Formula One - Singapore Grand Prix Preview
From The Sports Network
| |
| DATE: Sunday, September 23rd |
| SITE: Marina Bay Street Circuit (2008) -- Singapore |
| TRACK: 5.073 km (3.152 miles), 23-turn temporary street course |
| CAPACITY: 110,000 |
| ANNUAL: 5th |
| TELEVISION: Speed Channel |
| START TIME: 8 a.m. (ET) |
| DEFENDING CHAMPION: Sebastian Vettel |
| RUNNER-UP: Jenson Button |
| POLE WINNER: Sebastian Vettel (Finished 1st) |
| LAPS: 61 |
| MILES: 192.272 (309.316 km) |
| QUALIFYING RECORD: Sebastian Vettel, 2011 (1 minute, 44.381 seconds) |
| RACE RECORD: Lewis Hamilton, 2009 (1 hr., 56 min., 6.337 sec.) |
| 2011 Finish |
| Finish | Driver | Start | Finish | Driver | Start |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 1 | 6 | Paul di Resta | 10 |
| 2 | Jenson Button | 3 | 7 | Nico Rosberg | 7 |
| 3 | Mark Webber | 2 | 8 | Adrian Sutil | 9 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | 4 | 9 | Felipe Massa | 6 |
| 5 | Lewis Hamilton | 5 | 10 | Sergio Perez | 11 |
| 2011 Singapore Grand Prix Facts and Figures |
| AVERAGE SPEED: 155.810 k.p.h. |
| TIME OF RACE: 1 hour, 59 minutes, 6.757 seconds |
| MARGIN OF VICTORY: 1.737 seconds |
| CARS RUNNING AT FINISH: 20 |
| CARS ON FINAL LAP: 6 |
| FASTEST LAP: Jenson Button, 1:48.454, Lap 54 |
| POLE WINNER: Sebastian Vettel (1:44.381) |
| Past Singapore Grand Prix Winners (Starting Position) Car -- Speed |
| 2011 -- Sebastian Vettel (1st) -- Red Bull-Renault -- 155.810 kph/1:59:06.757 |
| 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) |
| 2011 -- Sebastian Vettel -- 1st |
| 2010 -- Fernando Alonso -- 1st |
| 2009 -- Lewis Hamilton -- 1st |
| 2008 -- Felipe Massa -- 13th |
| Last Race Results |
| RACE: Italian Grand Prix (September 9th) |
| SITE: Autodromo Nazionale Monza -- Monza, Italy |
| LAPS: 53 |
| MILES: 190.58 (306.720 km) |
| WINNER: Lewis Hamilton |
| RUNNER-UP: Sergio Perez |
| THIRD: Fernando Alonso |
| FOURTH: Felipe Massa |
| FIFTH: Kimi Raikkonen |
| POLE WINNER: Lewis Hamilton (Finished 1st) |
| TIME OF RACE: 1 hour, 19 minutes, 41.221 seconds |
| MARGIN OF VICTORY: 4.356 seconds |
| AVERAGE SPEED: 230.943 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 | Jenson Button (Frome, England) | Mercedes/McLaren Vodafone |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton (Stevenage, England) | Mercedes/McLaren Vodafone |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso (Oviedo, Spain) | Ferrari/Scuderia |
| 6 | Felipe Massa (Sao Paulo, Brazil) | Ferrari/Scuderia |
| 7 | Michael Schumacher (Germany) | Mercedes/AMG Petronas |
| 8 | Nico Rosberg (Wiesbaden, Germany) | Mercedes/AMG Petronas |
| 9 | Kimi Raikkonen (Espoo, Finland) | Renault/Lotus |
| 10 | Romain Grosjean (Geneva,Switzerland) | Renault/Lotus |
| 11 | Paul di Resta (Livingston, Scotland) | Mercedes/Force India |
| 12 | Nico Hulkenberg (Emmerich, Germany) | Mercedes/Force India |
| 14 | Kamui Kobayashi (Amagasaki, Japan) | Ferrari/Sauber |
| 15 | Sergio Perez (Guadalajara, Mexico) | Ferrari/Sauber |
| 16 | Daniel Ricciardo (Perth, Australia) | Ferrari/Scuderia Toro Rosso |
| 17 | Jean-Eric Vergne (Pontoise, France) | Ferrari/Scuderia Toro Rosso |
| 18 | Pastor Maldonado (Maracay,Venezuela) | Renault/Williams |
