Brief moment of shock

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Lando Norris drove away from everyone in Singapore.

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Gala from Lando Norris! The McLaren driver won the uneventful Singapore Grand Prix in impressive style ahead of world championship leader Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and team-mate Oscar Piastri. Only a braking incident and subsequent contact with the wall caused the Briton a moment of shock on Sunday.

Norris celebrated a start-finish victory in the floodlit Singapore Grand Prix! The McLaren driver won the 18th of 24 Formula 1 World Championship races at the Marina Bay Street Circuit on Sunday with a lead of more than 20 seconds over world champion Verstappen in the Red Bull.

Here is the final result:

Norris is now 52 points behind leader Verstappen in the world championship battle.

Here is the championship standings:

In typical Singapore conditions of over 30 degrees and high humidity, Norris achieved his third GP victory; the Englishman had already triumphed in Miami and Zandvoort this year. "The car was mega. I was able to push, we flew the whole race and I was able to chill out at the end. It was a nice race, tough, but very enjoyable," said the winner.

Verstappen still has to wait
Verstappen, on the other hand, still has to wait for his first success in the Southeast Asian city state. However, the Dutchman equaled his best result here from 2018, when he also finished second. "Second place is a good result on a weekend where we knew we would struggle," said the three-time world champion. In the constructors' championship, McLaren extended its lead over Red Bull to 41 points.

Max Verstappen

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Norris breaks pole curse
The start went off without any major incidents and Norris confidently maintained his lead, breaking his personal pole spell. In the previous five races from the first starting position, the Briton had never managed to still be in front at the end of the first lap. The 24-year-old was subsequently unchallenged at the front, really pushed the pace from lap ten onwards and steadily pulled away. Verstappen, for his part, created some space between himself and the Mercedes cars of Lewis Hamilton and Russell behind him.

No collisions at the start

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Record world champion Hamilton, who unlike most of the others was on soft tires, was the first of the leading group to pit and have hard tires fitted. It was not until ten laps later that the competition gradually followed suit, all of them on a one-stop strategy. Verstappen lined up just behind Charles Leclerc, but overtook the Monegasque a little later.

Norris was "chilling too much"
Norris reported a problem with his front wing immediately before his tire change because he had touched the track barrier with it after a driving error. However, the race leader escaped with a black eye. "We don't see anything serious," his team radioed the all-clear. "I wasn't driving over the limit, but perhaps I was chilling too much at times. But it's difficult here, it's easy to brake here," said Norris after the race.

Piastri was the last top driver to pick up a fresh set of tires on lap 39 of 62 and subsequently overtook fourth-placed Hamilton. Carlos Sainz benefited the most from the changeover, as the Ferrari driver moved up to sixth place in his 200th GP. In the end, the Spaniard finished seventh.

Novelty in Singapore
At the front, Norris drove a lonely race despite another approach to the track wall. Verstappen was also unchallenged. But there were still a few position changes behind him. Piastri overtook Russell to finish on the podium. Leclerc overtook Hamilton, who finished sixth in his 350th F1 race, and then bit the teeth out of Russell. Verstappen's stablemate Sergio Perez scored another point in tenth place. In the end, there was also a novelty in Singapore. For the first time, the Grand Prix ended without the safety car being deployed.

Farewell present from Ricciardo?
In what may have been his last race for Team Racing Bulls, Daniel Ricciardo set the fastest lap at the end, snatching a championship point from Norris, who had set the fastest time up to that point. Presumably the Australian's farewell present to Red Bull and Verstappen, who thanked him well. There is now a four-week break before the action resumes on October 20 with the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.