So now that the F1 fever is over, we can sit back and relax a little bit thinking over the events that zoomed by right at F1 speed. Well, we can start with F. Massa's suay-ness, he's just really unlucky that's all. From a very good first position and leading pace, the screw up at the pits pushed him all the way to the last.
It's really all because of the person gave the green go light. But Massa is really a commendable sportsman, he was calm, and didn't curse and swear or blame anyone at all, whereas Lewis would have blown his top.
You could see the Ferrari crew being all professional, completing the tyre changes in seconds, but they were stressed because Kimi Raikkonen was right behind Massa in the pits waiting to be attended to, because of this, the crew probably rushed through the procedure and screwed up as the 2nd group was waiting to attend to Kimi. The team manager should have called Raikkonen to go one more lap, what a screwed up planning that was, or else those precious seconds wouldn't have been wasted.
Kimi Raikkonen is another one, he crashed out 5 laps from the finish at 5th position to DNF. What a lousy race for the Ferrari team. For all the talk and glory, Lewis only finished 3rd, apparently the tight curves and turns of Singapore's circuit proved challenging for Lewis, whose personal style is hard-paced high-speed straight-road driving, not hairpin turns in Singapore's circuit.
Actually after Michael Schumacher, all the other F1 drivers seemed rather boring, no more reckless overtaking and skilful hair-pin turns. Even though Alonso won first, he's style was steadiness and slowly overtaking other cars at each opportunity, no reckless or aggressive driving like Hamilton.
F1 machines are just incredible, with all that money poured into it, each F1 engine is only 2 litres (down from 2.4L), naturally-aspirated with no Turbo! Yet this simple engine churns out almost a thousand horsepower with a top speed of up to 360km/h! The stress on the engine is evident though, for all it's titanium parts, each engine can only last 2 races.
Singapore still has the right to host another 4 more races over the next four years! With the completion of the IR, and new roads being reviewed, the future races are going to be just as interesting.
