Strategy for the Singapore Grand Prix has always been built around maintaining track position, given the difficulty of overtaking, but it also has to take into account the high possibility of a safety car deployment. Last year's race was an outlier – maybe – in that for the first time ever at the Marina Bay circuit, Bernd Maylander was not called upon.
The pitlane speed limit has been increased from 60km/h to 80km/h, which is expected to cut the pitstop time loss by up to eight seconds – which at any other circuit would be significant, since the time loss here used to be in the order of 29 seconds. However, the experience of Zandvoort, where the pitlane speed limit was also raised, suggests not much will change.
