same ceremony, Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost was named team principal of the year.

11/12/08 The SingTel Singapore Grand Prix celebrated yet another success on Tuesday, with the event and the Marina Bay circuit winning the title of world-wide Motor Sport Facility of the Year.

The first-ever floodlit night race venue in F1 history won the accolade at the Professional Motor Sport World annual awards ceremony in Cologne on Tuesday.

The 5.067km circuit was commended for the revolutionary track lighting and the spectacular way in which it weaves the track through the heart of the city.

The other candidates were the European Grand Prix venue at Valencia in Spain, the new Toyota Racing Development chassis engineering building in Cologne and a new start-of-the-art motor racing facility at Sturup in Sweden.

Montezemolo critical ofhad engines firing for the start at 3:52 EST, ABC officials made the decision to shift the conclusion of the race to ESPN2 in order to show the regularly-scheduled "America's Funniest Home Videos" to viewers in Eastern and Central Standard Time zones.

One major newspaper columnist wrote afterward that ABC's decision ends the argument as to whether NASCAR is a major sport once and for all. The end of an NFL game doesn't get handed off from network television to second-tier cable. Networks, broadcast or cable, usually don't bail out on playoff games -- especially if the option is a piffle of a program like "America's Funniest Home Videos."

The sport's leadership has basically handed control of the sport over to television in exchange for billions of dollars. TV sets