Michael Schumacher was handed a 10-place grid penalty for the Japanese Grand Prix after he slammed into the back of Jean-Eric Vergne’s Toro Rosso just after the half way mark in the Singapore Grand Prix.
Formula One will continue to race in Singapore after the state’s government and race promoters concluded a deal with the sport’s commercial rights holders to stage the race for another five years.
McLaren team principal has insisted that both his team and Lewis Hamilton are focused on their championship challenge rather than the ongoing saga of the 2008 champion’s future at the team.
Sebastian Vettel carried on where he left off in Singapore last year by claiming P1 at the end of the first free practice session at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, though he finished just five hundredths of a second ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton.
Sauber’s Sergio Perez says he’s ready to race for a top team in Formula One, but today insisted that he respects Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo’s restated assertion that he is still too inexperienced to join the Italian squad.
