George Russell delivered one of his finest Formula 1 drives under the floodlights of Marina Bay on Sunday, taking victory at the 2025 Singapore Grand Prix and securing his fifth career win, and second this season. For a driver who famously crashed out here two years ago, this was redemption at last, and from lights out to the checkered flag, Russell led round 18 of the 2025 season, with confidence.
The race began with tension as Verstappen lined up on the front row on soft tires, banking on an early advantage. However, George on Mediums didn’t flinch, and Verstappen’s sluggish start gave him control into Turn 1, where chaos unfolded behind. Both McLarens went wheel to wheel, and Lando managed to get past Oscar Piastri on the climb to P3, but made contact with both Max and Oscar, damaging his front wing end plate. For a moment there, McLaren’s title hopes looked shaky. Piastri brushed the wall and avoided disaster by inches, and both managed to keep it together on Singapore’s narrow street circuit.
Race control reviewed the incident but called it hard racing. Norris hung on to Verstappen’s gearbox, but the Red Bull’s traction and straight-line speed managed to hold off the McLaren. Norris called the shots on an early pitstop, a perfect 2.1 seconds on lap 27 switching onto hards. The following lap, Piastri’s pitstop was slower, as the left rear gun jammed, costing him precious seconds.
Up front, Verstappen’s late lock-up at Turn 14 on lap 36 cost Red Bull dearly. George managed a flawless race, crossing the chequered flag after 62 gruelling laps, with Max in P2 and Lando rounding up the podium places in P3. Piastri came in fourth, securing McLaren’s second consecutive Constructors’ Championship. There was also plenty of action in the midfield and outside the points. Further back, Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli impressed in fifth, executing a late overtake on Charles Leclerc. Ferrari were dealing with chronic brake overheating, with Leclerc in sisxth and Hamilton in eigth, both fighting the Singapore heat. Fernando Alonso scored seventh for Aston Martin, Oliver Bearman earned ninth for Haas, and Carlos Sainz climbed from the pit lane to tenth.
With the Constructors’ title wrapped up, we’re heading to COTA next, two weeks from now, and the McLaren duo, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, lead the Drivers’ Championship with 336 and 314 points each. Their dominance is statistical proof of a historic run. Such has been McLaren’s form that they’re leving Singapore with 650 points, exactly double Mercedes. In fact, for the first time since Senna and Berger in the early nineties, Woking has gone back-to-back. McLaren now has ten Constructors’ titles to its name, moving past Williams to second all-time, behind Ferrari’s sixteen. McLaren’s 2025 campaign ties them to Red Bull’s 2023 record for the earliest title clinch, with seven 1-2 finishes, twelve wins, and fourteen podiums apiece between Piastri and Norris. we’ve got six races to go, before the 2025 season concludes in Abu Dhabi.
