SINGAPORE — McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, and Brawn GP driver Jenson Button extended his Formula One championship lead by one point.
Hamilton started from the pole and protected his lead to finish 9.6 seconds ahead of Timo Glock, who equaled Toyota’s best Formula One result by finishing second. Fernando Alonso gave scandal-hit Renault a lift by finishing third for the French team’s first podium finish of the season.
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel pursued Hamilton for much of the race, and closed the gap to just half a second after 37-of-61 laps. But his hopes of victory were dashed by a drive-through penalty for speeding in pit lane. He finished fourth.
Button worked his way up the field from 12th place to finish fifth, one place ahead of teammate and championship rival Rubens Barrichello. Button leads Barrichello by 15 points with three races to go.
• Robert Hight raced to his second funny car victory in two playoff events, winning the NHRA Fall Nationals in Ennis, Texas.
Hight, who barely advanced to the Countdown to 1, beat Jack Beckman in the final round at the Texas Motorplex.
Tony Schumacher (top fuel), Greg Anderson (pro stock) and and Hector Arana (pro stock motorcycle) won their respective categories.
Earthquakes top D.C. United
WASHINGTON — Ryan Johnson scored on a header in the 73rd minute to help the San Jose Earthquakes, owners of the second- worst record in Major League Soccer, snap a 20-game road winless streak by beating D.C. United 2-1.
• A Saudi prince wants to become co-owner of the Liverpool soccer club in a deal worth up to $560 million that would mark the latest buy-in by Gulf investors in an English Premier League team.
Evans wins cycling road race
MENDRISIO, Switzerland — Cadel Evans of Australia got the biggest victory of his career, breaking free on the final climb to win the men’s race at cycling’s road world championships.
The two-time Tour de France runner-up finished in an unofficial time of 6 hours, 56 minutes, 26 seconds on the 162.9-mile course.
Alexandr Kolobnev of Russia crossed 27 seconds behind to take silver, beating Spain’s Joaquin Rodriguez in a sprint finish.
Monfils wins Moselle final
METZ, France — Top-seeded Gael Monfils ended a four-year title drought with a 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-2 victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the Open de Moselle final.
Monfils served 14 aces and broke Kohlschreiber twice in the third set before closing out the match. The Frenchman had won their previous encounter last year in Vienna.
• Shahar Peer of Israel won her second straight WTA Tour title, beating local favorite Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan 6-3, 6-4 in the Tashkent Open final in Uzbekistan.
• Albert Montanes of Spain won the BCR Open Romania in Bucharest, defeating Argentina’s Juan Monaco 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6).
The Associated Press
