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🏁 Verstappen takes pole after sprint win | And mail Daniel
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Sun 11 Oct 2026 07.19 EDT First published on Sun 11 Oct 2026 07.00 EDT
Key events
Kimi Antonelli, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton during the drivers’ parade before the F1 Singapore GP. Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/Reuters
Key events
Qualifying
1 Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 Red Bull 1:31.373
2 Charles Leclerc 🇲🇨 Ferrari 1:31.427
3 Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 Ferrari 1:31.496
4 Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 Mercedes 1:31.562
5 Lando Norris 🇬🇧 McLaren 1:31.712
6 George Russell 🇬🇧 Mercedes 1:31.712
7 Oscar Piastri 🇦🇺 McLaren 1:31.860
8 Pierre Gasly 🇫🇷 Alpine 1:32.225
9 Liam Lawson 🇳🇿 Racing Bulls 1:32.369
10 Arvid Lindblad 🇬🇧 Racing Bulls 1:32.781
Q2 eliminations
11 Nico Hülkenberg 🇩🇪 Audi 1:32.78412 Oliver Bearman 🇬🇧 Haas 1:32.90813 Esteban Ocon 🇫🇷 Haas 1:33.323
14 Carlos Sainz 🇪🇸 Williams 1:33.52615 Gabriel Bortoleto 🇧🇷 Audi 1:33.65816 Franco Colapinto 🇦🇷 Alpine 1:33.787
Q1 eliminations 17 Fernando Alonso 🇪🇸 Aston Martin 1:34.223 18 Alexander Albon 🇹🇭 Williams 1:34.28919 Lance Stroll 🇨🇦 Aston Martin 1:34.94620 Sergio Pérez 🇲🇽 Cadillac 1:35.12321 Valtteri Bottas 🇫🇮 Cadillac 1:35.98422 Isack Hadjar 🇫🇷 Red Bull no time
1 Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 Red Bull 1:31.373
2 Charles Leclerc 🇲🇨 Ferrari 1:31.427
3 Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 Ferrari 1:31.496
4 Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 Mercedes 1:31.562
5 Lando Norris 🇬🇧 McLaren 1:31.712
6 Oscar Piastri 🇦🇺 McLaren 1:31.860
7 Pierre Gasly 🇫🇷 Alpine 1:32.225
8 Liam Lawson 🇳🇿 Racing Bulls 1:32.369
9 Arvid Lindblad 🇬🇧 Racing Bulls 1:32.781
10 Nico Hülkenberg 🇩🇪 Audi 1:32.78411 Oliver Bearman 🇬🇧 Haas 1:32.90812 Esteban Ocon 🇫🇷 Haas 1:33.323
13 Carlos Sainz 🇪🇸 Williams 1:33.52614 Gabriel Bortoleto 🇧🇷 Audi 1:33.65815 Franco Colapinto 🇦🇷 Alpine 1:33.78716 Alexander Albon 🇹🇭 Williams 1:34.28917 Sergio Pérez 🇲🇽 Cadillac 1:35.12318 Valtteri Bottas 🇫🇮 Cadillac 1:35.984
*19 George Russell 🇬🇧 Mercedes 1:31.712
- Starting from the pitlane_
*_ Isack Hadjar 🇫🇷 Red Bull no time
* Fernando Alonso 🇪🇸 Aston Martin 1:34.223
* Lance Stroll 🇨🇦 Aston Martin 1:34.946_
* Dropped to the back of the grid for taking new elements_
Also going on:
Sport loves hyperbole, but sometimes, that hyperbole is true: we stand on the cusp of history. At some point soon, perhaps this month, we will bathe in the light of the F1’s youngest world champion, when Kimi Antonelli gets the 100 points he needs to lift this year’s driver championship. When you’re bousting cars around twisty tracks at 225mph, stuff can happen – and we don’t even know how many more races there’ll be this season – but even so, it’s surely coming.
Antonelli starts this race from fourth on the grid, suboptimal but for the fact that a huge penalty for taking a new power unit leaves George Russell, his closest challenger, in P21. And, though Lewis Hamilton, the only other driver still with a shot of thwarting him, goes from third, with only one race-win this season, it seems inconceivable that he suddenly hits the kind of streak that closes a 104-point gap in four or five races.
Max Verstappen, meanwhile, is doing his best to redeem a miserable season – in a sense, he’s already started next. His Red Bull is beginning to purr and, having first won yesterday’s sprint, he subsequently secured pole; if he gets away well, he’ll take some catching.
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