Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Swissotel Vertical Marathon 2010 registration.

Sunday, 21 November 2010 07:00 - 13:00
Swissôtel The Stamford, Singapore

3rd year running this event.

Damage = $50.
Failed to register during the early bird period. $10 extra. *DAMN*



From webbie.
Take up the challenge of conquering Southeast Asia's tallest hotel - Swissôtel The Stamford, Singapore! Scale new heights and attain personal bests as you race 1,336 steps up 73-storeys.

Swissôtel Vertical Marathon 2010 promises to be more challenging and exhilarating as world-class international and local athletes blaze to the summit, in the shortest time possible! This is the ultimate championship!

Look out for the oldest participant this year and be awed as he/she overcomes all challenges to scale Singapore's tallest hotel. For all loving lovebirds, the Swissôtel Vertical Marathon sets your hearts on fire. Overcome all hurdles hand-in-hand, propose to your beloved on the helipad, 226m above the ground, or run the race in your wedding attire!

In line with Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts 30th Anniversary, this year's race would pay tribute to all Swiss elements with the Swiss Challenge, and to all our heros who have been protecting our country - via the Nation Fighters Challenge. Run with great pride in your organisation's uniform!

Elevating this highly-anticipated competition further, compete with the winners of previous Vertical Marathons or elite athletes in the Ultimate Championship!

It's the original Swissôtel Vertical Marathon which started in 1987!

Run on 28 Sept - CBD run , set F. Tanjong Pagar MRT up to fort canning

Time taken : 1 hr 26 mins 18 secs
Distance : 11.47 km
Avg Speed : 8.0 km/h, 7min 31sec per km.

Did 3 loops.





Sunday, September 26, 2010

Singapore F1 2010 Results.

from F1 website.

Race - Alonso claims superb Singapore win

Fernando Alonso scored his fourth win of the season in Singapore on Sunday night after a dramatic battle with Sebastian Vettel that saw them finish only two-tenths of a second apart after a race-long fight.

A slow-burn event finally exploded into life just past half distance when following a safety-car deployment after offs for BMW Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi and HRT’s Bruno Senna, points leaders Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton collided while fighting for third place on the 36th lap.

The Englishman was pitched out of the race with broken suspension, and the Australian brought a vibrating Red Bull home third to increase his advantage in the title fight to 202 points to Alonso’s 191, Hamilton’s 182, Sebastian Vettel’s 181 and fourth-placed Jenson Button’s 177. In the constructors’ stakes, Red Bull have 383, McLaren 359 and Ferrari 316.

It was Vettel who made the best start, but Alonso chopped across the Red Bull’s bows to take a lead he never lost. After a lap Alonso was a second ahead, but it didn’t take long for the first safety-car deployment. This came on the third lap as Vitantonio Liuzzi’s suspension-damaged Force India was cleared away from its resting place just past the chicane, its demise the result of early contact with Nick Heidfeld's BMW Sauber.

Like Ferrari’s Felipe Massa at the end of the first lap - who started from the last position on the grid - Red Bull’s Mark Webber took advantage of the hiatus to switch from the soft-compound Bridgestone tyres to the more durable hard rubber, hoping to avoid stopping again. The Australian was followed by a host of midfield runners all hoping for similar strategic fortune. By the time racing resumed on the sixth lap, Webber was already back up to 10th as he swept past Timo Glock’s Virgin.

At the front Alonso quickly regained his rhythm, holding Vettel at bay by 1.3s as Hamilton maintained third and Button began to drift back in fourth place.

Webber’s recovery took him past Schumacher when the former champion made a mistake under pressure on the 11th lap. His team mate, meanwhile, was steadily losing touch with Alonso, who had a 2.3s lead after 12 laps as Hamilton followed a similar distance behind the Red Bull.

However, the Australian’s strategy came unravelled when he was unable to overtake Rubens Barrichello’s Williams, and from 16.5s his deficit to Alonso had grown to 30s after 16 laps. Over the radio, his team told him that he was now racing Hamilton for third place, rather than for the lead.

McLaren’s hopes of victory evaporated with serious rear tyre wear, leaving Hamilton and Button to lonely races until the mid-race incident.

After that the fight for the lead was back on, as Vettel hounded Alonso mercilessly, less than a second behind. The German looked very aggressive on the harder-compound tyres and soon closed Alonso down, but as the race just completed its 61 laps before the two-hour mark, the Spaniard kept the German at bay.

They raced past Heikki Kovalainen’s burning Lotus on the pit straight as they completed their penultimate lap, and were only two-tenths of a second apart. But, as Alonso won his fourth race of the year to move into second place in the title hunt, the gap was the same.

Webber was a relieved third from Button, while Nico Rosberg drove an unobtrusive race to fifth for Mercedes ahead of on-form Rubens Barrichello for Williams and Renault’s Robert Kubica, who drove superbly to repass the Toro Rossos of Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi, team mate Vitaly Petrov, Massa, Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg and Force India’s Adrian Sutil after a Lap 45 stop for another set of tyres.

