I'll look at the expectations before the race, what I thought of the outcome and any other worthy subjects that came up during the race.
T.P.S Report for 2009 Singapore Grand Prix
During the build up to Singapore only one story was making the headlines, the Renault lie-gate affair. My thoughts on this are that basically they shouldn't have done it, Piquet should have said no and Flavio and Symonds needed to be punished for what they allowed to happen and for thinking of the plan in the first place. But it seems justice was served, maybe Flavio got a bit of a harsh punishment? I think it was his time to go anyway.
The story of qualifying was that the Brawn cars failed to get good grid positions and with Rubens crashing at the end of Q3 Vettel and Rosberg were denied finishing their flying laps. Lewis had pole, another dominating drive in Quali from him. The McLaren seems to have found the pace again lately, although Heikki continues to battle with it.
Rosberg and Vettel were looking like they had a chance to win from their grid positions and with a chaotic start predicted it looked like we were in for a decent race.
The race was more eventful than I expected. 2 safety car periods, a few crashes, lots of retirements and some very stupid mistakes that ended up locking in the win for Hamilton. Lewis was in a race of his own really, the car was perfect and he had clear track ahead of him. Passing isn't really possible in Singapore unless its done during pit stops or because of a spin/accident.
Rosberg threw away the race when he pissed the pit exit, why i'm not yet sure! Vettel then got caught speeding in the pit lane, which there is no excuse for these days.
Drive of the day for me was Glock closely followed by Alonso.
Glock made his Toyota work, he had the pace and getting past Alonso was key to him securing a podium for Toyota. If the rumors are true and Toyota are getting rid of both their 2009 drivers for next year, Glock has just kept his name on everyone radar with this podium, maybe Toyota will even keep him now.
Alonso also got a great result out of that Renault. I still think Alonso is one of only a few drivers on the grid today that can get a podium out of a mediocre car. He's proved his talent in every race he has been in and with an imminent move to Ferrari maybe only a week away, I think the best of Alonso is yet to come. But that's for another blog entry!
Overall Singapore didn't disappoint. The title looks like it will go down to the last race and with Button finding a bit more form lately, I think he has in in the bag.
But this is Formula One, Kimi won the 2007 WDC in the last race and Massa was World Champion for a few seconds in 2008 before Lewis got that one spot back on the last corner of the last race!
Anything can and usually does happen!
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