Sauber driver Leclerc benefited from strong pace and incidents for others to finish ninth in Singapore, hauling points for the first time since the Austrian Grand Prix.
Carlos Sainz Jr. recovered from a poor qualifying to finish eighth and help Renault move further clear of Haas in the battle for fourth
Romain Grosjean was penalised by the stewards in Singapore for ignoring blue flags as he battled with Sergey Sirotkin.
‘Strong Drive’ from Verstappen but Hamilton ‘Always had a Tenth or Two in Hand’ – Horner
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Max Verstappen drove superbly to finish second but his Team Principal Christian Horner felt Lewis Hamilton was always in control of the Singapore Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso was the best of the rest in the Singapore Grand Prix, finishing an unlapped seventh for the McLaren F1 Team.
Ferrari will not concede either championship despite Lewis Hamilton claiming his seventh victory of the season in the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday while Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen finished down in third and fifth.
Toto Wolff watched Lewis Hamilton take his seventh victory of 2018 in Singapore as Mercedes dominated a race they were expected to struggle in before the weekend begun.
Daniel Ricciardo could not improve on the sixth place he qualified in after a long and frustrating Singapore Grand Prix for the Red Bull driver.
Force India lost a lot of points on Sunday after Sergio Pérez and Esteban Ocon collided on the opening lap, with the incident forcing team principal Otmar Szafnauer to lay down the law.
Kimi Räikkönen took fifth place in Singapore, suggesting that the track nature and temperature issues stopped Ferrari from progressing further.
The German had hoped to have done better than third in the Singapore Grand Prix but he admitted that the speed was not there to challenge for anything more.
Lewis Hamilton converted his superb pole position in Singapore into a seventh victory of the season on Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix, ahead of Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel. The result leaves Hamilton 40 points clear in the Drivers’ Championship.
Toto Wolff does not expect to get the support needed to get teams to introduce third cars to the grid as he struggles to get 2019 rides for his junior drivers.
Stoffel Vandoorne only has seven races of his McLaren F1 Team career remaining but he is determined to enjoy all of them, starting this weekend in Singapore.
Max Verstappen was one of the stars of Qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix as he qualified second on the grid despite issues with the driveability of his Renault power unit.
Sergey Sirotkin and Lance Stroll will fill out the final row of the grid for the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday after a battle for survival during Qualifying.