Formula One touches down in Singapore this weekend for the 14th round of the season. This year’s tantalizingly close championship battle will continue in the beautiful scenery of floodlight and skyscrapers. The Singapore GP was the first street circuit for F1 in Asia and was the inaugural night race. The first qualifying and race was dominated by Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, but a safety car period triggered by Nelson Piquet and a failure during the pit stop for the 11-rime GP-winner gave Fernando Alonso the chance to cross the finish line first. That first race provided the last big scandal in F1 when it emerged a year later that Nelson Piquet was ordered to crash on purpose to catapult...
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