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Constricted for space, tiring to the point of being back-breaking and enforcing a daunting challenge on the twenty practitioners of speed concerned with the zenith in the world of motor racing, the Singapore Grand Prix is a race like few others. And it will never remain a straightforward street track to master.
The 4.92-long km track is often subjected to track layout changes and that is an aspect that makes the Marina Bay surface a mighty test of a driver’s resolve. Sainz demonstrated that by winning the grinding Singapore Grand Prix in his penultimate year in red with most recently Lando Norris acing the 2024 run after his win from pole in that dominant McLaren. And while there was no Lando magic or Piastri heroism as seen in qualifying, the big question up ahead of us is what is going to happen in the night safari called the Singapore Grand Prix?
Will the two fiercely competitive McLaren drivers show the grid that they’re here to win it, not bin it or will George Russell, Mr Saturday on many a Saturday as seen in his Williams years, come to strike Singapore with a silvery win?
Think no more, look nowhere else as SportsTiger have for you the 2025 Singapore Grand Prix predictions right here.
A fight till the end between the two front runners in P1 and P2
The 2025 Singapore Grand Prix will see an interesting and closely fought battle between George Russell and Max Verstappen in what could be a fight till the checkered flag. Even as George Russell begins from pole and that too, from the first time ever in Singapore, he’ll be mindful of the fact that the car in his rears is of no one else but that of a four-time world champion. And an attacking one at that. This will, hopefully, make the 62-lap contest a belter of a race between two immensely powerful constructors in the form of Red Bull and Mercedes. In the end, the team that handles the extremely important element of pit strategy and tyreware will eclipse its nearest rival.
Russell will do well to remember that despite contesting with, arguably speaking, better pace than Carlos Sainz Jr. in his pursuit of the Spaniard here in 2023, he couldn’t quite hold it together despite putting on the pressure from third on the grid behind the then race leader and eventual, winner. Resultantly, Russell, put a lot of pressure on himself and his tyre in the 2023 event and went into the barriers, which meant his compatriot and then Mercedes teammate, Sir Lewis Hamilton advanced to third behind Norris.
But today’s a new day. Can Russell better this time around? He can. But will Max make it easy for the man from Kings Lynn - not a chance!
One Williams driver will finish in tenth
Both Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz Jr. failed to progress to Q3 on the all-important Saturday for their Williams team at Singapore and are to begin from P12, and P13, respectively, with the Thai-British driver beginning his race just ahead of the Spaniard. But on a track where accidents and high speed overtakes are about as common as is getting wet during incessant rains, only one Williams car will break into the top ten. And that’ll not be of the man who fetched the famed British Constructor it’s maiden podium of the season but the often underrated and hugely important Alexander Albon.
A P10 seems on the cards for the Williams driver provided he can keep his cool under pressure as he so often does and doesn’t make an unnecessary lunge during the course of the race. It’ll have to be a drive marked by patience and precision for the Williams team if any of their driver is to score a point at the twisty Marina Bay circuit and one reckons, that man is Albon; maybe not Carlos all that much despite the incredible recent podium of his at Azerbaijan.
A podium will seem like a win for McLaren, is it?
The last that a McLaren driver won a Formula 1 Grand Prix this year was at Max Verstappen territory, aka The Netherlands. By winning the Dutch GP, August 31, Oscar Piastri outdid his teammate Lando Norris and gave a good food for thought to someone as incredible and sensational as Verstappen.
This time around, Oscar Piastri, still very much the driver leading the championship fight for 2025, begins from third on the grid. The seemingly unflappable Aussie will do all he can in his might to waltz ahead of the drivers placed in first and second but it won’t be enough to record a Singapore Grand Prix win. At the most, the smiling Aussie who doesn’t like to hype things will contest for - and gather- a podium place, if not a race win.
Having Max Verstappen out in front of his papaya liveried McLaren may not account for insane pressure but the young McLaren driver will do he can to make his move stick, even as it may not yield a couples of efforts fraught with danger. And that’s that; Piastri will be fully aware of the fact that he’s fighting Verstappen, not some lame pushover in Motorsport’s top flight. And that early exertion of pressure will future spice up things at one of 2025’s most picturesque venues.
