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The Ringer F1 Show

Russell Wins Singapore! Also, Do We Need Singapore?

The Ringer F1 Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.3673 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Meg and Spanners are back to recap all the happenings of the Singapore Grand Prix! They begin with McLaren being bratty as always and making for an interesting first lap. Then they dive into the Max and Lando matchup that made qualifying something noteworthy. Plus a referendum on Singapore in general to determine whether we need a race like this on the F1 calendar. An interesting first lap (01:35)Qualifying and Max vs. Lando (20:12)The referendum on Singapore (31:52)Are we on the Williams hype train? (40:49) Host: Megan SchusterGuest: Spanners ReadyProducer: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network.

0:11.0

I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about the 2025 Singapore Grand Prix.

0:15.9

George Russell wins the race, his second victory of the season and first win since Canada.

0:20.4

Max Rastappen comes in second, and Lando Norris takes third. Rounding out the rest of the season and first win since Canada. Max Rastappen

0:21.0

comes in second and Lando Nouris takes third. Rounding out the rest of the top 10 are Oscar

0:25.4

Piastri, Kimmy Antinelli, Charles Leclair, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonzo, Ali Beerman, and Carlos

0:31.0

Sines. We've got a lot to talk about today from some first lap incidents to some spicy

0:36.9

qualifying comments to perhaps a discussion

0:40.2

about the Singapore Grand Prix as a whole and its place on the F1 calendar. Joining me to get into

0:45.1

all of that is Spanners. Spanors, happy Sunday, happy race day. What a time. Of all the Grand Prix I've

0:51.7

ever seen, that was one of them.

0:57.8

This is definitely a race where low expectations.

1:02.9

So if you've done a few laps of the Formula One calendar, you kind of know what Singapore is going to be about.

1:04.2

And we talked about it in the preview.

1:07.9

Yeah, that dirty air just makes overtaking very, very difficult.

1:10.9

And, you know, the qualifying becomes crucial.

1:14.6

And I think there are some teams who made some really interesting qualifying decisions and some bad qualifying decisions.

1:16.6

And that's kind of what led to George Russell ruining my prediction

1:20.5

that the rest of the season would be Bastap and Norris Piastri.

1:23.7

Because we had it, apart from Russell poking his nose in.

1:26.7

Not now, Russell, not now, George.

1:29.0

How dare he, first of all? How dare he personally insult you, personally ruin your prediction?

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