2026 Formula 1 Singapore GP
F1 Singapore GP: Follow sprint qualifying at Marina Bay circuit with live timing
Keep in touch with F1's sprint qualifying session for the Singapore Grand Prix weekend
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Perez, Leclerc, Botas, Russell, Antonelli, Albon, Bortoleto, Hulkenberg and Sainz have times on the board, but these were their out-laps.
Only Hamilton, Gasly, Alonso, Colapinto and Stroll have set timed laps so far. Hamilton is fastest on 1m33.748s.
DRAPEAU ROUGE!
So, just as Charles Leclerc was opening his push lap, we have a red flag. Six minutes left on the clock.
Brief yellow flag for Sergio Perez tapping the barrier at Turn 5. There's now double yellows later in the lap because his Cadillac has been dropping debris.
We're off!
Medium-compound tyres for all the runners apart from Ocon, Alonso and Stroll, who are currently carrying question marks on our data screen.
In the comments, 'Silverstone Guy' asks a serious question, so we put the torrent of pop trivia on pause to get down to it.
Our understanding is that it is permissible for one change of gear ratios, and the final drive ratio, during the season. From 2027 they will still be allowed one change of both, but not at the same time.
As to Aston Martin's gearbox, the Spanish website Soymotor reported that they had shortened some of the ratios in a new gearbox fitted in Baku. Various other websites, YouTubers, etc, have then repeated the story without substantiating it.
Our track team is working on that; obviously since the gearbox isn't visible from the exterior, it doesn't have to be declared in the FIA's 'show and tell' document.
Extraordinary! Don't Stand So Close To Me by The Police - surely the anthem for anyone saddled with the task of working in the post-session media 'pen' here - was only the seventh song in UK chart history to go straight in at number one.
But we digress.
Massively.
And today's earworm is D.I.S.C.O by Ottawan, courtesy of its appearance on Top of the Pops from 25 September 1980, which we've had playing in the background as we set up.
As part of the BBC's quest to make maximum use of its light entertainment performers, Russ Abbot and Leo Sayer periodically joined host Mike Read.
Famously, former Autosport editor Anthony Rowlinson bore such a strong resemblance to the You Make Me Feel Like Dancing vocalist that, as he was walking past a scaffolded building in central London, he heard one of the builders bellow: "**** me! It's Leo Sayer!"
WELCOME BACK TO MARINA BAY
And we're about to perform a delirious experiment: sprint racing in the Singapore Grand Prix weekend.
Not that this will make the racing any more exciting but, as with Monaco hosting a sprint next year, the thinking is that qualifying is the more exciting session at these street tracks - so why not have two?
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By: Stuart Codling
