Sebastian Vettel was delighted with a win this season at the 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit, after missing out on potential victories in Bahrain and Australia. This is the first time the team has taken a podium in 2010, let alone a one-two win. Red Bull has taken pole position at all three grands prix this season, proving they have one of the strongest packages in F1.

Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso were also on the charge, even if their strategy required a little less overtaking than Hamilton’s. Massa finished seventh just 3.5 seconds behind Hamilton, but beat the other McLaren on the track as Button’s tyres felt the strain of a 46-lap stint. Meanwhile, Alonso had been stuck in the draft of Massa for much of the race, as he manhandled a car that was suffering from a gearbox problem while downshifting. He too came up behind Button towards the end of the race, but as he pulled out to make a move into turn one, his engine blew-up in a puff of white smoke. That ensured eighth place for Button ahead of Jaime Alguersuari, who had a fantastic race in his Toro Rosso, and Nico Hulkenberg, who picked up his first F1 point in tenth.

Michael Schumacher’s race came to a premature end with a wheel-nut failure, forcing the seven-time world champion to watch Rosberg take Mercedes’ first 2010 podium from the paddock. His race lasted just nine laps and the retirement means he is now 26 points shy of Rosberg in the drivers’ championship.

For the Lotus Racing Team by 1Malaysia F1 Team, Heikki Kovalainen is forced to retire for the race and Jarno Trulli finished last at +5 laps setting apart from the retired cars.

Malaysian Grand Prix 2010
Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts
1 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 56 1:33:48.412 3 25
2 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 56 +4.8 secs 1 18
3 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 56 +13.5 secs 2 15
4 11 Robert Kubica Renault 56 +18.5 secs 6 12
5 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 56 +21.0 secs 4 10
6 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 56 +23.4 secs 20 8
7 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 56 +27.0 secs 21 6
8 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 56 +37.9 secs 17 4
9 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 56 +70.6 secs 14 2
10 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 56 +73.3 secs 5 1
11 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 56 +78.9 secs 13 
12 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 55 +1 Lap 7 
13 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 54 +2 Laps 19 
14 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 53 +3 Laps 24 
15 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 53 +3 Laps 22 
16 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 52 +4 Laps 23 
17 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 51 +5 Laps 18 
Ret 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 46 Hydraulics 15 
Ret 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 32 Gearbox 11 
Ret 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 12 Throttle 10 
Ret 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 9 Wheel issue 8 
Ret 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 8 Engine 9 
Ret 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 2 Spin 16 
DNS 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 0 Engine 12

The bumps, the dust, the artificial lights make up the night race of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton won Sunday’s FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix for McLaren-Mercedes and promptly paid tribute to the Marina Bay Street Circuit on which the 12th victory of his career was earned.

Second, matching the best performance of his F1 career to date, was Germany’s Timo Glock for Toyota, while Fernando Alonso – race-winner in the Lion City last year – produced an upbeat ending to a difficult weekend for Renault with third place, the team’s first podium finish of the season.

Although Sebastian Vettel was fourth for Red Bull, the World Championship fight tilted significantly back towards the Brawn GP team, for whom Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello finished fifth and sixth respectively, while Vettel’s team-mate Mark Webber crashed out with suspected brake failure after 45 laps and failed to score a point for the fourth consecutive race.

Brawn now have 153 points to Red Bull Racing’s 110.5 with just 54 to fight for in the final three races of the year, and Button’s hopes of a first Drivers’ World Championship look even stronger as the Englishman leads his Brazilian team-mate by 15.

RESULTS: 2009 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX

1 Lewis Hamilton 1:56:06.337

2 Timo Glock +9.6 secs

3 Fernando Alonso +16.6 secs

Click here to view 19 photos of 2009 Singapore Grand Prix

From the official Ferrari’s Press Reelease. With Michael Schumacher now being unavailable to stand in for Felipe Massa, as from the forthcoming European Grand Prix, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro announces that car number 3 will be driven by Luca Badoer.

“I am very unhappy that a problem means that Michael cannot return to racing,” commented Luca di Montezemolo. “In the past few days, I could appreciate his great efforts and extraordinary motivation which had spread through the team and fans around the world. No doubt his return would have been good for Formula 1 and I am sure it would have seen him fighting for wins again. In the name of Ferrari and all the fans, I wish to thank him for the strong attachment he displayed for the team in these circumstances. In agreement with Stefano Domenicali, we have therefore decided to give Luca Badoer the chance to race for the Scuderia after he has put in so many years of hard work as a test driver.”

