The deft touch of McLaren-Mercedes’ Lando Norris was on full display on race night in Singapore – from his perfect start to his equally-perfect finish. This wasn’t a race filled with high drama; indeed, there were no Safety Car interventions. The evening provided, though, a stunning display of mechanical and athletic virtuosity. Lando was a couple of seconds ahead of Red Bull-Honda’s Max Verstappen in the opening phase when he responded to his engineer’s request to “open a five-second gap” by quickly creating an 18-second cushion. It was breathtaking to watch. Max duly finished second; Oscar Piastri made it a McLaren one-three; and George Russell finished P4 for Mercedes, ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Peter Windsor in this video looks back at a memorable night in the city that never sleeps.
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Hey Peter, Lando had a comfy 20+ second lead almost binned it twice, all on his own. Did you see the reactions from Max and Oscar in the cool down? Lando got VERY lucky 😂
I remember Lewis praising Lando during the Austrian GP a couple of years ago
Norris was lucky he has the best car and nearly crashed it, if Max does win the title this year it will be due to other drivers getting in the way taking wins minimising the damage in the drivers championship
Charles drove hard all race – trying, trying as always. As good as any out there.
If Oscar wouldn’t have made the mistake ….bla bla bla if my mother would have balls she’d be my dad (is what Max would say) Max maximized yesterday. 💪🏻
Hahah dude, Norris almost crashed out two times this race. No i haven't seen Max doing that indeed. What a complete nonsense about Norris doing things Max supossedly can't. This is just nonsense.
Lewis gambled on soft tyres and safety car backfire.
Thanks Peter too
Not too long ago, it was all about cheating RB, despite Max being unbeatable on his own merits. Now he is beatable, RB delivers a "BEEP" car, it is not about cheating McLaren but about a swearing Max. Great job, FIA! How to protect your own interests with smoke curtains and penalties….that's not breathtaking to watch, Peter. That's manipulating a sport!
Didn’t mention lando losing concentration and getting away with hitting the wall twice. Very lucky man.
Media, you included, seem to be really biased to Lando. He’s treated like such a baby, can do no wrong and every error or bit of ambition is treated as…nawwww pooky was tired or misunderstood don’t say anything even close to critical or talk on how he could improve. He’s a shark just like every other ambitious driver.
It’s a shame how hard it is to find fair discussion. Listened a few weeks, but it’s too biased.
Ricciardo has already been forgotten by Peter
Top summary there Peter! looking at lando's performance at Singapore he reminds me of the Ayrton Senna type of dominance and focus, showing a type of presence of authority and making a statement to the team that he is the number 1! it reminds me of the Senna Prost days at Maclaren. I am sure we will a similar dynamic as they both are quick and have a point to prove. Who knows??
Reference to Hungary ✅
Long corners ✅
Short corners ✅
Reference to Lando suppleness ✅
Come on Peter, where did Lando finish qualifying last week 🤔
Come on, Peter. Reguarding Perez complimenting Colopinto. If memory serves me right, didn't Lewis once compliment Lando mid race?
Man walks around covered in adverts like AOL 9.0
The Lando fan boy is happy lol.
Why didnt Lewis Start on the hard if he wanted to do something different?
F1 on-circuit races are as usual great only to spoilt by off-circuit shenanigans, from team principals, FIA officials with their decisions, rumours and claims. NOW, Fi drivers have to do "COMMUNITY SERVICES" – what crimes have they committed other than being superlative in their driving abilities. Like Max said, don't treat drivers like 5-year olds (or criminals). F1 is now SAD and getting SADDER.
I still can't understand all this increasingly nauseating and tiresome moaning on behalf of Lando as if he owns a God-annointed right to a championship and Piastri and the team as a whole should be grovellingly serving only that goal. If Lando is truly that good, well, he should go ahead and beat everybody else on the track including his team mate!
It is the McLaren team that has completely ruined a possible and realistic world championship for Lando Norris! And Piastri, Mark Webber and the press have also played a particularly negative role in this! Piastri himself cannot be blamed, an excellent and very talented driver with a nice personality so far. But hyping a clearly inferior driver within the same team has been particularly damaging to Lando's chances of a world title (although it still exists) Lando Norris has clearly shown that he is the better driver of the two, no doubt about it! . To now always involve the mismanagement of McLaren is actually a bit hypocritical and cowardly because the press has clearly contributed to this nonsensical, and for Lando damaging, discussion! Lando is a sensitive and perhaps a bit different personality, just like Max by the way, who deviates from the usual or what we want to expect. Take Lewis Hamilton as an example, who in your eyes always gives the right and politically correct answer under any circumstances. But as a result he never, ever shows you his true face;-)
Franco had a fantastic race! Sir Peter says so, nothing more to say
Thanks
excellent review thank you. true enough Hulkenberg simply drove a really good race, making him so difficult to overtake without ending up taking an unnecessary risk for just 1 point more. Not what Checo would want, just 1 point, but better safe than sorry and yes he does seem to be better in defense than attack. His compliment on Franco was actually amazing to hear.. I'll add this here. post race press moment Colapinto (Spanish language media), translated into English here: Q: “How did you take Checo’s compliment” A: “A capo (slang for good person) I like him a lot, I used to watch him when I was little back at home in Argentina before I came to race in Europe, I’d wake up early to watch him race and now, fighting and racing against him is nice”. I personally loved Franco's Lap 1 Turn 1 overtake (was it 4 positions up?) certainly not a dive bomb but strong and clean action (Albon complaining if I remember correctly..)
