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Vasseur dismisses Red Bull as F1's best team despite Verstappen's three-race winning streak
Ferrari principal Fred Vasseur has pushed back on the notion that Red Bull are Formula 1's dominant force, despite Max Verstappen winning in Malaysia and taking both the sprint and grand prix in Singapore. Vasseur argues the 2026 season has seen four teams trade supremacy as upgrades shift the pecking order.
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Wolff explains why Russell's 10-place Singapore climb still fell short of Mercedes' target
George Russell recovered from 19th to ninth at the Singapore Grand Prix, but Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says dirty air at Marina Bay prevented the Briton from reaching the team's best-case target of seventh.
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McLaren to phase remaining upgrades to close gap and shape 2026 car concept
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has outlined a phased upgrade plan for the final races of the season, aiming to bring the team back into podium contention while also testing aerodynamic concepts that will inform the 2026 car's development.
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Hamilton takes full blame after Singapore strategy call costs Ferrari podium
Lewis Hamilton finished sixth at the Singapore Grand Prix after ignoring a Ferrari pit call during the virtual safety car, a decision he publicly owned on Instagram. Max Verstappen won the race, with Charles Leclerc second and championship leader Kimi Antonelli third.
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Piastri's Singapore puncture paradox: the slow tyre that helped him pass Hamilton
Oscar Piastri finished fifth at the Singapore Grand Prix after a slow puncture forced an unplanned second stop — yet the fresher rubber it provided allowed him to chase down and overtake Lewis Hamilton in the closing laps.
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Verstappen swaps Red Bull for Mercedes-AMG GT3 at Portimao after back-to-back F1 wins
Fresh from victories in Singapore and Malaysia, Max Verstappen heads to Portimao this weekend to race a Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the season-concluding GT World Challenge round, sharing the #3 Team Verstappen Racing entry with Ben Barnicoat and Chris Lulham.
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Wolff jokes about pillow fix as Antonelli's track limits habit unsettles Mercedes
Toto Wolff has quipped he will place a hotel pillow under Kimi Antonelli's seat so the rookie can better see the white lines, after the Italian collected four track-limits warnings at the Singapore Grand Prix while finishing third.
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Imola set to replace Abu Dhabi finale as Antonelli closes in on F1 title
Security escalations in the Middle East, including reported bombings at Riyadh airport, are pushing Formula 1 to scrap the Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix and replace them with a season-ending Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola on 6 December. The calendar change would shrink the remaining points pool from 150 to 125, making championship leader Kimi Antonelli's 102-point advantage over George Russell all but insurmountable.
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Mercedes confirms new-spec package is 'clearly faster' after Singapore split-garage test
Mercedes ran a split-specification garage at the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix, with Kimi Antonelli on the latest aero package and George Russell on an older spec. Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin confirmed Antonelli's package was 'clearly the faster of the two', giving the team a definitive development direction for the season run-in.
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Stella praises Norris for owning Singapore sprint clash after Piastri collision
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has praised Lando Norris for publicly accepting blame over his last-lap collision with Oscar Piastri in the Singapore Grand Prix sprint race, calling the initial incident 'unacceptable' but welcoming the Briton's swift change of tone.
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Stella calls Norris-Piastri Sprint clash 'unacceptable' and demands team-first reset
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella confronted both drivers after Lando Norris collided with Oscar Piastri on the final lap of the Singapore Sprint, sending Piastri into the wall and costing the team a significant haul of Constructors' Championship points.
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Russell names Red Bull the team to beat as Mercedes struggles to unlock W17 upgrade
George Russell declared Red Bull the new benchmark in Formula 1 after Max Verstappen claimed back-to-back victories in Malaysia and Singapore. Team-mate Kimi Antonelli tempered the assessment, suggesting Mercedes has yet to extract the full potential from its new W17 package.
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Verstappen ends Singapore curse on his 250th start with commanding Marina Bay win
Max Verstappen claimed his first Singapore Grand Prix victory on his 250th career start, leading from pole to finish and beating Charles Leclerc by 7.335 seconds. The win, his 73rd overall, also ended Red Bull's two-year drought at Marina Bay.
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Leclerc's jet turned back mid-flight, forcing four-hour road trip to Singapore GP
Charles Leclerc was forced to abandon his private jet and travel by car after his aircraft missed its landing slot at Singapore's Seletar Airport. The Ferrari driver still arrived in time to finish second behind Max Verstappen at the Singapore Grand Prix.
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Norris apologises to McLaren after Piastri clash costs team points in Singapore sprint
Lando Norris has admitted he 'let down the team' after colliding with Oscar Piastri on the final lap of the Singapore Grand Prix sprint race, dropping from fourth to eighth while his team-mate retired. Norris recovered to finish fourth in Sunday's main race.
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Verstappen wins in Singapore as radio failure forces coded messages with Lambiase
Max Verstappen claimed victory at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in 2026, ending Red Bull's long Singapore drought, but a malfunctioning radio forced him and race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase to communicate in code throughout the race.
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Wolff lauds Verstappen and Red Bull surge as Mercedes struggles to read its own upgrade
Toto Wolff has praised Red Bull's recent development leap and Max Verstappen's ability to extract maximum performance, while admitting Mercedes is still unable to draw firm conclusions from its latest upgrade package after splitting its cars in Singapore.
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Hamilton needs medical attention after strategy error costs him podium at Singapore GP
Lewis Hamilton was seen by the FIA medical team after feeling unwell following the 62-lap Singapore Grand Prix, a race he compounded with a costly mid-race strategy error that dropped him from podium contention to sixth place.
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Wolff says overtaking at Marina Bay is impossible even with 1.5s pace advantage after Russell's Singapore nightmare
George Russell started 19th in Singapore after a 60-place grid penalty and could not fight through the midfield, while team-mate Kimi Antonelli charged from fourth to a podium. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff blamed the Marina Bay circuit's structural inability to allow overtaking, even for significantly faster cars.
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Leclerc finishes second in Singapore but demands more Ferrari upgrades to close Red Bull gap
Charles Leclerc pushed Max Verstappen hard throughout the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix but faded on worn tyres in the closing laps to finish second. The Ferrari driver acknowledged a persistent pace deficit to Red Bull and called for further upgrades.
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