At the Singapore Grand Prix, many dramatic scenes took place in the past Formula 1 season after the finish line. Among other things around Mercedes pilot George Russell, who lost four kilograms of body weight in the most brutal Grand Prix of the season and was seriously afraid of his health.
The Grand Prix of Singapore is only moderately popular with many Formula 1 pilots. This is mainly due to the extreme external conditions that often prevail on site. For example in the 2024 season, when the thermometer displayed 29 degrees on Sunday and a 75 percent humidity was measured.
Mercedes driver George Russell suffered extremely from the tropical conditions. As can be seen in pre -published scenes of the documentary “Drive to Survive”, the Briton went to an ice cream pool immediately after the outlet round. “My entire skin tingles,” he says before he says goodbye to a isolated area.
“How serious that was, you only realize afterwards”
Afterwards Russell indicates: “In there [im Cockpit] were 60 degrees. My entire body has overheated. I lost four kilograms in this race. You only realize how serious that was afterwards. “
In fact, Russell and his then team -mate Lewis Hamilton were extremely affected by the heat. Following the race, Mercedes canceled all of his drivers and said that both had a slight heat stroke.
Formula 1 takes countermeasures
However, not only the external conditions were responsible for this, but also the W15, which, due to a small misconstruction in the electronics, tended to overheat. The two pilots not only felt that in Singapore – but there is a particular strong extent.
In order to master a problem in the future, Formula 1 for the 2025 season allowed to wear cooling vests during the races. This year on a voluntary basis, mandatory in the future if the outside temperature exceeds the 30 degrees.