F 1 Snippets

Singapore GP

 Date: Sunday, 17 September

 Track: Marina Bay Street Circuit

✺ Wolff turned down Verstappen in favour of Hamilton and Rosberg.

✺ McLaren has revealed a new ‘Stealth Mode’ design for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to drive at the upcoming Singapore and Japanese Grands Prix.

✺ Some had speculated that the Red Bull Racing Team might tailor the car to Verstappen’s preferences. 

✺ Bernie Ecclestone lashes out at Massa case: ‘Hamilton could have sued after Abu Dhabi’.

✺ ‘I’m happy to stay at Sauber’ – China’s Zhou Guanyu close to concluding new F1 contract.

✺ AlphaTauri confirms Ricciardo won’t race in the Singapore F1 round but will be present.

✺ Mercedes avoided a ‘big problem’ when Lewis Hamilton put pen to paper on his new contract.

✺ Schumacher is still not ruling out a 2024 F1 return.

✺ Verstappen’s bid for a record-extending 11th straight win faces a severe test in Sunday’s ‘perilous’ Singapore night race.

✺ Nico Rosberg thinks Lawrence Stroll will have to consider axing his son Lance if he cannot improve his form.

✺ In October 2017, a mass shooter in Las Vegas was named Stephen Paddock. Las Vegas race organisers are considering dropping the race term Paddock.