Singapore Grand Prix
The Singapore Grand Prix is an automobile race in the Southeast Asian city -state of Singapore, which was first, on September 28, held as part of the Formula 1 World Championship in the 2008 season on the specially designed street circuit Marina Bay Street Circuit.
Today, 5.067 km long track is traversed counterclockwise and can accommodate 80,000 to 90,000 spectators. To 70% of it consists of other public roads. The permanent parts, for their design of the German civil engineer Hermann Tilke and track specialist is responsible, costing about 16 million euros and were completed by July 2008.
The Singapore Grand Prix will be held as a night race - the start is usually by 20 clock local time (14 clock CEST) - a first in the formula 1 are in use in 1485 headlights, which provide an average illuminance of 3000 lux on the track and of twelve provided with back-up systems generators ( a generator 13 is on a truck and serves as an emergency unit ) are driven. The by the Italian company Valerio Maioli SpA made headlights are mounted at a height of 10 m; their overall performance is specified with 3 MW - with a headlight has a power of 2000 watts and a luminous flux of 220,000 lumens. If two consecutive headlights fail, the view of the driver would still not limited. On 25 October 2007 the event from the International Automobile Federation FIA approved; so is the live broadcast of the race in Europe by the time shift instead of as usual in the afternoon.
Prior to the project, the Malaysian government was concerned, the new Grand Prix in the Formula 1 calendar could endanger the economic profitability of the 300 km taking place Grand Prix of Malaysia.
From 1966 to 1973, the Singapore Grand Prix designated a formulaic free race ( Formule Libre ), which was played on a pure road round trip within the city. By the exclusion of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia, this motorsport event also ran under the name " Grand Prix of Malaysia ." Ultimately, it was adjusted with a view to increased traffic and security reasons.