00:00It's lights out and away we go. Leclerc and Perez get away well. Hamilton behind Leclerc, wanting to get on
00:07with it, as is Pierre Gasly in the AlphaTaurian.
00:09Sergio Perez leads them into the first corner as he did in Baku. Hamilton goes wide. Carlos Sainz will slip
00:15through into third place.
00:17Lando Norris putting pressure on Lewis Hamilton. Fernando Alonso has lost places one by one. They're all making their way
00:22round.
00:23Max Verstappen looks to have got bogged down a little bit and lost places going into turn one. We now
00:28make the turn right-handed and onto the Raffles Boulevard and it's a long straight towards the next left-hander
00:34and you can see the spray coming up there but nothing to interfere with Sergio Perez's view.
00:40He's out in front. Lando Norris has a look at Lewis Hamilton around the outside. Fernando Alonso keeping Pierre Gasly
00:46at bay and that looks like Kevin Magnussen and the Haas going off and it looks like a Williams of
00:50Nicolas Latifi, I think.
00:52Alex Albon, who has gone off at turn seven and was going backwards down the escape road.
00:57Lewis Hamilton had a helping hand off the road in turn two by Carlos Sainz at the start.
01:03Verstappen's getting his elbows out and I think he might have made contact with the back of Lance Strolls, Aston
01:08Martin and once again losing more places.
01:10That's Daniel Ricciardo making his way past Max Verstappen. Verstappen on the inside will now try and get that place
01:16back again and he does.
01:17Verstappen not having an easy start here. Worth pointing out, Sebastian Vettel in eighth place.
01:24Tremendous start from him in his final Singapore Grand Prix. His teammate Lance Strolls under pressure now from Max Verstappen
01:31who slides down the inside and moves his Red Bull up into the top ten.
01:35Joe Guan Yu, who has stopped on the track. This is at turn five.
01:41Oh, hit the wall and Latifi hitting the wall too.
01:46The guy just fully squeezed me into the wall, guys. I don't know what is he doing.
01:50Copy drive, I've seen it.
01:51Safety car.
01:52Safety got the full safety car as well.
01:56Green flags waving, Perez from Leclerc, from Sainz, from Hamilton, from Norris, there's Alonso and then comes Gasly and Vettel
02:03and Max Verstappen once again right on Sebastian Vettel's tail.
02:07And Verstappen certainly wasn't caught a nappin at the start of the race once again.
02:12He was very much on his toes and trying to get past Sebastian Vettel and has he had a little
02:18look down the inside, I wonder.
02:20He has got ahead of Sebastian Vettel. Max Verstappen up into eighth place where he started the race.
02:27Max Verstappen a long, long way from thinking about how to celebrate a second world title.
02:33To give it some more thought, he goes down the inside and onto the Esplanade Bridge and he finds himself
02:39ahead of Pierre Gasly.
02:42Verstappen and Alonso just swapping places there. We've now got a yellow flag out there on the track too.
02:49Alonso stopped.
02:50In the middle part of the lap as Fernando Alonso stops.
02:53Copy.
02:56Ooh, Yuki.
02:58You go slightly offline and that's on inters. You go slightly offline and you'll be straight in the wall.
03:05This is what happened to Alex Albon. Just couldn't get a grip.
03:09Horrible, silly shunt. He's gone in. The front won't bite. He's then gone on to the wetter part of the
03:16track and then had a very pedestrian just understairs towards the wall.
03:21Oh no.
03:23It's the gap back down to 2.7 at shank. Three on the top of the screen.
03:27Oh, and that's Lewis Hamilton going straight on. Hamilton frustrated behind Carlos Sainz has gone straight on and has hit
03:35the barrier.
03:36Down at turn seven. Norris and Verstappen coming to the scene of the accidents.
03:41Hamilton rejoins the track. Norris goes through.
03:44Hamilton rejoins the race ahead. And Max Verstappen over the bumps.
03:50Schwarz couldn't turn. Well, committed, didn't he, to the corner and couldn't go down the escape road.
03:55And that's the issue for Yuki Tsunoda. He's gone into the barriers at turn 10.
04:00Suchoff, Suchoff, engine off.
04:03That could well be a full safety car. They've got to fix the barrier there.
04:07He's gone in at about 80 miles an hour at Yuki Tsunoda. Safety car, full safety car, has been deployed.
04:16Let's see what they've got in store for us now as we race towards the chequered flag.
04:21Sergio Perez into the first corner ahead of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.
04:25Max Verstappen right up behind Lando Norris.
04:27Daniel Ricciardo comes next on the soft compound tyre.
04:30Everyone else bar Bottas is on the medium compound tyre.
04:33Yeah, both Red Bulls then using the straight line to try to put some energy into the tyre.
04:39You're not really losing anything down there, swinging around.
04:42And you can see then Verstappen immediately with lots of confidence.
04:46Behind Ricciardo, Stroll, Vettel, Hamilton and Gasly complete the top 10.
04:50There goes Max Verstappen locking up his brakes.
04:53And Max Verstappen goes straight on.
04:56Manages to stop in time.
04:57Spins the car around 180 degrees and rejoins the race.
05:01Yes, Verstappen went for it.
05:02But were those tyres and brakes too cold to make such a bold move?
05:08What's happened to George Russell?
05:10Yeah, he's got a puncture.
05:11Has he?
05:12You turn right into him, George.
05:16He came out last after having to pit for new tyres.
05:20And Max Verstappen has just put himself into the points.
05:23He's got past Valtteri Bottas.
05:26Gauzi's on the medium compound tyre.
05:28Verstappen getting very, very racy and picking up a couple of world championship points.
05:33Next car up ahead is Lewis Hamilton.
05:37Hamilton this time having a go on Sebastian Vettel.
05:40Vettel positions his car absolutely perfectly to deny him.
05:44Hamilton, is he going to go down the inside?
05:46Has to lock up.
05:47Verstappen goes through on Hamilton.
05:49Verstappen just bided his time a little bit.
05:51Hamilton made the move on Sebastian Vettel.
05:53It didn't come off.
05:55And Verstappen said thank you very much.
05:57Still alive.
05:59Oh, as Max Verstappen makes the move on Sebastian Vettel.
06:02Straight line speed of the Red Bull looks pretty good.
06:04If he can make it into the corner, okay.
06:05And Sebastian Vettel does get overtaken by Max Verstappen, who's up in the seventh place.
06:11But while he'll look at just a few points, it's going to be maximum points for Sergio Perez,
06:17who on the streets of Singapore wins the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix.
06:23This, the greatest race for Sergio Perez.
06:28Vamos, Checo.
06:29Unbelievable.
06:30What a drive.
06:31This is how we do it, man.
06:32We shut our mouth and we work hard.
06:35This is the Mexican way.
06:37Well done, guys.
06:39Well, it was the night that Max Verstappen had his first chance at winning a world championship.
06:44But it was his teammate who decided to go and grab the headlines.
06:48He led every single lap of the race up to lap 48.
06:52Sergio Perez on top of the podium and having a brilliant night here in Singapore.
06:58Our winner this evening.
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