SINGAPORE — As Fernando Alonso sipped champagne on the Marina Bay podium, and firework smoke settled into the night sky hovering above Singapore’s capacity-filled street circuit, a bunch of journalists crowded around Bernie Ecclestone in the paddock, eager for his thoughts on what was an historic night for Formula One.
“Could Singapore one day be the jewel in the F1 crown?” posed one reporter.
Ecclestone barely hesitated, before quipping, “why not? It more or less is now.”
Later, he…