Marina Bay looked resplendent as Formula 1 rolled into town for Thursday’s media day, with some personnel staying on European time – as that’s the schedule Singapore runs to allow for a night race – and others adopting Asian time to ready themselves for Japan next week and its daytime event.
The big news of the day came from Alfa Romeo, the Sauber-run Swiss operation announcing that Zhou Guanyu would be retained for 2024, with the final signatures on the refined paperwork believed to have only been penned minutes before the announcement was made.

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