{"id":921874,"date":"2026-10-09T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921874\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:30:15","slug":"max-verstappen-to-be-investigated-for-yellow-flag-infringement-at-f1-singapore-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921874\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen to be investigated for yellow flag infringement at F1 Singapore GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/17529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Verstappen<\/a> is set to be investigated after sprint qualifying for the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix following an alleged yellow flag infringement.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver was reported to have overtaken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/ferrari\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ferrari<\/a> driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/1278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> during a yellow flag zone that was caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/sergio-perez\/9328\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sergio Perez<\/a>\u2019s damaged Cadillac.<\/p>\n<p>Perez went straight into the Turn 5 barrier and subsequently broke his front wing, with the incident later triggering a red flag during the opening session of sprint qualifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sergio-perez-cadillac-racing.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Perez, Cadillac Racing\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Sergio Perez, Cadillac Racing<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Clive Rose \/ Formula 1 via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen later topped SQ1 at Marina Bay anyway, setting a 1m33.477s on medium rubber with that putting the four-time world champion quickest by 0.018s over Hamilton\u2019s team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/109611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charles Leclerc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton finished the session down in fourth, 0.271s off the pace, with Perez being eliminated after setting a 1m36.760s that left Verstappen\u2019s former team-mate in 20th.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen is set to be investigated after sprint qualifying for the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,823,114904,825,489648,946,37177,85],"class_list":["post-921874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-marina-bay-street-circuit","tag-max-verstappen","tag-max-verstappen-to-be-investigated-for-yellow-flag-infringement-at-f1-singapore-gp","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-singapore-gp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}