The Singapore Grand Prix is Formula One racing’s only night race, staged on an exciting 5.067-kilometre (3.148-mile) street track in the heart of this colourful and cosmopolitan city.The race is floodlit, and the bright lights of the city’s financial centre in the background give the race a unique atmosphere.

“It’s a very physical circuit - more than I expected, actually," says 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton. "You need to put a lot of work into the car to get a good lap - I’d say it requires double the energy of Monaco over a single lap. One lap around here is like two laps of Monaco!"

"The visibility is great and you don't really feel you are driving at night with all the lights on the track,” adds Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

The track makes use of two bridges across the harbour, the famous Padang Park and its permanent pits complex is built alongside the ‘Singapore Flyer’, the city state’s answer to the London Eye Ferris wheel.