Red Bull\u2019s Sebastian Vettel has taken his 33rd\u00a0career victory at the Singapore Grand Prix, using a two-stop strategy. Vettel\u2019s victory from pole ensures that the Singapore Grand Prix continues its unbroken record of only ever having been won by world champions.
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Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso used a different two-stop strategy to finish second from seventh on the grid, while another two-stop strategy was adopted by Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen, who finished third from 13th\u00a0on the grid \u2013 despite suffering from an injured back. Vettel and Alonso have finished first and second now for the last three races.<\/p>\n
The Singapore Grand Prix got underway in 67% humidity, with all the drivers apart from Force India\u2019s Adrian Sutil starting on the P Zero Red supersoft tyre. The first driver to head into the pits was Raikkonen, for another set of supersofts on lap 10. Vettel ran a long first stint to build up an advantage of more than 35 seconds before his first pit stop on lap 17 for a set of mediums, emerging back in the lead.<\/p>\n
On lap 25 the safety car was deployed for an eventual total of five laps, keeping up another 100% record for the Marina Bay circuit. A number of drivers took advantage of this situation to come into the pits for a tyre change, but the top four (who were all on the medium compound) stayed out, with Vettel\u2019s 13-second lead eliminated.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, the German extended his advantage in order to make a second stop, this time for new supersofts, on lap 44 without losing the lead. This enabled him to eventually win the race by half a minute. With a low pit lane speed limit and a long pit lane in Singapore, there was a considerable time penalty for each stop \u2013 the biggest of the year \u2013 which meant that teams tried to minimise the time spent in the pits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Red Bull\u2019s Sebastian Vettel has taken his 33rd\u00a0career victory at the Singapore Grand Prix, using a two-stop strategy. Vettel\u2019s victory from pole ensures that the Singapore Grand Prix continues its unbroken record of only ever having been won by world champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[561],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirelli","tag-pirelli-p-zero"],"yoast_head":"\n