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All drivers gives a comment about the next race.

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This appears to be a little narrow for a F1 car... :wink: :roll:
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Singapore, day 2 (Friday)

Pos Driver Team Time/Retired
1 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:45.654
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:45.752
3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:45.793
4 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:45.797
5 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:46.164
6 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:46.384
7 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:46.580
8 Jenson Button Honda 1:46.901
9 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:47.013
10Timo Glock Toyota 1:47.046
11 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:47.137
12 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:47.145
13 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:47.300
14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:47.487
15 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:47.640
16 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:47.760
17 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:47.965
18 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:48.009
19 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:48.059
20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:48.311

source : http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/801/


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Friday analysis - Singapore’s star shines brightFriday’s first-ever night time practice sessions were a voyage of discovery. As expected, running beneath floodlights instead of in natural daylight proved spectacular for spectators and trouble-free for the drivers - in the dry at least. In fact, none of them reported any visibility problems at all. More challenging was coping with the numerous bumps on Singapore’s Marina Bay circuit, the very high humidity, an ambient temperature of 28 degrees Celsius (despite the late hour) and just an hour between sessions instead of the usual two and a half. We take a team-by-team look at the early progress…

McLaren
Lewis Hamilton, 1m 45.518s, P1/1m 45.752s, P2
Heikki Kovalainen, 1m 46.463s, P4/1m 45.797s, P4
Hamilton said he was quite happy with the way his day had gone, although his MP4-23 was bottoming over the bumps. He thought there was plenty of grip, however, which allowed him to brake late into the slower corners. He also reported that a good lap required twice the energy of a similar lap at Monaco. Kovalainen had a 360 degrees spin in the final corner in the first session, without sustaining any damage, but otherwise avoided trouble as he worked through his programme.

Renault
Fernando Alonso, 1m 46.725s, P7/1m 45.654s, P1
Nelson Piquet, 1m 47.175s, P9/1m 47.145s, P12
Alonso ran aggressively all day, which included missing the Turn 10 chicane at one point in the second session, and reported that the first day had gone well after setting the fastest time of that session. Piquet had an off in the Turn 18 escape road in the first session and spun in Turn 16 in the second, but was otherwise happy with the way his day went and recorded the most laps of any driver - 65.

Ferrari
Felipe Massa, 1m 45.598s, P2/1m 45.793s, P3
Kimi Raikkonen, 1m 45.961s, P3/1m 46.580s, P7
Massa reported a positive day, with a car that handled well, especially on the soft tyre. Raikkonen loved his F2008’s balance and poise in the morning, but said the afternoon was wasted after a set-up change that did not have the desired effect. Switching back would simply have taken too much time, so he had to make the best of the car as it was.

Williams
Nico Rosberg, 1m 46.710s, P6/1m 46.164s, P5
Kazuki Nakajima, 1m 47.662s, P12/1m 47.013s, P9
Rosberg said his pace all day left him feeling cautiously confident for the rest of the weekend, and that he was happy with his FW30’s balance thus far. Nakajima had some adventures, which included escape roads and later a brush with a wall in the second session.

BMW Sauber
Robert Kubica, 1m 46.618s, P5/1m 46.384s, P6
Nick Heidfeld, 1m 46.964s, P8/1m 47.760s, P16
Kubica was happy to get to grips with the track straight away, and was able to complete his planned programme without problem. Heidfeld said much the same, while admitting that his time in the second session might not necessarily convey that impression.

Honda
Jenson Button, 1m 47.277s, P10/1m 46.901s, P8
Rubens Barrichello, 1m 48.725s, P16/1m 48.009s, P18
As Button starred, Barrichello had a poor day. The Englishman said he’d ‘had a strange day of testing tonight,’ which about summed up the paradox of a night race, and was particularly surprised by the heat given the late hour. He reported a largely positive day, but that he didn’t get the best from his last set of new tyres. The Brazilian was troubled a lot by his RA108 bottoming, and admitted that with the set-up he tried for the second session, following his crash in the first, he was largely a passenger.

Toyota
Timo Glock, 1m 47.706s, P13/1m 47.046s, P10
Jarno Trulli, 1m 49.064s, P19/1m48.059s, P19
Glock made the pace initially in the first session, and ended the second 10th even though he was not totally happy with his TF108. That left him a lot better off than Trulli, who was 19th in both sessions as he struggled to find a decent set-up for the bumps. To cap it all, he was fined 10,000 euros for going against the flow of the traffic into the pits, after spinning in the final corner in the first session.

