Sebastian Vettel proves once again in Singapore

Three time world champion Sebastian Vettel once again proved his mastery and hte strenght of his Red Bull RB9 in Singapore with a victory for the third year in running. 

At the start Vettel was slightly off the mark while Rosberg took off even better than perfect and the two went in wheel to wheel for a few corners but slight deep into the corner by Rosberg gave the for Vettel to jump in to the lead and fly away with no looking back.

Fernando Alonso too made a spectacular start from 7th on the grid to 3rd in first corner and Hamilton went wide on turn one and was battling with Massa for a few corners and overtaking the Ferrari driver going wide outside the track but was radioed to give back the position for an unfair advantage. Hamilton however overtook Massa in the next few laps. 

Kimi Raikkonen was the first to pit for fresh tryes and the strategy paid off and started to move up the ladder.

The major turning point for the race was the accident of Torro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo which brought out the safety car on Lap 24. All drivers including Alonso, Raikkonen, Grosjean, Hulkenberg went in for a fresh rubber during the safety car window except Vettel, Rosberg, Webber and Hamilton. 

As the Safety Car pulled in the race restarted on Lap31 with Sebastian Vettel pulling out a clean advantage from Rosberg, Webber, Hamilton, Alonso, Button and Raikkonen. As the race progressed the rubbers of Webber, Rosberg and Hamilton faded and had to pit and rejoined at the tail of top10 which made Rosberg and Hamilton very furious over their team radios. 

Grosjean who was running 6th had was called to BOX due check for an abnornal air consumption which costed him 30seconds and later was later told to retire to save his engine from blowing, a disaster for the french man after qualifying third on the grid

Vettel pitted in for his second set of tyres with a 30+secs lead and rejoined 4.5secs ahead of Alonso in 2nd. Button was surprising running 3rd with just a single tyre stop and was holding off Raikkonen. . Webber, Rosberg and Hamilton were held up behind Gutierrez's Sauber in 7th. Soon the trio moved ahead of the slow car of Gutierrez as Massa was catching from behind. Alonso was expected for the thrid time but the Ferrari man carried on perfectly as he had a comfortable gap to Raikkonen.

As Rosberg and Hamilton were attacking Hulkenberg, Di Resta was fast catching the Mercedes boys but a slight mistake cost the Force India driver dear who hit the wall to retire from the race with 7laps to go. Thankfully the safety car wasn't called but double yellow flags waved at the corner. 

Button's pace suddenly dropped drastically and was soon taken out by Webber, Rosberg, Hamilton and Massa.

As the race took long the leaders were  cruising towards the line and Vettel was told to take of his brakes due to vibrations with his supersofts.

On lap 6 Webber started to experience a gear box problem with the short shifts and was losing couple of seconds per lap. As soon as Rosberg and Hamilton passed Webber on the penultimate lap, the Red Bull driver started to experience even more problem and was told to make it till the line but just as his tea mate Vettel was a few corners away from victory, Webber's Red Bull started to blow out fire and had to stop at the side of the track while the other Red Bull crossed the finish line with style amidst fireworks on the sky. The Ferrari of Alonso and the Lotus of Raikkonen completed the podium. The Mercedes duo of Rosberg and Hamilton followed up with the former clearly disappointed on a possible second place if not for a messed up strategy during the safety car period by which Alonso and Raikkonen gained advantage, 

Massa finished 6th ahead of the McLaren duo of Button and Perez. Hulkenberg finished 9th while Force India's Sutil claimed the last point with 10th. 

Singapore Grand Prix 2013 – Race Results