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Singapore Qualifying
Topic Started: Sep 27 2008, 05:00 PM (387 Views)
Woody
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Felipe Massa took pole position for Formula 1’s inaugural night race in Singapore with a crushingly dominant performance in Saturday’s qualifying.

The Ferrari driver outpaced his world championship rival Lewis Hamilton by a jaw-dropping two-thirds of a second with a mighty final lap – a margin that will surely give the McLaren man cause for concern ahead of Sunday’s race.

Hamilton had only just squeaked into the top-10 shootout after a scrappy Q2 session left him on the brink of elimination.

He recovered well in Q3 but had no answer to Massa’s pace on either of his runs, looking slightly more ragged and locking wheels in some of the bumpy braking zones around the 3.15-mile Marina Bay street course.

Kimi Raikkonen secured third on the grid in the other Ferrari, his best qualifying effort since the British Grand Prix, although he still trailed team-mate Massa by 0.8s.

Like Hamilton, the world champion had flirted with disaster earlier in qualifying, leaving it until late in the first knockout session to secure a place in Q2 – although when he finally did so, he set the fastest time of anybody.

Robert Kubica broke the usual Ferrari/McLaren stranglehold on the top four grid slots, hauling his BMW up to fourth ahead of the second MP4-23 of Heikki Kovalainen.

The Finn had looked quick in the two knockout sessions but failed to deliver when it mattered most, giving Ferrari the clear advantage in terms of track position heading into the race.

Nick Heidfeld completing a good day for BMW by taking sixth on the grid, while Italian GP winner Sebastian Vettel again punched above his weight with seventh in the Toro Rosso.

Timo Glock outqualified his Toyota team-mate Jarno Trulli for only the fourth time this season to line up a strong eighth, with the Italian down in 11th after missing the cut for Q3 by 0.1s.

Williams duo Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima delivered on the promise they had shown in practice to annex the fifth row, confirming that the Grove-based squad can still be competitive on slower tracks where mechanical rather than aerodynamic grip is the priority.

Jenson Button took an encouraging 12th for Honda, while both Red Bulls failed to make the top-10 shootout and will start 13th (Mark Webber) and 14th (David Coulthard).

The most disgruntled man after qualifying was undoubtedly Fernando Alonso, who had topped the times in two of the three free practice sessions and looked in with a real chance of qualifying on the front two rows.

The Spaniard sailed through Q1 only for his Renault to grind to a halt just minutes into Q2, consigning him to a bitterly disappointing 15th on the grid.

Toro Rosso's Sebastien Bourdais surprisingly didn’t make it past Q1 after struggling with an evil-looking STR3 which he surmised had a fundamental problem.


Starting grid for the Singapore GP


1. MASSA Ferrari
2. HAMILTON McLaren
3. RAIKKONEN Ferrari
4. KUBICA BMW
5. KOVALAINEN McLaren
6. HEIDFELD BMW
7. VETTEL Toro Rosso
8. GLOCK Toyota
9. ROSBERG Williams
10. NAKAJIMA Williams
11. TRULLI Toyota
12. BUTTON Honda
13. WEBBER Red Bull
14. COULTHARD Red Bull
15. ALONSO Renault
16. PIQUET Renault
17. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso
18. BARRICHELLO Honda
19. SUTIL Force India
20. FISICHELLA Force India
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That list looks like it could be the finishing order as well. :S
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flak
Sep 27 2008, 10:44 PM
That list looks like it could be the finishing order as well. :S

No :hit:

I think Hamilton will win it. Also Alonso will finish higher than 15th i should think would have been in the top 10 and made Q3 if his there wasn't a porblem with his car i should have thought.
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hamilton was living on the edge in q2.was very poor in that qualifying and almost cost him a place in the top 10 shoot out
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Yah i watched it and if Alonso hadn't had the problem then Hamilton probably wouldn't have made it.
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