"George Russell won the Singapore Grand Prix with a dominant drive from pole to flag for Mercedes, but behind him the world championship title fight between McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri reached a flashpoint that has long been threatened. Piastri was furious with his teammate and his team after Norris barged past him at the start and the pair finished third and fourth behind the Red Bull of Max Verstappen."
"Russell drove a confident, consummate race for Mercedes, a deserved win, his first in Singapore. Leading from lights out he did not put a foot wrong at the Marina Bay circuit as he delivered his second victory of the year and once more made a strong case for his contract negotiations with the team. Those wranglings, however, will pale into insignificance compared with the set-to likely to engulf McLaren in the aftermath of this race."
"He was uncompromising to elbow past his teammate up the inside through turn three, banged off the Australian in the process as he had to avoid clipping Verstappen in front and took minor damage to his front wing. Piastri was aggrieved and told his team so, as McLaren were forced to consider how to manage it under their increasingly complex rules of engagement. Are we cool with Lando just barging me out of the way? he asked the team."
George Russell led from pole to win the Singapore Grand Prix, delivering Mercedes' victory and his first win at Marina Bay. Lando Norris made a bold start from fifth, forcing past Oscar Piastri into turn three and taking third while incurring minor front-wing damage. Oscar Piastri reacted angrily and questioned team management over the move, creating internal friction. McLaren secured the constructors' championship, their second consecutive and tenth overall, but the Norris–Piastri confrontation risks escalating and complicating the drivers' title fight with six races remaining.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]