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 Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool George Russell won the 2025 Singapore Grand Prix, with Max Verstappen in second and Lando Norris in third place. McLaren were crowned the 2025 Constructors' Champions with six races left in the season. Singapore delivered once again, with damp conditions at the start of the race, lock-ups, a 360 spin from Hulkenberg, Hamilton losing his tyres and the McLaren battle took another step forward.  Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool Singapore Grand Prix Race Facts
 Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool George Russell started on pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix, lining up side-by-side with Max Verstappen. Around an hour before the race, it started raining heavily in Singapore. The rain didn't last long, but the track was green and very wet. During the lap to the grid, the drivers went out on intermediate tyres, all complaining that the first sector was dry, but the second and third sectors were wet. Thirty minutes later, as the drivers headed for the formation lap, they started on a variety of compounds. Russell started on the medium compound tyre, as did the rest of the field except Hadjar, Alonso, Tsunoda, Stroll, Verstappen and Colapinto, who all started on soft tyres. George Russell managed to stay ahead into and through the first corner, with Verstappen slotting in behind him. Piastri lost places at the start to his teammate, who made a confident lunge for the front, tapping both Verstappen and Piastri at Turn 3 and managing to move into third place. Norris picked up front wing damage on his front endplate. The stewards investigated but ruled out any further investigation. The same was the case for Hadjar and Bearman. Piastri aired his frustration openly on the radio about his teammate, as Antonelli moved down into sixth and Leclerc fifth. Verstappen soon complained that he was struggling with downshifts and was having trouble staying with Russell, who was now 5 seconds ahead.1s ahead. Norris was 1.5s behind Verstappen.  Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool Russell was running around 0.7 seconds quicker a lap than Verstappen, with a significant lead. Bortoleto and Tsunoda both pitted early after front wing damage from Lap 1. Norris also suggested on the radio that he had hit the wall at Turn 17, but it was very lightly with no damage. McLaren was threatening with pit stops, trying to undercut and play with their rivals into thinking they were going to pit. The risk of a Safety Car would have given them a free stop, but Norris was told to pit; however, they changed their mind at the last minute. Verstappen pitted with a slightly three-second stop, moving onto the hard compound tyres. He came back out on track just ahead of Alonso. McLaren didn't respond with Verstappen putting in a fast first hard tyre lap, covering off the threat of the overcut. Russell began to lose lap time to Verstappen as his tyres started falling away. Mercedes pitted both drivers with a clean stop, and Russell got back out on track 3.5 seconds clear of Verstappen. Norris pitted with a good stop and was out on track five seconds behind Verstappen. Piastri pitted on the next lap, but the stop was slow, over 5.2 seconds, and he managed to get back on track ahead of Leclerc, with Norris 9.4 seconds ahead.  Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool Alonso stopped with 34 laps left in the race, as Verstappen closed the gap to Russell by half a second over two laps, bringing the gap down to 3.3s. Russell quickly responded and brought that time back up. Verstappen had a big lock-up into Turn 14, nearly heading straight for the wall. He didn't hit it, but did drop five seconds back from Russell and only two seconds clear of Norris. Alonso passed Hadjar and Verstappen heads of the track for a second time, two laps before Turn 2. Norris closes in just 1.6s. But Norris goes deep into Turn 16 and Verstappen goes 2.5s clear. Five seconds covered the top five in the race at that point. Hulkenberg drops it at Turn 7 under braking, taking a complete 360-degree turn and sliding neatly into the run-off area, but manages to turn back around and rejoin the track. Russell caught up to the back of the back markers and put three back markers between himself and Verstappen, with the back markers holding up Verstappen, allowing Norris to close the gap.  Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool As the Verstappen and Norris fight continued, Piastri continued to close the gap down to just three seconds. Antonelli overtook Leclerc for P5, as Hamilton pitted for soft compound tyres, and closed quickly to the back of the two drivers. Hamilton overtook Leclerc and was chasing Antonelli down with just 2.6s between them. With five laps to go, Norris was still trying to find a way to get past Verstappen. Hamilton caught right up to the back of Antonelli as Sainz fought Hadjar for P10. Hamilton complained that he lost his brakes and dropped back from Antonelli and got overtaken by Leclerc once again. Hamilton was 30 seconds behind Alonso with only a few laps to go. Sainz passed Hadjar for P10. George Russell wins the Singapore Grand Prix, followed by Verstappen in second and Norris in third. Alonso finished just behind Hamilton, but after the race, Hamilton received a five-second time penalty for track limits, and Alonso finished in P7 with Hamilton in P8.  Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool Full Singapore Grand Prix Race Classification1) George Russell 2) Max Verstappen +5.430 3) Lando Norris +6.066 4) Oscar Piastri +8.146 5) Kimi Antonelli +33.681 6) Charles Leclerc +45.996 7) Fernando Alonso +80.667 8) Lewis Hamilton +85.251 9) Oliver Bearman +93.527 10) Carlos Sainz +1 Lap 11) Isack Hadjar 12) Yuki Tsunoda 13) Lance Stroll 14) Alex Albon 15) Liam Lawson 16) Franco Colapinto 17) Gabriel Bortoleto 18) Esteban Ocon 19) Pierre Gasly 20) Nico Hulkenberg Mercedes’ George Russell, who wins the Singapore Grand Prix from pole position: "It feels amazing especially after what happened a couple of years ago, that was a bit of a missed opportunity but we more than made up for it today. "I'm so grateful for the team, they did an amazing job this whole weekend. We don't really know where this performance came from but I'm really happy." On the whole weekend: "Friday was a really tough day for me for many different reasons and I wasn't feel comfortable, but by the time Q3 came I felt really comfortable in the car and that is when it matters. "I was a bit nervous at the beginning when I saw Max [Verstappen] on the soft [tyre], but that first stint was great from us and extended the gap." On the car's performance: "I mean I said it yesterday, if I were going to make a list of all the races I think we would be good at this year, Singapore would probably be right at the bottom. "I think we need to sit down on Monday and Tuesday to sort of understand why the performance was so good. I hope we can carry this through to the rest of the season but I think realistically Lando [Norris] looked incredibly fast. "He was within a second from Max the whole race and around this circuit that is not easy, so we will take the performance from today, celebrate it and won't think too much about Austin yet."  Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool Written by Anny Wooldridge
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