Mercedes screw over Lewis!! Bono is back stabbing him too now… unbelievable!!! Lewis was the only driver to put on USED softs! Helen Keller knows not put in softs in Singapore 🇸🇬… and she’s deaf and blind!!! Lewis did not ask for softs!!! Come on Peter stop playing dumb 😂!! Jesus, it’s so obvious they are sabotaging him so George can beat him!! Do you honestly think Lewis Hamilton would ask for USED Softs?!! I’m kinda of shocked you think Lewis made that mistake
Surprise surprise Peter your Golden boy won. You cant hide your excitement pitty you could not show the same excitement for Oscars win the previous week.Boring race apart from Oscars over takes.
The obvious Lando bias against Oscar is getting tedious now.
Lewis, while one of the greatest drivers of all time, bears the blame for tire choice as well.
Thanks for your remarks about the Lewis Hamilton/Mercedes soft-tire decision. I also supposed that Lewis opted for the high-risk strategy that he might get past Max, and even Lando, early–but even then, what next? With the poor performance of a soft tire on heavy fuel, and with the massive tire offset following an early switch to the hard, wasn't it always inevitable that Lewis gets passed again by the leaders? Not only did he fail to undercut Max with his switch to the hard, but he felt behind George! Only the extra-lucky addition of a perfectly-timed safety car might have made this strategy worked: way too much risk, way too little reward.
I will add that I thought it was poor form of Ricciardo to grab a short lap. I understand that it was probably his last grand prix, but does it dignify him to go out and run a fast qualifying lab from what, P18? It's a result that means nothing to him and for him, and messes with the guys at the top of the field, who are fighting the most meaningful championship battle in several years–which seems completely out of line. Old vendetta from his McLaren days? Red Bull kinship? Whatever it is, it's a poor form.
Lando was a chunk ahead of Oscar the entire weekend. It does Norris a huge disrespect to state the Oscar would have won the race if he hadn't screwed up his qualifying.
@peter Windsor do you know for a fact choosing the soft was LH’s decision? If so why did Toto apologise 🤔
the biggest journalist in f1 didnt say one word about danny ricciardo probably leaving f1.what happened peter?did you miss that?you didnt hear anything?congradulations.
Great shame you’ve made no mention of the great Daniel Ricciardo. Truly a shame, for many of us value your insight, yet even more so, value who Daniel Ricciardo is, what he’s done for the sport in the past 5-10 years, and how much of a great Grand Prix driver he is. If you made no mention of him out of respect for the fact that this might not be it, then okay. But you, more so than most; should know it probably will be it.
I expected more overtakes
"Lance Stroll gets pole"
Peter: "I've always said about Lance Stroll, his soft inputs on the pedal"
Wow me me me again
The more you look at the race you realize that the only winner from Hamilton's strategy is Russell. One can only be led to conclude Mercedes are deliberately engineering Russell ahead of Hamilton in the WDC. Think about it for one moment The Singapore GP is almost without exception a one stop race, due to extra-long pit times. So, to start on scrubbed softs with a full fuel load, in the hope that you get a jump on the fast-starting Red bull or fast all weekend Lando Norris is complete fantasy. The softs would be useless after a pretty much 5 laps, meaning Hamilton would be on Hard's at least 10 laps earlier than the rest of the field and for the rest of the race. That said and if we agree Mercedes are not fantasists and knew that, there could be but one strategy to put George Russell in a position to finish above Lewis Hamilton. What a shocking way to manipulate and treat a driver that has been a major factor in bringing Mercedes to the pinnacle of the sport and changed the perception of Mercedes as a brand around the world. The man is well shot of this nest of vipers. What is George Russell to do when he finds himself playing second fiddle to Kimi Antonelli.
What is strange, is that all the so-called 'experts/pundits' keep pointing to the 20s between Lando and Max…
Look at the list -> Piastri is 21s after Max, Russel/Leclerc 20s after Piastri, Hamilton 23s after Leclerc
Nobody heard about it…not going to spread a theory myself but there are about 20s between the track positions…strange huh hahahaha
Max was the underdog and did very well. Plus he was given a ridiculous punishment. But still no driver of the day. The man cannot get a break. 😉
There was no legitimate reason to put Lewis on softs…It already came out he was fiercely against softs pre race, and Toto/Bono over ruled him, as if am 8 time world champ doesn't know what he's talking about…..That so called possible concern of tire temp obviously didn't bother any other team, as Lewis was the only duck sitting out there with softs…….Jist further sabotage that's becoming more and more blatant……Toto amd Bono I hope will get what they deserve eventually…….Lewis doesn't deserve any of this
Hamilton has SAID he chose NOT to atart on softs, and they insisted. He also did not want to pit because he knew he had more time on his softs and wanted to try to avoid the traffic he was forced into. He would have had a podium finish had Merc not messed him up. TWICE.
Come on Peter you are better than this. There is zero chance Hamilton wanted softs
I watched your POD with the one they call Cameron CC. I 100% agree with your opinion, why is there police. In my humble opinion, any of your yesterdays would have seem them unstumped …
I dont know why Norris got driver of the day. he has the best car by far, you can't overtake on this track unless you have a serious tyre advantage so his job was too not lose the lead in turn 1 and that's it; guys like Hulkenberg who managed to keep Alonso at bay for ages should be praised. also Leclerc drove a great race despite the frustration. funny how people don't even mention Max anymore, as if he was irrelevant. at the end of the day, the best car wins as always. best drivers are the same though Max, Charles, Lando, Lewis, Alonso, George and Oscar. you give any of those drivers the best car, they're all world champion, simple as. I don't have an answer since you don't want the same car for all either as it would stifle development and this is what F1 is about. it's just a shame that drivers like Leclerc will never be world champion as I don't see how Ferrari can regain that title since they're incapable of bringing successful upgrades throughout the season.