Sprinting To The Back Of The Grid (2026 Singapore Grand Prix Predictions)

Anyway, before we dive in, the biggest kind of news of the week, other than a report that I'm really not too firm on of in four years we might be racing again in Africa, in Rwanda, that I don't really wanna touch on yet because it's not really confirmed.

So Africa has once again been in the news for coming onto the F1 calendar, but not in South Africa.

We'll see how that actually plays out.

I'm not sure how much of that I believe of these alleged reports, but we'll see.

But the biggest news was the mode of transportation that one F1 driver took.

Actually, there, there has been bits of news about multiple F1 drivers and how they made it from Malaysia to Singapore, including Charles, who like his plane lost his landing time, so he had to drive from Malaysia to Singapore.

But the most interesting one of all of them was, of course, Valtteri Bottas, who as we know, Valtteri Bottas is an avid cycler when he's not driving F1 cars and not DNFing in not great F1 cars if you're Cadillac.

But he has been an avid cycler for a number of years.

For those of you who don't know, his partner, Tiffany Cromwell, is a cycling Olympian for Australia, the country that has basically adopted Valtteri Bottas.

And when Bottas is not racing in his room cars or raising money through selling pictures of his tush, he is an avid cycler, and he cycled 350 kilometers over four days, even though the total distance traveled was 419.6 kilometers, which averages up to about 260 miles between Malaysia and Singapore through a combination of road and gravel routes and whatever it is you need to do in order to ride your bike from one country to another.

Fascinating.

And what was also really entertaining was the Ritz Carlton of Singapore, the hotel that the teams are staying in, gave him a certificate of completion when he arrived at his hotel four days after the Grand Prix in Malaysia.

So there, there's one way to travel from a Grand Prix to another, and then there's Valtteri Bottas' way of traveling from one Grand Prix to another.

And Cadillac team Instagram account posted a breakdown of his travels, 'cause let's be real, we're all nerds about these things, even if it's not in an actual F1 car.

So it broke down how much distance he traveled each day and how many calories he burned and all of that stuff that you, if you are an avid athlete, you are tracking all of that information.

So it's very-- That was fun.

Good for him.

I mean, obviously he got to leave a little bit early in Malaysia 'cause his car kind of failed him again.

So at the very least, he got a couple extra hours so he could get to his media responsibilities on Thursday, today, on time.

He also qualified for the 2026 Gravel World Championships, which are taking place in Australia, but unfortunately they're taking place in Australia this weekend.

And unfortunately, that means he cannot partake because he has to kind of drive a car in Singapore.

So anyway, there's that.