Monday, September 29, 2008
Last minute preparation for Ferrari
Massa stops in the pits but pulls away with the fuel hose still attached
Onboard with Massa as he takes his drive-though penalty for an earlier pit-lane incident
Then, Massa continues with the race but breaks a little too late and bushes the wall but rejoins the race
Just after Massa pulls away, Sutil crashes onto the same place
Raikkonen working hard in the Ferrari...he is the remaining hope of Ferrari...
Raikkonen crashes into the barrier with just four laps to go... it was indeed a terrible night for the Ferrari team...
Monday September 29, 12:33 AM
Alonso wins drama-filled F1 Singapore GP
Spain's Fernando Alonso won his first race in a year at the Singapore Grand Prix Sunday, taking the chequered flag in a drama-filled inaugural night race as a comical error cost Felipe Massa dearly.
It was the Renault driver's first victory since the Italian Grand Prix last year and capped a remarkable weekend that saw him top two of the free practice sessions but start 15th on the grid after a mechanical problem in qualifying.
He claimed his 20th career triumph by 2.95 seconds over Germany's Nico Rosberg in a Williams and Britain's world championship leader Lewis Hamilton.
Toyota driver Timo Glock was fourth with Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel following up his win in Italy this month with fifth. BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld took sixth.
"It is fantastic, I am extremely happy. I can't believe it right now and it will take a few days to realise what we have done," said Alonso.
"Winning had seemed impossible all season but we have been competitive all weekend. The car was super."
The race was a new experience for every driver on a street circuit under powerful spotlights and it turned out to be one of the most exciting of the season.
Despite dark clouds lurking, Singapore's notorious tropical downpours stayed away and the whole race was run in dry, but hot and humid conditions.
Rosberg scored his best ever finish and was over the moon.
"The car felt pretty good and we knew we could be strong on this track and for once the luck went with us," he said.
Similarly, Hamilton was happy to get points while Massa didn't.
"I enjoyed driving here and I'm pretty happy," he said. "It was a tough weekend but we got some good points."
Ferrari's Massa started from pole but a disastrous mistake cost him the race and valuable points in his push for the world title.
His 13th place finish means he lags seven points behind Hamilton with just three Grand Prix left at Japan, China and Brazil.
The Brazilian was in the pits on lap 15 when he was given the green light and drove off with the fuel hose still attached to his car, leaving one of the pit crew floored and subsequently carted off in a neck brace.
Massa ended up sitting in his Ferrari at the end of the pit lane as the crew ran after him and managed to pull the hose free, but it ruined his chances. He was given a drive through penalty and rejoined in 18th place.
It was a miserable night for Ferrari with defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen ramming his car into the barriers with just four laps left.
"We could have finished first and second and it could have been different," said Massa, but he refused to blame the crew member who gave the green light too early.
"We are all human beings, everyone makes mistakes. I am not the sort of person who goes to a guy and fights with him."
The Massa drama occurred after the cars came in when Nelson Piquet careered into a wall, causing massive damage to his Renault.
He climbed out unscathed but the safety car was deployed.
Massa was leading at the time with Hamilton second but at the restart, Rosberg was in front and Alonso fifth.
But Rosberg was subsequently slapped with a 10-second stop-go penalty for coming into the pits before it had opened after the Piquet crash.
The complicated scenario saw Toyota's Jarno Trulli in the lead on lap 28 but without having pitted with Alonso second, Rosberg third and Hamilton sixth.
With Trulli taking his first pit stop soon after Alonso amazingly found himself in front just after the halfway mark.
He came in for his second pit stop on lap 41 and emerged just ahead of David Coulthard and Hamilton.
Remarkably, when Coulthard pitted soon after, he too drove off with the fuel pipe attached, knocking over a mechanic who was stretchered off.
There was more action to come.
Alonso was cruising with a 23-second lead when Adrian Sutil shunted his Force India into the wall, bringing the safety car out again and wiping out the Spaniard's advantage.
When they restarted with seven laps left it was a sprint to the finish and the two-time world champion made no mistakes.
