Which Formula 1 driver made the most of the Singapore Grand Prix weekend?
It’s time to give your verdict on which driver did the best with the equipment at their disposal over the last three days.
Review how each driver got on below and vote for who impressed you the most at Singapore.
Driver performance summary
Driver | Q stage | Q pos. | Q gap to team mate | GP grid pos. | GP pos. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Max Verstappen | Q3 | 2 | -0.899s | 2 | 2 |
Sergio Perez | Q2 | 13 | +0.899s | 13 | 10 |
Lewis Hamilton | Q3 | 3 | -0.026s | 3 | 6 |
George Russell | Q3 | 4 | +0.026s | 4 | 4 |
Charles Leclerc | Q3 | 9 | -0.361s | 9 | 5 |
Carlos Sainz Jnr | Q3 | 10 | +0.361s | 10 | 7 |
Lando Norris | Q3 | 1 | -0.428s | 1 | 1 |
Oscar Piastri | Q3 | 5 | +0.428s | 5 | 3 |
Lance Stroll | Q1 | 17 | +0.410s | 17 | 14 |
Fernando Alonso | Q3 | 7 | -0.410s | 7 | 8 |
Esteban Ocon | Q2 | 15 | -0.354s | 15 | 13 |
Pierre Gasly | Q1 | 18 | +0.354s | 18 | 17 |
Alexander Albon | Q2 | 11 | -0.007s | 11 | 20 |
Franco Colapinto | Q2 | 12 | +0.007s | 12 | 11 |
Daniel Ricciardo | Q1 | 16 | +0.369s | 16 | 18 |
Yuki Tsunoda | Q3 | 8 | -0.369s | 8 | 12 |
Valtteri Bottas | Q1 | 19 | -0.482s | 19 | 16 |
Zhou Guanyu | Q1 | 20 | +0.482s | 20 | 15 |
Kevin Magnussen | Q2 | 14 | +0.503s | 14 | 19 |
Nico Hulkenberg | Q3 | 6 | -0.503s | 6 | 9 |
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Vote for your driver of the weekend
Which driver do you think did the best job throughout the race weekend?
Who got the most out of their car in qualifying and the race? Who put their team mate in the shade?
Cast your vote below and explain why you chose the driver you picked in the comments.
Who was the best driver of the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix weekend?
- No opinion (0%)
- Kevin Magnussen (0%)
- Nico Hulkenberg (10%)
- Zhou Guanyu (1%)
- Valtteri Bottas (0%)
- Yuki Tsunoda (0%)
- Daniel Ricciardo (9%)
- Franco Colapinto (14%)
- Alexander Albon (0%)
- Pierre Gasly (0%)
- Esteban Ocon (0%)
- Fernando Alonso (5%)
- Lance Stroll (0%)
- Oscar Piastri (2%)
- Lando Norris (43%)
- Carlos Sainz Jnr (0%)
- Charles Leclerc (4%)
- George Russell (1%)
- Lewis Hamilton (3%)
- Sergio Perez (0%)
- Max Verstappen (9%)
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Jere (@jerejj)
22nd September 2024, 15:08
NOR for both accolades without a doubt.
Robbie1
22nd September 2024, 16:26
Really?
Fastest car by far and he hit the wall a couple of times, not even top 5.
Finishing second in the third or even fourth fastest car seems like a much greater achievement.
Not even mentioning the suspicious tire advantage Norris seemed to have, almost as if he had a better spec than even his teammate.
Gotta keep the championship interesting, can’t loose value now LM will be selling a huge amount of shares to fund their MotoGP purchase.
Simon
22nd September 2024, 18:16
“both accolades”
???
Quote = “Vote for your 2024 Singapore Grand Prix Driver of the Weekend”
Of. The. Weekend. One award, not more…
Moshambles (@moshambles)
22nd September 2024, 19:44
Calm down. Enough people on here break it down to DOTW and DOTD, for it to be of note. That’s probably what they mean.
David (@nvherman)
22nd September 2024, 22:17
Oh look, it’s Simon here giving @jerejj a hard time again.
Give it a rest, no one cares what you think
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
24th September 2024, 14:04
At last people are starting to criticise simon back, it took a while!
David BR (@david-br)
22nd September 2024, 15:08
Norris or Colapinto. I went for Colapinto. Verstappen was also good.
elchinero (@elchinero)
22nd September 2024, 16:49
#44
David BR (@david-br)
22nd September 2024, 17:32
@elchinero I’d like to make a case for #44, sadly impossible :)
He has to take some of the blame for the soft tyre strategy. If you can’t pass the two cars in front and take the lead in the first stint, what’s the point? And that was never likely.
