LIVE | Singapore GP 2022 Formula 1: Marina Bay Street Circuit
Vuelta 16/61 | A second and a half advantage is what Checo Prez has over Charles Leclerc and the one who is beginning to relegate is Carlos Sainz, who is asked to cool down his tires a bit.
Vuelta 14/61 | What a grip we have on the track for sixth place between Fernando Alonso and Max Verstappen, two world champions who are very intense in their driving.
Vuelta 12/61 | The one who did take advantage of this safety car was Max Verstappen, who already overtook Vettel and Gasly to take seventh place in the race behind Fernando Alonso.
Vuelta 11/61 | The safety car is already gone and the actions are relaunched on the track. Checo throws himself with everything to avoid any attack attempt by Leclerc.
Vuelta 9/61 | SAFETY CAR. The safety car appears to be able to remove Zhou’s car from the track and all the advantages on the track disappear.
Vuelta 8/61 | The Chinese driver Zhou is the first retirement of this race and Nicholas Latifi suffers a puncture in the left rear tire following a collision between the two.
Vuelta 7/61 | Checo Prez sets the fastest lap once more and while Max Verstappen fights hard with Sebastian Vettel for eighth place on the track.
Vuelta 5/61 | Charles Leclercc follows Checo Prez very closely to prevent him from starting to slip away in these first few laps and there is little more than a second difference between the two riders.
- PREZ
- Leclerc
- Sainz
- Hamilton
- Norris
- Alonso
- gasly
- Vettel
- Verstappen
- Tsunoda
Vuelta 3/61 | Lewis Hamilton fell to fourth place and complains on the radio that Carlos Sainz pushed him off the track in the first corner, but the race management has already announced that there is no investigation in this regard.
Vuelta 2/61 | Just as Checo’s start was very good, for his teammate Verstappen it was the opposite and he fell to 12th place following the first lap of the race.
Vuelta 1/61 | The traffic lights go out and we have a race in Singapore. Checo Prez makes a great start and is already the leader of the race just in the first corner.
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08:00 hrs | Fortunately the rain has not returned to be present on the track and we are a few moments away from starting with this race and surely the start will be with the cars stopped.
07:55 hrs | The Singapore National Anthem ceremony has come to an end and we are only 10 minutes away from seeing history, as Fernando Alonso reaches his 350th race, breaking his tie with Kimi Raikkonen as the most experienced driver in Formula 1 history.
07:50 hrs | Mercedes takes advantage of the delay a bit to joke around with the subject of the rain and put them to Lewis Hamilton surfing on the waves of the Marina Bay Circuit.
07:45 hrs | One of the great doubts in all the pilots now is with what tires to start between the wet ones or risk a little and try the intermediate ones.
07:40 hrs | The track is still very wet and that causes Max Verstappen suffers an oversight on the lap to reach the starting grid and it will be very interesting to see the start, with 20 cars avoiding the mistake.
07:30 hrs | Finally the green light comes on and the cars They can now go out on the track to take their place on the starting grid with just over 30 minutes to go in Marina Bay.
07:25 hrs | We will have to closely monitor what Max Verstappen can do, who starts from eighth place, and it is that dry it is difficult to overtake in Singapore… with rain it will be much more difficult.
07:20 hrs | The Mexican Red Bull driver appears on the screen, who talks with the controversial Helmut Marko while he finishes dressing to get into the single-seater and go to the grid.
07:15 hrs | Forced work on the track to try to dry as soon as possible and it is time to think regarding what the start would be, with Checo Prez starting from second place.
07:05 hrs | Well, everything indicates that now we are one hour from the start of the race and it is that as reported by Formula 1, from now on there is only a 20% chance of rain in the circuit.
06:55 hrs | All the officials appear on the track with some brooms to try to remove as much water as possible from the track and thus be able to have a race as soon as possible.
06:50 hrs | You have to remember that this is a street circuit, which makes it more difficult for the race to start early, because cars go to the limit and with so much water on the pavement they are at risk. In addition to that, since it is not a circuit pavement, it is slower to dry.
06:45 hrs | Storm has stopped in Marina Bay but it looks very complicated that we are close to the start of the race and it is that the track is converted into a pool.
06:40 hrs | Fernando Alonso reaches 350 races this Sunday and therefore there was a special moment a few hours ago, posing for the photo with the rest of his classmates.
(Foto: Alpine)
The race has been delayed
06:30 hrs | Although the start of the race was scheduled to start in half an hour, the heavy rain on the circuit has forced its start to be delayed, waiting for the water to stop.
Hello Hello hello. Good morning and welcome to this minute by minute of the race at the Singapore Grand Prix, where the Mexican Sergio ‘Checo’ Prez jumps from a great position.
Prez starting from the front row, together with pole man Charles Leclerc, Curiously, the two drivers fighting for second place in the drivers’ world championship this 2022.
The lights will go out and the engines will start promptly at 7:00 in the morning. from the Marina Bay Circuit, a street track that returns to the calendar following two years of absence due to the coronavirus pandemic.
