With Sebastian Vettel on pole for Sunday's race, you would have thought it will be a Ferrari win. Not even until the first corner of the first lap in the race when Vettel bogged down from the start slightly, as was Max Verstappen who started on the front row too. While Kimi Räikkönen who had a rocket of a start from fourth place.
Vettel moved over on Verstappen as Räikkönen dived up the inside, and the trio bunched together, with Verstappen and Räikkönen colliding. Räikkönen was pitched into Vettel, and continued out of control towards the first turn, where he collected Verstappen once more, who in turn hit Fernando Alonso. In my opinion it was a racing incident for all three parties.
Vettel, meanwhile, kept the lead, but his car had sustained terminal damage, with a substantial hole in the left hand side of his car, which lead to Vettel lost control on the small kink between turns three and four, tagging the wall and causing further damage to the front end retiring instantly, giving the lead to Lewis Hamilton who stayed out of trouble from the start. The safety car was deployed to clean out the carnage from the start.
When the safety car went in, Hamilton took the advantage in a wet to dry Singapore Grand Prix; Comfortably lead the race throughout going into dry conditions despite two more safety car appeared to conclude with a race win in this seasons Singapore Grand Prix for Hamilton's seventh race win of the season.
While, Daniel Ricciardo finished second place in the Red Bull, Ricciardo was five seconds behind Hamilton at the end.
Meanwhile, Valtteri Bottas finished in third place in the other Mercedes to complete the podium, Bottas was nine seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the fifty-eight lap race.
Lewis Hamilton still leads the Drivers' Championship from Sebastian Vettel, but the gap is now improved from three points to twenty-eight points in the standings with six races to go. While, Valtteri Bottas is third in the standings is now forty-one points from Monza to now fifty-one points behind Hamilton after his third place finish at Singapore.
While Mercedes still leads F1 Constructors' Standings, the gap is now gained from sixty-one points to one hundred and two points for Ferrari who are second in the Constructors' Standings with six races to go.
Highlights of the race below, enjoy.
Rate the Teams and Drivers
Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 9 (race win, fastest lap)
Valtteri Bottas - 7 (finished third)
Red Bull Racing - 7
Daniel Ricciardo - 8 (finished second)
Max Verstappen - 7 (DNF, Collision with Räikkönen)
Ferrari - 6
Sebastian Vettel - 7 (pole, DNF, Collision with Räikkönen)
Kimi Räikkönen - 6 (DNF, Collision with Verstappen)
Force India - 7
Sergio Pérez - 8 (finished fifth)
Esteban Ocon - 6 (finished tenth)
Williams - 6
Felipe Massa - 5 (finished eleventh)
Lance Stroll - 7 (finished eighth)
McLaren - 8
Fernando Alonso - 7 (DNF, Collision Damage)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 9 (finished seventh)
Toro Rosso - 7
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 10 (finished fourth)
Daniil Kvyat - 5 (DNF, Accident)
Haas - 6
Romain Grosjean - 6 (finished ninth)
Kevin Magnussen - 6 (DNF, Engine)
Renault - 8
Nico Hülkenberg - 8 (DNF, Engine)
Jolyon Palmer - 9 (finished sixth)
Sauber - 3
Marcus Ericsson - 3 (DNF, Accident)
Pascal Wehrlein - 4 (finished twelfth, two laps down)
Next stop Sepang International Circuit in two weeks time for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
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