Sebastian Vettel wins as Lewis retires in Singapore Grand Prix
The Formula One Singapore Grand Prix saw many crashes and accidents, but the race started without mayhem as Grosjean kept his cool after coming back from a one race ban. Lewis Hamilton started from pole and retained his position. Pastor Maldonado who started in second position was passed by Sebastian Vettel as well as Jenson Button, still he retained his cool and didn’t press the destruction button.
Still there was an incident at the back of the grid where the two Caterham driver’s collided.
There was no surprise element, as both the Mercedes cars which didn’t run on the Q3 in the qualifying also choose the Super soft tyres. Michael Schumacher was told to cool his car while his teammate overtook him.
Lewis Hamilton was unfortunate that his gearbox broke down and he had to retire. Narain Karthikeyan who was the last person to go for his pitstop amazingly running 20 laps in his supersoft tyres, hit the barriers on lap 33 and his front right wheel came off forcing a safety car to be deployed. Immediately all the drivers who hadn’t done their pitstops choose to do so. Alonso had earlier taken his pit stop, so was Raikkonen. So they choose to stay out during the safety car period. Niko Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez didn’t choose to make their pit stops and they were the only ones to have done one stop after the safety car was taken out.
It was sad for Narain as Tata Tea had just choosen to sponsor HRT car for the Singapore as well as the Indian Grand Prix.
During the safety car period, in lap 37, Pastor Maldonado was told by his Williams team that his car had a problem and he needs to stop the car. This resulted in the both the front runners retiring from the race.
Disaster stuck again for Michael Schumacher as in lap 41 he ran into the back of Jean-Eric Vergne of Toro Rosso. So interestingly Michael Schumacher has never got any points in Singapore. The safety car was redeployed. Did Schumacher get his braking wrong like last year or was it a problem with his brakes as he locked up. Fortunately, there was no animosity displayed between Schumacher and Jean-Eric Vergne as they both patted each others back. This looks like Schumacher’s fault and this incident will be investigated after the race by stewards. It is surprising that the God of Formula One, Michael Schumacher has ran into the back of another driver twice in Singapore Grand Prix.
Towards the end there were some competitive times posted by Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button as they knew that the race will not run its full 61 laps as according to rules the race can run only for a maximum of two hours. However, Button couldn't sustain the pace and Vettel won a comfortably.
Bruno Senna who was running in at 10th position told his team that he has a loss of power and stopped his car barely a minute before the finish.
Final Result of F1 Singapore Grand Prix 2012
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Jenson Button
3. Fernando Alonso
4. Paul di Resta
5. Nico Rosberg
6. Kimi Raikkonen
7. Romain Grosjean
8. Felipe Massa
9. Daniel Ricciardo
10. Mark Webber
11. Serzio Perez
12. Timo Glock
13. Kamui Kobayashi
14. Niko Hulkenberg
15. Heikki Kovalainen
16. Charles Pic
17. Pedro de la Rosa
18. Bruno Senna
19. Vitaly Petrov
Retirements in Singapore Grand Prix 2012
Michael Schumacher – Lap 41
Jean-Eric Vergne – Lap 41
Pastor Maldonado – Lap 37
Narain Karthikeyan – Lap 33
Lewis Hamilton – Lap 23
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