Max Verstappen ended his drought on the Marina Bay Road Circuit with a dominant win. Right here’s how the drivers fared on the Formulation 1 Singapore Grand Prix.
The Dutchman was again at his dominant greatest as he received his first-ever Singapore GP forward of Charles Leclerc and Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
Max Verstappen: 10
Grid Place: P1, Race Consequence: P1
Verstappen didn’t put a foot mistaken (besides that Dash race begin perhaps) all through the race weekend on the Marina Bay Road Circuit.
After securing each Dash pole and race win, the Pink Bull driver as soon as once more posted the quickest lap of Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday.
The 62-lap race was a dominant affair, as Verstappen led the race from lights to flag to bag his second win of 2026 on the trot, propelling him to P4 within the drivers’ standings. Heading into the US GP weekend, the Dutchman can very properly begin aiming for the vice-championship this season.
Isack Hadjar: 7.5
Grid Place: P22, Race Consequence: P10
Energy unit points impeded the French-Algerian racing driver all through the Singapore GP weekend.
However when the RBPT-Ford engine at the back of his RB22 was performing, Hadjar was as soon as once more at his strongest for Pink Bull.
A pit lane begin was transformed right into a top-10 end after a last-gasp transfer on Pierre Gasly sealed P10 on the chequered flag.
Contemplating George Russell, within the benchmark W17, completed simply forward on the street in ninth (from nineteenth), it was yet one more stable end result for Hadjar with the Milton-Keynes-based squad.
Charles Leclerc: 8
Grid Place: P2, Race Consequence: P2
Leclerc missed arguably his greatest probability to struggle for the win on the very first nook of the very first lap. Regardless of a greater begin than Verstappen, he allowed the Pink Bull driver to squeeze him into the primary chicane within the second section.
From thereon, as Verstappen stored his lead, the Delicate tyres on Leclerc’s SF-26 took an comprehensible beating – that means he might by no means actually preserve himself within the struggle for the lead once more.
However, it was a stable P2 for Leclerc.
Lewis Hamilton: 6
Grid Place: P3, Race Consequence: P6
It was yet one more woeful technique name that put Hamilton on the again foot from the get-go. This time, nevertheless, the distress was self-imposed.
His first stint on the Mediums compelled him to pit early for a set of Delicate tyres and basically onto a two-stop technique.
However halfway by way of the race, an opportunity to pit underneath the VSC was voluntarily deserted by the Briton, which meant he was disregarded to do a 40+ lap stint on the softest rubber.
In the long run, even the streets of Singapore weren’t sufficient to protect him from a late race onslaught from the likes of Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Antonelli.
He settled for less than sixth on the chequered flag.
Kimi Antonelli: 8.5
Grid Place: P4, Race Consequence: P3
The Italian wasn’t the quickest driver out on observe, however that shouldn’t detract from the stellar job Antonelli put in on the Singapore GP.
His opportunistic transfer on Norris and Hamilton, within the dying embers of the race, noticed him safe his 14th podium of the season.
And with that, he can now seal his maiden F1 title and change into the youngest-ever World Champion at Austin, in two weeks’ time.
George Russell: 7
Grid Place: P19, Race Consequence: P9
Russell was slated to begin the 62-lap race on Sunday from the again of the grid, and it was a tricky night on the streets of Singapore, simply as he had predicted.
Whereas the Briton did have a robust begin to the race, he shortly obtained caught behind the soiled wake of the slower vehicles forward of him.
In the long run, the Audi of Nico Hulkenberg proved to be his largest rival, and the Mercedes driver slotted proper behind him on the chequered flag in ninth.
Lando Norris: 7
Grid Place: P5, Race Consequence: P4
Norris might have been on the rostrum for McLaren on the Marina Bay Road Circuit. However his transfer on a struggling Hamilton into Flip 1 turned out to be an unlucky footnote in his race.
Compromised by the Ferrari lacking its mark, it was Antonelli who swooped previous the reigning F1 World Champion and into third within the dying embers of the 62-lap occasion.
After the race, Norris slammed the MCL40 for being an “not possible” automotive to drive – a far cry from the plaudits he had showered on the automotive after back-to-back wins at Hungary and the Netherlands.
He didn’t lack the tempo to problem on the sharp finish of the sphere, however perhaps he did lack the composure, snatched away by an errant bundle that led to his third straight GP and not using a top-three end.
Oscar Piastri: 7
Grid Place: P6, Race Consequence: P5
It was a Singapore GP suffering from points for the Australian. First, a sluggish puncture meant he needed to endure an additional pit cease, consuming away at his total race time. Then, that very additional tyre change turned out to be a sluggish cease, all however ending his possibilities of preventing the likes of Leclerc and Norris.
That mentioned, he benefitted from Hamilton’s miseries to attain an additional place over the Ferrari driver on the chequered flag and take P5.
Liam Lawson: 8
Grid Place: P8, Race Consequence: P7
Lawson was spectacular for Racing Bulls all through the Singapore GP weekend. After securing a factors end throughout the Dash race on Saturday, the Kiwi racing driver backed it up with a stable drive from inside the highest 10 to enhance one place on his grid slot and take the chequered flag in P7.
