2015 FORMULA 1 SINGAPORE AIRLINES SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX

[KevC]

2015 FORMULA 1 SINGAPORE AIRLINES SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX




Singapore
Lap length 5.065km (3.147 miles)
Race laps 61
Race distance 308.828km (191.897 miles)
Pole position Right-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’48.574 (167.941 kph) by Sebastian Vettel, 2013
Fastest lap 1’42.841 (177.303 kph) by Sebastian Vettel, 2013
Maximum speed 296kph (183.926 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and straight to turn seven
Distance from grid to turn one 200m

Schedule
Friday 18th September 2015
Singapore Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 18:00-19:30 (UK time: 11:00-12:30)
Singapore Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 21:30-23:00 (UK time: 14:30-16:00)
Saturday 19th September 2015
Singapore Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 18:00-19:00 (UK time: 11:00-12:00)
Singapore Grand Prix Qualifying: 21:00 (UK time: 14:00)
Sunday 20th September 2015
Singapore Grand Prix: 20:00 (UK time: 13:00)

Previous Winners
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2011 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2010 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2009 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2008 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault


Hamilton on board 2014


Webber on board 2010


Facts and Figures from the last race

Hamilton’s dominance at Monza was complete: he headed every practice session and all three stages of qualifying, led every lap of the race and set fastest lap on his way to winning from pole position.

A win for Hamilton in the next race at Singapore would move him up to 41 victories from 161 starts – equalling Senna’s career record. Sebastian Vettel is already on 41 wins, though he has started nine fewer races than Hamilton.

Hamilton can also equal the record for most consecutive pole positions at the next race. He took his seventh in a row at Monza – Senna set the record of eight over the last three races of 1988 and first five of 1989. Senna also set seven poles in a row in 1990-91, as did Alain Prost in 1993 and Michael Schumacher in 2000-01.

With a 53-point lead in the championship, Hamilton is on course to match Senna in another way – by taking a third world championship. There are 175 points up for grabs in the remaining races, but with Mercedes usually monopolising the top two positions when they don’t break down, Hamilton could finish second to Rosberg in all the remaining races and still win the title.

Hamilton also increased his streak of front row starts to 20 in a row. He needs four more to equal the all-time record held by – you guessed it – Senna.

This was Hamilton’s 81st appearance on the podium, moving him one ahead of Senna. The next driver for him to catch in Fernando Alonso on 97, who has the third-highest tally of podiums in F1 history.

With second and third on the grid Ferrari enjoyed their best qualifying performance at home since 2010, when Alonso took pole with Felipe Massa third. Second was Kimi Raikkonen’s highest qualifying position since the 2013 Chinese Grand Prix, but a slow getaway meant he was last as the cars reached the first corner.

Red Bull were expected to struggle at Monza and so it proved: this was the first time since the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix that neither of their cars made it into Q3. The team received 85 grid place penalties following a series of power unit component changes.

A total of 168 grid place position penalties were handed down at Monza – that’s more than the total for the entire of 2014. Last year drivers were docked a total of 160 grid places, the total for this year reached 400 at Monza.

Despite his late engine failure Nico Rosberg was still classified as he had covered more than 90% of the race distance. However it means Hamilton is now the only driver left who has completed every racing lap so far this year.

Current Standings

[mileso]

Not one single comment? Not even to rag on KevC for the line about Hamilton "equaling" Senna?
A couple of things:
After Sky F1 spent what seemed like hours blowing hard about Hamilton equaling Senna's records, (and is that pouty little boy the only one on the track that holds Senna up as his hero?), Mercedes took his dream away.
Best delusional comment of the weekend: Hamilton saying he had a chance to win just before he mysteriously broke his gas pedal.
Jensen, Kimi, Massa, Maldonado, Perez, Alonso all need to retire. They are becoming jokes and are hurting F1.
Ted Kravitz has become a joke. When a sporting event needs the colour guy to feign excitement to try and keep the viewer's interest it's time to review what you're presenting.

[mileso]

By the way, Thank you KevC for the pre-race post above, It takes a lot of work and dedication to the site.
Too much Hamilton in the comments section for my taste. I'm not British, I'm Canadian. This site should be neutral, at least from an editorial standpoint.

[KevC]

I get the previous race facts from another site. They generally track information about people who have something worth tracking. It's unlikely someone finishing 9th would equal any kind of record or run and as Hamilton is winning most of the races and poles, most of the facts are likely to be based around him. The ones for the Singapore race that I'll add in the Japan summary tomorrow, are, unsurprisingly, heavily based on Vettel and Ferrari.

Ted is the best thing about the Sky coverage! I'd happily get rid of everyone else except him and Brundle.

[Vlad-SRB]

It was an amazing race indeed. Sky is really pushing it too much, while there's Vettel who already passed Senna, but no, it has to be just like mileso said. They are so biased that it makes non-Hamilton fans wanna puke.

[geewhiz14]

I'm not sure where the topic Race Day Tips went, but I returned to the F1 Night Race last month and here's my account of the whole weekend:
http://wp.me/p10DmM-wA

[militaryman17]

was a decent race tbh