Richard Bradley had them singing Majulah Singapura

SEPANG, Malaysia: For the first time since the inaugural Malaysian Grand Prix in 1999, fans got to hear the Singapore national anthem twice in the span of two days at the Sepang International Circuit, thanks to Singapore�based teenager Richard Bradley.
Competing in the support Formula BMW Pacific race, the 19�year�old English lad captured the first two rounds of the 16�leg championship held over the weekend.
Bradley, who was making his debut in open�wheel racing with the Eurasia team, won the first round on Saturday when he crossed the finish line ahead of Spaniard Carlos Sainz Jr, son of two�time World Rally Champion of the same name, and Fahmi Ilyas of Malaysia.
Bradley finished the 10�lap race in 22 minutes 2.686 seconds and also set the fastest lap (2:11.139).

He repeated the feat in the second round on Sunday, clocking 22:20.522, ahead of Columbian Oscar Tunjo of the Meritus team and Japan�s Kotaro Sakurai (Eurasia).
"I am really thrilled. To win the first two rounds and setting the fastest lap times in both of them in my open�wheel debut is more than what I had expected," said Bradley.
"I hope Singaporeans are just as proud that the national anthem was played twice for the first time at the Malaysian Grand Prix here."
Bradley arrived last November to join dad Edward, a lawyer in Singapore, and with experience in karting since the age of eight, immediately got down to training aspiring young racers at the new karting track in Jurong.

He was granted a racing licence by the Singapore Motor Sports Association when he applied to compete in the Formula BMW Pacific championships.
Asked if he intends to continue flying the Singapore flag well into the future, he replied: "Well I love every bit of Singapore, even if I have been there only a short time, and that is something I won�t mind considering." �

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Shanghai may axe Grand Prix

Shanghai is considering axing its loss-making Formula One Grand Prix after the contract runs out in 2010, a senior official told AFP, dealing a potential blow to the sport.
Qiu Weichang, deputy director of the Shanghai Administration of Sports, said the situation was being assessed and a decision would be announced next year.

"We're doing the assessment. By next year we should be able to give you an answer," he said in an interview late on Thursday.
China's biggest city spent 240 million dollars on the state-of-the-art Shanghai International Circuit and hosted its first Formula One race in 2004.
But the event has been plagued by poor ticket sales and Qiu said its fate was in the balance.
"We want to create a win-win situation, for our side and for Bernie (Ecclestone) and the F1 organisers as well," he said.
"If this is something we can do, and our cooperation is very happy and smooth, we will consider it.
"Of course we would like at least to break even. But there are two factors, one is the assessment the other part is the win-win situation that we can create."
Qiu was also cool on the idea of night racing, which Formula One chief Ecclestone is pushing in Asia as a way to boost European TV audiences. Singapore held the first night Grand Prix in September.
"In Singapore... holding the event at night is a good way to attract tourists to a small country," he said.
"I think Singapore is hosting this event in their own unique way but we have our own situation."
Formula One events are often run at a loss with this year's Australian Grand Prix going 27 million dollars into the red. France recently cut its race over money worries.
But Asia is a huge growth market for the sport with South Korea due to host its first race in 2010 and India joining the circuit in 2011.
Shanghai's ties have soured since Yu Zhifei, who helped bring Formula One to China, was jailed in January in a massive corruption crackdown which brought down the city's top official.
The city has already pulled its annual Moto GP race, although Qiu said the circuit was in use for most of the year by car clubs and for private driving sessions.
"Even if we don't run F1 after 2010 we should be able to cover our bases because of events are taking place in the rest of the year over about 200 days," he said.
"We want to turn it into Disneyland for cars. Fans can go there if they want to really enjoy F1-style driving and enjoy the thrill of driving at speed at this venue.
"Thanks to F1 we have already created this huge wave of car fever, so in that sense it is good news."
The Chinese Grand Prix is one of a series of major sporting events that have helped raise Shanghai's profile during the economic boom of recent years.
The HSBC Champions golf tournament is one of Asia's richest, while the city also spent "over one billion yuan" (146 million dollars) on the Qi Zhong Stadium to host the Tennis Masters Cup, Qiu said.
He admitted the tennis stadium was also yet to make a profit with only a small number of events held there since its completion in 2005.

Another Stunning Race At Sepang - Malaysia

REIGNING world champion Kimi Raikkonen could not have chosen a better venue to spark a fight-back for Ferrari in the F1 World Championships.
It was at the Sepang F1 Circuit in 2003 where Raikkonen bagged his first Grand Prix victory and the Finn repeated the feat by winning the 10th edition of the Petronas Malaysian F1 Grand Prix in commanding fashion yesterday.
While Raikkonen romped to a trouble-free victory, winning the 56-lap race by nearly 20 seconds, his McLaren rival, Lewis Hamilton, endured a torrid afternoon.

Hamilton, winner of the season-opening Australian GP last week, finished in fifth place after a pit-stop mistake by his crew delayed him by nearly 20 seconds.
Polish driver Robert Kubica gave BMW Sauber their first ever podium finish in Sepang in second place behind Raikkonen. He finished the race in 1'31:38.155 and it was his career best performance in F1 thus far.
Heikki Kovalainen restored some pride for the battered McLaren when he fought his way to third place in 1'31:57.005 after starting from eighth on the grid.
But the day certainly belonged to his more illustrious Finnish compatriot, who was in a class of his own.
Raikkonen took the lead after the first pit stop from Brazilian team-mate Felipe Massa, who later spun off on the 30th lap.
Massa had started from pole ahead of Raikkonen and was in a position to give Ferrari a 1-2 finish but lost the back end of his Ferrari and spun off into the gravel.
Raikkonen had already built up a lead of four seconds by then and it was just a steady cruise home for the Finn.
Raikkonen�s win cut Hamilton's lead in the drivers' standings to three points after two races and the Finn, who seldom smiled to the cameras, had reasons to flash a big grin after the podium celebrations.
The victory was also Ferrari's fifth in Sepang and the first since Michael Schumacher won in 2004.
More importantly, Ferrari will see it as a boost to their championship aspirations after Raikkonen suffered from engine trouble and failed to finish the race in Melbourne. He was only classified in eighth place and picked up one point after Honda's Rubens Barrichello was disqualified for exiting the pit lane while the light was still red.
�For sure we had quite a difficult weekend in Australia when I didn't really expect to have such difficulties,� said Raikkonen.
�We were not 100% sure that things would be different here. We knew that speed wise, we would be fine, even in Australia the speed should have been fine. But everything worked perfectly here and we took it easy to make sure nothing went wrong.
�We saved the engine. It was a perfect job by the team to come back. But I would have been happier if Felipe got second but things went wrong.�
Massa said that he still did not know what happened to the car and said they would get to the bottom of the matter.
�I just lost the car completely when the rear came round suddenly,� said Massa, who was also on pole in the Malaysian GP last year.
Hamilton was not pleased with the outcome of the race despite finishing among the points. Also not helping his cause was the fact that his water dispenser failed to work during the race.

�I was very thirsty. We were in with a good shot for third place and then had trouble with the pit-stop. I pressed hard for fourth, I really wanted that point, but it wasn't to be,� said the Briton.
Sebastien Bourdais had some mechanical problems sending him in the gravel at the first lap.
And that concluded another very hot Racing week-end here in Sepang. I will upload my pics later today for your viewing pleasure.