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Hamilton storms to victory, Rosberg falters
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LEWIS Hamilton regained the Formula One drivers’ world championship lead last night when he claimed victory at the Singapore Grand Prix after his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg limped out with electronic problems.
The 29-year-old Briton led from pole position and dominated the 61-lap race at the Marina Bay circuit before a lengthy safety car interruption reduced his lead and forced him to attack again in the closing stages when he passed Sebastian Vettel to win.
It was the 29th win of Hamilton’s career, his seventh this year and his second in Singapore, ending four-time champion Vettel’s run of three straight wins on the southeast Asian street circuit.
Hamilton came home 13.534 seconds ahead of Vettel, with Daniel Ricciardo third in the second Red Bull ahead of Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and Felipe Massa of Williams.
He moves up to 241 points, three clear of Rosberg, with five races left in one of the most tense and closely-fought championships of recent years.
Rosberg turned up for the Marina Bay street circuit night race 22 points clear of Hamilton.
But the German endured a wretched evening, his car failing to set off for the warm-up lap from second on the grid.
He eventually started from the pitlane, in an under-performing car with restricted electronic programs available.
By lap five, he had climbed to 20th while Hamilton was controlling a lead of 2.3 seconds ahead of Vettel.
Hamilton pitted after 13 laps, but when Rosberg limped in one lap later, it was terminal for the German.
After swallowing his disappointment Rosberg watched the finale of an incident-packed race from the Mercedes pit wall with Hamilton winning to take a three-point advantage to the Japanese GP on October 5.
As Hamilton controlled the race the safety car emerged on lap 31 after Mexican Sergio Perez lost the front wing on his Force India after colliding with German Adrian Sutil’s Sauber.
Job-hunting Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne, due to be replaced by 16-year-old Dutchman Max Verstappen next year, finished sixth for Toro Rosso ahead of Sergio Perez of Force India, Kimi Raikkonen in the second Ferrari, Nico Hulkenberg of Force India and Kevin Magnussen of McLaren.
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