The Blog of G

Singapore Minister of State S Iswaran anounced recently that they are to host a Grand Prix next year. Althought the press announcements seemed a little confused about it. Grandprix.com was first out of the blocks with the news that it was unlikely to be a night race.

Next up, Autosport made the same announcement, with one major difference, it might be a night race.

Then a few hours later ITV F1 make the same announcement, but there saying, Singapore will have the honour of hosting the first night race.

Now before, I had a chance to start looking for flight’s, Autosport post a follow up story. Literally within half an hour and they are sticking to there “might be a night race” story.

Okay this is the second time in the last few month’s that we’ve had the suggestion of a night race. So what’s it all about? Well it would appear that Mr. E wants to make the “fly-away” races a little more “friendly” to the european audiences, but also he’s generating public discussion. Which will make the idea easier to accept to the teams, well with the sponsors “encouragement” anyway , provided public opinion is behind the idea anyway.

The idea is sound, there have been plenty of night races in other formula’s before. Me personally, I think it’s a brilliant idea and wherever it happens I would dearly love to be there. I’m hoping the night race, if it does happen, will be towards the end of next year, that way I might have a hope of paying for trip.

So I’m all for it and I know one or 10 others that think it’s a fantastic idea as well and if the fans like the idea then there’s more chance that the audiences will be bigger. Which in turn means that the sponsors will be happy, which will generate other potential sponsors, which will mean more money to go round, which makes the team bosses happy cause they won’t have to fire people, which will keep the team staff happy. So, that leaves the drivers, let’s face it, if they don’t want to do it then it’s a dead duck.

Thankfully, Kimi and some of the other drivers seem to like the idea. Unfortunatly, Alonso, the reigning World Champion, doesn’t seem to keen on the idea.

But then again who’s gonna argue with Mr. E? especially after his most recent comments on the subject of night races. I’m getting the impresion he wants a night race and he’s gonna do what ever it takes to make it happen. Lets face it Mr. E is one of those people who makes the things he wants to happen, happen.

Before the F1 new season gets underway it’s worth mentioning that there has been a few last minute changes to the rules, thankfully Grandprix.com has it covered, I think the new tyre rule might backfire (why save the softer tyre?) but we’ll all know after Saturday night/sunday morning’s race.

Over on ITV-F1 they’re talking about Kimi being outpaced by Massa in testing, that could get interesting.

Meanwhile it was announced recently that David Richards and some buddies have bought Aston Martin. Why anyone would want to sell that brand I don’t know but I’m very curious to see what will happen there.

Other things that have caught my eye recently were the report that Melbourne was considering a night race. That would certainly make things interesting for the stewards! And that Bernie seems to think that the points system needs a bit of a change, I’m inclined to agree with his thinking, but I’d love to here what other’s have to say.