Will Red Bull's resurgence continue? Oscar back to his best? – 2025 Singapore GP Preview with Jolyon Palmer
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Max Verstappen has won the last two races in Baku and Monza, so will Red Bull’s resurgence continue on the streets of Marina Bay? And with his gap to championship leader Oscar Piastri down to 69 points, with seven races and three F1 Sprints to go, can Max really still win a record-equalling fifth title in a row?
Jolyon shares his thoughts on Verstappen's chances and analyses the mistakes Oscar made in Azerbaijan that have put Max back in the conversation.
Plus, after Carlos Sainz scored his first podium with Williams last time out, Tom and Jolyon discuss whether they can be frontrunners in 2026.
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| 0:32.9 | Singapore's one of those places where the magic can happen. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm fascinated to see how Oscar goes in Singapore, |
| 0:40.4 | how he bounces back from the disappointment of Baku. |
| 0:43.4 | We saw just purely a chink in the armour. |
| 0:48.5 | We are starting to see Lando be a bit quicker. |
| 0:51.7 | And that's probably also why Oscar's maybe starting to overdrive a little bit |
| 0:54.8 | and why he's maybe feeling the pressure more than he has done. If there is a sniff of an |
| 1:00.6 | opportunity, Red Bull is the team that's going to take it. I still can't see that Max wins it. |
| 1:05.4 | I don't want to write him off. There's a certain level of irony, isn't there, to Sites getting |
| 1:09.5 | a podium this year and Hamilton not. |
| 1:11.6 | Dinner with James Vowles is obviously a powerful thing to do. |
| 1:14.8 | For a few weeks now, I've been going big on Ferrari, but their execution is not there. |
| 1:20.3 | I've just got a feeling about Singapore. |
| 1:22.2 | It could be the moment. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm glad you're carrying on the torch of optimism for Ferrari because I've fasted on to you now. |
| 1:31.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to F1 Nation's preview of the Singapore Grand Prix with me Tom Clarkson |
| 1:37.7 | and F1 TV commentator and former Renault driver Jolian Palmer. JP, we threw you under the bus a little bit with |
| 1:46.2 | our Baku preview by bringing up a pretty disastrous weekend for you there back in 2017. So let's redress |
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