Formula 1's second night race may have lacked the sheer drama of the first but the floodlit spectacle still provided several dramatic moments that could prove decisive as the championship battles reach their climax.
James Allen analyses the main talking points from the race, including Rosberg and Vettel's costly respective pit lane faux-pas, and looks at how Jenson Button moved one step closer to the title.
After about half an hour of this race my mind was beginning to wander a little, it was starting to look rather dull.
It never really got going as a race despite some dramas later on and that wasn’t helped by the fact that both Sebastian Vettel and Nico Rosberg took themselves out of contention with mistakes during pit stops.
Vettel made his error on the way in, speeding in the pit lane, while Rosberg made his on the way out, crossing the white pit-lane exit line.
Both men were hit with justifiable drive-through penalties.
Vettel ended up fourth because the drive-through came at a good moment for him and he was able to stalk Jenson Button and pass him for fourth place when the British driver made his second stop.
Rosberg however was hammered by the timing of the safety car, which came out just as he was handed his drive through penalty.
Because he could not serve it during the safety car period, he had to wait and then take it straight afterwards when the field was all bunched up.
Before the safety car he had a good lead over the pursuing pack, but when he came in the field was tightly packed so he rejoined 14th. He ended up 11th at the flag.
The main beneficiaries of these penalties were Timo Glock and Fernando Alonso who finished second and third.
Glock drove a fantastic race, which was built on his pass on Alonso in the opening lap.
He was extra lucky because Mark Webber was told to give Alonso his place back because he had gone off the track keeping him at bay.
In order to let Alonso through Webber first had to let Glock through and his race was made.
Alonso drove his usual determined race and afterwards dedicated his first podium of the season to Flavio Briatore who, Alonso said, had played his part in building the team up to the level of being able to score a podium.
It has been the worst week ever for the Renault team with the humiliation of their FIA hearing into the race-fixing scandal and then losing two key sponsors as a result.
In championship terms little changed once again.
It is remarkable how little has really changed in the last five races, really, with Jenson Button able to keep his nose in front despite not really firing apart from at Monza.
He took an extra point off Barrichello today to make it a 15-point lead with three races to go. If he scores five points more than Barrichello in Japan he is world champion.
There were some moments of drama, with Adrian Sutil out of order when he collided with Nick Heidfeld, trying to rejoin after a tangle with Jaime Alguersuari’s Toro Rosso.
This brought out the safety car as the debris was cleared.
The other drama was the brake failure for Mark Webber which took him out of the race.
Singapore is a tough track on brakes and it was obvious that Webber was in trouble from looking at the black brake dust coming off his right front corner. The mechanics gave it a good check and sent him back out again after a pit stop, but the brake failed soon afterwards.
Hamilton’s race was trouble-free, apart from a brief early concern with the KERS system, which had been playing up on Friday too.
He had to manually disable and then re-engage it. The lap on which he did this he lost only half a second, which was pretty impressive.