Drivers’ championship
Position | Driver | Points |
1 | Lewis Hamilton | 252 |
2 | Nico Rosberg | 211 |
3 | Sebastian Vettel | 203 |
4 | Kimi Raikkonen | 107 |
5 | Valtteri Bottas | 101 |
6 | Felipe Massa | 97 |
7 | Daniel Ricciardo | 73 |
8 | Daniil Kvyat | 66 |
9 | Sergio Perez | 39 |
10 | Romain Grosjean | 38 |
11 | Nico Hulkenberg | 30 |
12 | Max Verstappen | 30 |
13 | Felipe Nasr | 17 |
14 | Pastor Maldonado | 12 |
15 | Fernando Alonso | 11 |
16 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | 11 |
17 | Marcus Ericsson | 9 |
18 | Jenson Button | 6 |
19 | Kevin Magnussen | 0 |
20 | Will Stevens | 0 |
21 | Roberto Merhi | 0 |
22 | Alexander Rossi | 0 |
Constructors’ championship
Position | Team | Points |
1 | Mercedes | 463 |
2 | Ferrari | 310 |
3 | Williams | 198 |
4 | Red Bull | 139 |
5 | Force India | 69 |
6 | Lotus | 50 |
7 | Toro Rosso | 41 |
8 | Sauber | 26 |
9 | McLaren | 17 |
10 | Manor | 0 |
2015 Singapore Grand Prix
- Sponsor watch: 2015 Singapore and Japanese Grands Prix
- Singapore plans security improvements after invasion
- Singapore a struggle even if we’d got everything right – Mercedes
- No fall-out over team orders – Verstappen
- Hulkenberg accepts blame for Massa crash
iAltair (@)
20th September 2015, 15:20
Top 3 mathematically in contention for WDC.
Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
20th September 2015, 15:21
I think you failed at maths there a bit.
OmarRoncal - Go Seb!!! - @omarr-pepper (@)
20th September 2015, 15:32
Why? because there are more contenders?
William Jones (@williamjones)
20th September 2015, 15:33
Yes, mathmatecally the top 5 can win
David Not Coulthard (@davidnotcoulthard)
20th September 2015, 15:38
@williamjones BOT can’t win.
John H (@john-h)
20th September 2015, 19:26
So therefore the top 3 are mathematically in contention ;)
David Not Coulthard (@davidnotcoulthard)
20th September 2015, 15:36
..RAI has a tiny chance of winning the championship with 257 points……
William Jones (@williamjones)
20th September 2015, 15:37
Ooops yes, I had my own maths fail – top 4
OmarRoncal - Go Seb!!! - @omarr-pepper (@)
20th September 2015, 15:23
It looks like Vettel will definitely get 2nd in the WDC… Rosberg is like sitting ducks now!
DaveW (@dmw)
20th September 2015, 15:32
Another Hamilton DNF and he might be setting his sights higher.
Iestyn Davies (@fastiesty)
20th September 2015, 15:35
Mercedes would be fuming if they lost the title after this minimum tyre pressure change. They might have to go to a 1-2 driver policy!
erix
20th September 2015, 16:04
I wonder if they tried to cheat already in Monza using tire pressure secrutinery loophole.
DaveW (@dmw)
20th September 2015, 16:13
No. Their pressures were checked as legal by Pirelli. The grid check pressure was an artifact of when blankets were removed relative to the only other cars checked on the grid. There is no loophole unless you have the power to change the gas law constant for only your cars for only a certain time. That story is over.
kanan
20th September 2015, 17:43
No. Actually since they (FIA) didn’t properly checked the pressure we will never no if they cheated.
DaveW (@dmw)
20th September 2015, 18:45
Well then By your logic the same suspicion of cheating must fall on Ferrari and every other team on the grid. You prove too much.
kanan
20th September 2015, 17:43
It would be ridiculous for Rosberg to lose 2nd in WDC. I don’t think that will happen.
lockup (@)
20th September 2015, 15:23
Brundle is always talking about ‘the potentiometer’ on the throttle pedal. I can’t believe it’s really not a contactless sensor, but they do seem only to have one of them. Why? History is littered with their failures.
Anyway very classy drive by Seb. The No1 drivers generally well ahead of the No2’s today.
What is Tost going to do with Max???
DaveW (@dmw)
20th September 2015, 15:29
He’s grounded. And no iPad for a week.
verstappen (@verstappen)
20th September 2015, 15:42
Hard one. Carlos had one lap newer tyres and it looked like he had ‘easier fights’ then Max. So for the constructors’ I can imagine the call. On the other hand, he couldn’t get past Max, so why would he succeed in passing Perez?
And Tost won’t get violent again while Jos is lurking in the shadow…
bag0 (@bag0)
20th September 2015, 15:43
@lockup
Im not sure what kind of pedal sensor they use, but potentiometer would be one of the safer types. The problem with contactless sensors is you have to transmit the information somehow. Be it a magnetic, ultrasonic, optical, or electronic transmission, there will always be a lot of noise in the “communication channel”. Potentiometers have phisical contact, and you can always perfectly measure the electrical resistance caused by it. I know it also can have a lot of noise, but you can put anaog circuit to filter the signal, while in the other cases, you can mostly just insulate.
Iestyn Davies (@fastiesty)
20th September 2015, 15:37
@lockup I thought it was a laser now? Fly-by-Wire, but maybe still, who knows.
lockup (@)
20th September 2015, 16:00
Yeah @fastiesty @bag0, I guess there is no ideal technology, but they could use 3 sensors and take 2 that agree.
I see Tost is saying Max was right not to let Carlos through, because Carlos wasn’t looking really faster at the time.
DaveW (@dmw)
20th September 2015, 16:06
Maybe next year Singapore will have to shut down its subway system for the race. Again, there were a number of peculiar electronic issues. E.g., Rosberg, verstwppen, massa, sainz.
kanan
20th September 2015, 17:46
Haha hilarious. Subway affecting the race :D
DaveW (@dmw)
20th September 2015, 18:51
Kanan, strange but true:
http://www.f1reports.com/article/29064-f1-news-singapore-trains-threaten-hybrid-f1-cars-report.
It’s been a point of discussion since 2nd race here.
Philip (@philipgb)
20th September 2015, 19:32
Shouldn’t Magnussen be last?
Optimaximal (@optimaximal)
21st September 2015, 14:07
@philipgb No, because he didn’t start in Melbourne.
Philip (@philipgb)
22nd September 2015, 12:24
@optimaximal
Exactly, he is a world championship entrant who has no race classifications putting him behind every other driver, so last in the championship.
Looking at the official F1 site he isn’t listed so either way he shouldn’t be above the Manor drivers like he is in this article.
Optimaximal (@optimaximal)
23rd September 2015, 16:38
@philipgb Sorry, missed him on the list. I thought you were asking why he wasn’t there. :)