2008 Singapore Grand Prix pictures
29 September 2008 by Keith Collantine
Sparks! From an F1 car! Is it 1991?
I can’t get enough of these awesome photographs from F1’s first night race. Here’s a selection of high-resolution photographs from the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
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- Nick Heidfeld before the start of the race
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- Felipe Massa leads the cars into the first turn
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- Robert Kubica barges Heikki Kovalainen aside on the first lap of the race
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- Kazuki Nakajima in the midfield at the start of the race
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- Vettel and Glock go wheel-to-wheel
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- Mark Webber’s Red Bull RB4 kicks up sparks at Singapore
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- Sebastian Vettel finished behind Timo Glock
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- Switching from the super-soft tyres at his first pit stop gave Alonso an advantage
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- Jarno Trulli retired ten laps from the end
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- Mark Webber on the start/finish straight at Singapore
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- Adrian Sutil passes the Supreme Court building at turn 10
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- Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren shines silver under the night lights
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- Honda mechanics pounce on Button’s car in the pits
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- Kimi Raikkonen passes his stricken team mate in the pits
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- A camera flash shines as Sebastian Vettel passes the granstand
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- Mark Webber reckoned he could have finished second but for his car problem
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- Nick Heidfeld passes the Singapore Flyer
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- Kimi Raikkonen leads Robert Kubica at the start of the race
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- Giancarlo Fisichella wasn’t able to score for Force India
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- Kimi Raikkonen crashed out late in the race
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- Robert Kubica got a drive-through penalty for pitting during the safety car period
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- Heikki Kovalainen was disadvantaged by the early safety car period and failed to score
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- Fernando Alonso pitted twice en route to victory
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- Timo Glock heads Heikki Kovalainen
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- Giancarlo Fisichella briefly held third place
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- It was a disastrous weekend for Sebastien Bourdais
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- Jenson Button was disappointed to finish one place outside the points
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- Lewis Hamilton extended his championship lead with third
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- Fernando Alonso won his 20th Grand Prix
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- Fernando Alonso celebrates Renault’sfirst win since 2006
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- Renault mechanics celebrate Alonso’s victory
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- Nico Rosberg got on the podium for the second time in his career
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- Nico Rosberg finished second for Williams
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- Alonso hasn’t been on the top step of the podium for over a year
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love the sparks!
reminicsing about the good ‘ol days!
replace the wooden planks with titanium scratch plates!
better still, get rid of the planks altogether
the pictures are awesome and so was the atmosphere on the track. hard to describe, it was simply great feeling just to be there
Here are some more from boston.com.
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Singapore Grand Prix Pictures
@Milos
You lucky *@#%$* !!
Wish I could have been there with you for this one !
These pictures are great and the race looked just as good, agree with Jonesracing82, I too loved seeing the sparks flying and while I would like to see more of them I doubt the FIA would ever get rid of the plank.
The thought of losing another driver is just too big a risk for them to consider it.
The lights reflecting off the cars was great.
Being able to see the fuel burning in the exhausts was brilliant, some of them looked like cauldrons bubbling with the magical blue glow floating above them :~)
F1 as it should be, making you feel like a giddy kid all over again.
I say lose the wooden plank and go back to titanium skid blocks. Sparks all the time!
The photos are fantastic, and the link from Macademianut too, thank you! That picture of Fisichella in the Force India…I’m sure I seen,somewhere, an exact same picture of Fisechella going over a kerb somewhere in a B&H Jordan, lol – totally reminded me of it before I reminded myself who it was.
I’m actually interested in how the photographers dealt with this because the lighting levels are not exactly daylight (to a camera meter). Some photos are noticeably noisier to even get such a shot, so it was a good job by them on the night too!
Let the sparks fly, Max! Next thing we hear will be the FIA’s plans to raise ride height to 2.11 metres to improve safety, or am I being too cynical
Great race! Great photos! Thank you.
@Loki
It was Monza 1997, here’s a link to a lo-res image of the Italian air force in action: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38111000/jpg/_38111175_fisichella300.jpg
The FIA knows very well sparks and bottoming out never killed anyone. That whole idea about Senna’s FW-16 bottoming out and causing the crash is ridiculous and full of lies and speculation. Sparks were completely normal for a very long time, and noone crashed because of them. I think the wooden plank is there to enforce the minimum ride height rule – the wooden plank is inspected after races, and if it is worn out too much, the car is disqualified. I think the minimum ride height rule is just a way of limiting and standardizing performance.