Singapore GP

Despite praising Ferrari's pace at the Singapore Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc was ultimately left disappointed after being unable to convert pole position ...

"Then in the last 10 laps, I think he started to pull away again. But of course frustrated with the second place today." "The performance was there. But it's a good step in the right direction. "I tried to put quite a lot of pressure on Checo. "The pace was really good today.

Perez made no mistake when the signal turned to green by beating Leclerc to the opening chicane in the damp conditions. Singapore F1 GP Auto Racing. Max ...

I gave everything for the win today.” When I got out of the car I felt it. I gave everything for the win today” In the last seconds, Verstappen then fought his way past Vettel for seventh. “I got hit by Sainz,” said Hamilton. “He sent me wide.” Perez’s triumph is subject to an investigation following an alleged infringement behind the safety car. Latifi moved across to defend his position but left Zhou with no room. Hamilton slipped his Mercedes into reverse, falling behind Norris, but re-joining ahead of Verstappen. The last three laps were so intense. Verstappen heads to next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix with a 104-point championship lead. “I controlled the race.

Max Verstappen was left rueing an "incredibly messy" weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix after his hopes of sealing the world championship at the Marina Bay ...

"It was difficult to overtake and that lock-up into Turn 7 - when those things happen your heart sinks a little bit. I think if I was in third, I could have kept with the guys up ahead." "It was very tricky conditions for everyone. I think I could have done similar times to the guys ahead, but because I was stuck behind him I couldn't. "(It was) a difficult start and then getting stuck behind Carlos. Then, with Vettel in front of him and Verstappen behind him in the closing stages, Hamilton once more misfired with an overtake, and was left to finish ninth.

Sergio Perez kept his head in an incident filled race as Max Verstappen's second Formula 1 world championship must wait, at least for another week...

They restarted fourth and fifth and that’s where they stayed until the end, for a decent points haul. McLaren’s double points has suddenly changed the complexion of the teams’ fight for fourth place in the constructors’ standings, McLaren leapfrogging Alpine to lead the Anglo-French team by four points with five races to go. In the closing stages, Vettel led his two fellow world champions in a three-car train and Hamilton couldn’t resist a look at Turn Three, got it wrong and handed eighth to Verstappen. After a quick spin-turn he charged back from 14th and picked up eighth with a minute and a half left on the clock when Lewis Hamilton ran wide while attacking Vettel. After the first safety car, he passed both Sebastian Vettel and Pierre Gasly on a single lap, such was his determination. But then came another error when, after the second safety car, he tried a dive on Lando Norris’s McLaren on newly fitted slicks and slid straight on at Turn Seven. Having dropped to ninth, he picked up a place when Verstappen made his mistake in challenging Norris, only to lose it again. Verstappen was left venting expletives on the radio on Saturday when he was called off from what looked certain to be a pole-winning lap. ‘Checo’ clung on to it too, despite a nervous wait post-race as the stewards debated how to penalise him for not one but two infringements behind the safety car, on a convoluted wet-dry night-time marathon on the streets of Singapore. He’d been made to sweat in more ways than one, during and after the best performance of his career so far. Out front, Perez kept his cool and was never headed despite pressure from Leclerc, with two full safety car periods and three Virtual Safety Cars pock-marking a strange race that was processional for long periods, before it came alive in the final act. Fortunately, his team had told him a post-race investigation was pending during the race and after valiantly soaking up pressure from Leclerc after the final restart, the Mexican was able to stretch away and open up a winning gap of 7.5 seconds.

Winner: Sergio Perez · Loser: Max Verstappen · Winners: Ferrari · Losers: Alpine · Winner: Lando Norris · Loser: Lewis Hamilton.

Aston Martin secured their best result of the season, with Lance Stroll adding sixth to his five 10th place finishes this year. This was Red Bull’s first win in Singapore since Vettel in 2012 and only Perez’s second podium in seven races. He then had a poor getaway because of anti-stall, dropping him four places to 12th and while he recovered well, a lock-up when trying to pass Lando Norris undid all that hard work to date. A deluge just before the Singapore Grand Prix created the conditions for an entertaining race under the lights at Marina Bay. For the first time since France and only the sixth time this season, Daniel Ricciardo brought his McLaren home in the points, finishing fifth in what was his best drive of the season. [FACTS AND STATS: Perez first man in over a decade to do Monaco-Singapore double](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.facts-and-stats-perez-first-man-in-over-a-decade-to-do-monaco-singapore.2NAFspcpYnd1DdSBANcZ5t.html) His team mate Sebastian Vettel made up five places at the start to limit the damage of his qualifying pain and went on to finish eighth – his fourth top-eight finish of the season. Lando Norris is the only driver outside the top-three teams to score a podium this year (at Imola) and at one stage in Singapore, he was hustling Sainz in a bid to make it two. It was the second time in a row Alpine have failed to score – and as a result, the Enstone-based team have dropped behind McLaren into fifth in the standings. [READ MORE: What the teams said - Race day in Singapore](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.what-the-teams-said-race-day-in-singapore-2022.7jaGhyvisu9c7OCdYfN8PL.html) He becomes the first person since four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel in 2011 to win street races in Monaco and Singapore in the same year, and the 58th driver to lead a race from start-to-finish. Sergio Perez has come in for a fair bit of criticism of late, the Mexican struggling to match Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen – but he silenced those doubters with aplomb in Singapore, delivering an assured and savvy drive to take his second win of the year.

Sergio Pérez won for the second time this season with Charles Leclerc second, Max Verstappen seventh and Lewis Hamilton in ninth.

His tyres were shot and he was forced to pit for new rubber and emerged from fifth place in 14th at the back of the field. Yet the win he required was long gone as his teammate closed out his victory with calm assurance. Hamilton stopped, too, for a new front wing and rubber, and Verstappen followed a lap later. This was Pérez’s first win at the Singapore GP and the fourth of his career. He managed to keep going and rejoined in front of Verstappen in fifth but with a damaged front wing. He had a poor start and then dropped places trying too hard to make up a position in the latter stages, making an error that was even more costly.