![]() The 14 consecutive wins for Red Bull this season and Verstappen’s 10-win record run were brought to an end then by Ferrari as Verstappen had a taste of scrapping in the midfield for the first time this season. Race day was an improvement but there was to be no repeat of the world champion simply sashaying through the field, with overtaking so hard at Marina Bay. The team principal, Toto Wolff, said the driver deserved only sympathy and “an arm around the shoulder” after a magnificent effort.īehind him Red Bull and Verstappen had been off the pace all weekend in Singapore, their car hard to balance and struggling for grip. Inevitably he was furious with himself but it was nonetheless a bravura performance – a driver willing to give his all, pushing to the very limit and the last. I feel like I let myself down and the team down.” A millimetre lapse of concentration and it was game over. “Such a long race, a physical race, we were half a car’s length from winning if I had got past Lando. It was a very human drama at the heart of this technological arms race and all but impossible not to feel for the 25-year-old, who was visibly upset afterwards. Refusing to ease up, harrying Norris he clipped the barriers and went off on the final lap and Hamilton took the last podium place. Indeed the intensity of said fight could not have been better illustrated than by the heartbreaking conclusion for George Russell who had led the late Mercedes charge, when the team took a gamble on switching to fresh tyres 17 laps from the end and chased down the leaders. We managed to bring home a win that was never easy but that feels incredible.” “We had to fight for it, we had to be strategic, we had to nail everything and commit to our plans. ![]() “Wins never come easy and today we had a bit of everything,” he said. Sainz acknowledged quite what a battle it had been. When Sainz crossed the line only a second separated the top three, a finish such as we have not seen all season since Red Bull made a flying start in Bahrain. ![]() He won from McLaren’s Lando Norris and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton as the three teams went wheel to wheel with one another. ![]() Sainz’s win from pole, the second of his career, was hard fought and deserved after a frenetic denouement, impossible to call until the flag fell. ![]()
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