"Our training programmes ensure that over a race weekend we are at peak performance during the afternoons and as a result we are going to be staying in European time so this doesn't get disrupted. "Essentially we must not acclimatise to the local time, which is totally different to how we normally operate," agreed McLaren's championship leader Lewis Hamilton. The solution for Williams and others is to have a dedicated floor of the hotel for team members, with the room cleaners under orders to stay away. "But it's quite difficult to go back to the hotel and sleep during the day, especially when you've got people walking around tidying up," he added. "You could look at it and say 'well, everyone is in Europe normally so they should be on that time zone'. "If you just offset the meeting schedules and things, it means that we will be finishing at five o'clock in the morning on Saturday and Sunday mornings, so it is quite a big change," said Williams technical director Sam Michael.
The problem will be those who are still working around them. "Going to bed late and getting up late is easy," BMW-Sauber's German driver Nick Heidfeld told reporters at the last Italian Grand Prix. That will mean going to bed in the early hours of the morning and staying there until the afternoon, when they will have breakfast. British time) and the race itself at 2000, teams will be staying on European time while in Singapore.
With qualifying on Saturday starting at 10 p.m. The hotel cleaners and chambermaids are more of a concern. "I honestly don't think there's going to be such a big difference racing at night." "When we drive through the tunnel in Monaco, we don't come in and say to our engineers 'Oh my god, the lap is great apart from the tunnel' because it's just another piece of circuit," continued the Scot. "The whole night race thing is maybe more interesting for the media and the fans sitting in the grandstand.
"I'm looking forward to the challenge but the reality is for us it will be a completely visible track," said Red Bull's David Coulthard. The lighting is the least of their worries, with 1,500 projectors in place to illuminate the streets to a level bright enough to meet high definition television broadcast standards - four times brighter than a typical stadium.
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