It’s been ten years since Badoer last started a race and he rejoins the field as the oldest driver on the grid, narrowly eclipsing his former team-mate Rubens Barrichello at 38. Although he moved to F1 after winning the Formula 3000 title in 1992, in his four seasons and 48 grands prix in the big league, he failed to score a single point and famously broke down in tears alongside his car after it failed to take him to a fourth-place finish at the 1999 European Grand Prix. Ten years later, he’s looking to improve his record to stand in for Felipe Massa.

Michael Schumacher has officially canceled his F1 return due to lingering pain in his neck from a motorcycle accident earlier this year. In the bright side, a firm hint dropped by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo on Tuesday night, just hours after Schumacher’s F1 comeback was called off but Ferrari is pushing to allow teams to run three cars in Formula 1 next year could yet allow Michael Schumacher to return to F1.

Schumacher has been testing in Ferrari’s 2007 car at the company’s private track in Mugello. After the first test, though, he found that the mere strain of driving aggravated the injuries from a crash he suffered in February while motorcycle testing at a track in Spain. At the time, although he went to the hospital, it was thought that everything was fine. Eventually fractures in his neck were discovered, and that is what is causing the problem now.

After laying its hopes on the 7-time world champion, Ferrari now chooses among its reserve drivers to pilot one of their cars in Valencia in 48 hours: Marc Gene or Luca Badoer – Gene’s last F1 race drive was the 2004 British Grand Prix, while Badoer hasn’t turned an F1 wheel on race day since 1999, at the European Grand Prix. This morning Ferrari head Luca di Montezemolo chose 38-year-old Badoer for the role.

Click here to view the Photo Gallery of Schumacher test drivings the Ferrari F2007 at Mugello

The 40-year-old German – Michael Schumacher who retired from F1 in 2006 but has agreed to return to replace Felipe Massa, is to undergo medical tests at the Bad-Nauheim sportklinic in Germany.

“It’s only because Michael has worked so hard in recent months that all of this is possible,” a confident Dr Johannes Peil, who treated the champion following his fall, told Bild newspaper.

It is also rumoured that Schumacher may attempt some testing miles prior to Valencia, despite the official ban on in-season circuit testing. 

The Tagesspiegel newspaper reports that while Ferrari is not allowed to run the F60 except in a straight-line, Schumacher may instead turn to the Italian team’s ‘F1 Clienti’ department, which operates former grand prix cars for wealthy enthusiasts.

The only possible F1 circuit for Schumacher’s test were in Italy and speculated at Imola circuit or Mugello circuit.

BMW confirmed that it will not continue its involvement in Formula One racing after the end of the 2009 season amid slumping sales. The Bavarian automaker said that the resources freed up from the F1 campaign will be dedicated to the development of new drive technologies and projects in the field of sustainability.

The Bavarian automaker formed the BMW Sauber F1 team in 2005 with the takeover of the existing Sauber F1 team. In 2008 season, the BMW Sauber team finished third in the constructors’ championship with 135 points, just right behind Ferrari and McLaren.

This is predictable in F1 after Massa injuries that Ferrari makes this announced of the return of Schumacher. On yesterday evening, Ferrari announced that Michael Schumacher is standing in for the injured Felipe Massa at the forthcoming Grand Prix in Valencia and after until Massa is fit to return.

The next race is the European Grand Prix on Aug 23 in Valencia, Spain.

The 28-year-old Massa was hit in the helmet by a loose part from another car and crashed into a protective tire barrier at 120mph during qualifying Saturday at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

“We have said before that it is possible that Michael Schumacher could return to help us out,” said before the official announcement by head of communications Luca Colajanni.

Schumacher’s comeback at the age of 40 and last competed in the sport in 2006 where he finished second to Fernando Alonso in the standings, having secured no less than seven victories to add to his tally of 91 wins.  Schumacher won his first two F1 titles with the Benetton team. He joined Ferrari in 1996 and won five straight from 2000-04.

Michael Schumacher said he is ready and over the next few days will undertake a specific training programme at the end of which confirmation will be given of his participation in the championship with effect from the European Grand Prix on the 23rd of August.  – edvinteo.com

Renault have been banned and suspended from the next event of the 2009 world championship by FIA.

The FIA took a serious action after a wheel flew off the car of Fernando Alonso during Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix on turn nine.

However, Renault F1 announced would appeal the ban by formally registers its intention to appeal against the decision by FIA.

With all video and radio transmissions were studied, it was found that Renault are aware that the front right wheel was incorrectly fitted and departed the car to rejoin the race with a loose wheel nut. But unfortunately, the wheel cover and wheel itself detached on the track.