Red Bull
Mark Webber, 1m 53.703s, P20/1m 47.137s, P11
David Coulthard, 1m 48.517s, P15/1m 47.640s, P15
Webber was a little embarrassed with his incident in Turn 18 after three laps of the first session, when the bumps put him in the wall. The team managed to get him out late into the second session, and he made amends with the 11th fastest time. Coulthard likened the track surface to the cobbled streets of Paris, and predicted a lot of incidents in the race.

Toro Rosso
Sebastian Vettel, 1m 47.570s, P11/1m 47.300s, P13
Sebastien Bourdais, 1m 48.097s, P14/1m 47.487s, P14
Both drivers struggled with their STR3s over the bumps, finding that the need to run relatively high ride heights reduced grip and balance. Vettel reported low grip and had a couple of excursions to prove how hard he was pushing.

Force India
Giancarlo Fisichella, 1m 48.906s, P18/1m 47.965s, P17
Adrian Sutil, 1m 48.839s, P17/1m 48.311s, P20
Fisichella reported a normal day apart from a gearbox problem, but Sutil was troubled by bruised legs as his limbs made so much contact with the sides of the Force India’s monocoque over the numerous bumps.


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Saturday qualification :

Qualifications N.3:

1. Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari) 1:44.801
(moyenne: 174,743 km/h)
2. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/McLaren-Mercedes) 1:45.465
3. Kimi Räikkönen (FIN/Ferrari) 1:45.617
4. Robert Kubica (POL/BMW-Sauber) 1:45.779
5. Heikki Kovalainen (FIN/McLaren-Mercedes) 1:45.873
6. Nick Heidfeld (GER/BMW-Sauber) 1:45.964
7. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Toro Rosso-Ferrari) 1:46.244
8. Timo Glock (GER/Toyota) 1:46.328
9. Nico Rosberg (GER/Williams-Toyota) 1:46.611
10. Kazuki Nakajima (JPN/Williams-Toyota) 1:47.547

Eliminés Q2:

11. Jarno Trulli (ITA/Toyota)
12. Jenson Button (GBR/Honda)
13. Mark Webber (AUS/Red Bull-Renault)
14. David Coulthard (GBR/Red Bull-Renault)
15. Fernando Alonso (ESP/Renault)

Eliminés Q1:

16. Nelson Piquet Jr (BRA/Renault)
17. Sébastien Bourdais (FRA/Toro Rosso-Ferrari)
18. Rubens Barrichello (BRA/Honda)
19. Adrian Sutil (GER/Force India-Ferrari)
20. Giancarlo Fisichella (ITA/Force India-Ferrari)
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Hamilton was just lucky to made it trought Q2, he was on edge to be in 11th position. Too bad for Alonso, he was heading for a Top 5...
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Trulli fined for practice u-turnToyota’s Jarno Trulli has been reprimanded and fined 10,000 euros by Singapore Grand Prix stewards for driving the wrong way around the circuit during Friday evening’s opening practice session. Trulli spun coming out of the final corner. Rather than continuing down the start-finish straight, the Italian then drove a short distance in the wrong direction in order to access the pit lane, illegally crossing the white line at the pit entry in the process. Stewards decided he had breached of Article 30.2 of the 2008 FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations, and Appendix L Chapter 4 Article 4d of the International Sporting Code. The former states “drivers are strictly forbidden to drive their car in the opposite direction to the race unless this is absolutely necessary in order to move the car from a dangerous position,” while the latter says “except in cases of force majeure (accepted as such by the Stewards of the meeting), the crossing, in any direction, of the line separating the deceleration zone and the track is prohibited.”
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Wow, what a special GrandPrix. Im disapointed of the little possibility of passing, but still, few good move and few disapointment. Im shure that someone will loose his job at Ferrari, he may have destroy all chance of Massa winning it, but just a single stupid too fast move to say Go! Massa was kind of beeing bite by a big snake with that fuel hose folowing him. Too bad for Trulli, he did the best he could and a 1 stop was going to pay him. Alonso was paid back his bad luck of Qualif. I think he count get more luckier than that to be put in back in front, and from there, he did what he did for the all weekend, move his ass faster than the other. Way to go to Rosberg, bad shit again on him, SC on his pit lap... Kimi? well again, not at the level and a stupid mistake cost him alot.

1st driver to win the 1st GP done by night, winner of the 800th F1 race on a new track. Bravo Alonso!
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big congratulations to alonso, he deserved it!
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