Lewis Hamilton stayed up front from start to finish Sunday night, in Singapore, and redeemed himself from two weeks ago, when he crashed in the last lap of the race.

Hamilton won in front of Timo Glock’s Toyota and Fernando Alonso’s Renault. Both Glock and Alonso’s results are expected to raise the moral of their troops as they both register a season’s best.

As for championship contenders Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, who respectively started from 12th and 10th position on the grid, they finished 5th and 6th in Singapore, meaning Button still increases his lead of one point over his teammate.

Brakes were the major issue in this race as it is believed to be the cause of Alguersuari, Webber, Sutil and Grosjean’s forfeit. Jenson Button was also experimenting issues with his brakes at the end of the race, making the Brawn Team cautious for both cars. Barrichello finished one second behind his teammate.

High temperatures and humidex level also played an important role in this very demanding race which got close of the two hour limit, running 1h56 minutes.

Yet another race to forget for Ferrari as Kimi Raikkonen struggles to get the car back... in 10th place. Giancarlo Fisichella did finish the race, but in no better position than 13th.

Sebastian Vettel (4th), Heikki Kovalainen (7th) and Robert Kubica (8th) – who was running with a new and improve BMW-Sauber car – completed the top-eight of this light-flooded race in the streets of Singapore.

Alonso dedicated this podium, the first of the season for the Renault Team, to his manager and ex-director Flavio Briatore who was imposed a life-lasting-ban from the Formule 1 World for cheating, earlier this week.

Race Results:

1 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren MP4/24-Mercedes) - 61 laps 1.56'06"337
2 - Timo Glock (Toyota TF109) - 9"634
3 - Fernando Alonso (Renault R29) - 16"624
4 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull RB5-Renault) - 20"261
5 - Jenson Button (Brawn BGP001-Mercedes) - 30"015
6 - Rubens Barrichello (Brawn BGP001-Mercedes) - 31"858
7 - Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren MP4/24-Mercedes) - 36"157
8 - Robert Kubica (BMW F1.09) - 55"054
9 - Kazuki Nakajima (Williams FW31-Toyota) - 56"054
10 - Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari F60) - 58"892
11 - Nico Rosberg (Williams FW31-Toyota) - 59"777
12 - Jarno Trulli (Toyota TF109) - 1'13"009
13 - Giancarlo Fisichella (Ferrari F60) - 1'19"890
14 - Vitantonio Liuzzi (Force India VJM02-Mercedes) - 1'33"502

Best Lap: Kazuki Nakajima 1'48"240

DNF:
Jaime Alguersuari - brakes
Sebastien Buemi - contact
Mark Webber - brakes
Adrian Sutil - brakes
Nick Heidfeld - contact
Romain Grosjean - brakes

Drivers' Championship:
1.Button 84; 2.Barrichello 69; 3.Vettel 59; 4.Webber 51,5; 5.Raikkonen 40; 6.Hamilton 37; 7.Rosberg 30,5; 8.Alonso 26; 9.Glock 24; 10.Trulli 22,5; 11.Massa, Kovalainen 22; 13.Heidfeld 12; 14.Kubica 9; 15.Fisichella 8; 16.Sutil 5; 17.Buemi 3; 18.Bourdais 2.

Teams' Championship
1.Brawn-Mercedes 153; 2.Red Bull-Renault 110,5; 3.Ferrari 62; 4.McLaren-Mercedes 59; 5.Toyota 46,5; 6.Williams-Toyota 30,5; 7.Renault 26; 8.BMW 19; 9.Force India-Mercedes 13; 10.Toro Rosso-Ferrari 5.

** Unofficial Results **