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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 553396" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/801/6568/" target="_blank">Official Race Classification</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/9/8451.html" target="_blank">Full Story</a>Formula 1 entered the night for the first time in Singapore, with spectacular views of the city state and a truly stunning race to match.Felipe Massa got off the grid without any problems to keep 1st place in front of Lewis Hamilton. Heikki Kovalainen, starting in 5th, attempted a passing manoeuvre on Robert Kubica that ended with the Pole literally banging the Finn’s side with a front wheel.It seemed for a short while that this street race might be rather uneventful, with Massa looking solid in 1st with neither Hamilton nor Raikkonen looking likely to cause much mischief – but then Nelson Piquet slammed into the wall in lap 15!This brought out the safety car, setting off a crazy chain of events.With the pit lane out-of-bounds during a safety car, Nico Rosberg and Robert Kubica were caught short and had to refuel, thereby incurring stop-and-go penalties when the safety car returned to the pits.And then the unbelievable happened. With the pits now reopened, Massa rushed into the pits with a desperate need to refuel, followed by team mate Kimi Raikkonen. With Raikkonen queuing behind Massa, the Ferrari pit crew had to work quickly to minimise time lost for Kimi, and Massa went as soon as the lights went green on Ferrari’s automated pit indicator. Unfortunately for Felipe, the fuel hose was still attached!!! Still connected to the tank, the hose took out half the pit crew before ripping away and Massa had to stop at the end of the pit lane to wait for his crew to attend to Kimi and then run and pull out the loose hose. Rumour has it that the watching McLaren crew were cheering on the sprinting mechanics!Needless to say, Hamilton pitted without incident. And amongst the chaos, Rosberg was able to take the lead before serving his penalty!With all that went on, everyone was in a daze and it took several laps for the main benefactor to be established – Fernando Alonso! Yes, quite incredibly it would turn out that Alonso’s misfortune in qualifying, when with a clearly competitive car he cruelly suffered a fuel supply problem, helped him as his revised (and unique) one-stop strategy allowed the Spaniard to race to the finish.Hamilton was now behind Coulthard in 3rd, and with the lack of overtaking opportunities would have to hope that he could beat the Scot during the second round of pit stop. Lewis did, just not how he’d have expected.Going into the pits at the same time, Hamilton had another textbook stop, but Coulthard ‘done a Massa’ and almost went off with his hose!With the chequered flag in sight, it would appear that the excitement was over for one day, with Alonso taking the win, Rosberg in 2nd and Lewis finishing in 3rd. These were the final top 3, but we were about to be spoilt with another incident. Kimi was looking to safe for 5th when a mistake on the tight turn 10 chicane saw the Iceman end his race in the wall.The winner in Italy, Sebastian Vettel, capped another fine display with 5th, behind Timo Glock in 4th. In 6th, 7th and 8th were Nick Hiedfeld, David Coulthard and Kazuki Nakajima.Night racing is here to stay.<a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/driver/" target="_blank">Drivers’ Championship</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/team/" target="_blank">Constructors’ Championship</a>The disastrous pit stop played right into Lewis Hamilton’s hand, as the Brit is now 8pts ahead of Felipe Massa, and Ferrari’s nightmare weekend has been rubber-stamped by losing top spot in the Constructor’s Championship to McLaren, now leading by a single point, 135-134.<a href="http://www.purefantasyf1.net/MyPFF1sat.asp?MYD=41&LA=En" target="_blank">SupaLiga 2008</a><img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=18029&stc=1&d=1222632911" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />(Full table available in attachment)Oily achieved the highest score for the third race in succession (125pts) to open up a 48pt lead on the opposition. That opposition has changed, as my Dynamo team (109pts) reclaim 2nd place for the first time since Valencia. F1 Aberdeen has fallen to 3rd, Norm’s lowest placing since Bahrain. Team Oily also now head the chase for the Americas & Asia Cup, knocking ScotBordersF1 off pole position.Analoguesat’s ScotBordersF1, with a score of 109pts, did however join the 7 other teams that logged in centuries in Singapore. Creatures (110pts – 5th), Tom34 (112pts – 7th), Tossers (124pts – 9th) and Pro-Drive (106pts – 10th) all moved up 1 place in SupaLiga.Despite all the high scores, no one actually recorded a PB for the season this weekend – standards are evidently rising!NEXT RACE > JAPANESE GP @ FUJI > OCTOBER 12</blockquote>

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