Verstappen could defend title and equal Alonso in Singapore GP

On the urban track of Marina Bay, Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull) At the age of 24, he could mathematically decipher the revalidation of the world championship.. Something that will happen if Monegasque happens charles leclerc (Ferrari) does not improve the ninth rank Holland’s new idol wins the ‘saved’ night race without a teammate, Mexican Sergio Pérez, who still has numerical odds, does not move up to fourth place or finishes in that position without making the fastest lap.

Verstappen is also worth winning the Singapore race with the fastest lap. Leclerc raise the eighth rank anyone ‘Check’ did not finish on the podium. In that case, ‘Mad Max’ would already be world champion this Sunday, and I would count 32 victories in the queen category: equal to the statistics of the Asturian double world champion in these divisions (2005 and 2006, with Renault).

If either of these two premises is met—and assuming team orders avoid delaying the celebrations— It doesn’t matter if Leclerc has an absolute plenary meetingHe then won the remaining five races in a fast lap, adding to that the eight extra points the victory earned through a sprint test in the third and final qualifiers: ‘Mad Max’ would have been champion again if he didn’t. Adding one point to the last five Grand Prix of the World Championship, which will conclude on 20 November in Abu Dhabi.

Singapore in 2008—precisely with Alonso’s victory— returns to the calendar after two years, due to the pandemic; and this weekend reached the thirteenth edition of a Grand Prix, which can be seen in Europe and America during normal hours and was already before the emergence of covid-19, in the traditional night race of the championship.

To Alonso, who repeated his victory with Ferrari two years later after winning the first race with Renaultthey just make it better -Tested in Marina Bay city circuit (5,073 meters and 23 corners)- seven-time British world champion Lewis Hamilton, four times winner; and Sebastian Vettel, four German world champions, who retired at the end of this season and will replace Fernando at Aston Martin starting next year.

Vettel, who once led Red Bull’s (2010-13) spectacular four-year term with four ‘doulets’ (drivers’ and constructors’ titles), has risen to five by winning in a Ferrari three years ago, His relationship is winning at the hot and humid Singapore circuit.

The great 41-year-old Asturian pilot, He took three more of his 98 podiums in F1 in Singapore.: Third place with Renault in 2009; He repeated this position with Ferrari in 2012; and in 2013 he came second again with ‘Scuderia’.

Alonso has been in Formula since debuting (with Minardi), apart from the test year at Renault (2002) and the two years he won the World Endurance Championship (WEC) 2018-19 ‘Super Season’ with Toyota. One since 2001. The two seasons he didn’t race in F1. Fernando scores two goals in the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France, also in the WEC) while dominating at 24 Hours of Daytona (USA), part of IMSA and the Dakar Rally made a very good impression.

This Sunday, he will improve 349 races of Kimi, the last Ferrari world champion (fifteen years ago), who debuted in the same season and dedicated himself to competing in the World Rally Championship in 2010 and 2011 – becoming the second F1 driver after Argentina’s Carlos Reutemann and Nascar also to earn points in this championship.

The other Spaniard, 28-year-old Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), celebrated his first victory this year by winning the British Grand Prix – lFive years ago, he finished an incredible fourth place with Toro Rosso at Marina Bay.: His best result to date in F1 which includes the aforementioned victory at Silverstone (England) and twelve other podium finishes. And it’s the best the talented driver from Madrid has ever achieved at the Singapore Grand Prix.

The 31-year-old ‘Checo’ is one step away from celebrating the Constructors’ World Cup for Red Bull alongside Verstappen and is in third place with 210 points, 125 behind his Dutch teammate. The intrepid driver from Guadalajara (Jalisco), who won in Monaco this year, bringing his number of F1 victories to three, presents his fifth Force India finish in 2017 as the best result in Marina Bay.

Singapore will open a ‘double bill’ to wrap up next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix -The one that will be held in Suzuka – has been absent for the last two years, again due to the pandemic.

Two weeks later, F1 will arrive in America, and the next 30th of the United States Grand Prix will be held in Austin (Texas), one week before the race in Mexico, which will be held at the Autodromo de los Hermanos Rodríguez in the Mexican capital. October.

interlocking in Sao Paulo will host the Brazilian Grand Prix on November 13Exactly one week before Yas Marina hosts the last Grand Prix of the season, Abu Dhabi.