Any race which loses Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Max Verstappen and effectively Fernando Alonso, comprising one fifth of the field, in the first corner is going to be a compromised spectacle to say the least. When that race is also guaranteed to time-out at the full two hours due to safety cars and a wet track you can be in for a very long evening. As it happens, the midfield gave us some entertaining wheel-to-wheel action and there would be several adventures and mishaps to come. I remember traveling to Singapore to do a TV feature over a decade ago ready for the impending inaugural GP. We discussed how the 1,600 overhead lights were angled away from the drivers and even in the...
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