Night Racing

So Singapore is staging Formula 1’s first night race. They’re worried it will rain, and the flood lights reflecting off standing water will create glare. It will almost certainly rain because it rains a lot in Singapore. The track is set up through the downtown streets. This could be kind of cool. But I won’t go to it. I don’t have a ticket. Plus, everyone and his brother and sister will be at this thing, and I have studying to do. This is supposed to be a tourist attraction to lure foreigners to come and spend their foreign currency in Singapore. Luring foreigners to spend their money is very Singaporean, but to be fair, all nations want foreigners to do this. Singapore just comes up with well-funded and well-run schemes to achieve this goal. I can’t say that Singapore is particularly F1 crazy, from what I’ve observed, but I’ve seen more Porsches, Maseratis, and Ferraris here, per capita, than anywhere else in the world I’ve ever been - even Dubai. I’ll assume that Monaco beats Singapore in aggregate per capita car value. I’ve never been and will let you know after I go - though in Pittsburgh I did meet the Monacan ambassador to the U.S.