It was action from the off in
Singapore Grand Prix – the first night race in F1 history to be run in wet conditions.
With the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen and Red Bull’s Max
Verstappen eliminated in a coming together at the start. Mercedes Lewis
Hamilton came through for victory, extending his championship lead over Vetter
from three to 28 points.
In a race that ran to the full
two-hour limit thanks to three safety-car periods, Daniel Ricciardo made the
Marina Bay podium for the fourth year in a row, as he took second place for Red
Bull ahead of Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas. Carlos Sainz scored his best-ever
result with fourth for Toro Rosso; Jolyon Palmer did the same as he finished
sixth for Renault; and likewise Stoffel Vandoorne with seventh for McLaren. The
remaining point’s places went to Force India’s Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon in
fifth and tenth respectively, Williams’ Lance Stroll in eighth and Haas’s
Romain Grosjean in ninth.
Vettel, Raikkonen and Verstappen
have all been called to the stewards regarding their Lap-1 clash, in which the
Red Bull driver appeared to get squeezed between the two red cars. Fernando
Alonso made an amazing start for McLaren, briefly vaulting as high as third,
but was then an innocent victim of the Turn-1 carnage, sustaining car damage
that forced him to retire a few laps later.
Daniil Kvyat put his Toro Rosso
into the Turn 7 wall amid tricky conditions on Lap 11, and Marcus Ericsson
crashed his Sauber on the Anderson Bridge on Lap 38. The two other retirements
– both with technical problems – were Nico Hulkenberg, who had at one point
looked set for fourth for Renault, and Haas’s Kevin Magnussen.
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