BenHur
24th September 2024, 11:51
As evers since Silverstone 1950
MacLeod (@macleod)
23rd September 2024, 8:19
+1 I went for Franco too
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
22nd September 2024, 15:16
Max did better than I was expecting him to, but I’ll go Colapinto.
The guy is really making it look too easy.
Illusive (@illusive)
22nd September 2024, 15:19
Max just maximized whatever he could, would have been Lando had it not been for his mistakes which could have been very costly if he wasnt lucky.
Todfod (@todfod)
22nd September 2024, 20:26
Agree. I voted for Max as well. He punched above his weight on Saturday and Sunday while a lot of others cracked under pressure. I thought Norris was a close second
Nick T.
22nd September 2024, 15:28
Mooa42
23rd September 2024, 7:54
How does Leclerc get 3 and Piastri least impressive?
Both made an error in Qualifying, both got stuck in traffic for lap after lap, both had pace and made some overtakes when they had free air and both probably had cars that could have won the race if they’d started at the front.
I thought they both drove well on Sunday and both failed on Saturday, arguably Leclerc’s error on Sat worse than Oscars.
Anyways, I feel they would rank pretty close together.
Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
22nd September 2024, 15:42
Conditions are never easy at hot and humid Singapore GP. Even as Mclaren had a quick car off the block Norris had to put it first on pole on Saturday, hold off the lead (the important bit) and then build a 23 plus second gap. Had the fastest lap too but RBR with their 4 car spread used RB to take off the additional point. A most dominant display from Mclaren in a long time and Norris gets DOTW
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
24th September 2024, 14:08
He actually got like 29 sec gap, really huge, at one point, then managed the pace till the end.
MG1982 (@mg1982)
22nd September 2024, 15:44
Norris for sure. He just trounced Piastri… the “hero” from previous race. These last 2 races showed NOR is not yet truly WDC material and he/they’re throwing away precious points while they have the best car overall for quite some races now. NOR should have won in Azerbadjan, but the Quali was…, while PIA underperformed this race and let VER take P2 without any headache. Unfortunately for us, the only WDC material capable to take the fight to VER is HAM and ALO, so VER should bag this WDC too.
Other strong performances: VER, COL, ALO, LEC, HUL.
Nick T.
22nd September 2024, 16:46
Agreed on all these sentiments.
paulipedia (@paulipedia)
22nd September 2024, 16:46
You should change your meds
Nick T.
24th September 2024, 6:44
Care to elaborate or is all you’ve got an insult because he didn’t praise your favorite driver?
MichaelN
22nd September 2024, 16:14
Must be Verstappen taking 2nd in Singapore, where many thought he’d lose a big chunk of points to Norris.
Ludewig
22nd September 2024, 16:21
Norris almost crashed out, so a bit weird that people picked him. Probably just due to a ton of other reasons.
Robbie1
22nd September 2024, 16:28
Yeah, being British and not being Max really helps.
David (@nvherman)
22nd September 2024, 16:44
Or just maybe it was because Norris was fastest in two of the three Free Practice sessions, two of the three Qualifying sessions (when his supposedly better team mate could only manage 5th), led every lap, pulled a 20+ second gap to second place and would’ve had the point for the fastest lap had RBR not used their B team to nab the point from him.
My two favourite drivers finished first and second though, so I’m happy.
Yes, I’m a Verstappen fan as well as a Norris fan, even though I’m British.
Ludewig
22nd September 2024, 16:57
@nvherman
Almost all of the points you give are just due to him having the best car. Of course, it is a permanent issue that people rate the car, not the driver.
Yes, and Max pulled the same gap to Piastri, who who was in the much faster car. So by that silly logic, Max did way better. Especially since Max didn’t tap the wall during the race.
But of course gaps are not the be all and end all. The great defenses of Hulk don’t translate into gaps per se, but they did earn him a well deserved point. Same for
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
24th September 2024, 14:11
Well, if you’re looking at underperforming team mates, there’s perez, who did worse than piastri even considering the car, shouldn’t we look at the drivers who maximised the car? By which metric, mclaren was far better ofc, still a relatively good performance by norris, I was expecting verstappen to lead on lap 2.
Ludewig
22nd September 2024, 16:46
And probably also because of him keeping 1st place, which only counts in his favor because he messes it up so often.
