Singapore GP to stay on F1 calendar until 2028 after new deal

The sport’s first night race was absent from the calendar in both 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it returns this year on October 2 as the middle event of a triple header that includes Russia and Japan.

The last Singapore GP contract extension was a four-year deal announced in September 2017, and it was supposed to run until 2021.

However, the last two races did not happen, and thus the latest contract in effect represents a two-plus-five years arrangement…