There’s a novelty value to the Singapore Grand Prix. We sleep until lunchtime every day, we stay up until the small hours and we race at night. It’s all a bit bizarre.

The race lasts almost bang on two hours and, being on the equator, it’s hot and humid. You lose a lot of water and that makes it a very challenging grand prix. Added to that, the lighting around the racetrack is artificial and it can give you a bit of a headache after a while, so you have to pick your visor tint carefully.

The circuit is pretty repetitive and it’s as bumpy as hell. There are a lot of 90-degree turns and then there’s Turn 10, the left-right-left chicane. It’s fiddly, but you have to respect it and be very accurate with your line.

Like other street tracks, the grip level changes a lot over the weekend. It’s very slippery to begin with, but it improves with each session – as long as it doesn’t rain. It hasn’t rained in any of the Singapore GPs to date and it’ll be interesting to see what the visibility is like when it does.

There’s no doubt that this grand prix is one of the better races to have been added to the calendar in recent years. We run right through the heart of the city, passed all of the famous landmarks, and there’s always a good crowd.

To date, Fernando [Alonso] has been the man to beat around here. He owns this racetrack. This year I’m going to fight him for it.