Sebastian Vettel is celebrating his second success of the season, complying with a win in the Singapore Grand Prix.
The reigning world champion devoted his win to professor Sid Watkins, who died earlier this month.
Pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton was very first into turn one, ahead of Pastor Maldonado as well as Sebastian Vettel. however the Williams driver – who had pulled off a stunning lap in Q3 to qualify second on the grid – couldn’t match the speeds of the Red Bull or the Mclaren of Jenson Button, as well as ended the lap fourth.
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Meanwhile, Hamilton as well as Vettel were setting a succession of fastest laps and, by lap 10, Hamilton had prolonged his lead to 2.7 seconds as well as success looked set to be his.
But just 13 laps later, his race was given an early end when his gearbox failed. He pulled off onto an getaway road as smoke billowed from the back of his car, enabling Vettel to take the lead.
A series of retirements followed. Narain Karthikeyan clouted the barriers on lap 33, losing the front-right wheel of his HRT as well as bringing out the security car. Maldonado was told to pit with a hydraulic issue on lap 36, before Michael Schumacher ploughed into the back of Jean-Eric Vergne’s Toro Rosso triggering the security vehicle to find out again. The stewards have since handed Schumacher a 10-place grid charge for the next race at Suzuka.