2018 FORMULA 1 SINGAPORE AIRLINES SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX
Marina Bay Street Circuit
Lap data
Lap length 5.065km (3.147 miles)
Race laps 61
Race distance 308.965km (191.982 miles)
Pole position Right-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’50.041 (Daniel Ricciardo, 2016)
Fastest lap 1’43.885 (Sebastian Vettel, 2016, qualifying three)
Maximum speed 323kph (200.703 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and straight to turn seven
Distance from grid to turn one 301m
Full throttle 49%
Longest flat-out section 832m
Downforce level Maximum
Gear changes per lap 70
UK Times
Friday 14th September 2018
Singapore Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 16:30-18:00 (UK time: 9:30-11:00)
Singapore Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 20:30-22:00 (UK time: 13:30-15:00)
Saturday 15th September 2018
Singapore Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 18:00-19:00 (UK time: 11:00-12:00)
Singapore Grand Prix Qualifying: 21:00 (UK time: 14:00)
Sunday 16th September 2018
Singapore Grand Prix: 20:10 (UK time: 13:10)
Previous Winners
2017 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2016 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
2015 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2011 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2010 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2009 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2008 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
Videos
Rosberg 2016 onboard
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkNz26bTcw
Kubica 2010 onboard
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv5PHoR2-lo
Facts from the last race
In 2001 Monza had a makeover: The first corner was reshaped into the tight turn it is today. Remarkably, the 2018 race was the first of the 18 races held since then that home favourites Ferrari swept the front row of the grid.
Unfortunately for them, this wasn’t the prelude to their first win in front of the Tifosi since Fernando Alonso’s 2010 triumph. This eight-year win-less streak is their longest ever drought on home ground.
Ferrari also went eight years without a Monza victory between Jody Scheckter’s 1979 success and Gerhard Berger’s 1988 win. But Monza wasn’t Italy’s only F1 race at that time: Ferrari took home wins at Imola in the 1982 and 1983 San Marino Grands Prix.
Instead Lewis Hamilton gave Mercedes their fifth consecutive win in the Italian Grand Prix, extending a record they already held. They rubbed it in on the victory lap, telling their drivers to parade side-by-side around the circuit.
At least Kimi Raikkonen got to be the first driver in something other than a Mercedes to lead a lap of this race for the first time in five years, when Sebastian Vettel won for Red Bull. He also broke Juan Pablo Montoya’s 14-year-old record for the fastest lap ever seen in Formula 1 on his way to pole position.
In his 284 race career to date Raikkonen has had far fewer pole positions (18) than fastest laps (46). Raikkonen now has as many pole positions as former Ferrari drivers Rene Arnoux and Mario Andretti – the latter scored the final pole position of his career at Monza 36 years ago.
Raikkonen also became the fifth driver in F1 history to reach 100 podiums. He joins Michael Schumacher (155), Hamilton (128), Vettel (107) and Alain Prost (106). The next-highest driver is Fernando Alonso on 97, though he hasn’t finished on the podium since the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Hamilton set the fastest lap of the race on his way to victory. Despite the track record falling, his best lap of 1’22.479 was 1.4 seconds off the race lap record, set by Rubens Barrichello in 2004.
It’s been a desperate run of races for Renault-bound Daniel Ricciardo, who’s only finished two of the last six rounds. Red Bull hasn’t scored points with both cars in any of the last six races, something which last happened in 2009.
Sergey Sirotkin took 10th place and the first point of his F1 career. Russia’s third F1 driver joins his predecessors Vitaly Petrov and Daniil Kvyat as a point scorer.
The Williams driver was promoted to 10th place following the disqualification of Romain Grosjean. Disqualifications are rare in Formula 1: The last driver to be excluded from the race results was Felipe Massa, when his pre-start tyre temperatures and pressures were found to be too high at the 2015 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Drivers’ Chosen Tyres
Championship Standings