The English Lando Norris (McLaren) will start first this Sunday at the Singapore Grand Prix, the eighteenth round of the Formula One World Championship, on the Marina Bay street circuit.
Norris signed his sixth pole in the premier class -the fifth of the year- by dominating qualifying, in whose third and final round (Q3) he covered the 4,940 metres of the Singaporean track in one minute, 29 seconds and 525 thousandths, 203 less than the Dutch triple world champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull), who leads the World Championship with 59 points over the previous driver.
​Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – who was left behind 316 thousandths – will start third, from the second rowin which he will be accompanied by his teammate and compatriot George Russell.
From the third one, the other McLaren will do it, the one of the Australian Oscar Piastri -winner last Sunday in Azerbaijan- and the German Nico Hülkenberg, a surprising sixth this Saturday in Singapore.
The Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) was 689 thousandths behind and will start seventh; while his compatriot Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), who had an accident – without personal injuries – with eight minutes to go before the end of the main qualifying session, He will start tenth on the track where he won last year and in which he is competing in his 200th Grand Prix.
The two-time world champion from Asturias will start from the fourth row, alongside Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (RB), who finished eighth in the main qualifying session.
Sainz will start from fifth, alongside his teammate, the Monegasque Charles Leclerc, who finished ninth, without setting a time in Q3. In a race scheduled for 62 laps, to complete a total of 306.1 kilometres, which the Argentine Franco Colapinto (Williams) will tackle from twelfth place; and the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), from thirteenth.
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