But it seems to me that Max, Alonso, Colapinto and the Hulk all did better.
Nick T.
22nd September 2024, 16:51
They may have. Hard to know. But based on the gap to OP, it’s hard to argue he didn’t deliver every bit of performance. Almost crashed doesn’t matter. What it did show is that Norris felt angry and likely humiliated by OP being the big star while basically everyone has been calling him a choke artist. So, he felt the need to not just win, but win massively. So, in a weird way, the level of dominance/the gap was a reflection/caused by his weakness this season.
Ludewig
22nd September 2024, 17:08
@Nick
If you judge it by the gap, you have to give it to Max for sure, since he pulled an equal gap to a faster car, and also had a much bigger gap over his team mate.
And when Max had the dominant car and pulled big gaps, he missed out on the DOTD most of the time. This is why I think that this is just a rationalization and people are judging based on emotions.
Yeah, this is my point. People are rating their narrative and rewarding Norris for not making as many mistakes this time. If Lando had not gotten very lucky with that huge hit on the wall, the narrative would have been completely different and the rating as well. But the size of that mistake should be judged on the average outcome (which is probably at least a puncture), not whether he got lucky or not.
It’s a known concept from poker where the quality of a decision is measured by the average outcome of that choice, not whether you get lucky or unlucky in a specific game.
Nick T.
22nd September 2024, 16:55
This site’s users have been highly critical of Norris this season. So, while there are some Lewis super fans on here, people’s praise on here has nothing to do with nationality. And I say this as someone who maintains that British drivers are treated differently (as in treated way more leniently while others seem targeted by comparison) by the stewards.
Ludewig
22nd September 2024, 17:14
@Nick T
I do think that it is exactly that frustration with previous races by Norris that makes people overvalue this race, where he did what is normally expected of a driver (keep his place) and ignore that he almost crashed and was very, very lucky.
People like redemption stories* and get overly emotional. Just look at how many votes Max got for similar or better performances (since he didn’t make a nearly race-ending mistake) early in the season. People expected Max to not make mistakes and to get nearly everything out of the car, so when he matched expectations, he didn’t get rated highly for it.
* In particular if it is a driver of their own nationality.
Nick T.
24th September 2024, 6:49
That’s a good point and I agree with you that his race has been overvalued because of his past poor performances. I still think a dominant pole and win merited a top 2 ranking at worst. You’ll like TR’s rankings both more and less, which went:
1. Max 2. Alonso 3. Norris 4. Hulk 5. GR 6. LH 7. Leclerc 8. Ocon 9. Colapinto 10. OP
(Sainz was 17th, which shows just how different some people’s conclusions can be).
MacLeod (@macleod)
23rd September 2024, 8:21
Max and Oscar gave him a hard time when they saw his lockup and he knew it….
notagrumpyfan
22nd September 2024, 17:08
Not sure if NOR deserves it this time.
He drove perfectly the whole weekend, but he almost parked it in the wall (plus two other instances) when there was absolutely no need to do this.
All went well (this time) but hard to call this smart (or even good) driving.
Not sure though who was a clear standout from the rest of the field though; VER, HUL, COL, ALO all did well, and also PIA and LEC had a very good Sunday.
Paul A (@paul-a)
22nd September 2024, 23:06
Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas are definitely, equal winners of this utterly boring snoozefest. They were the only drivers that SkySports talking heads never mentioned.
Very close runner up Daniel Ricciardo who was the fastest driver of the day.
Dead last? The FIA who took away Ricciardo’s record when he smiled at the camera.
Tommy C (@tommy-c)
23rd September 2024, 3:54
I’m going to go with Max. He maximised the car’s potential and brought it home safely. It was a fine line between Norris binning it and winning it. Max only needs to be there to pick up the pieces and I can’t see Lando being the position to win all of the remaining races like Seb 2013.
EffWunFan (@cairnsfella)
24th September 2024, 7:39
What’s with the votes for Danny Ric?
I like the guy, but DOTW. Come on.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
24th September 2024, 14:01
They ALWAYS do like that! When someone retires from f1, he gets DOTW, or at least that goes for many people, even though they won’t succeed in this case.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
24th September 2024, 14:00
Perez is the easy choice!
Joking; I voted for norris because he had a great quali and race, putting such gap on verstappen isn’t easy, particularly for once he survived the start from pole and during the first lap too, obviously his car was better, but he still did better than expected.
Verstappen also did very well with that car, so did colapinto.