As a gentle warm-up to the action on the Marina Bay street circuit, singer Aisa Senda of Taiwanese hip-hop band Da Mouth performs on stage at the F1 Rocks Singapore concert at Fort Canning Park
What pressure? Brawn's championship leader Jenson Button, looking to extend his 14-point advantage over team-mate Rubens Barrichello, bestrides the Singapore Grand Prix paddock with his girlfriend Jessica Michibata
Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel strums a guitar while chatting to veteran American rockers ZZ Top. Brilliantly, the man to the right of Vettel, sporting a tidy goatee, is the band member who is called Frank Beard...
"OK, so check your mirrors and ease away slowly..." Kimi Raikkonen sits in the passenger seat as fellow Ferrari driver Giancarlo Fisichella takes him for a spin in a Ferrari road car
Assembled media crowd around Renault's two-time world champion Fernando Alonso as the Spaniard looks ahead to move on from the controversy surrounding his victory in Singapore last year
Open and expressive as ever, Red Bull's Australian driver Mark Webber perhaps ponders why he did not get the chance to meet ZZ Top as he seeks to secure a second win of the 2009 season
Hoping to avoid a repeat of last year's fiasco when Felipe Massa left the pits with the fuel hose still in, Ferrari's pit crew have a run-through
Renault driver Romain Grosjean makes the early headlines as he puts his car into the wall at turn 17, exactly the same spot where Nelson Piquet Jr's now-notorious crash happened last year
B is for Button - world championship leader Jenson Button says he will go all-out for victory this weekend, rather than playing it safe, as he closes in on his first world title
Rubens Barrichello appears to have the whole of Singapore to himself as he sets the fastest time in the first practice session
Jenson Button goes into the race with Brawn team-mate Rubens Barrichello his main rival for the world title, although Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber are still mathematically in contention
Singapore's version of the London Eye is just one of the features on the skyline which provide the dramatic backdrop for the weekend's street racing
You don't get this at Silverstone: Singapore's status as a night race means there is a spectacular sunset to enjoy between practice sessions
Mark Webber's outside chance of becoming only the third Australian F1 world champion will end this weekend if Jenson Button outscores him by two points
Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari is a blur of speed but the former world champion has not been among the front runners in practice so far
Fernando Alonso's Renault is missing the names of two of its usual sponsors after they terminated their deals over the race fixing saga
Rubens Barrichello set the pace in the first session but Brawn team-mate and title rival Jenson Buton was faster in the second session
One look at the stunning backdrop of the Singapore race and it is obvious why the night race has become such a high-profile event on the calendar
The inaugural F1 Rocks festival has attracted big names such as Beyonce, ZZ Top and, on Friday night, Gwen Stefani and No Doubt
Don't you forget about me.... Singapore has clearly not forgotten about Jim Kerr and Simple Minds, performing as part of F1 Rocks
How better to round off a day's racing than with some Texan blues and Southern boogie from ZZ Top, as part of the F1 Rocks festival
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