At the start, Pérez was ahead of Leclerc -author of the pole position-, took the lead and defended himself masterfully to achieve his fourth personal victory, which in any case was subject to review by the sports commissioners for a possible improper maneuver when driving the safety car.
Verstappen, who started from the eighth drawer, had a tangled start, fell to twelfth position and climbed back to seventh place, which was not enough to secure his two-time championship in Singapore.
The Dutchman, with 341 points in the season and a difference of 104 compared to his escort Leclerc, will have a new chance to consecrate himself next weekend in the Japanese Grand Prix.
A good day completed the team McLarenwhich placed its cars of Britain’s Lando Norris and Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo in fourth and fifth place, respectively.
the canadian Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) finished in sixth place, ahead of Verstappen, who was preceded by Germany’s Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), Britain’s Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and France’s Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) in the scoring zone..
Meanwhile, the Finnish Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), Danish Kevin Magnussen (Haas), German Mick Schumacher (Haas) and British George Russell (Mercedes) finished between eleventh and fourteenth position.
The pilots who could not finish the race were the Chinese Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo), Canada’s Nicholas Latifi (Williams), Spain’s Fernando Alonso (Alpine), Thailand’s Alexander Albon (Williams), France’s Esteban Ocon (Alpine) and Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri).
Alonso, 41, lived a special night for the dispute of his 351st race that made him the driver with the most Grand Prix in the history of the Formula 1.
The double world champion (2005 and 2006) broke the previous record held by the Finn Kimi Raikkonen. He is followed, at a great distance, by the Brazilian Rubens Barrichello (323) and the German Michael Schumacher (307).
Source: Ambito
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