The 61-lap race was won by Fernando Alonso for the Renault team from 15th on the grid after his teammate deliberately crashed on lap 14 to bring out the safety car after his first pit stop.

They continued in this order until Renault's Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed on lap 14, bringing out the safety car as planned after Alonso's pit stop.

[1] Briatore and Symonds sued the FIA in French courts; on 5 January 2010, the Tribunal de Grande Instance overturned the ban which had been put in place on both men.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa finished in sixth place, narrowing Lewis Hamilton's lead in the Drivers' Championship to a single point.

A number of drivers faced problems at the final corner of the circuit, including Honda's Rubens Barrichello who crashed backwards into the barriers.

During the session, Toro Rosso's Sébastien Bourdais almost collided with Nick Heidfeld's BMW Sauber as he exited from the pit lane into the first corner.

Fisichella damaged his Force India VJM01's front wing and suspension after it launched off the kerbs at the Turn 10 chicane.

Nelson Piquet Jr., Sébastien Bourdais, Rubens Barrichello, Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella were eliminated in this session.

Heidfeld was dropped three grid places for blocking and Barrichello was fined €10,000 for an unsafe pit lane entry as he did not use the deceleration zone.

[23] Fernando Alonso was eliminated early in this session when his car suffered a fuel feed problem before he could set a lap time.

[25] The other drivers who failed to reach the top ten were Jarno Trulli, Jenson Button and both Red Bulls of Mark Webber and David Coulthard.

Massa secured his position by clocking lap time six-tenths faster than Hamilton, describing it as his best qualifying result of the season.

[26] Kovalainen, Heidfeld, Vettel and Glock occupied the third and fourth rows of the grid while the Williams' of Rosberg and Nakajima completed the top ten.

Jarno Trulli had begun the race on a heavy fuel load, and soon was holding up a number of cars with Williams's Nico Rosberg immediately behind him.

Two laps later, teammate Piquet lost control of his car and hit the wall at Turn 17, blaming his hard tyres for the accident.

Alonso made his final stop a lap later but still rejoined in the lead, just ahead of second and third placed Coulthard and Hamilton.

His team Red Bull Racing later claimed that a momentary electrical surge caused by a passing underground tram made the gearbox select two gears at once.

With four laps remaining, Räikkönen bounced off the kerbs at the Turn 10 chicane and crashed into the barriers while chasing Glock, promoting Nakajima into the points.

[34] Nico Rosberg was pleased with his career best result,[34] although he recalled when he thought his efforts for a good finish might have been in vain after being given a stop-and-go penalty.

[35] Hamilton said that he tried to get close to Rosberg towards the final laps, after the second safety car period; however, seeing that overtaking was extremely risky, he decided against it, considering that neither of the Ferraris was going to score.

[34] Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali said that the reason for Massa's pit incident was not the electronic signalling system but a human error.

[10] The international media and many of those directly involved in Formula One praised the staging of the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix highly.

Organisation of the event itself was widely deemed to be impeccable as the ushering, transport, and security services all ran like clockwork.

The drivers complained about how bumpy the track was, particularly off the racing line, which made overtaking difficult on a street circuit hemmed in by barriers.

Hopefully this will open people's eyes and they'll say, my God, Singapore really is alive and well.Several other prominent Formula One personalities were quoted as saying: The guys here have done an absolutely unbelievable job.

They have just raised the bar considerably for a new circuit and the spectacle of racing at night in a big city such as Singapore is really exciting.It has a good chance of challenging Monaco for being the jewel in the crown of Formula One.

During the next few weeks, I would like discuss this with all the other teams.Locally, Sunday's Formula One night race on the local MediaCorp TV Channel 5 drew more viewers than the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in the previous month, becoming the highest-rated programme for the year.

The world's inaugural Formula One race under floodlights is reported to have been watched by an estimated global TV audience of about 400 million.

[48] During the race, Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. crashed on lap 15, which at the time he attributed to how difficult the car was to drive on heavy fuel.

Following a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) investigation in which Piquet, Jr. stated he had been ordered by Renault team principal Flavio Briatore and engineer Pat Symonds to stage the crash, on 4 September 2009 Renault were charged with conspiracy and race fixing, and were due to face the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris on 21 September 2009.