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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking. We are reviewing the Singapore Grand Prix today, one from pole by George Russell, joined on the podium by Max Verstappen and Lando

Norris in third place, championship leader Oscar Piastri in fourth.

Slow burner has been mentioned Sam.

I still don't think it burned a lot when it did burn, but the second half was at least something more than the first half. I was going to say, show me the match, Ben. Is that coming out yet? Has that happened? It was a tough watch for a Singapore GP. Now, the Singapore GP could be a tricky one because it is a street circuit, it is tight and winding.

But when a racetrack has had this many alterations made to it, and it's got four DRS zones,

and there was a little threat of a slippery surface at the start, come on.

At that point, you've got to have something happening.

Still, the biggest talking point was Lance Strohl screwing about his 100 year old

medium tires and how Lewis Hamilton doesn't have any breaks to just cut every corner under

the sun. Honestly, I was going to try and start this episode positively because I've got like

12 rants lined up. It feels like on this episode. So much of this annoyed me. But there are positives to

talk about. We're going to be going through the midfield battle that Alonzo eventually came out

ahead of. Bearman and Carlos Signs also scoring points. Kimmy Antonelli beating both Ferraris to finish

P5. McLaren, P3 and P44 good enough to claim and reclaim the Constructors

Championship defending it from last year.

But let's start with that battle out front, George Russell taking his second race victory

of the season following on from his win at Canada early in the year.

Same result in that it was Max Verstappen as his closest challenger this

timeout. But unlike Canada, not a lot of pressure from him. How impressed were you by what

George Russell was able to do? There was an interesting comment from the Skycoms. I know a lot of

you listening don't get the Skycoms. But early on, there was talk about how the race leader in many occasions here at Singapore has backed the grid up, you know, usually treating it like a big snake. So those behind the race leader can't essentially execute the undercut, because the undercut around Singapore is so powerful. It's such a long race track. If you get your tires up to speak nicely, you can gain between two and three seconds

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