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Vettel wins Singapore GP to liven up title race
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Ferrari鈥檚 Sebastian Vettel won an incident-packed Singapore Formula One Grand Prix last night after world champion Lewis Hamilton retired early for the first time this season and a spectator set heart rates fluttering when he strolled on to the track.
Hamilton was running fourth approaching the halfway point of the 61-lap race when he started losing engine power, rapidly dropping back through the field before he was told to return to the garage and call it a night.
Starting from pole position, Vettel had no problems, leading all the way to take the checkered flag for the fourth time at the floodlit Marina Bay Street Circuit.
Australia鈥檚 Daniel Ricciardo finished second for Red Bull, his best result of the year, while Vettel鈥檚 teammate Kimi Raikkonen of Finland crossed the line third.
Nico Rosberg finished fourth for Mercedes to cut Hamilton鈥檚 overall lead to 41 points with six races left. Vettel trails Hamilton by 49.
Vettel鈥檚 win was the German鈥檚 third this season and the 42nd of his career, enabling the quadruple world champion to overtake the late Ayrton Senna into outright third place for the most lifetime wins, trailing only Michael Schumacher (91) and Alain Prost (51).
A proven master on the slow and twisty Singapore track, Vettel made a flying getaway from the front of the grid. The 28-year-old opened up a three-second lead over Ricciardo after the opening lap and was never seriously challenged even when the safety car was introduced.
Its first appearance came on the 13th lap when Felipe Massa exited the pits and was hit from the side by Nico Hulkenberg who speared into a wall, wrecking his Force India car and ending his race. Race stewards blamed Hulkenberg, and he will get a three-place grid penalty at the next race.
The second came in bizarre circumstances when a fan was seen wandering on the track near the Anderson Bridge section. Vettel shouted over the team radio 鈥渢here is a man on the track!鈥 and the safety car was immediately deployed. The casually-dressed man soon climbed over a trackside barrier and off the track.
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