The race started seeing Jaime Alguersuari starting from the pit lane and no great action was witnessed as the five lights illuminated for the Singapore GP 2010. Vitantonio Luizzi retired from the race in the second lap due to suspension failure. The safety car set in right away. Meanwhile, Felipe Massa took an early pit stop in the race. Red Bull driver Mark Webber pulled in the slow pit lane too to switch to hard tires. Felipe Massa dominated the tail end of the line up by grabbing the 14th position in the 15th lap. Right in the 16th lap, Juarno Trulli entered the pit lane entered the pit lane after a tire puncture and retired from the race when it was a quarter way through. Nico Rosberg collided in the 16th lap which resulted into a yellow lap board for the viewers. He ended up damaging the rear suspension of his car. Race leaders, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel were trading fastest lap times which were a delight as they clocked fastest than their counterpart every alternate lap. The team radio of the Red Bull team was heard that Vettel’s car had braking problems which were heating abnormally. In spite of that, Little Schumi responded to his engineer that he wasn’t “pushing!” Now that was quite some astonishing racing from the championship contender of this season. The track saw a lot of debris flying which painted our lap boards yellow again. This waved yellow flag was a boon to all the drivers who were running on option tires as the tires cooled down from their first heat cycle which eventually increased the life of the Bridgestone rubber during lap 16. The race carried on and in the laps, 29 to 33, the pit lane was busier than the track as most of the line up pulled in. this helped the race as it reset and set out on a new pace, filled with energy. Mark Webber gained in the race due to his early pit stop strategy. Lap 32 saw Brunno Senna crash into Kamui Kobayashi which again made our lap board yellow. Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton go into some wheel to wheel action out of which the former came out victorious. Hamilton being run wide tried to get back in the racing line but crashed out of the race. There were high expectations from the one time world champion as he had crashed out of Monza too in the first lap. Michael Schumacher landed in trouble when he collided into Nick Heidfeld and damaged the front wing of the car and entered in the not-so-fast pit lane again in lap 38. Back into F1 racing after being the test driver for Pirelli tires, Nick Heidfeld crashed and retired. Lap 46 saw Robert Kubica retire from the race as he had damaged the right rear tire. Timo Glock also retired from the race at lap 52. There was great wheel to wheel action for the 7th position in the race. The stewards worried about the 10:00p.m deadline so the race could have been called off without completing 61 laps but that was not the case. The 60th lap ended in disaster for Lotus Cosworth driver Heikki Kovalainen’s car’s bodywork caught fire due to the heat off the exhaust pipes. This event immediately saw the yellow flag being waved. The last lap gave a last chance to Sebastian Vettel to overtake Fernando Alonso who was trailing by only 0.233 seconds thanks to the yellow flag in the earlier lap. Fernando Alonso finished the lap in first place leaving the crowd delighted and celebrated his victory as soon as he got out of the cockpit. He finished the race in 1:57:53:579seconds.
All in all, indeed the race was a real cracker except for some monotony in bits and pieces, here and there. A bumpy race and loads and loads of yellow flags accompanied by the blue flag was Singapore GP 2010. It was real bad to see the flying carbon fiber components of the tummies of the car for all the enthusiasts. (Trust me, it sure was!). All the podium finishers showed tremendous fatigue post the race due to the immense heat. That proves how these drivers push themselves at every race. Fernando Alonso’s triumph, Lewis Hamilton’s crash reset the driver’s champion. It sure is heating up!
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