2022 Singapore Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

Following an extremely heavy pre-race downpour, which forced the start to be postponed by more than an hour, the Singapore Grand Prix began on a very wet track.

In the nervy race which followed, teams waited and watched each other to see who would blink first and commit to a switch from intermediate to slick tyres.

All 20 drivers took the start on the lightly-treaded intermediate rubber. At least one of them, Lewis Hamilton, told his team he wasn’t happy with the selection. As he can’t possibly have wanted to start the race on slicks – the track was far too wet – Hamilton must have been hankering after a switch to wet weather tyres.

It’s impossible to know for sure whether that was a missed opportunity for Mercedes. Could Hamilton have pulled off the tactics used by some drivers in Monaco this year, running on full wets long enough before switching directly to slicks as the track dried? Or at least used the superior initial grip to pass Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez at the start, then draw far enough ahead to switch to intermediates and bank the lead?

Both scenarios have obvious drawbacks. It’s hard to imagine that on the hotter and more abrasive Singapore track the wets would have lasted long enough for drivers to go directly to slicks. And the theory of passing Leclerc and Perez is all well and good, but Hamilton would also have needed to pull far enough away from them to make a pit stop and emerge ahead – not easy given the early Safety Car disruption which tightened the pack up.

But for a team which is supposedly going all-out for wins at this stage in the season, it’s disappointing they played it safe. Perhaps if both cars had been at the front they would have been more inclined to gamble.

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They did gamble once George Russell’s race from the pit lane was ruined when he skidded off while trying to pass Valtteri Bottas. He was put on slicks tyres as early as lap 21, 12 laps before anyone else. But the hope of using him to inform his team mate’s strategy was ruined when Hamilton hit a barrier on lap 33, compromising his race.

The next lap Russell produced the quickest tour of the race and that triggered mass pit stops. Among the quickest to react was AlphaTauri, but they regretted the decision when Yuki Tsunoda crashed on his first lap on medium rubber.

With the Safety Car out again, the remaining drivers were able to pit, and those who’d been slower to pit were rewarded. First among these was McLaren, as Daniel Ricciardo was promoted into the top five. Lando Norris was already running fourth, and when Max Verstappen went off trying to pass him, it opened the door for the orange (and, temporarily, pink) cars to bag a valuable double top-five finish.

It was a procession ahead of them, however. Aside from the Ferrari drivers’ pit stops, the top three ran in the same order all night, Sergio Perez never headed on his way to his fourth career win.

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2022 Singapore Grand Prix lap chart

The positions of each driver on every lap. Click name to highlight, right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

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2022 Singapore Grand Prix race chart

The gaps between each driver on every lap compared to the leader’s average lap time. Very large gaps omitted. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

2022 Singapore Grand Prix lap times

All the lap times by the drivers (in seconds, very slow laps excluded). Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and toggle drivers using the control below:

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2022 Singapore Grand Prix fastest laps

Each driver’s fastest lap:

Rank	No.	Driver	Car	Lap time	Gap	Average speed (kph)	Lap no.
1	63	George Russell	Mercedes	1’46.458		171.28	54
2	11	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	1’48.165	1.707	168.58	57
3	55	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	1’48.414	1.956	168.19	59
4	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1’48.753	2.295	167.66	54
5	1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1’49.142	2.684	167.07	52
6	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes	1’49.212	2.754	166.96	56
7	18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’50.283	3.825	165.34	58
8	47	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari	1’50.290	3.832	165.33	58
9	10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Red Bull	1’50.569	4.111	164.91	56
10	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’50.622	4.164	164.83	58
11	5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’50.669	4.211	164.76	58
12	3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes	1’51.006	4.548	164.26	57
13	77	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’51.864	5.406	163	52
14	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1’52.067	5.609	162.71	59
15	22	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Red Bull	1’58.716	12.258	153.59	32
16	14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine-Renault	2’00.463	14.005	151.37	19
17	31	Esteban Ocon	Alpine-Renault	2’01.105	14.647	150.56	24
18	23	Alexander Albon	Williams-Mercedes	2’02.121	15.663	149.31	24
19	24	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	2’05.556	19.098	145.23	5
20	6	Nicholas Latifi	Williams-Mercedes	2’05.585	19.127	145.19	5

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2022 Singapore Grand Prix tyre strategies

2022 Singapore Grand Prix pit stop times

How long each driver’s pit stops took:

Rank	No.	Driver	Team	Complete stop time (s)	Gap to best (s)	Stop no.	Lap no.
1	1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	29.407		1	35
2	11	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	29.55	0.143	1	35
3	5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	29.704	0.297	1	34
4	63	George Russell	Mercedes	29.713	0.306	2	35
5	1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	29.775	0.368	2	40
6	18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	29.863	0.456	1	35
7	10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	29.867	0.46	1	33
8	63	George Russell	Mercedes	29.893	0.486	4	51
9	63	George Russell	Mercedes	30.378	0.971	1	21
10	4	Lando Norris	McLaren	30.528	1.121	1	36
11	55	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	30.603	1.196	1	35
12	3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	30.946	1.539	1	36
13	47	Mick Schumacher	Haas	31.201	1.794	1	34
14	22	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	31.293	1.886	1	33
15	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	32.058	2.651	1	34
16	77	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	32.167	2.76	1	33
17	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	32.603	3.196	2	33
18	63	George Russell	Mercedes	33.211	3.804	3	41
19	47	Mick Schumacher	Haas	34.722	5.315	2	41
20	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	39.247	9.84	1	7
21	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	41.019	11.612	1	34

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