SINGAPORE — With its combination of speed, glamor, artistry and science, Formula 1 is a spectacle that travels at a speed and sound nothing else can match.

It was Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who bagged the 2026 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix earlier this month with a pole-to-checkered flag win, an historic deed for the flying Dutchman who finally conquered a race that had eluded him for a decade .

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If Verstappen was the king of the track, The Killers, Janet Jackson, Split Enz, JJ Lin and Lana Del Rey were the stars of the live show, a music festival that pumps away when the racing pauses.

With its flashy street circuit and three-day live music festival, the Singapore GP has a speed and sound quite unlike any other race on the calendar. Established in 2008, senior music industry executives are now calling it the premier annual music festival in Asia.

Billboard was there to catch the action Oct.…