Lotus Racing F1 Team Race Report: Singaporean GP

The Singaporean GP, first of the last 5 fly-away races before the 2010 season ends was packed with close bumper-to-bumper action, with the Safety Car intervening the race a few times. The 26th September night race saw a triumphant Fernando Alonso trumped his competition and strengthen his bid for this season's championship. Scuderia Ferrari driver Alonso, who started on pole drove a flawless and commanding race for his second Singaporean GP win. Lewis Hamilton of McLaren Mercedes on the other hand saw his race once again ended after tangling with Redd Bull Racing's Mark Webber on lap 35, threathening bid to regain the titled he lost last year to fellow team-mate and compatriot Jenson Button, who finished this race in 4th. Webber and team-mate Sebastian Vettel took the other two spots of the podium respectively. This race meanwhile proved to be a bitter-sweet one for Lotus Racing. While the team celebrated the fact that they would be renamed to the historic Team Lotus name for next season after team principal Datuk Tony Fernandes announced that he had bought the rights to the name from David Hunt, the brother of the late former racing driver James Hunt, drivers Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen had their race ended in unfortunate circumstances. Trulli pulled out of the race on lap 27 due to hydraulic problems and Kovalainen's car went up in flames right in front of the pits, 2 laps from the end. Off-track, another saga unfolds when Lotus Group's owner, Malaysian car maker Proton Holdings claims that Lotus Racing does not have the rights to use the "Team Lotus" name and has terminated its current license to Fernandes, stating "flagrant and persistent breaches of the licence by 1 Malaysia Racing Team" as the reason and that It dismissed Fernandes' acquisition of Team Lotus Ventures, saying "there is and always has been only one Lotus" and that its Group Lotus was the owner of all rights in the brand, including those relating to Formula One. Fernandes has now taken the case to the British court.

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Meeting you is fate, being your friend is my choice but falling in love with you is something I have no control over.



Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Like my father's come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began
Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Like my father's come to pass
Twenty years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends

Lotus Racing F1 Team Race Report: Italian GP

F1 goes for its last European race of the season, and Monza holds the honour to host it. The 12 September race was Scuderia Ferrari, Scuderia Toro Rosso and Italian drivers' home race. Qualifying on Saturday saw Ferrari's Fernando Alonso taking pole position, with McLaren-Mercedes' 2009 champion Jenson Button lining up along side him on the front row. Alonso's team-mate Felipe Massa as well as Button's team-mate and fellow countryman Lewis Hamilton lined up in the second row of the grid respectively in 3rd and 5th. The Red Bull Racing duo of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel started from 4th and 6th respectively. Race day saw then championship leader Hamilton retiring on the first lap after taking a risky maneuvre to overtake Massa for third. Hamilton banged wheels Massa, resulting in the former's suspension to break, putting him out of the race and eventually, the chance to earn points to defend his championship position. Button, on the other hand had a great start, overtaking Alonso on the first corner and leading all the way until the 52nd lap when he took his first pit-stop. Alonso, who pitted at the end of lap 52, just managed to squeeze ahead of Button coming down the main straight and into the first corner. It was from here onwards that Alonso piloted his scarlet machine to victory, much to the delight of the Tifosis. Button drove home second, after struggling with his new set of tyres with Massa taking the final step on the podium. Webber, who finished 6th now leaves Europe manning the championship lead with 187 points to 2nd place Hamilton's 182 points. Alonso's win saw him overtake Button in the standings for 3rd with 166 points, with the McLaren driver one point less behind. Back at the end of the pack, Lotus Racing F1 Team had an average race on the first anniversary of the team's application to participate in F1 was accepted. Lead driver Jarno Trulli retiring on lap 46 while Heikki Kovalainen finishing 18th after they qualified 18th and 19th respectively. After the race meanwhile, great news greeted the team as they are set to relive the legendary name of Team Lotus and the use of Renault engine for next season.

Black And Blue

Human nature is very strange. Sure, when people turn to us to get advice we would give them logical and useful ones, but somehow a niche of us would not be able to follow on those advices ourselves. And in that niche group I found my own picture in it.

Never Had A Dream Come True - S Club 7

Everybody's got something they had to leave behind
One regret from yesterday that just seems to grow with time
There's no use looking back or wondering (or wondering)
How it could be now or neither been (or neither been)
All this I know but still I can't find ways to let you go

I never had a dream come true
Till that day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where love takes me to
A part of me will always be with you...

Somewhere in my memory I lost all sense of time
Amd tomorrow can never be
'Cause yesterday is all that fills my mind
There's no use looking back or wondering
How it should be now or neither been (or neither been)
Oh this I know but still I can't find ways to let you go

I never had a dream come true
Till that day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where love takes me to
A part of me will always be with you ...

You'll always be the dream that fills my head
(Yes you will, say you will, you know you will, baby)
You'll always be the one I know (I'll never forget)
There's no use looking back or wondering (or wondering)
Because love is a strange and funny thing
No matter how I try and try
I just can't say goodbye
No no no no

I never had a dream come true
Till that day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where love takes me to
A part of me will always be with you.....

Lotus Racing F1 Team Race Report: Belgian GP

After a 3-week summer break, the F1 circus returns to one of the legendary curcuits that all drivers love: Spa-Francorchamps. Rain played its full hands and the race was peppered with carnage as well as two Safety Car periods. Saturday's qualifying saw Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber claiming his 5th pole position of the the season and also Red Bull's 12th in 13 races with Lewis Hamilton of McLaren Mercedes next to him on the front row. Lotus Racing F1 Team drivers, Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen meanwhile qualified at 18th and 16th respectively, but were promoted with Kovalainen in 15th and Trulli to 16th when several drivers were handed penalties for various reasons. In conjunction with Malaysia's Independence Day on the 31th August, both Lotus cars carried the Malaysian flag on the engine cover. The race on Sunday saw Kovalainen raced home to 16th while Trulli ended up 19th when the latter spun in the dying minutes of the race. Drama begun on the first lap itself when light rain fell. Up front, Webber suffered from a slow start, which Hamilton took full advantage of and rocket up front to the first corner, with the Briton's team-mate Jenson Button coming up second from 4th on the grid. William Racing Team's Rubens Barrichello, racing in his 300th career race, saw his milestone ended in a bitter note when, on the final corner, his car couldn't brake in time and he droved straight into Scuderia Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Alonso escaped unscathed while Ruben's car suffered heavy nose damage. The McLarens were dominating the race until Webber's younger German team-mate Sebastian Vettel ploughed into Button on the 15th lap while trying to overtake the 2009 champion on the final corner, effectively ending the Briton's hopes of challenging for the win and also re-igniting his title chase. Subsequently, Vettel was handed a drive-through penalty for being at fault of the crash, dropping the him back further to into the pack before finishing 15th and out of the point scoring zone. The Safety Car was deployed for the first time and Ferrari, seeing the rain is starting to get a little heavier brought Alonso in to change to intermediate tyres, only to find the rain slowly fading and the new tyres burning themselves up quickly. Rain clouds with even heavier and longer rain visited the circuit at the late stages of the race which on lap 37 caused Alonso to spin out and stop in the middle of the track with front suspension damaged. The Safety Car then came out for the second time. Throughout all these, 2008 champion Hamilton ran an almost faultless race in 1st until the end, with a heart-stopping moment on lap 33 when his car went off-track and came narrowly close to the wall at the in-field hairpin. With this victory, Hamilton now mans the driver's standing with 182 points and Webber in second with 179 points.