Gosh, is there someone to turn off that bad idea ? Having F1 races during the night for one single reason: to give better hours of viewing for European F1 lovers. The result is awful: between 3 to 5 millions of watts during a full session of races.
Singapour is not the first test: on March 10 in Australia for a MotoGP match, you could read such a "success": Sunday's race, held in chilly temperatures, was illuminated by 3,600 light fixtures generating 5.4 million watts of power - enough light to cover an area equivalent to 70 football pitches.
The bulbs are fixed on 1000 poles all linked together by almost 500 kilometres of wire and supported by 300,000 kilos of concrete.
The Dorna chief executive, Carmelo Ezpeleta, probably feels proud that his 18-round series has beaten Formula One to night-time racing: Lewis Hamilton will not make his debut in the dark until the Singapore round of his championship in September.