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22/9/2019
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00:00It's this season, and we're all set, waiting for the five lights to all be eliminated here in Singapore, it's lit down, away we go, it wasn't a hold for very long at the start, the player gets away well, ahead of Alton and Vettel, and then on the inside, Alex Albon on Valtteri Bottas, making up a place at the start, maybe he looks back to Verstappen, and then the Bottas, then comes Albon, and then Carlos Sainz as well, Vettel is really going for it.
00:24I think Verstappen's looking pretty racy there as well, behind Vettel.
00:27He's certainly got closer to Sebastian Vettel, right, here's the wind change, and the Williams for George Russell, new front wing going on, the stewards are looking at Romain Grosjean at turn one, we can see now, on board with Daniel Ricciardo, what happened on the short run towards turn one, Russell actually got away fairly well, got past the hat, Ricciardo's on the inside of him, and as Russell comes across, there's contact.
00:51It didn't look too bad, it didn't, it looked like a wing cruncher from that angle, did it, but of course he got sandwiched, well, we're out too quickly.
01:00Yeah, one of those short, light-up situations, Nikkei got the perfect straight line start down, and took the corner as he wanted, and bolted away, now we can see behind there,
01:10so Sainz got a little bit out of shape in two, and that's turn three, somewhere in there, the Renault back of Danny Kvyat, he's not thinking about going slow at the moment, he's got the bit between his team,
01:23and he wants to go for it, at places you don't normally see, Karl's getting past, now we've seen Felipe Massa on the bridge, get past Bruno Sainz before,
01:30can Daniel Ricciardo do the same on Kvyat? No, he can't, waiting in the back there, to try and pick up some scraps, his last stroll,
01:37they nearly had to pick up scraps of carbon fibre, and he's somehow avoiding going into the back of the Renault,
01:42he's going to go down the inside of Danny Kvyat at turn 14, nicely done, Stroll gets a good exit as well, out of that turn,
01:49and Kvyat's got two places ahead of Danny Kvyat, up into 14th place, brilliant midfield scrap, I just wish this was happening for the top six at the moment.
01:59So obviously when you hit the brake pedal, you're pressing one fourth break, but you've also got the electrical system,
02:04it will be a very early stop, if somebody did, this is the Sergio Perez, Danny Kvyat incident, it already hit the wall as well.
02:14Yeah, for good measure, but this is great driving from Perez, teed him up the tree, squeezed him to the apex for a tight line,
02:22and this is unbelievably tight, this left-hander, straight into the heart of a chicane, nice job.
02:29Absolutely, a 1.48.3 from Charles Leclerc, pushing on, and now two seconds clear, and once we see Kvyat's really frustrated,
02:37well, I think Kvyat gave him enough room to make sure he could get past without damage,
02:43they were now Kvyat on the air, with nobody other than Kvyat in it.
02:48So Hamilton, yeah, Hamilton's got track position.
02:50Under three seconds, and Sebastian Fedel goes down the inside of Pierre Gasly, this could be contact,
02:56Gasly is forced off the track there, and Sebastian Fedel was coming through whether the Frenchman wanted it or not,
03:02and Fedel had for both drivers there, Gasly getting out of the way just in time,
03:08before there was major contact.
03:10Tire to tire, so to get away with it, he might get a warning flag for that,
03:15he came from a long way back, but he did, he met the apex, the car was under control.
03:20He's been using the medium tire for the entirety of this race,
03:24and he's trying to defend against Danny Ricciardo when they contact at turns.
03:28He's there, but not at the speed Ricciardo was arriving at.
03:30Yeah, it was an opportunist to overtake, and Giovinazzi has got nowhere to go.
03:37Daniel gets an oversight as he picks up the throttle, and kind of punches him off the road.
03:43Sector's now, he wants to close that gap down to Beton.
03:45He feels he's been robbed through his team's strategy.
