Formula 1 2015: Round 13 - Singapore GP

Jordan 199

F1 visits the streets of Singapore for the Grand Prix this weekend.



It will be the eighth Grand Prix at Singapore this weekend.

Fernando Alonso won the first Grand Prix here in 2008 driving for Renault and won in 2010 driving for Ferrari.

Other winners are Lewis Hamilton who won in 2009 driving for McLaren and 2014 driving for Mercedes.

Sebastian Vettel won in 2011, 2012 and 2013 driving for Red Bull.

Rosberg has to win this race if he wants to have a chance to win the championship IMO. He is 53 points behind Lewis at the moment.

Frank Bullitt

Smog is clearing up now, so no worry for that affecting the race.

There does look like a chance of some rain though, which would be nice!

Charlie-Bravo

Not just any rain, acid rain. If only F1 was more greener. They should invent engines that use less fuel. Oh wait...

Frank Bullitt

If only people realized that making F1 cars "greener" isn't going to solve global warming.

Jordan 199

Sauber will be using a new shorter nose this weekend:



Old nose is on the left and new nose is on the right in this pic:

Myrddin

Gintonious wrote: »

If only people realized that making F1 cars "greener" isn't going to solve global warming.

I'd love if there was a total carbon footprint record for 2013 (V8 era), & 2014 (Hybrid era)...I'd be shocked if 2014 was lower than 2013 all things considered (manufacturing, shipping, logistics etc). But hey, we use a bit less fuel in the races now so all is good with the world

Frank Bullitt

Myrddin wrote: »

I'd love if there was a total carbon footprint record for 2013 (V8 era), & 2014 (Hybrid era)...I'd be shocked if 2014 was lower than 2013 all things considered (manufacturing, shipping, logistics etc). But hey, we use a bit less fuel in the races now so all is good with the world

I remember reading that shipping the cargo for the Williams team to the first race in Oz, used up more fuel than all the cars put together for a whole year.

*I know this reads like a silly Father Ted quote, but I genuinely did read that. And it wouldn't surprise me.

Never mind getting 100k+ people moved around for 3-5 days straight. :P

HighLine

Rossi hits the wall in FP1... bit of a moronic decision to make an F1 rookie's first drive on a tight street circuit.

https://twitter.com/F1/status/644835513141174273

bnt

Well, Rossi's car number is 53, so his backup car is standing by:

https://twitter.com/AlexanderRossi/status/644471511076732928

Myrddin

Are the Mercs sandbagging, they both seem out of position looking at the results of FP1/2? Either that, or the slow, tight nature of this track exposes them a little?

HighLine

Ferrari seem to have genuine pace here... hopefully they can lock out the first row of the grid. Also RedBull up there too.

mrsoundie

Bit strange to see Mercedes so poor, nice to see the Ferraris up front.

Myrddin

Vettel has this in the bag I think

antodeco

McLarens seem to have a bit of pace. 1.1 seconds off the top time with 5 minutes of Q1 to go.

bnt

Q1: Hamilton did a really slow lap first, was pushed down to P16, came out and took P1 on super-soft, and was immediately topped by Kvyat.

(I'm watching this in NBCSN in the USA: makes me wish I could get the BBC feed here. They stopped coverage in the middle of Q1, to show commercials and an interview wil Alexander Rossi. He's P20 (a.k.a. last), but the car surived, so they're calling it a good job.

johnnysmack

Be some laugh if a red bull got pole, would they thank Renault!

Ghost Train

Interesting how the Mercs are struggling

bnt

Sainz clattered the wall and shed a lot of carbon fibre, but thankfully so late in Q2 as to make little difference. Bottas might have improved his time, but he's in to Q3.

Grim.

Stunning lap from Vettel

Charlie-Bravo

That was something alright. Merc's nowhere today. Ferrari are doing a good job.

Andrew76

Some lap that was, only man in the 43's. Awesome from Vettel. Hamo 5th, the top Merc 1.5s back I think it was. Roll on tomorrow.

HighLine

That was some lap from Vettel. Verstappen with the tank slapper on the final corner was great!! :D

mickdw

Mercedes suddenly not able to get the tyres into working window as soon as tyre pressure rules are tightened up.
Have they been taking the piss with pressures all year?

allybhoy

Great qualifying session but not nearly as good as last year.