Pit-lane errors cost Massa and Ferrari dear
After Felipe Massa’s scintillating qualifying performance, Ferrari were confident of victory heading into Sunday’s inaugural Singapore Grand Prix. Instead, however, they leave the Marina Bay circuit rueing vital pit-stop errors that ruined the Brazilian’s race and cost the Italian team the lead in the constructors’ championship.Everything started smoothly for Massa, the pole-sitter quickly building a lead over title rival Lewis Hamilton. But at his first pit stop disaster struck. He was given the green light too early and left with the fuel hose still attached to his car. Massa was forced to wait at the end of the pit lane for his mechanics to run down and wrestle the hose off, but he then received a drive-through penalty for being unsafely released from the stop. The blunder undoubtedly cost him the race and after a late puncture he eventually finished 13th - 35 seconds adrift of victor Fernando Alonso. “It's hard to deal with losing in this fashion a race that was within our grasp, with a car that was just the way I wanted it,” said Massa. “We had a good strategy and all the signs were there that we could get a one-two finish. But things can change in a moment and that's what happened today. At the pit stop, one of the guys made a mistake. But we are only human. Each one of us always tries to do our best and these things can happen.”Despite Massa’s strife, Ferrari were still poised to pick up four points courtesy of Kimi Raikkonen, who was running in P5 after his final pit stop. That was until the champion went off into the wall at Turn 10 with less than four laps to go. "I was trying to attack Glock in case he might make a mistake, but I went slightly wide at the chicane, jumping over the kerb and when the car landed, I lost control and ended up in the barriers,” explained Raikkonen. “My situation in the championship was already rather compromised, so this doesn't really make that much difference but I am unhappy because the team has lost precious points in the constructors' classification.”Ferrari’s failure to score in Singapore means that rivals McLaren now lead the constructors’ standings, with 135 points to the reigning champions’ 134.
Team Ferrari- Massa's incident (he was given the green light too early and drove off with the fuel hose still attached to his car)
Team Ferrari- Kimi Raikkonen (he crushed into the wall with less than 4 laps to go)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
i was supposed to go for my 'history of management thought' lecture but all the seats were taken up when we reached...so we decided to carry the chair from somewhere else...but all the chairs were taken up too! in the end we ended up walking to the food court for breakfast at 9+am....haha...zzz...i hope they will book a bigger lecture room in the future...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
i hate smokers who smoke beside the windows...yucks...hate it when the smoke fills up my whole room and it doesn't smell like normal cigarettes... please hide in the toilet to smoke...yucks....i can't get to sleep now as my whole room is like polluted with smoke....yucks! so horrible as i have to close my windows when i sleep and i don't even have air-con in my room....ahhhhhhhhh...and i wanna complain more! that 'person' always walk around in his/her room stomping around the house...and i can hear it so clearly...its like someone stomping and walking on top of your head when u are sleeping...yucks....and i think the person staying upstairs is a guy...yucks yucks..... i hope he will wake up one day and stop all his terrible bad habits e.g smoking beside the window and stomping around the house...p.s: i am complaining because i had asthma when i was younger...and i hate the smell of smoke
Sunday, September 21, 2008
went to the games convention at suntec city yesterday....and saw a few new games.... e.g
www.elanonline.com.sgand this game-->nostale....and i doubt i can install the game as it requires GeForce2 Radeon 8500 graphic card and above....
Thursday, September 18, 2008
mood= sad...i still care but i don't say it and i am waiting for u to understand
Monday, September 15, 2008
have been receiving weird phone calls from weird phone numbers recently... so please only call me once/twice if you wish to contact me...someone have been giving me a lot of missed calls and i usually don't call back if i did not receive any sms from the person...so please sms me instead of calling me/please sms me and i will return your call...thanks!
Bought this book from
SIM's popular
bookfair last
saturday...and the books are really affordable...everything is selling at only $5 each...and i managed to get this book for $5...
there are pictures to explain ways to use the
dreamweaver and i think this is very useful to me as i prefer pictures + words rather than only words alone. Have been busy this few days and just can't find to download
dreamweaver so i guess it will be quite some time before i am able to find time to edit my
blogskin....project
submission will be on this
Thursday and my exams will be during
October...and i haven't start preparing for my exams....zzzz.....i'm really looking forward to the holidays after the exam period....might want to find a temporary job/ slack at home with zero income....
haha
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
this is what happens when a dog decides to yawn at the wrong time....
hahaa
Monday, September 8, 2008
Hi there!
i just changed my blogskin yesterday and the blogskin skin is still under construction so bear with me if you find it plain....will add in more items later on.....this is due to the limited resources that i have...here's what i've used
-->microsoft powerpoint 2007
-->www.blogskins.com
-->www.photobucket.com
-->www.blogspot.com
I tried downloading dreamweaver software but i am unable to open the file...so i have to download it again....zzzzzz...in the meantime, please give me your feedback regarding my blog....e.g i still think it is too plain, and the font are too small........
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
went out with 7 flowers and dragon yesterday..... please inform me when dragon has uploaded the photos onto the computer...thanks!
