The Singapore GP qualifying couldn’t have gone a lot worse for championship contenders Brawn, with points leader Jenson Button and challenger Rubens Barichello ending the day a long way behind both rival Red Bulls.
Finally, some actual on-track car action to distract from the ridiculousness that was the Renault Crashgate incident. We could do without any more ‘Gates’ from now on please, F1 people.
Will we find out at the Italian GP this weekend that Fernando Alonso is off to race for Ferrari next year? It would seem like the right place to do it. And we’ve already had a not-so-secret indication that he is…
The strangest story to come out of F1 after the Belgian GP is that the FIA is investigating Renault for an alleged race-fix, involving Nelson Piquet Jnr at last year’s Singapore night race.
Formula1.com have done another cracking three minute edit, this time for the Singapore GP. Have a watch, tell us what you think… Watch video at Formula1.com
Wait for the onboard view and watch that again… we’d have all so gone on that green light! Then when it flicks back to red, it’s just too late and Massa’s out of there.
You’ve got to feel sorry for Massa after yesterday’s huge disaster by the guy in charge of Ferrari’s pitstop – you should perhaps feel even more sorry for him, he can’t be having a good day – but watch Felipe’s pole lap again ‘cos it was stunning. (And be quick, it’ll get taken down soon.)
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A laser message projected onto the pit buildings says: ‘First F1 Night Race. Thank you for being a part of history.’
History indeed, but F1 people should be thanking the Singapore organisers for a simply superb job. And, just to round off an exceptional weekend, we had an exceptional race.
