Those watching the Singapore GP last weekend would gasp in horror as Ferrari’s Felipe Massa stepped on the accelerator after his schedule pitstop and to everyone’s horror, the fuel nozzle still attached to his F2008 F1 car

It seems that there was some error in the Ferrari pitstop, when a crewman pressed the go button of the electronic sign wrongly, which gave the green lights for Massa to leave the pit, but not known to Massa, the re-fuelling mechanic have yet to remove the fuel nozzle

Team Ferrari is the only team that uses electronic sign to indicate to their F1 drivers if its fine to move off. Other F1 teams uses a ‘lollipop stick’ where the chief mechanic would hold the stick in front of the driver and would only remove it once the other mechanics have completed their pit-jobs

If Massa who is currently in second place (77 points) in the F1 drivers title loses the championship to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton (84 points), the incident at Singapore GP will be regarded as the turning point for Ferrari’s failure to defend the drivers title under Ferrari flag. Kimi Raikkonen was last year champion