HONDA AGAIN OVERTAKING MOVE OF THE YEAR DANIEL RICCIARDO INTHE AZERBAIJAN GP

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT It’s not often you see one F1 car overtake three others, particularly with 2017-spec machinery. But Daniel Ricciardo wowed us all when he passed both Williams and Nico Hülkenberg’s Renault at the Azerbaijan GP back in June. Danny R

No… NO! YES! It really happened. Both Ferraris taking each other off at the first corner of the Singapore Grand Prix.

As we surveyed the detritus of a scarcely imaginable incident, one truth became glaringly clear: Seb Vettel had just blown his title shot as Lewis Hamilton had emerged unharmed from the chaos and was sprinting off to the chequer.

The accident itself was triggered by light contact between the right-flank of Raikkonen – faststarting from fourth – and the front-left of an interloping Verstappen, who’d been edged towards Kimi by the left-ward drift of poleman Vettel, ahead.the contact spun Kimi instantly, such that his Ferrari’s nose speared the left sidepod of Vettel’s car. Vettel drove on for a couple of corners, despite carrying pieces of front wing from Raikkonen’s car, but his SF70H was mortally wounded and retired between Turns 5 and 6, with hydraulic fuel spilling from its innards.

In the meantime, Kimi and Max had clattered out at Turn 1 in a tangle of carbon bodywork and suspension. As they departed the track, out of control, they picked up an innocent Fernando Alonso, who would have found himself clear in P3 had he been a few feet further up the road. As it was, his Mclaren pirouetted mid air, continued, but was called in on lap eight.

Not since the 1975 Spanish GP had both Ferraris collided on the first lap.

When they do, the results are spectacular.

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Lewis Hamilton Sebastian Vettel Valtteri Bottas Daniel Ricciardo Kimi Raikkonen Max Verstappen Sergio Perez Esteban Ocon Carlos Sainz Lance Stroll Felipe Massa Nico Hulkenberg Romain Grosjean