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Lewis Hamilton's duel with Sebastian Vettel takes another dramatic twist as arch
Pour that man a Singapore Sling. In the shadow of Raffles Hotel, origin of this city-state’s timeless cocktail and throwback to its colonial past, Sebastian Vettel delivered a lap of such exhilarating audacity that he could only scream incoherently over his in-car radio.
Pushing his Ferrari close to the ragged edge, even bashing the wall as he tore out of the 19th of Marina Bay’s 23 corners, he toasted a crucial pole with his best cat-that-got-the-cream grin. “This is an amazing track,” he said, “when your car comes alive.”
In the 10 stagings of Formula One’s night-time spectacular, none have mastered these Singapore streets better than Vettel. Three times a victor for Red Bull, he is in the perfect position to claim his second win here in Ferrari red. Better still, Lewis Hamilton, whom he trails by three points in the quest for world championship No 5, could only manage fifth as Mercedes, invincible in Italy a fortnight earlier, looked fallible once more. Hamilton claims to have been revitalised by the vegan diet he has adopted in recent weeks, but he could not conquer the limitations of his machinery.
