Lando Norris found no rival in the race Singapore Grand Prix and wins his third victory in the World of Formula 1beating Max Verstappen (2nd), that he won another round in the fight for the title. This is already the eighth test in which the McLaren He surpasses the triple world champion, the fourth in a row, which leaves an open battle for the last six dates. Oscar Piastri moved up to third place, overtaking the two drivers who moved up from fifth to fifth. Mercedes –George Russell (4th) and Lewis Hamilton (6th)–.
The winning British driver grew tired of leading lap after lap and insisted on setting the fastest lap, touching the wall twice and causing more than one scare in his garage, but even Verstappen could not argue with him for victory after a very good outing. He left behind the ghosts of the seven previous pole positions that were snatched from him at the first opportunity and continues to compete for his first F1 championship. It is still the least of the damage for the Dutchman, who lost only seven points in the fight with Norris.
Carlos Sainz managed to finish seventh despite a staging, but the change in the team’s strategy Ferrari ended up relaunching him to a good result that he had to sign by hanging on until the end with hard and pressed rubber. Charles Leclerc (4th) unexpectedly prevented Mercedes from finishing ahead of the Italians, overtaking Hamilton with 11 laps to go, but he was unable to beat Russell despite his attempts on the final straight.
Fernando Alonso He resisted at the start, gave a new demonstration of driving and managed to keep a very honourable eighth place, above Nico Hulkenberg (9th) and Red Bull of Czech Perez (10th), who could not even surpass the driver of haasThe Asturian also stayed very close to Sainz with not much fresher wheels and showed that if the fruits come at some point, he will be there to pick them up and squeeze them.
Sainz changes the scenario
Sainz’s strategy went awry with a poor start that cost him two positions. Ferrari therefore opted for another path that aimed to be fruitful over the laps, keeping the Madrid driver away from an eternal traffic jam and aspiring to overtake Yuki TsunodaPerez and Franco Colapinto in this order at low heat. Meanwhile, his teammate, Leclerc, fought for several laps to overtake Alonso.
Finally, he managed it on the 26th lap, just after the Asturian had lost the DRS with Hulkenberg. Alonso took advantage of this to protect himself in the pits and hold on until the end with the new hard tyres. The move went well and on lap 33 he was already ninth behind Sainz and the two Spaniards were going to move up another position when Tsunoda stopped.
The moment of truth was where Leclerc appeared after changing the wheels and he did it in front of Hulkenberg, so Alonso’s race had only one goal in the face of the predictable overtaking of the Monegasque: to finish eighth. It was logical and it happened on lap 41, the moment when the Asturian confessed to another Numantine defense to get another unreal result with this one. Aston Martin.
The race was to be decided with Piastri’s asterisk overtaking Russell to occupy third place on the podium. The Australian was looking at Verstappen, but the 16-second gap was going to be too much. Furthermore, Leclerc was unable to beat Russell despite a favourable wind thanks to DRS.
Ricciardo takes a point from Norris
As things stood, Norris found himself alone on the circuit. Marina Bay and his fixation on achieving the fastest lap had no results because Daniel Ricciardoin his hypothetical last test with RBhe snatched it on the last lap. Victory, 25 points and another cut for Verstappen, leaving an exciting scenario for the last six races. The first will be austin (US GP) within three weeks.
