{"id":180466,"date":"2025-10-05T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180466\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:57:07","slug":"russell-wins-singapore-gp-for-mercedes-mclaren-secure-constructors-title-motorsports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180466\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell wins Singapore GP for Mercedes; McLaren secure constructors\u2019 title | Motorsports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Red Bull\u2019s Verstappen finished second, and McLaren\u2019s Norris, finishing third, now has a 22-point lead in the drivers\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 5 Oct 20255 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>George Russell of Mercedes has won the Singapore Grand Prix ahead of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, as McLaren clinched the Formula One constructors\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull\u2019s world champion Max Verstappen and the two McLarens were to fight it out for the other podium spots on Sunday as Briton Russell took the chequered flag under the lights of the Marina Bay Street Circuit to claim his second victory of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels amazing,\u201d said Russell. \u201cWe don\u2019t really know where this performance came from, but really, really happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really nervous at the beginning when I saw Max on the soft [tyres], but that first stint was great from us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norris put pressure on Verstappen towards the end of the race, but had to settle for third ahead of teammate Oscar Piastri, the pair earning enough points to seal a second consecutive constructors\u2019 title for the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough race,\u201d said Norris. \u201cMax didn\u2019t make any mistakes. I gave it my all today, and got close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy with today. I got forward two positions. We won as a team, the constructors\u2019 once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piastri\u2019s lead over Norris in the drivers\u2019 standings was cut to 22 points, while Verstappen is 63 points behind the Australian with six races remaining in the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think second was the maximum result today,\u201d said Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the whole race was quite difficult, more difficult than I hoped for, for a lot of different reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations for the constructors\u2019 title in the McLaren garage might be muted, however, with Piastri fuming at the way Norris forced his way past his teammate on the opening corner.<\/p>\n<p>Kimi Antonelli was a distant fifth in the other Mercedes with Charles Leclerc sixth ahead of his Ferrari teammate Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso was eighth for Aston Martin, while Haas driver Oliver Bearman and Carlos Sainz, who started at the back of the grid after the Williams cars were disqualified from qualifying, took the final points in ninth and 10th.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The crown is secured \ud83d\udc51\ud83d\udd10<\/p>\n<p>McLaren win their second consecutive Constructors&#8217; Championship, but it&#8217;s still all to play for behind \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SingaporeGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SingaporeGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QOIH6jfKEr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QOIH6jfKEr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1974853836314669492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull\u2019s Verstappen finished second, and McLaren\u2019s Norris, finishing third, now has a 22-point lead in the drivers\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1296,1687,372,6537,18733,50,3718,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-180466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-asia-pacific","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-motorsports","tag-news","tag-singapore","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}