressive kerbs and same speeds..Jeddah reveals F1 track tweaks ahead of 2023 race
Here's a. Idea on how to improve visibility around the wiggly back section. Make it a STRAIGHT.
From what I can gather reading this, the solution to lack of runoff here is more aggressive kerbs that will slow the drivers down.
No. What they will do is make it so the drivers still have to take the corner at the same speed, but any tiny mistake and we get another Bolukbasi/Schumacher/Pourchaire/Leclerc style enormous shunt at these corners.
I notice that the wall that was hit twice and meant two drivers missed their races due to damage/injury hasn't been changed. Just moved beforehand.
This track gets worse and worse every time it appears.
They would be paying 50 million dollars a year until 2025 according to this article.
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What? 🤣. A track that has delivered consistently good races with plenty of overtaking shouldn't be a sprint race but F1s annual procession should be? Nah.
There's also the fact that no manufacturer that's not already in F1 wants to make a large investment like that, because there's simply not enough return on that investment for the manufacturer. Millions of dollars in development and manufacturing just for a handful of short gimmicky sprint events isn't going to really raise their profile any, and if Hamilton or Max or Leclerc start complaining that they don't like driving the cars or they don't feel fast or competitive, then those cars may as well be sent to the nearest junkyard because no one is going to want them.
The thing is that it wouldn't be that large of an investment; most of these hyper track-focused supercars are built on already existing platforms & create large profits at $2-3 million+ being sold to owners who will either store them or pay the manufacturers to help run them. All a willing manufacturer has to do is pick a platform they've already developed a sports car on and go from there, doesn't even have to be that extreme in development like the Valkyrie. Whether the driver likes it or not shouldn't matter, it's a single-make race on equal ground and the cars being sold off afterwards should still bring in enough cash flow to offset the cars, esp. if it's a Max, Lewis, Charles, or even Alonso driven example.
