{"id":458830,"date":"2023-09-12T00:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458830"},"modified":"2023-09-12T00:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:28:05","slug":"singapore-circuit-change-makes-the-track-10-seconds-quicker","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/singapore-circuit-change-makes-the-track-10-seconds-quicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore circuit change makes the track 10 seconds quicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Formula 1 returns to Asia for the Singapore Grand Prix. The Marina Bay circuit has been one of the tracks that didn&#8217;t produce exiting races and very often the pilot starting from pole position finished the race as a winner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Reminder that the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore will have it&#8217;s Sector 3 modified.<\/p>\n<p>T16-T19 will be replaced with one long straight.<\/p>\n<p>Simulations show lap times could be up to 10 seconds quicker than 2022! \ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SingaporeGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SingaporeGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ryT9nFwKm5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ryT9nFwKm5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RBR Daily (@RBR_Daily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBR_Daily\/status\/1701119582470127877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe whole configuration was difficult for overtakes on the street circuit, but this year there will be changes in order to improve the racing.<\/p>\n<p>In sector three, turns 16 to 19 are replaced by another long straight that will definitely help the drivers to get to a top speed and try more overtakes. Apart from that, the whole lap time is expected to be down with about 10 seconds than previous years.<\/p>\n<p>At Marina Bay Max Verstappen will be fighting for his 11th win in a row this season, as he is flying towards his third world title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Formula 1 returns to Asia for the Singapore Grand Prix. The Marina Bay circuit has been one of the tracks that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458858,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,21345],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[21346,1081],"acf":{"announce":"The slow turns 16 and 19 will be replaced by a straight ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458884,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458830\/revisions\/458884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458830"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458830"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}