Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen dominated the Singapore Grand Prix weekend, successful the principle race and the dash.
His most complete of 33 factors from the occasion moved him as much as fourth within the drivers’ standings.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc completed the race in second and championship chief Kimi Antonelli accomplished the rostrum.
BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson solutions your newest questions after the race at Marina Bay.
After the last-lap incident within the dash race in Singapore, are ‘papaya guidelines’ lastly failing at McLaren, and with them the premise of working two primary drivers? – Alexandros
The crash between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri within the dash race in Singapore left, in Norris’ phrases, “no-one very happy” at McLaren.
Norris went for a niche at Flip 5 on the ultimate lap. It was a reliable transfer, by way of the racing tips, however he tried to again out of it as he noticed he was not being left adequate area, and the 2 vehicles collided.
Each spun, Piastri into the boundaries and retirement and Norris down from fifth place to eighth. What would have been 9 factors for the workforce from the dash subsequently grew to become one.
There are two methods of wanting on the transfer.
On a pure aggressive degree, between two rivals, Norris had the precise to go for the transfer, and he complied with the driving-standards tips as to how far alongside he wanted to be as much as the purpose he began to again out.
However from a workforce perspective, it was all danger and no reward.
If Norris had pulled off the transfer, it might have meant yet another level for him and one fewer for Piastri, however for the workforce collectively it might have made no distinction.
What was attention-grabbing was that, regardless of having had preliminary talks with the workforce about it after the dash, Norris was nonetheless pushing his viewpoint after qualifying.
“Actually, it is nonetheless my fault,” he stated, “however I deserved to go for the area and I nonetheless consider I had the precise for it.”
That raised a couple of eyebrows, however the fact is each drivers may have dealt with themselves higher.
Whereas there may be an argument Norris shouldn’t have tried the transfer, there may be an equally highly effective one which, as soon as he had, Piastri ought to have given him more room, and carried the combat down the next straight.
Workforce boss Andrea Stella was requested later that night whether or not he was involved in regards to the message about workforce play not getting via to his drivers, and he handled it together with his common diplomacy.
Stella maintained his common calm, even manner, however phrases like “unacceptable”, “upset” and “severe” made it abundantly clear how indignant he was.
The next day, Norris had modified his tune. Not solely did he supply to assist out Piastri late within the race because the Australian was making an attempt to go Lewis Hamilton’s fading Ferrari, however he additionally lastly took full duty for the incident.
“I can not try what I did,” he stated. “I ought to by no means have tried it within the first place, even when the transfer was on. I’ve merely bought to suppose extra of the workforce that I symbolize relatively than myself. It was a mistake on my half and I let down the workforce.”
Stella made it clear McLaren wouldn’t deviate from their coverage of equity and equal standing between the drivers, despite the fact that he’s nicely conscious it should result in points resembling this that take a look at its limits sometimes.
“I categorized it as unacceptable,” he stated, “which is an announcement that comes from the workforce principal, however I used to be very inspired by the truth that it is a assertion that very quickly got here from our drivers as nicely.
“So we’re aligned as to how we wish to lead this workforce ahead in a joint effort between the workforce and the drivers. The conversations that we’re having, they aren’t completed, nevertheless it’s not as a result of we have to return discussing if Lando was alongside Oscar. That is not the attention-grabbing bit.
“For me, the attention-grabbing bit is a mirrored image that every one the stakeholders – the workforce, the drivers – must make round main collectively the workforce, embracing continuously from contained in the cockpit the curiosity of the workforce as one thing that’s superior to any explicit, singular, particular person curiosity.
“And whereas the conversations from this viewpoint will not be concluded, and there is extra we are able to do to grow to be a extra united and even stronger workforce, I am happy that Lando during the race adopted this mind-set.
“That is what I anticipate as a workforce principal, that is what the 1,000 those that work at McLaren anticipate from our drivers.”
