00:01It's lights out and away we go, Leclerc and Perez get away well, Hamilton behind Leclerc
00:06wanting to get on with it, as is Pierre Gasly in the AlphaTaurian, Sergio Perez leads them
00:11into the first corner as he did in Baku, Hamilton goes wide, Carlos Sainz will slip through
00:16into third place, Lando Norris putting pressure on Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso has lost
00:21places one by one, they're all making their way round, Max Verstappen looks to have got bogged
00:25down a little bit and lost places going into turn one, we now make the turn right-handed
00:30and onto the Raffles boulevard and it's a long straight towards the next left-hander and you
00:35can see the spray coming up there but nothing to interfere with Sergio Perez's view, he's
00:40out in front, Lando Norris has a look at Lewis Hamilton around the outside, Fernando Alonso
00:45keeping Pierre Gasly at bay and that looks like Kevin Magnussen at the house going off and
00:49it looks like a Williams of Nicolas Latifi I think or Alex Albon who has gone off at turn
00:54seven and was going backwards down the escape road, Lewis Hamilton had a helping hand off
00:59the road in turn two by Carlos Sainz at the start, Verstappen's getting his elbows out and
01:05I think he might have made contact with the back of Lance Stroll's Aston Martin and once
01:09again losing more places, that's Daniel Ricciardo making his way past Max Verstappen, Verstappen
01:14on the inside will now try and get that place back again and he does, Verstappen not having an easy
01:19start here, worth pointing out Sebastian Vettel in eighth place, tremendous start from him
01:26in his final Singapore Grand Prix, his teammate Lance Stroll under pressure now from Max Verstappen
01:31who slides down the inside and moves his Red Bull up into the top ten, Joe Guanyu who has
01:38stopped on the track, this is at turn five, oh 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.
01:50Copper John, I've seen it. Safety car. Safety 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
02:02comes Gasly and Vettel and Max Verstappen once again right on Sebastian Vettel's tail and Verstappen
02:08certainly wasn't called a nappen at the start of the race once again. He was very much on his toes and trying to get past
02:16Sebastian Vettel and has he had a little look down the inside I wonder? Yes. He has got ahead of Sebastian Vettel.
02:23Max Verstappen up into eighth place where he started the race. Max Verstappen a long, long way from thinking about
02:30how to celebrate the second world title. To give it some more thought he goes down the inside and onto the Esplanade Bridge
02:38and he finds himself ahead of Pierre Gasly. Verstappen and Alonso just swapping places there.
02:45We've now got a yellow flag out there on the track too in the middle part of the lap as Fernando Alonso stops.
02:53Copy.
02:57Ooh, Yuki. You go slightly off line and that's on inters. You go slightly off line and you'll be straight in the wall.
03:04This is what happened to Alex Albon. Just couldn't get the grip.
03:09Oh, he's one of those horrible, silly shunts. He's gone in. The front won't bite. He's then gone on to the wetter part of the track
03:16and then had a very pedestrian just under stairs towards the wall. Oh, no.
03:23It's the gap back down to 2.7 at Schenk 3 on the top of the screen.
03:26Oh, and that's Lewis Hamilton going straight on. Hamilton frustrated behind Carlos Sainz
03:32has gone straight on and has hit the barrier down at turn 7.
03:37Norris and Verstappen coming to the scene of the accidents.
03:41Hamilton rejoins the track. Norris goes through. Hamilton rejoins the race ahead of Max Verstappen.
03:48Over the bumps. Just couldn't turn. Well, committed, didn't he, to the corner and couldn't go down the escape road.
03:54And that's the issue for Yuki Tsunoda. He's gone into the barriers at turn 10.
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.
04:15Let'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. Max Verstappen right up behind Lando Norris.
04:27Daniel Ricciardo comes next on the soft compound tyre. Everyone 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. And you can see then Verstappen immediately with lots of confidence.
04:46Behind Ricciardo, Stroll, Vettel, Hamilton and Gasly complete the top 10. There goes Max Verstappen locking up his brakes.
04:53And Max Verstappen goes straight on, manages to stop in time, spins the car around 180 degrees and rejoins the race.
05:01Verstappen went for it. But were those tyres and brakes too cold to make such a bold move?
05:08What's happened to George Russell? Yeah, he's got a puncture.
05:11Has he? What the hell happened there?
05:13You turned right into him, George.
05:16He came out last after having to pit for new tyres. And Max Verstappen has just put himself into the points.
05:23He's got past Valtteri Bottas. Gazi's on the medium compound tyre. Verstappen getting very, very racy.
05:30And picking up a couple of World Championship points. Next car up ahead is Lewis Hamilton.
05:37Hamilton this time having a go on Sebastian Vettel. Vettel positions his car absolutely perfectly to deny him.
05:44Hamilton, is he going to go down the inside? Has to lock up. Verstappen goes through on Hamilton.
05:49Verstappen just bided his time a little bit. Hamilton made the move on Sebastian Vettel. It didn't come off.
05:54And Verstappen said thank you very much.
05:57He stood alive.
05:59Oh, as Max Verstappen makes the move on Sebastian Vettel. Straight line speed of the Red Bull.
06:03Looks pretty good if he can make it into the corner OK.
06:05And Sebastian Vettel does get overtaken by Max Verstappen, who's up into seventh place.
06:11But while he'll look at just a few points, it's going to be maximum points for Sergio Perez, who on the streets of Singapore wins the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix.
06:24This, the greatest race for Sergio Perez.
06:28Vamos, Checo. Unbelievable. What a drive.
06:31This is how we do it, man. We shut our mouth and we work hard. This is the Mexican way. Well done, guys.
06:39Well, it was the night that Max Verstappen had his first chance at winning a world championship.
06:45But 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.
06:53Sergio Perez on top of the podium and having a brilliant night here in Singapore, our winner this evening.
