George Russell dominated the Singapore Grand Prix as Lando Norris trimmed Oscar Piastri’s championship lead after the McLaren pair made contact early on.

Norris had a storming start but lightly collided with team-mate Piastri on the opening lap to take third where he would finish the race, behind Max Verstappen following a hard-fought battle for second.

Piastri had to settle for fourth and sees his advantage over Norris cut to 22 points in the title race but McLaren sealed the defence of their Constructors’ Championship with six rounds to go – a joint-record for the earliest that title has been won.

The celebrations were slightly overshadowed though by the early McLaren drama where Norris got his elbows out from fifth on the grid by overtaking Kimi Antonelli immediately and then team-mate Piastri into Turn 3, brushing the back of Verstappen and, crucially, nudging Piastri out wide.

The Australian was furious with the move, stating “that’s not fair” on the radio and hinted Norris had broken McLaren’s racing rules of engagement.

The top four finished where they ended the first lap as Russell waltzed to his second win of the year, following his triumph in June’s Canadian Grand Prix, and Verstappen held off Norris to also trim his deficit to Piastri to 63 points.

Piastri suffered a slow pit stop which prevented him from joining the podium battle, with Kimi Antonelli taking fifth on his first Singapore outing.

Lewis Hamilton suffered a late brake issue but just managed to finish the race in seventh, behind Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc.

However, Hamilton is under investigation for exceeding track limits on the last lap as he battled Fernando Alonso who recovered from a slow pit stop to finish eighth ahead of Haas’ Oliver Bearman and Williams’ Carlos Sainz who made use of the alternative strategy by running long in the first stint.

More to follow…

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