A well-used show business term during anxious times at rehearsals is that “it’ll be all right on the night”. The phrase will take on extra meaning when the sun sets on downtown Singapore and its harbour front on September 28.

Radical lighting technology developed for the first night-time Formula One grand prix must be all right on the night or the consequences will be nothing less than disastrous. Drivers will race through the island state’s landmarks, such as the “kink” on the island’s famed Raffles Boulevard, at speeds of up to 320kph.