A Crazy Night in Singapore

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit.

Several drivers started Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix like their hair was on fire.

Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen were on the front row when the green flag fell. Daniel Ricciardo and Kimi Raikkonen were in row two.

Vettel, Verstappen and Raikkonen launched toward the first turn. The three came together sending cars spinning. Fernando Alonzo who’d passed five cars at the start, wound up in the middle of the chaos and eventually had to retire.

In the middle of all of this was a wet track from a rainstorm right before the start.

Lewis Hamilton came out the big winner. He started fifth and dodged everything to find himself in first place by lap four. He stayed there in front of Ricciardo to win the race and jump from three to 28 points up in his championship fight with Vettel. Six races are left in the season.

In Singapore, during the two hours of the race there were some funny radio transmissions. Drivers were telling their crew to leave them alone or, from one driver, a curt “shut up!” when the engineer was trying to tell him something about the car’s performance.

Apparently an evening shower in the streets of Singapore will do that to you.

Funny what’s happened to F1. An American based company buys the series and, inside a year, the so-called best drivers in the world have all become stock car personalities.

Peace.