Singapore GP Walk: Explore the World’s First Night Race Route

Singapore hosts the the only F1 night race where a tropical downpour is a genuine possibility every session, and the only venue where a monitor lizard once triggered a red flag. On this walking tour, you'll follow the Marina Bay Street Circuit route through Singapore's civic & colonial core.

The tour starts at Promenade MRT Exit A and follows the anticlockwise circuit route along Raffles Boulevard. You'll pass through the heart of the city, walking the same asphalt that F1 cars cover at racing speed – past luxury hotels, waterfront promenades, and colonial-era civic buildings – before crossing Anderson Bridge, a 1910 structure so narrow it determined the direction of the entire circuit.

You'll continue along Esplanade Drive past the Merlion and the Esplanade Theatres, then sweep around Raffles Avenue toward the Singapore Flyer. Along the way, you'll hear how 1,600 custom floodlights turn public roads into a glowing stadium, why five Singapore Grand Prix races hit the two-hour time limit, and how a deliberate crash in the 2008 inaugural race handed Fernando Alonso a victory and triggered F1's most serious race-fixing scandal in decades. The tour ends at the ArtScience Museum, where a single vantage point gives you a panoramic view across Marina Bay of the circuit's entire final third.

On this 60-minute, 3.8km tour, you'll have a chance to:

• Walk across Anderson Bridge – so narrow that F1 cars must thread it like a needle at racing speed
• Hear how George Russell lost a podium when he buried his Mercedes into a barrier on the penultimate lap of the 2024 race
• Learn why Shell Cariphalte – a polymer-reinforced tarmac mix – had to be custom-developed for a circuit that doubles as a public road
• Discover how 7-times World Champion Michael Schumacher locked up all four tyres at Turn 14 and eliminated two cars in 2012
• Cross the Helix Bridge, whose double-helix structure is illuminated at night by colour-shifting LEDs
• Find out why Singapore's circuit direction was decided by a bridge built over a century ago

This tour is best experienced around 6:30pm so it ends as Singapore's skyline lights up for the night.