The fastest-ever laps of the Marina Bay circuit were run today, with Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo smashing the previous all-time record of 1m42.584s by more than two and a half seconds. This was thanks to a time of 1m40.852s on the P Zero Purple ultrasoft in FP2: 3.3 seconds faster than last year's best FP2 time. The ultrasoft compound has proved to be around a second faster than the supersoft so far, with a high degree of track evolution during FP1 after some mid-morning rain. Conditions for both sessions remained dry though with high humidity: typical of Singapore's tricky and bumpy asphalt, with all three compounds used today. Mario Isola: 'We've seen a very big increase in speed...
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