| 19 | Bruno Senna (Sao Paulo, Brazil) | Renault/Williams |
| 20 | Heikki Kovalainen (Finland) | Renault/Caterham |
| 21 | Vitaly Petrov (Vyborg, Russia) | Renault/Caterham |
| 22 | Pedro de la Rosa (Barcelona, Spain) | Cosworth/HRT |
| 23 | Narain Karthikeyan (Chennai, India) | Cosworth/HRT |
| 24 | Timo Glock (Lindenfels, Germany) | Cosworth/Marussia |
| 25 | Charles Pic (Montelimar, France) | Cosworth/Marussia |
| Leading Contenders (Finish the last four years) |
| Driver | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | | | | | |
| Sebastian Vettel | 5th | 4th | 2nd | Won | | | | | |
| Jenson Button | 9th | 5th | 4th | 2nd | | | | | |
| Mark Webber | 18th | 17th | 3rd | 3rd | | | | | |
| Fernando Alonso | Won | 3rd | Won | 4th | | | | | |
| Lewis Hamilton | 3rd | Won | 19th | 5th | | | | | |
| Nico Rosberg | 2nd | 11th | 5th | 7th | | | | | |
| Sergio Perez | --- | --- | --- | 10th | | | | | |
| Pastor Maldonado | --- | --- | --- | 11th | | | | | |
| Michael Schumacher | --- | --- | 13th | 23rd | | | | | |
| Kimi Raikkonen | 15th | 10th | --- | --- | | | | | |
| Romain Grosjean | --- | 20th | --- | --- | | | | | |
| Mover of the Week |
| Pastor Maldonado - Started in the 22nd position and finished 11th |
| Sports Network Selections |
| Pick to Win - Lewis Hamilton |
| Darkhorse - Sergio Perez |
| Last Week's Pick to Win (Fernando Alonso) - Finished 3rd |
| Last Week's Darkhorse (Felipe Massa) - Finished 4th |
| NOTES: |
|
For the second consecutive season, the pole sitter dominated this race, as
Sebastian Vettel posted his ninth of 11 victories last year, en route to the
2011 championship.
Vettel put on a flawless performance, leading all 61 laps to post his 19th of
22 career titles, defeating Jenson Button by 1.737 seconds. Vettel held a
sizeable lead over Button for a majority of the race. He held an 18-second
advantage over the McLaren driver at one point, but Button came on strong in
the closing laps.
Fernando Alonso started on the pole in 2010 and led all 61 laps around the
3.152-mile (5.073 km) Marina Bay street circuit on a sultry night in Singapore.
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 five more wins to his total
and is now fifth on the wins list, just one behind Nigel Mansell. The Spaniard
survived several collisions in 2010, including two that forced the deployment
of the safety car. He also held off a hard-charging Vettel from Red Bull Racing
for most of the race.
Lewis Hamilton 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 pole sitter has won this race the last three years. The Singapore Grand
Prix circuit has several distinct features, including the Sheares Corner at the
start, the Memorial Corner at turn 7 and the Singapore Sling during turn 10.
With seven races remaining, Alonso owns a wide lead over four drivers.
Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and Vettel trail by 37, 38 and 39 points respectively,
while Mark Webber is 47 points behind. Hamilton picked up 10 points on Alonso
following his win in Italy.
The next Formula One race is the October 7 Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka,
Japan, where Jenson Button is the defending race winner.
09/18 15:14:26 ET
|
As of September 18, 2012, at 03:14 PM ET
Powered by The Sports Network.
|
