2012 Singapore Grand Prix Review

2012 Singapore Grand Prix review of round fourteen of the F1 season at Marina Bay Street Circuit, and thoughts on the race as well.

Good points

• Sebastian Vettel (won the race, after Hamilton's gearbox failure)
• Jenson Button (finished 2nd)
• Fernando Alonso (finished 3rd)
• Paul di Resta (finished 4th)
• Nico Rosberg (finished 5th)
• Lotus F1 Team (Kimi Räikkonen finished 6th; Romain Grosjean finished 7th, first race back after his one race ban at Monza)
• Daniel Ricciardo (finished 9th)
• Timo Glock (finished 12th, meaning this result seeing Marussia F1 Team take tenth position in the Constructors' Championship from Caterham with six rounds to go)

Bad points

• Lewis Hamilton (DNF, Gearbox, while leading)
• Jean-Éric Vergne (DNF, Collision with Schumacher)
• Michael Schumacher (DNF, Collision with Vergne and 10 place grid penalty for Suzuka as-well)
• Williams (Pastor Maldonado DNF, hydraulics failure; Bruno Senna DNF, Engine)
• Narain Karthikeyan (DNF, Accident)
• Mark Webber (finished 9th, but got added 20 seconds more after the race was ended to his time, after he cut corner in order to surpass Kamui Kobayashi, to finished in 11th place overall)
• Kamui Kobayashi (collision with Nico Hülkenberg at the end of the race to finished in 13th)
• Nico Hülkenberg (collision with Kamui Kobayashi at the end of the race to finished in 14th)
• Vitaly Petrov (a pit-stop error to finished in 19th)

This race was a race of two parts, the first part was a dominating race from Lewis Hamilton from starting in pole position to leading the race, until the start of lap 23 when his gearbox failed to give him another DNF this season and possibly any change of a second drivers championship this season. Now only 52 points behind Alonso in the standings. The second part after Hamilton DNF was Sebastian Vettel took the lead to conclude with a race win on Sunday to give Vettel his second win of the season since Bahrain. Jenson Button finished in second, while championship leader Fernando Alonso finished third at the end of the race.

Which, gives Fernando Alonso still leading the drivers championship with 29 points ahead of Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen is still third in the standings with 45 points behind and Lewis Hamilton is forth in the standings with 52 points behind Alonso in the drivers championship with six races to go.

While in the constructor's championship, Red Bull still leading the standings with Vettel's race win, while McLaren are still second in the constructors standings, 36 points behind Red Bull. Ferrari are now 52 points behind Red Bull in the standings in third place with six races to go.

End of blog for how, new blog soon, bye.