The aforementioned finished in the reverse of the above order after running nose-to-tail for much of the race, and Kovalainen’s late departure with a blown engine and ensuing fire elevated Lucas Di Grassi to 15th as the highest-placed new team runner. He was the only one still standing, as Kovalainen was classified 16th.

Virgin’s Timo Glock had led that category until late retirement, while Lotus’s Jarno Trulli and HRT’s Christian Klien were stopped by mechanical problems and Senna hit Kobayashi’s damaged BMW Sauber, the Japanese driver having run into the wall of his own accord at Turn 18.

Mercedes GP’s Michael Schumacher was classified 13th after a hard day in which he was attacked and pushed into a wall by Kobayashi just before the Japanese driver’s incident, and then had one of his own as he shoved Nick Heidfeld’s BMW Sauber into a spin and also spun himself.

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts
1 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 61 1:57:53.579 1 25
2 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 61 +0.2 secs 2 18
3 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 61 +29.1 secs 5 15
4 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 61 +30.3 secs 4 12
5 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 61 +49.3 secs 7 10
6 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 61 +56.1 secs 6 8
7 11 Robert Kubica Renault 61 +86.5 secs 8 6
8 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 61 +113.3 secs 24 4
9 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 61 +122.4 secs 15 2
10 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 61 +132.8 secs 17 1
11 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 60 +1 Lap 12
12 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 60 +1 Lap 11
13 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 60 +1 Lap 9
14 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 60 +1 Lap 13
15 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 59 +2 Laps 20
16 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 58 +3 Laps 19
Ret 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 49 Hydraulics 18
Ret 22 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber-Ferrari 36 Accident 14
Ret 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 35 Accident 3
Ret 20 Christian Klien HRT-Cosworth 31 Hydraulics 22
Ret 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 30 Accident 10
Ret 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 29 Accident 23
Ret 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 27 Hydraulics 21
Ret 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1 Accident damage 16

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Singapore F1 2010 Qualifying.

from F1 website.

Qualifying - Alonso snatches crucial pole for Ferrari

Fernando Alonso repeated his Monza pole position in Singapore on Saturday night as Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel failed to recover completely from a poor first run in Q3. A track that remained damp and slippery in places kept everyone on their toes.

Alonso lapped in 1m 45.390s on his first run in that final session, and though he did not improve on that on his second it remained good enough to keep him ahead of Vettel. The German moved from seventh fastest on 1m 47.937s after his first run to second in 1m 45.457s, edging McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton off the front row. The Englishman did 1m 45.571s on his first run, then failed to improve.

Both McLaren’s Jenson Button and Red Bull’s Mark Webber went quicker on their second runs. The Australian momentarily moved to fourth with 1m 45.977s before the Englishman took back the place with 1m 45.944s. Thus the five championship contenders start from the first five positions…

Williams’ Rubens Barrichello’s first-run 1m 46.236s stood up for sixth, ahead of Nico Rosberg’s 1m 46.443s for Mercedes GP, Robert Kubica’s 1m 46.593s for Renault and Michael Schumacher’s 1m 46.702s for Mercedes GP. Kamui Kobayashi was 10th for BMW Sauber on 1m 47.884s.

Jaime Alguersuari’s good weekend form continued all the way through to Q2, when he just failed to get into Q3 by a tenth of a second in the Toro Rosso. He lines up 11th on 1m 47.666s, ahead of Nico Hulkenberg who lapped his Williams in 1m 47.674s. However, the German drops to 17th because of a gearbox change.

Renault’s Vitaly Petrov was 13th on 1m 48.165s despite spinning early in Turn Five and clipping the wall with his right rear wheel, then came Sebastien Buemi in the second Toro Rosso on 1m 48.502s, Nick Heidfeld in the BMW Sauber on 1m 48.557s and the Force Indias of Adrian Sutil on 1m 48.899s and Tonio Liuzzi, who missed the chicane on his first run and improved to 1m 48.961s right at the end.

Q1 took out the usual suspects, with one notable exception.

Timo Glock has had Lotus tucked up most of the weekend and was the fastest of the new teams in his Virgin VR-01, with 1m 50.721s, but right at the end Heikki Kovalainen banged in a respectable 1m 50.915s so they were 18th and 19th. Lucas di Grassi was next for Virgin with 1m 51.107s, leaving Lotus’s Jarno Trulli 21st on 1m 51.641s. Christian Klien was the faster HRT driver with 1m 52.946s, while Bruno Senna spun in Turn Five trying to better 1m 54.174s.

The notable exception was poor Felipe Massa. With 10 minutes of Q1 still to go he brought out the red flag when his Ferrari stopped in Turn Eight on its out lap, before he had even recorded a time. His race could not thus have got off to a worse start. The Italian team believe it was caused by a gearbox problem, but are understood to have elected to change the engine in his F10 as a precaution.

Singapore Chinese Orchestra outdoor performace.

Venue is at Singapore Turf Club.

From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.
From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.
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From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.
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The racing track.
From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.

The punters gallery.

From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.


From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.
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Betting booth.
From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.
From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.

Map
From Solojogger 2010 Sep HTC Desire pictures.