Summary

  • George Russell crashes out of Singapore Grand Prix sprint race from lead

  • Russell had passed Max Verstappen at start

  • Lewis Hamilton up to second from sixth on grid

  • Race start delayed for 30 minutes by downpour

  • Kimi Antonelli leads drivers' championship by 84 points

  • Select 'listen live' for BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra commentary (UK only)

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Lorraine McKenna

  1. yellow flag

    Russell crashes at final corner

    Lap 2/21

    George Russell has gone off coming out of the final corner and has hit the wall!

    The Mercedes driver just touches the kerb and the slippery conditions send him spinning out of this race on the straight. The yellow flags are waving, and now the safety car has appeared.

    Lance Stroll has also stopped down at Turn 16.

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    What a start from Sir Lewis!

    Matt, West Midlands

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  3. Go! Go! Go!

    Lap 1/20

    The Singapore sprint is go!

    George Russell has overtaken Max Verstappen at the first corner for the lead of this short race already and Lewis Hamilton gets the jump on Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc to go third place.

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  4. Team radio - Albon to Williams

    Alex Albon: "There's a good chance we'll got to slick tyres at some point."

  5. Alice Powell
    British racing driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    I think you're silly if you're going out on the extreme wets. Look at how much water has evaporated on that main straight now.

  6. Team radio - Lawson to Racing Bulls

    Liam Lawson: "It feels completely dry at Turn 13."

  7. Standing start confirmed

    Race control has confirmed this sprint will begin with a standing start once the formation laps behind the safety car are over.

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  8. Team radio - Piastri to McLaren

    Oscar Piastri: "The spray is very bad."

  9. Formation lap

    Williams' Carlos Sainz joins the rest of the pack from his pit-lane start. Down towards Turn Seven is looking very wet, and Oscar Piastri calls base to say there is a lot of spray out on track.

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    Have a poorly timed uni lecture this morning that clashes with the sprint race. Appreciate the F1 gods decreeing that a bit of rain stops play.

    Sion, London

    I, for one, appreciate F1 waiting until I finish work at 10:30.

    Alice, London

  11. Formation lap

    The green intermediate tyres are bolted on for everyone on the grid. Max Verstappen leads the field behind the safety car from pole position, with George Russell in second and Charles Leclerc in third.

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  12. How does the F1 sprint race work?

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    If you're new to the sprint format, welcome in! The race goes by pretty fast (when it gets going), and there are no mandatory pit stops in this one.

    Only the top eight finishers score points, with eight points awarded for first place down to one point for eighth, which will get added to the overall drivers' championship standings.

    As this is Singapore's first time hosting a sprint, this will be a new experience for us all.

    George Russell, who starts P2, has won three shorter races this season in China, Canada and Zandvoort, while Lando Norris took victory in Miami and championship leader Kimi Antonelli won at Silverstone in the summer.

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    Praying the rain clears the haze - it’s no joke right now

    Ellen, Singapore

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  14. Andrew Benson
    BBC F1 correspondent in Singapore

    The plan is for two laps behind the safety car starting at 17:30 local time.

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  15. Formation lap will start at 10:30 BST

    Oliver Bearman, Arvid Lindblad, Gabriel Bortoleto and George Russell are having a chinwag in the pit lane as we all continue to wait for the all clear to go racing.

    There are parts of the track that a definitely dry, and now an update comes through that the formation lap will start at 10:30 BST.

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  16. Harry Benjamin
    BBC F1 Commentator

    Update from the FIA with the medical car out on the track, their area of concern is Turns Two and Three. A lot of standing water there, next inspection will be at quarter past the hour.

  17. Alice Powell
    British racing driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Some drivers, once they have done their routine, they've done their warm-up and got into the car, they don't want to then unsettle that, get out and take off all their race kit and put it back on again. If [Kimi Antonelli] has got plenty of fans and cooling, he is quite happy to stay in the car.

  18. The get involved button on the live page is open for all your thoughts on the rain, long delays, tyre selection, who is the best driver ever in the wet.

    George Russell is amusing himself by pretending to be Kimi Antonelli's new race engineer on the team radio. The medical car is continuing its journey through what now is a half dry, half soaked circuit.

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    Are we going to see another debacle as last week with the rain?

    Wayne, Cheshire

    Too wet to start, not wet enough to be on the full wets.

    Andy, Bristol

    If only there was a tyre compound that could run in the rain!

    Mikey, Telford

  20. Waiting game

    George Russell is standing in the Mercedes garage in his silver cooling jacket while team-mate Kimi Antonelli is fully suited up, helmet on, sitting in his car.

    The rain has eased slightly so the marshals are trying to sweep away as much water as possible. Marina Bay doesn't dry out as quickly as other circuits, so we could be in for a long wait.

    The cheers ring out in the grandstands as the medical car makes another trip around the track.

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