Alonso also wins in 2008, Singapore review

The Singapore race was impressive on TV, a most beautiful town in the night race view, from the helicopter shots, with the race track sparkling like a diamond necklace..

The qualifying had a somewhat familiar setting. Massa first, Hamilton second and Raikkonen third. The race also seemed to follow predictable form, with Felipe running away from the others and seemed to be headed for an easy win.

Then came Piquet's accident and the safety car. And like so often with the safety car, the resulting pit stops turned into a total lottery. Massa was further caught in an accident with the electronic lights of the Ferrari pit, and left (with the green light showing) while the fuel hose was still attached, wrecking the fuel rig. His race was ruined.

Kimi was also a victim of the unscheduled pit stop. It seemed that Kimi was fuelled for longer than Massa, now he came in right after Massa and had to wait behind Massa at the pit stop, while most cars refuelled and rushed past him, until Kimi got to be refuelled. Still, Kimi was able to claw back from a backmarker position after this horrendous Ferrari pit stop, to a respectable 5th place towards the end of the race. But Kimi's horrible luck again hit him hard, at the end of the race, with 4 laps to go, he crashed into the wall. This is not Kimi's year (his career seems to go see-saw, a great year, a horrible year, a great year, a horrible year; this pattern was true like clock-work at McLaren as well. Is this more Kimi than the car?)

Lewis was able to get out best of the front-runners, and turned it into a safe third place finish, with precious 6 points, with Massa, Kubica and Raikkonen all failing to score.

Meanwhile, the lucky frontrunner out of the pit stops was Alonso. He turned the pace car situation into his advantage, and raced to challenge for the win. Nico Rosberg led at mid-point but was penalized for taking a pit stop when the pits were closed, which then demoted him down, and he finished second.

An exciting race yes, but mostly so because of the pace car mixing up the pack. Still, we saw plenty of overtaking, so this Singapore circuit is definitely worth the racing..

But Hamilton? Now holds a 7 point lead with 3 races to go... He's sitting pretty.