03:48The yellow flag on a double-waved yellow in Sector 2.
03:51As we talk about the potential for a safety car, we have a Williams in the war,
03:56and I think that could be George Russell.
03:58It is George Russell.
03:59So, Ferrari trying to fill the safety car gap.
04:04They have not done that.
04:05They're not far enough ahead of what's happened.
04:07Grosjean and Williams.
04:08Grosjean and Russell tagging.
04:10Oh, Russell gets tagged by Grosjean.
04:13The big three.
04:15And he's got just...
04:17Oh, it's a big look up there by Lance Stroll.
04:20And he's got Antonio Giovinazzi with him.
04:22And he's got damage, he's got a puncture.
04:24Has Lance Stroll.
04:25He's bombed in a few battles there first with Gasly and then McReichan and on the restart.
04:30Stroll's got a puncture and he's limping home.
04:36Box this left, box this left.
04:40I wonder if he hit the wall because when he banged with Gasly, Martin,
04:44it was on the other side of the car.
04:47I wonder if Lance Stroll has hit the wall here and that's why he's got that puncture.
04:52Let's just have a quick look here.
04:53Oh, he's got Gasly on his outside.
04:56So there's the tyre banging that was going on.
04:59But that is not going to give you a puncture on the front left.
05:03It's kind of fair enough, that one.
05:04Good hard racing.
05:06So where has he flouted the front left?
05:09Could have been a slightly earlier...
05:10Obviously got wind damage as well.
05:12So 10, 13 and 14 apparently when he stopped.
05:15Haven't seen him again yet, have we?
05:17No, we certainly haven't.
05:18Lap 44 and he walks away.
05:22He might just have got it under a second and that's certainly going to help his chances.
05:26Kimi Räikkönen is under pressure once again from Kriak.
05:28Kriak's going to have a go in the turn one.
05:30Oh dear!
05:31Broken suspension.
05:32That is Kimi Räikkönen out of the Grand Prix.
05:36Danny Kriak goes down the inside.
05:38Goes Daniel Ricciardo on Danny Kriak who's not exactly come out unscathed from that contact.
05:44With Kimi Räikkönen.
05:45Kimi trying to turn in.
05:46There was a Toro Rosso there.
05:48Whether he saw him coming or not, there was no room at the time.
05:51He put a little left hand down.
05:53What we suggest when he next sees Danny Kriak, he won't given up on that yet.
05:58Big sparks there from underneath Danny Kriak's Toro Rosso.
06:03And that last stroll right behind him.
06:06Out in front of the club.
06:07Seemate to help him get a little bit closer.
06:09The stroll now lines up Kriak.
06:11I think something is wrong with the club around.
06:14I have a lot of damage.
06:15I feel like I'm going to crash.
06:18Now if he feels like he's going to crash,
06:20he's seemingly set in fifth, Alex Albon.
06:23To be fair, Alex Albon's kept out of trouble.
06:26Kept out of people's way.
06:27Hasn't really got close to the battles in front.
06:30But on his first experience at the Singapore street circuit,
06:33I think he's done an equally good job.
06:35And Lando Norris.
06:37That's Danny Kriak gets past Kendon Magnussen.
06:40And that's down in Stifton's place.
06:41And who haven't taken three consecutive race wins since 2008.
06:47It's been a long time coming for Ferrari.
06:52It's been a long time coming for Sebastian Vettel.
06:54For the first time in 2019,
06:56Sebastian Vettel takes the checkered flag
06:59and wins the Singapore Grand Prix.
07:02And a win.
07:04And now, Lushenberg!
07:07He'll be feeling a lot of relief, for sure.
07:08He'll be feeling a lot of relief.
07:10But it's just one race.
07:11We now need to go for an extended run.
07:14With the Cadbury, three or four different results.
07:16To try and make sure that it's really over,
07:20this slump.
07:22He also runs a lot,
07:24because now you're going to hit one guy down the inside.
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