*Because I was at it

Myrddin

mickdw wrote: »

Mercedes suddenly not able to get the tyres into working window as soon as tyre pressure rules are tightened up.
Have they been taking the piss with pressures all year?

Nah, it's the dynamics of the track...sure look at Red Bull.

CFlat

I dont mean to be nasty but its great not to see the Mercs at the front. Well done to Vettel and Ricky.

Ham in great form after. I suppose once hes in front of Rosberg at this stage, thats all that matters and the points down there are small anyway.

Mind u I cant believe while watching the qualifying I missed seeing Japan beating SA in the rugby!!

Myrddin

CFlat wrote: »

I dont mean to be nasty but its great not to see the Mercs at the front. Well done to Vettel and Ricky.

Seb was on fire today, immense quali lap - & Ricciardo too was mighty quick. Should be interesting to see what happens at lights out tomorrow

Ham in great form after. I suppose once hes in front of Rosberg at this stage, thats all that matters and the points down there are small anyway.

Exactly, he knows Nico, no matter what happens, won't make any huge grounds points wise tomorrow...& by Japan, it'll be back to business as usual for Mercedes.

mickdw

Myrddin wrote: »

Nah, it's the dynamics of the track...sure look at Red Bull.

Yes not an absolute power circuit but mercedes have a great chassis so they clearly are way off in terms of getting the tyres to work.
If given a free hand pressure wise, I don't believe we would have seen what we saw today.

Myrddin

mickdw wrote: »

Yes not an absolute power circuit but mercedes have a great chassis so they clearly are way off in terms of getting the tyres to work.
If given a free hand pressure wise, I don't believe we would have seen what we saw today.

I'm not convinced the tire pressure thing has anything to do with it (yet), the gains Red Bull have made seem to suggest this track is highlighting chassis differential more than anything else. If all Red Bull needed to be battling with Ferrari was some psi trickery, it wouldn't have taken them this long to be competitive.

AMKC

Was great to see Vettel and Ferrari get pole today. Was an awesome lap from Vettel. This was one of the most exciting and maybe the best qualifying session all season. Can,t wait for the race tomorrow should be good. Id say Vettel will do his best to win this now and is not going to make it easy for anyone else.

antodeco

The Singapore quali is very like Formula E. If you were excited by it, try out Formula E for this season!

Ghost Train

This should be interesting, hopefully a fight on for the win

antodeco

I wonder is the fuel efficiency negated by the cost of running the street lights at the race

smellslikeshoes

Has there actually been any overtakes since this race started? :pac:

AMKC

antodeco wrote: »

I wonder is the fuel efficiency negated by the cost of running the street lights at the race

I don,t think so. Have you ever been to Singapore its a beautiful city but quiet artificial too. They are going to have street lights on that part of the road at night if there is a race there or not only real difference being the lights they are using for the race are no doubt a lot more powerful and much brighter than normal street lights. Also I suppose it depends on how Singapore produces its power too. Is it from a coal powered station or from gas or Nuclear?

Ghost Train

I think if the fuel efficent engine technology gets transferred to road cars down the line its positive for environment. Can't just look at as 20 cars saving fuel

Ghost Train

Wonder will Massa get penalty for that, bit of a racing incident

antodeco

You can feel that this is building up to something fantastic! All just waiting!

Thidp

Hamilton in trouble!

TheDoctor

Looks similar to Rosberg in Abu Dhabi last year

smellslikeshoes

Delighted honestly, championship needed it.

Ghost Train

Only positive for Hamilton is that Rosberg only fourth

TheDoctor

Yeah he's picked the right race to have a failure. Rosberg can't fully capitalise. Only on for 12 points at the moment. Gap down to 41

Charlie-Bravo

Forget sprinklers Bernie, all you need is an EMP!

Cool_CM

Rossi overtakes Hamilton in his first race!

Probably the last time that he is ever going to overtake him.

TheDoctor

Maldonado has been too quiet. He's due to do something ridiculous.

TheDoctor

Like Hockenheim back in the day and that Priest at Silverstone

Ghost Train

Hope that doesn't spoil the race, will close things up I guess but no more pitstops

HighLine

Looks like Fr Horan's son turned up for the race this year.

smellslikeshoes

Don't panic lads, he was just trying to spice up the race a bit