Massa claims first ever night grand prix pole in Singapore
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa has claimed pole positon for Sunday’s historic night Singapore Grand Prix. He described the lap that he recorded the fastest time as a ‘perfect lap’. He was thinking to himself as he approached the final turn do I go for it or ease off. He decided to keep the foot down.
The time Massa recorded is well ahead of second placed Lewis Hamilton. Massa grabbed pole with his lap time of 1m 44.801s ahead of Hamilton’s lap of 1m 45.465. The current world champion, Kimi Raikkonen was took third with a time of 1m 45.617s. Raikkonen was troubled by an electronic problem so may have been able to go quicker.
It is thought Massa had a lighter fuel load when he set his fast time. Massa goes into the Singapore grand prix just one point behind Hamilton in the driver’s championship.
Hamilton was on the edge of missing the final 10 shootout as he placed 10th in the previous session. Mark Webber and David Coultard were both on the track after Hamilton and could have edged him out of the top ten.
The Singapore grand prix starts at 8.00pm local time and is the first ever formula one grand prix to be driven under lights.
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