F1 Singapore GP LIVE: Practice schedule and results and qualifying start time as Lando Norris eyes pole
F1 live updates from the Marina Bay Street Circuit as Norris looks to lay down the final marker in third practice
F1 heads to the original ‘night race’ as the Marina Bay Street Circuit hosts the Singapore Grand Prix and round 18 of the 2024 season.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri won an enthralling Azerbaijan Grand Prix last time out, with the McLaren star producing one of the drives of the year to beat Charles Leclerc, with George Russell taking third after a late crash between Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez.
Lando Norris, despite starting 15th, finished a spot ahead of Max Verstappen in fourth to cut the Dutchman’s lead in the world championship to 59 points with seven races - and three sprint races - remaining.
It was, however, a difficult weekend for Lewis Hamilton, who finished ninth after starting from the pit-lane. Last year in Singapore, Sainz claimed a famous victory for Ferrari in what was the only 2023 race not won by a Red Bull car.
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F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: Mercedes boss Toto Wolff...
“We turned the car upside-down literally, it was in a much nicer, balanced window. I hope we can maintain that speed on both cars.
“The car is functioning well. If we qualify top-four, that would be good.”
On McLaren rear-wing: “We’re so into our own issues that we didn’t have it on the radar, in Baku it might have had an effect.”
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: FP1 RESULTS IN FULL...
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: Carlos Sainz...
“We need to sort out the brakes. It cannot be that we changed the brake balance so much.”
Fine-tuning for the Ferrari man despite his third-quickest time.
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: Charles Leclerc quickest in FP1!
Charles Leclerc, the man who stood out over one lap in Baku last week, sets the tone this weekend with the fastest lap, with the Ferrari’s time of 1:31:763 just 0.076 secs quicker than Lando Norris in second!
Carlos Sainz is third, 0.189 secs off his team-mate, with Max Verstappen in fourth - three-tenths off.
5-10: Tsunoda, Piastri, Ricciardo, Albon, Alonsom Ocon
Lewis Hamilton down in P12, with George Russell P16!
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: Sergio Perez having issues too..
Perez: “I can’t stop the car with the front right.”
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: Lewis Hamilton not happy
“Too much understeer.”
Top-10: Leclerc, Norris, Sainz, Verstappen, Tsunoda, Piastri, Ricciardo, Albon, Alonso, Ocon
10 mins to go, with all three tyre compounds now in use...
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: RB team principal Laurent Mekies on Ricciardo’s future:
“Reviewing drivers performance is something normal. We will sit down together after Singapore, that’s where we are really - nothing decided so far.”
Mekies was speaking to Sky Sports F1 in FP1...
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE: Fernando Alonso almost loses it!
The 43-year-old Aston Martin driver almost loses it but just saves his Aston from spinning into the wall, corrects the car and continues!
He’s down in P9 for now.
20 mins to go in FP1.
F1 Singapore Grand Prix LIVE
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