Mexican Sergio Perez (Red Bull) won the Singapore Grand Prix this Sunday, the seventeenth of the Formula 1 world championship, which took place at the Marina Bay circuit; where the Spaniard Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) finished third, behind his partner, the Monegasque Charles Leclerc, who finished second.
‘Checo’, 31, celebrated his fourth Formula 1 win, the second of the season -after that achieved in Monaco-, by winning ahead of Ferrari at Marina Bay; where the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), outstanding leader of the World Cup – who could have left the championship mathematically condemned this Sunday – finished in seventh position and the other Spaniard, the double Asturian world champion Fernando Alonso ( Alpine), abandoned on the twenty-first lap of the very busy Singaporean race, due to an engine problem.
Verstappen, who turned 25 on Friday, will get his second chance to mathematically condemn the World Cup next weekend when the Japanese Grand Prix, which will be held at the Honda-owned Suzuka Circuit, the biker of his crew.
The master of urban circuits
The Mexican driver won again on a street circuit this year after having done so during the GP of Monaco by winning the first position from Charles Leclerc at the start of the race, whose start was delayed by an hour due to the rain.
From that moment, ‘Checo’ no longer let go of the lead and resisted Leclerc’s attacks in the last half hour of the race.
Verstappen, who celebrated his 25th birthday on Friday, will get his second chance to mathematically condemn the World Cup next weekend, at the Japanese Grand Prix, to be held at the Honda-owned Suzuka Circuit, on rider of his team. .
The two McLaren drivers, Englishman Lando Norris and Australian Daniel Ricciardo, finished the race in fourth and fifth position, reclaiming fourth place in the Constructors’ World Championship at Alpine for their team.
Canadian Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) finished sixth, ahead of Verstappen and his teammate, German Sebastian Vettel.
Seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and Frenchman Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri) also entered the points, finishing ninth and tenth.
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