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Formula One - Singapore Grand Prix Preview

From The Sports Network

DATE: Sunday, September 25th

SITE: Marina Bay Street Circuit (2008) -- Singapore

TRACK: 5.073 km (3.152 miles), 23-turn temporary street course

CAPACITY: 110,000

ANNUAL: 4th

TELEVISION: Speed Channel

START TIME: 8 a.m. (et)

DEFENDING CHAMPION: Fernando Alonso

RUNNER-UP: Sebastian Vettel

POLE WINNER: Fernando Alonso (Finished 1st)

LAPS: 61

MILES: 192.272 (309.316 km)

QUALIFYING RECORD: Felipe Massa, 2008 (1 minute, 44.801 seconds)

RACE RECORD: Lewis Hamilton, 2009 (1 hr., 56 min., 6.337 sec.)

2010 Finish
Finish	Driver	Start	Finish	Driver	Start
1	Fernando Alonso	1	6	Rubens Barrichello	6
2	Sebastian Vettel	2	7	Robert Kubica	8
3	Mark Webber	5	8	Felipe Massa	24
4	Jenson Button	4	9	Adrian Sutil	15
5	Nico Rosberg	7	10	Nico Hulkenberg	17

2010 Singapore Grand Prix Facts and Figures
AVERAGE SPEED: 157.422 k.p.h.
TIME OF RACE: 1 hour, 57 minutes, 53.579 seconds
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.293 second
CARS RUNNING AT FINISH: 15
CARS ON FINAL LAP: 10
FASTEST LAP: Fernando Alonso, 1:47.976, Lap 58
POLE WINNER: Lewis Hamilton (1:45.390)

Past Singapore Grand Prix Winners (Starting Position) Car -- Speed

2010 -- Fernando Alonso (1st) -- Ferrari -- 157.422 k.p.h./1:57:53.579

2009 -- Lewis Hamilton (1st) -- McLaren-Mercedes -- 159.845 k.p.h./1:56:06.337

2008 -- Fernando Alonso (15th) -- Renault -- 158.068 k.p.h./1:57:16.304

Past Singapore Grand Prix Pole Winners (Finish)

2010 -- Fernando Alonso -- 1st

2009 -- Lewis Hamilton -- 1st

2008 -- Felipe Massa -- 13th

Last Race Results
RACE: Italian Grand Prix (September 11th)
SITE: Autodromo Nazionale Monza -- Monza, Italy
LAPS: 53
MILES: 190.58
WINNER: Sebastian Vettel
RUNNER-UP: Jenson Button
THIRD: Fernando Alonso
FOURTH: Lewis Hamilton
FIFTH: Michael Schumacher
POLE WINNER: Sebastian Vettel (Finished 1st)
TIME OF RACE: 1 hour, 20 minutes, 46.172 seconds
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 9.590 seconds
AVERAGE SPEED: 227.848 k.p.h.

Singapore Grand Prix Entry List
Car	Driver, Hometown	Car/Name
1	Sebastian Vettel (Heppenheim, Germ)	Renault/Red Bull
2	Mark Webber (Queanbeyan, Australia)	Renault/Red Bull
3	Lewis Hamilton (Stevenage, England)	Mercedes/McLaren Vodafone
4	Jenson Button (Frome, England)	Mercedes/McLaren Vodafone
5 *	Fernando Alonso (Oviedo, Spain)	Ferrari/Marlboro
6	Felipe Massa (Sao Paulo, Brazil)	Ferrari/Marlboro
7	Michael Schumacher (Germany)	Mercedes GP/Petronas
8	Nico Rosberg (Wiesbaden, Germany)	Mercedes GP/Petronas
9	Bruno Senna (Sao Paulo, Brazil)	Renault/Lotus Renault GP
10	Vitaly Petrov (Vyborg, Russia)	Renault/Lotus Renault GP
11	Rubens Barrichello (Sao Paulo, Brz)	Cosworth/AT&T Williams
12	Pastor Maldonado (Venezuela)	Cosworth/AT&T Williams
14	Adrian Sutil (Grafelfing, Germany)	Mercedes/Force India
15	Paul di Resta (Livingston, Scotland)	Mercedes/Force India
16	Kamui Kobayashi (Amagasaki, Japan)	Ferrari/BMW Sauber
17	Sergio Perez (Guadalajara, Mexico)	Ferrari/BMW Sauber
18	Sebastien Buemi (Aigle, Switzerland)	Ferrari/Red Bull/Toro Rosso
19	Jaime Alguersuari (Barcelona, Spain)	Ferrari/Red Bull/Toro Rosso
20	Heikki Kovalainen (Finland)	Renault/Lotus
21	Jarno Trulli (Pescara, Italy)	Renault/Lotus
22	Daniel Ricciardo (Perth, Australia)	Cosworth/HRT
23	Vitantonio Liuzzi (Italy)	Cosworth/HRT
24	Timo Glock (Lindenfels, Germany)	Cosworth/Marussia Virgin
25	Jerome d'Ambrosio (Etterbeek, Belg)	Cosworth/Marussia Virgin

* - Defending champion.

Leading Contenders (Finish the last three years)
Driver	2008	2009	2010
Fernando Alonso	Won	3rd	Won
Sebastian Vettel	5th	4th	2nd
Mark Webber	18th	17th	3rd
Jenson Button	9th	5th	4th
Nico Rosberg	2nd	11th	5th
Felipe Massa	13th	---	8th
Rubens Barrichello	19th	6th	6th
Michael Schumacher	---	---	13th
Lewis Hamilton	3rd	Won	19th

Mover of the Week

Jaime Alguersuari - Started in the 18th position and finished 7th

Sports Network Selections

Pick to Win - Fernando Alonso

Darkhorse - Kamui Kobayashi

Last Week's Pick to Win (Fernando Alonso) - Finished 3rd

Last Week's Darkhorse (Adrian Sutil) - Finished 19th

NOTES:

Fernando Alonso started on the pole and led all 61 laps around the 3.152-mile (5.073 km) Marina Bay street circuit on a sultry night in Singapore last season. The victory was also his 25th career F1 win, which at the time, moved him into a tie for seventh-place on the circuit's all- time race winners list with Jim Clark and Niki Lauda. Since then, Alonso has added two more wins to his total and is tied with the great Jackie Stewart for fifth with 27 titles.

The Spaniard survived several collisions in 2010, including two that forced the deployment of the safety car. He also held off a hard-charging Sebastian Vettel from Red Bull Racing for most of the race. Ironically, Alonso is well behind Vettel for the points race this year, trailing by 112 points with only six races remaining. Vettel's victory two weeks ago in Italy was his second straight title and eighth of the season. In 13 starts, he has 13 top-five finishes.

Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 Formula One world champion, started on the pole and relinquished his lead briefly after pitting the second time during the 61- lap race en route to his second victory of the 2009 season and the 11th of his F1 career. Timo Glock placed second, 9.634 seconds behind Hamilton.

In 2008, Fernando Alonso captured the checkered flag, as he finished nearly three seconds ahead of Nico Rosberg for his 20th career F1 title. The victory snapped a year-long winless streak, a stretch that went back to the Italian Grand Prix in September of 2007.

The October 9th Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, Japan is the next Formula One event, as Sebastian Vettel will defend his title.

09/22 17:33:57 ET

As of September 22, 2011, at 05:34 PM ET

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