Singapore GP - A fantastic first
Singapore, 27th September
Felipe Massa's name appears in first place at the end of the first qualifying session for the first Singapore Grand Prix, the first ever night race in the history of Formula 1, thus ensuring another unique honour for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro. The Brazilian put together the perfect lap, setting the fastest times in all three sectors to secure his fourteenth pole position. It was a very impressive performance on a track that he described as being tougher even than that other famous street track, Monaco. Kimi Raikkonen will start behind his team-mate, in third place, which is also a good showing considering that the Finn had set-up problems on his F2008 yesterday and lost track time in today's free practice session with a technical problem. Splitting the two red cars and joining Felipe on the front row is the man who leads him by one point in the championship, Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren-Mercedes. Kimi shares the second row with the BMW-Sauber of Robert Kubica, while row 3 sees the second McLaren-Mercedes of Heikki Kovalainen in fifth spot with the BMW-Sauber of Nick Heidfeld next to him in sixth.
Apart from dealing with the unusual timetable at this event, Kimi and Felipe have also been kept busier than usual with sponsor and media work. The high level of interest generated by Formula 1's first ever night race has also seen our partners capitalising on the unique occasion. Even before this weekend, Kimi was busy, having visited Abu Dhabi for functions involving our partners, Mubadala and Etihad and the Finn also visited Yas Island, the site of a Ferrari Theme Park, due to open to the public in early 2010. Apart from that, the latest road car to come out of Maranello, the California, was launched in Singapore on Wednesday and both drivers were involved in the event at a hotel in the city. There have been plenty of Fiats on track here too, with a fleet of Fiat Cinquentos being used for a Media "Race," with all the cars personally autographed by the two Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro drivers.
Tomorrow's inaugural Singapore Grand Prix gets underway at eight in the evening local time: it will be a long race with 61 laps and an average lap speed of around one minute and forty five seconds. The heat, the humidity, the bumps, the tricky nature of the circuit, the floodlit track and pit lane will all add up to one of the toughest challenges of the season for the cars, the drivers and the team. With the championship battle so close, the result will also be a very important one.
Felipe Massa's name appears in first place at the end of the first qualifying session for the first Singapore Grand Prix, the first ever night race in the history of Formula 1, thus ensuring another unique honour for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro. The Brazilian put together the perfect lap, setting the fastest times in all three sectors to secure his fourteenth pole position. It was a very impressive performance on a track that he described as being tougher even than that other famous street track, Monaco. Kimi Raikkonen will start behind his team-mate, in third place, which is also a good showing considering that the Finn had set-up problems on his F2008 yesterday and lost track time in today's free practice session with a technical problem. Splitting the two red cars and joining Felipe on the front row is the man who leads him by one point in the championship, Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren-Mercedes. Kimi shares the second row with the BMW-Sauber of Robert Kubica, while row 3 sees the second McLaren-Mercedes of Heikki Kovalainen in fifth spot with the BMW-Sauber of Nick Heidfeld next to him in sixth.
Apart from dealing with the unusual timetable at this event, Kimi and Felipe have also been kept busier than usual with sponsor and media work. The high level of interest generated by Formula 1's first ever night race has also seen our partners capitalising on the unique occasion. Even before this weekend, Kimi was busy, having visited Abu Dhabi for functions involving our partners, Mubadala and Etihad and the Finn also visited Yas Island, the site of a Ferrari Theme Park, due to open to the public in early 2010. Apart from that, the latest road car to come out of Maranello, the California, was launched in Singapore on Wednesday and both drivers were involved in the event at a hotel in the city. There have been plenty of Fiats on track here too, with a fleet of Fiat Cinquentos being used for a Media "Race," with all the cars personally autographed by the two Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro drivers.
Tomorrow's inaugural Singapore Grand Prix gets underway at eight in the evening local time: it will be a long race with 61 laps and an average lap speed of around one minute and forty five seconds. The heat, the humidity, the bumps, the tricky nature of the circuit, the floodlit track and pit lane will all add up to one of the toughest challenges of the season for the cars, the drivers and the team. With the championship battle so close, the result will also be a very important one.
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