00:00Right behind Rosberg, but with Rosberg not there, Vettel had a clean run into the first corner.
00:06This you can see Rosberg not able to pull away at the start,
00:09and then obviously Kobayashi on the warm-up lap also retiring his catering, so a disaster for him.
00:16And then on to the start, this is Nikko at the exit of the pit lane,
00:22changing the steering wheel and managed to get going after that.
00:25Here's a start, Vettel, good start, and was able to get ahead of Riccardo into Turn 1.
00:29But Alonso had a mega start and actually just outbraked himself and took to the escape road
00:33and just actually gained an advantage there.
00:37I think Alonso would be quite annoyed with himself because I think that position was his to have.
00:42He just braked too late.
00:43But he did the right thing, which was just after this corner, he just let Vettel through,
00:47so he didn't seem to gain an advantage.
00:49I think that's why the stewards didn't give him a penalty.
00:52But look at the start, a really good start by Alonso.
00:54And at this point, really, the move is done.
00:56But he just, just that one foot too late braking, and it caused that inside lockup.
01:03He had to take the escape road.
01:05He had no choice, really, and it was a safe move.
01:07And it's just lucky that there was enough runoff at that turn so that he could rejoin in second.
01:13After that, just feel through quite well, and we won't actually see the tire.
01:17He was actually controlling that gap.
01:19He got the undercut.
01:20He looked like he was controlling the gap to the Red Bulls.
01:21But on the soft tires, it just didn't seem to have the same pace as the Red Bulls.
01:25It seemed to have a lot more understeer, especially after the pit stops.
01:28And I think that was...
01:29Yeah, so exactly.
01:38I completely agree with Alex.
01:40When we saw that Fernando was understeering, same thing with Kimi.
01:44And also, he was slightly less aggressive towards the end of the race than what we could have expected.
01:50Yeah.
01:50So that could have happened to Lewis as well.
01:52And he was probably a little bit worried by that.
01:54But he really drove a mastermind of race.
01:58I mean, pulling this advantage.
01:59The car is the best, obviously.
02:01But still, you need to make 20 or a very large number of laps at this pace, constant pace, and build a gap.
02:08It's the same as what Vettel did last year, which was very impressive.
02:11The same as Schumacher used to do.
02:12This is the kind of great drives.
02:16Probably one of the best drives that I've seen from Lewis, yeah.
02:18How important is this win for him as he heads into this final, kind of last breath of the season?
02:23Exactly.
02:24Exactly.
02:25I think now it's going to be very interesting to see.
02:28He has the momentum with him.
02:30The reliability issues, as I said, now it's even, even between him and Nico.
02:34So it's a new championship that is starting.
02:36And he's mentally now back there.
02:38He's doing a championship.
02:39It's going to be very interesting to see how Nico will bounce back from it.
02:43And we're just looking forward to the next race, to Japan.
02:47So it's all about the numbers as we come in, too.
02:51Nonetheless, three points.
02:52We'll get to that in just a while for now.
02:54Here's confirmation of the results, however, from the Singapore Grand Prix.
02:58The top three podium finishes.
02:59Lewis Hamilton, of course, with the two red balls behind him, as anticipated.
03:03Fernando will also just missing out.
03:05Felipe Massa, the better of the Williams, his teammate.
03:08The Valtteri Bottas with such an unusual end in that final lap.
03:12John Eric Byrne, what a race from the Toro Rosso drive with Sergio Perez.
03:15Again, giving us a couple of quite shiny...
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