Singapore Grand Prix: Formula One 2026 race updates – live

1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

2. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

3. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)

4. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)

5. Lando Norris (McLaren)

6. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

7. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

8. Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)

9. Arvind Lindblad (Racing Bulls)

10. Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)

11. Oliver Bearman (Haas)

12. Esteban Ocon (Haas)

13. Carlos Sainz Jr (Williams)

14. Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi)

15. Franco Colapinto (Alpine)

16. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

17. Alex Albon (Williams)

18. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

19. Sergio Perez (Cadillac)

20. Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac)

21. George Russell – Penalty (Mercedes)

22. Isack Hadjar – No time set (Red Bull)

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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.