He heads into the US GP weekend, on the cusp of a contract extension with the Faenza-based squad, and a useful 10 factors over the Alpine duo of Gasly and Colapinto.
Arvid Lindblad: 5
Grid Place: P9, Race Consequence: P15
The Singapore GP capped off a string of poor outings for Lindblad with Racing Bulls. He admitted to not being “fairly at my full kind these previous few weeks,” after taking the chequered flag in fifteenth.
Nico Hulkenberg: 8
Grid Place: P10, Race Consequence: P8
After a few shut misses with a top-10 end at Baku and Sepang, the German driver obtained himself again into the factors on the Singapore GP.
A stellar defence in opposition to Russell within the late phases of the race noticed Hulkenberg seal off a powerful P8 on the chequered flag.
Gabriel Bortoleto: N/A
Grid Place: P14, Race Consequence: DNF
The Brazilian racing driver rounded off yet one more disappointing outing with Audi on the Marina Bay Road Circuit. After falling backwards from a top-10 grid slot at Sepang, Bortoleto’s gearbox simply gave up halfway by way of the race on Sunday.
Pierre Gasly: 6.5
Grid Place: P7, Race Consequence: P11
Gasly completed simply outdoors the factors at Singapore with P11 – his fourth consecutive pointsless outing with Alpine.
The Frenchman was working in tenth approaching the tip of the 62-lap race, however the Pink Bull of Isack Hadjar snatched the ultimate points-paying place away from Gasly on the chequered flag.
Franco Colapinto: N/A
Grid Place: P15, Race Consequence: DNF
Saturday was a difficult affair for the Argentinian as he struggled with the stability of A526 throughout qualifying. Knocked out of Q2, he went into the 62-lap race on the again foot in comparison with his team-mate Gasly, who was again within the high 10.
His night spluttered to an early cease with a suspected transmission failure.
Oliver Bearman: 6.5
Grid Place: P11, Race Consequence: P12
Bearman was in fantastic kind for Haas on the Marina Bay Road Circuit on Sunday. He obtained his elbows out early on his team-mate after which propelled himself into the highest 10 after an audacious transfer on Carlos Sainz into Flip 8.
However very like the opposite midfield runners round him, he lacked the outright tempo in his VF-26 to transform observe place right into a race end result.
That mentioned, it was a spirited drive from the younger Briton, nonetheless vindicating the Banbury-based workforce’s resolution to retain his providers for 2027.
Esteban Ocon: 6
Grid Place: P12, Race Consequence: P13
Ocon’s race was just like his team-mate’s, albeit with out the opening section bravado. The Frenchman admitted he lacked tempo all through the weekend, and particularly over a race distance and was solely ready muster a Thirteenth-place end on the chequered flag.
Carlos Sainz: 5.5
Grid Place: P13, Race Consequence: P14
It was a spirited begin to the 62-lap race for Sainz, who muscled his well past many vehicles and into the highest 10.
That was, actually, his plan – getting himself into one of the best place for a potential factors end – however the FW48 had different concepts. On the chequered flag, his Williams bundle simply lacked the tempo required to maintain maintain of his place, as he dropped all the way down to 14th.
Alex Albon: N/A
Grid Place: P16, Race Consequence: DNF
The British-Thai driver has began to lose endurance with Williams because the run of poor outings has stored on accumulating.
At Singapore, on Sunday, the FW48 was nowhere close to the tempo of the midfield, and Albon was compelled into harm limitation from the get-go to make sure that he might even end the race.
Reliability considerations prompted the Grove-based workforce to counsel a conservative strategy out on observe for the 62-lap race, and Albon was visibly annoyed when he retorted again with: “Then field? If we’re not right here to go racing, then what are we right here to do?”
He did ultimately retire from the race, late on, with extreme brake points.
Fernando Alonso: 5
Grid Place: P20, Race Consequence: P16
It was yet one more irritating outing for the two-time F1 World Champion with Aston Martin in 2026.
The tempo was there for the Spaniard, however the Honda energy unit seemingly let him down once more. Alonso was heard complaining on the workforce radio concerning the errant power deployment from his works Honda PU that misplaced him a lot race time and positions throughout the race.
Lance Stroll: N/A
Grid Place: P21, Race Consequence: DNF
Stroll’s night on the Marina Bay Road Circuit got here to a untimely finish on Lap 39 as clutch points on his AMR26 compelled him to park up and retire from the Singapore GP.
Sergio Perez: 5
Grid Place: P17, Race Consequence: P17
Perez was capable of extract the utmost from his Cadillac throughout the 62-lap race. Whereas the previous Pink Bull driver continues to be nowhere close to the factors, he did put in a largely higher shift than his team-mate who completed a lap down on Perez on the chequered flag.
Valtteri Bottas: 3.5
Grid Place: P18, Race Consequence: P19
Bottas was virtually a second off the tempo of his team-mate throughout qualifying on Saturday. The race, on Sunday, was no totally different as he struggled to maintain up with Perez. The Finnish racing driver took the chequered flag in nineteenth, a staggering three laps down on the leaders.
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