Renault's Fernando Alonso won in Singapore Grand Prix

SINGAPORE -- Formula One was anything but predictable Sunday, with the Singapore Grand Prix providing a contrast as stark as night and day.

Renault's Fernando Alonso won after starting 15th on the grid in F1's first night race. It was his 20th career victory and first since the Italian Grand Prix last year during his short stint with McLaren.

Nico Rosberg was second for his best Grand Prix finish, giving Williams its best result since the 2005 season. Championship leader Lewis Hamilton of McLaren was third.

Alonso was way back on the grid after a fuel pump failed during qualifying. On Sunday, the Spaniard benefited from an early safety car period that turned the race around.

"After qualifying, our hopes were gone already," Alonso said. "It was nearly over, but it shows that Formula One is unpredictable on Sunday."

Hamilton extended his championship lead to seven points because of a turn of events that cost title rival Felipe Massa of Ferrari any points. The Brazilian led early from the pole, but his race was ruined when he pitted after the end of a safety car period at the start of the 20th lap.Read More

Felipe took pole position at Singapore Grand Prix

FERRARI’S Felipe Massa stormed to pole position for the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix on Sept 27th 2008, topping the times during qualifying ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton.

It was a crucial drive by the Brazilian with front row of the grid likely to be decisive on the bumpy Marina Bay street circuit where overtaking will be possible, but difficult.

His lap of 1:44.801 was 0.664 of a second ahead of the British world championship leader, who is one point in front of his rival in the title race with four Grands Prix left.

Defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen, desperate for a win here to keep alive his slim hopes of retaining his title, was third fastest for Ferrari and BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica was fourth in the Toro Rosso.

Heikki Kovalainen, in the second McLaren, was fifth ahead of Nick Heidfeld for BMW Sauber.

New kid on the block Sebastian Vettel, winner in Italy earlier this month, was seventh in his Toro Rosso with Timo Glock eighth, Nico Rosberg ninth and Kazuki Nakajima tenth. Read More

The action moment I captured at Merdeka Millennium

COMBO OF FLYING TYRE....Driver K.Reindler team of
ARC Bratislava's car tyre flew off during the Merdeka
Millennium 12 hour Endurance race at 

Sepang F1 circuit. Always click the photos to

view enlargement.

I took this sequence action shots with my Canon 1D Mark llN

with a 70-200mm zoom

the Merdeka Millennium 12 hour Endurance race

One of the pretty grid girl during the Merdeka 
Millennium 12 hour Endurance race at Speng F1 circuit.

Two BMW cars fighting each others during the Merdeka Millennium
12 hour Endurance race at Sepang F1 circuit

Some of the racing car in during the Merdeka Millennium 12 hour

Endurance race at Sepang F1 circuit.

Click on the photos to view enlarements. 

These photos taken on Canon Mark llN and 70-200mm zoom lense

Sebastian Vettel the youngest driver to win F1 in Italian Grand Prix

MONZA (Italy): Sebastian Vettel became the youngest driver to win a Formula One race yesterday after finishing first in a wet Italian Grand Prix from pole position.

The 21-year-old German driver edged Heikki Ko­valainen of McLaren by 12.5 seconds on the slick Monza circuit to give Torro Rosso their first ever win.

“For sure the best day of my life,’’ Vettel said. “These pictures, these emotions - I will never forget.’’ Read More

Yana-silver and Feng Tianwei-bronze for the Volswagen woman world cup

Singapore's Wang Yue Gu


Singapore's Wang Yue Gu in action against teammate Feng
Tianwei in third placing playoff which she lost for the woman
world cup at klba stadium.


Singapore's Feng Tianwei waving to the crowd
after beat her teammate Wang Yue Gu in third
placing playoff

Tie Yana of Hong Kong playing against China's Li Xiaoxia
in the Volswagen woman world cup final at klba stadium
in Kuala Lumpur. Li won 4-0.

Click on the photos to view the high resolution.Photo taken on Canon 1D Mark llN and 300mm telephoto lense.

China’s Li Xiaoxia won the Volkswagen World Cup

These are some photos that I took during the final of the Volkswagen World Cup women's tournament at the Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium in Cheras on Sept 9, 2008.

China’s Li Xiaoxia was ranked third in the world but did not get to play in the Beijing Olympics last month — making way for veteran Wang Nan, who was ranked two rungs below her.

And the agony of having to watch from the sidelines while her team-mates battled their way to a clean sweep of the medals at stake drove her to a crushing win over Hong Kong’s Tie Yana.

The lanky 20-year-old from Wuxi Province continued China’s domination of the game with a superb 11-4, 11-3, 11-3, 14-12 win over Yana.

Yana, the world number 10, was bidding to become the first player from outside China to lift the World Cup title. Keep Reading

China's Li Xiaoxia in action

Hamilton won but demoted

Starsport reported Formula One was plunged into new controversy yesterday when race stewards at the Belgian Grand Prix stunningly stripped Briton Lewis Hamilton of a brilliant victory.

The stewards' decision, which will be seen by many as part of a conspiracy to rig the results to ensure a close fight in the title race, came long after the race when they hit the 23-year-old McLaren driver with a 25-second penalty.

It meant that he was pushed down to third and the race victory was handed to Ferrari's Brazilian driver Felipe Massa who had struggled to keep pace with Hamilton and defending world champion Finn Kimi Raikkonen.

Critics and paddock observers were swift in their condemnation of a decision that reeked of potential favouritism for Ferrari and seemed entirely unjustified following the most exciting race of the year.

Last year, the sport's ruling body, the International Motoring Federation (FIA) was accused of a 'witch-hunt' against McLaren and this spectre was raised again by their stewards action at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.

Their decision to punish Hamilton came in relation to a move in the final stages of the race when after attempting to pass Raikkonen, who was leading, he was forced off the circuit and cut out the 'Bus Stop' chicane.

Hamilton recognised immediately that he had done this, and gained an advantage by going ahead of Raikkonen, and so he slowed to allow the Finn to re-pass him and lead as they completed the lap in teeming rain.

When they began racing again, Hamilton passed Raikkonen and went on to win, albeit with several more battles for the lead, before the Finn crashed out. Read More

Belgian Grand Prix-Lewis Hamilton in pole position

Starsports reported that the world championship leader Lewis Hamilton oozed confidence after he secured pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix with a dazzling lap in yesterday's qualifying session.

The 23-year-old Briton, in a McLaren, claimed his fifth pole of this season and the 11th of his career with a perfectly-timed lap to outpace title rival the Ferrari of Brazilian Felipe Massa

Hamilton's supreme lap lifted him clear of Massa by three-tenths of a second and proved he is fully recovered from his sore neck suffered in Spain two weeks ago.

Finland's Heikki Kovlainen in the second McLaren was third fastest and starts ahead of defending champion and compatriot Kimi Raikkonen in the second Ferrari on row two.

German Nick Heidfeld was fifth for BMW Sauber ahead of two times champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso in a Renault.

Australian Mark Webber was seventh for Red Bull ahead of Poland's Robert Kubica in the second BMW, Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais in a Toro Rosso and Sebastian Vettel of Germany in the second Toro Rosso.

Hamilton leads Massa by six points going into the penultimate European race of the year and oozed confidence. “It was a perfect lap, one of my four perfect laps so I was very happy,” he said.

“I made no mistakes and the team made no mistakes so we are looking good,” said Hamilton. Read More