Fernando Alonso completed an impressive race around the Singapore port streets, obtaining is his second back-to-back victory and his second win in the same circuit. But in contrast to his 2008 victory with Renault that had been marked by the infamous crashgate of Nelson Piquet Jr. his 2010 victory was completed clear and dominant. Alonso tied Webber with 4 victories and he's now only 11 points behind him proving his strong desire to achieve a championship title that appeared until the previous 2 races lost. 
Sebastian Vettel finished only 0.2 seconds behind Alonso and Webber won the best he can ever do with his 3rd position and Jenson Button was fourth. Yet, Lewis Hamilton's title ambitions suffered another major setback and another retirements when he collided with Webber on the 35th lap and was forced to retire.Still, driver's championship is again on fire with only 25 points separating the top five and the season looks set to go down to the wire up to Abu Dhabi.
The race got its first injection of excitement when rumours for a heavy downpour were set before the weekend and there was a lot of concern how drive could ever drive in night wet conditions with circuit's lights blaring their vision. However, Alonso showed his competitiveness when he scored race's pole position with Vettel starting 2nd. Both of them had their own special pace in comparison with the rest of the field trading fastest laps throughout while an intense strategic battle for third developed behind them as Webber in 5th tried to find out a way to overtake both leading McLaren Mercedes. His chances shined when a safety car was deployed to allow marshals to clear Tonio Liuzzi's stricken Force India from the track in lap 3. Liuzzi had been hit from behind by Nick Heidfeld and the resulting caution period presented a crucial strategic challenge for the teams.
Red Bull opted to pit Webber, while the top four drivers - each one of them a title competiro - decided to stay out on track on the soft tyres. For the supremely fast Alonso and Vettel it was an obvious choice and paid dividends as they mastered the option tyre to pull out a huge lead over the rest of the pack.
But the McLarens were not as quick and harder on their tyres and Hamilton and Button soon started to fall into a race to gain enough gap against Webber, despite being 20 seconds up the road. As their times became to worsen and Webber's improved, it became obvious that they needed to pit but the McLaren pit wall stubbornly refused to issue the call. Eventually they succumbed to the decision, but it was too late and the lead McLaren of Hamilton emerged back onto the track eight seconds behind Webber.
But the race was far from over, and as a battle raged in every sector of every lap between Alonso and Vettel, a second safety car was deployed. This time another Sauber was to blame when Kamui Kobayashi slammed his car into the barrier on the exit of turn 18.
The field was bunched up again during the caution period and on the restart two lapped Virgins separated Vettel and Webber in second and third. By this time Webber was on very old hard tyres and Hamilton was keen to seize the opportunity and take back his third place. Amd the opportunity came sooner then he ever expected when the Red Bull was baulked by Lucas di Grassi out of turn five and Hamilton got a run on Webber into turn seven. The McLaren moved to the outside and appeared to have the corner, but as he cut back across to take the apex he left no space for Webber to brake and the collided that resulted to another broken suspension for Hamilton. It was his second consecutive retirements due to a broken suspension since the Italian Grand Prix when he collided with Felipe Massa.
Moments later a copycat accident between Nick Heidfeld and Michael Schumacher accounted for the retirement of the Sauber while the Mercedes struggled back to the pits with sparks flying from a broken front wing.The stewards immediately investigated both identical incidents but decided not to take any action against any driver involved. Webber defended his role in the Hamilton acccident, suggesting that a slower car held up the Red Bull RB6 and allowed Hamilton to challenge for the spot.
"It's very, very difficult to get away clean when you have the backmarkers involved. (The contact) isn't desirable. It's not something that you want to do all the time ... but it was a good race for everyone to see and I'm very happy with third."
Hamilton also commented:
"I'm still not exactly sure what happened with Mark and me. But, telling it from my point of view, I saw that he'd made a mistake, and had got caught up with the backmarkers, so I was in position to slipstream him. I was on the outside going into Turn Seven, and he was in my blind-spot, just behind me. I thought I'd got sufficiently past him, though. I braked, turned in, and tried to leave enough room for him on the inside - and the next thing I knew I'd got clipped, my tyre was blown, and that was it. But, as the saying goes, I guess that's motor racing."
On the final part fo the race the focus shifted then on Button who tried to steal Webber's 3rd position as a revenge for Hamilton but the McLaren was not quick enough for the pass. On the other battle, Vettel kept the pressure on Alonso in the final laps but the Ferrari driver comfortably was controling the pace of the race.
But the last drama of the race came with two laps remaining when Sebastien Buemi clipped the back of Heikki Kovalainen and forced the Lotus into a spin. The unexpected strain on the Cosworth engine clearly took its toll and as Kovalainen came through the final sector of the lap his Lotus burst into flames. Remarkably he stayed in the car to cross the line and complete another lap, but soon realised the extent of the fire and jumped out of his car while flames were approaching his cockpit. However, there was no marshals around and Kovalainen bravely wiped out the fire on his own with a help of a nearby fire extinguisher.
Critics argued Kovalainen was irresponsible to carry on round the track once fuel from a ruptured tank caught light, but he countered by saying he did want to take the car into the pit lane while it was on fire. Kovalained defended himself:
"It definitely wasn't safe enough to do so and so I pulled over on the main straight. A couple of guys from Williams gave me an extinguisher, so I put the fire out on my own. Maybe need to pay me more as I'm now a fireman as well ..."
The rest of the field had a trouble free race. Nico Rosberg completed the top five and top was comleted by Rubens Barrichello, Robert Kubica, Felipe Massa, Adrian Sutil and Nico Hulkenberg.
Both Sutil and Hulkenberg were hit with a 10 second-penalty although finishing ahead of Massa. Sutil was given the initial penalty for running wide at turn seven, but his Force India team then pointed out that Hulkenberg had gained a similar advantage later in the race and had a similar fate.
The result is a major boost for Alonso's championship chances and sets up a thrilling battle heading to Japan. After the race Alonso commented:
"This win is very significant. We wanted to confirm our success in Monza at a completely different type of track and we succeeded at the end of a very hard and extremely stressful race, both for me and for the car, on a track that I like a lot and which is well suited to my driving style... There are four races to go and the championship is very open. In Spa, Sebastian, Jenson and I came away empty handed, then in Monza it was Hamilton's turn: the dance towards the title sees the contenders see-sawing up and down, although Mark is still holding on to a slight lead. We must stay calm and concentrate on our own job, without thinking about what the others are doing: what is certain is that we will leave nothing to chance, fighting right to the very end. The F10 has improved a lot thanks to the work of all our engineers in Maranello and here at the track, and I am happy for that because now we can be on the pace at every type of circuit. We are not considered favourites for the races that lie ahead of us, but none of them are anything to be frightened about."
