Formula 1: Singapore winner Sergio Perez
2Formula 1: Singapore winner Sergio Perez
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez won the F1 Singapore Grand Prix. The Mexican driver had his second grand prix win this season, after Monaco. Formula 1 announced that an investigation has been launched against Perez, who was found to have overtaken the safety car in the second stop of the race.
In the Formula 1 World Championship, the 17th leg of the season, the Singapore Grand Prix, was won by the Mexican driver of the Red Bull team, Sergio Perez.
The race, held on the 5.06 kilometer Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore, started with a delay of more than an hour due to bad weather conditions.
In the race, which started from the second row, Perez outstripped the winner of the qualifying laps, Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco, in the first lap, managed to maintain his advantage throughout the race and with a time of 2:02:15.238, he had his second grand prix victory after Monaco this season.
Leclerc finished second, 7.595 seconds behind Perez, and Leclerc's teammate, Spaniard Carlos Sainz, finished third, 15.305 seconds behind the leader. Dutch driver Max Verstappen of Red Bull, the leader of the drivers' classification, finished 7th in the race, where he fell back to 12th place.
INVESTIGATION STARTED
During the race, which was held over 61 laps, some of the pilots' cars crashed on the wet ground and were out of the race, and the safety car, which entered the track many times, prevented the distance between the pilots from opening.
Formula 1 also announced that an investigation has been launched against Perez, who was found to have overtaken the safety car in the second stop of the race.
AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda, Alpine's Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso, Williams' Alexander Albon and Nicholas Latifi, Alfa Romeo's Guanyu Zhou were the drivers who could not complete the race due to damage or malfunction in their vehicles.
After this result, Verstappen continued to lead the drivers' classification with 341 points, while Leclerc with 237 points took the second place and Perez with 235 points took the third place.
The 18th race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix, will be held on October 9.
Following the Singapore Grand Prix, the top 5 places of the drivers and teams classification were as follows:
PILOTS
1. Max Verstappen (Netherlands): 341 points
2. Charles Leclerc (Monaco): 237
3. Sergio Perez (Mexico): 235
4. George Russell (Great Britain): 203
5. Carlos Sainz (Spain): 202
TEAMS
1. Red Bull: 576
2. Ferrari: 439
3. Mercedes: 373
4. McLaren: 129
5. Alpine: 125