Max Verstappen swept Singapore, adding Sunday's GP win to his Saturday sprint with a lights-to-flag drive that Charles Leclerc could never crack. The Ferrari driver jumped better off the line but couldn't complete the pass into Turn 1, and by lap 18 Verstappen had built a four-second cushion that held the rest of the way.
The race turned under a lap-39 VSC. Leclerc and third-place finisher Kimi Antonelli pitted for fresh softs; Lewis Hamilton inexplicably stayed out on worn rubber. Ferrari's gamble buried Hamilton—Leclerc erased a 10-second deficit in five laps and sailed past, while Antonelli picked off both Hamilton and Lando Norris late to claim the podium. Hamilton tumbled to sixth after a brutal 44-lap soft-tyre stint.
Antonelli's third extends his championship lead far enough to clinch in Austin. George Russell salvaged ninth from the back of the grid, but the title math now runs through Texas.
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