As quickly as luck is in Felipe Massa's favor, it's just as quickly against him.

Massa came out of the Grand Prix of Belgium the awarded victor, after Lewis Hamilton received a post-race time penalty. And the following race at Monza saw his sixth-place finish good enough to hold off Hamilton in seventh.

As a result he entered the Grand Prix of Singapore weekend within one point of Hamilton for the points lead.

Massa seemed well on his way to a successful race at Singapore after earning the event's maiden pole position. All he needed to do was run a clean race and hold off Hamilton who started in second to overtake the lead with a victory.

But trouble struck for the Ferrari driver during his first pit stop. One of the team's mechanics, who team officials aren't going to name and subsequently throw under the bus, told the driver he could leave the pits although the fuel hose was still attached to the car.

On the hasty exit, Massa left one mechanic injured on the ground and had to stop at the end of pit lane for his mechanics to come remove the hose from his car. The video footage of the botched pit stop and attempt to remove the hose is a comedy of errors not usually seen from the top ranked team in the sport.

To add salt to the wound, Massa also earned a drive-through penalty for almost colliding with Adrian Sutil on his exit. He ended the race in 13th. That finish, coupled with Raikkonen's accident in the closing laps and 15th-place finish, left Ferrari scoreless in a grand prix for the first since Australia in 2006.

Now Massa will have to dig deep to try and win the last three races of the season and mount a run on the championship and hope that with Kimi Raikkonen's support that Lewis Hamilton will be held to third-place finishes at best.