Top 5 Dramatic Moments from the 2023 F1 Season!.mp4
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00:00 Got Pierre Gasly and Lance Stroll, Perez and Norris, Hülkenberg and Ocon, that is the top 10.
00:05 We're all set in a line for the third time this afternoon. Five lights are on.
00:11 It's lights out, away we go. Hamilton gets away well. Verstappen comes over to try and cut him off and does so.
00:18 Verstappen leads, Fernando Alonso tries to go around the outside. Hamilton's in second place and there's contact!
00:24 Carlos Sainz spins Fernando Alonso around.
00:28 The two Spanish drivers making contact and there is Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly out of this race too.
00:35 It's chaos as they're straight on goes Lance Stroll into turn three.
00:40 Aston Martin have seen their hopes of a double podium or a race win absolutely evaporated.
00:47 Then we've got another red flag that should be the race over now.
00:52 But Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly took each other out.
00:57 Verstappen goes across to cut off Lewis Hamilton. Alonso then thinks there'll be a gap around the outside.
01:02 Sainz down the inside here. Gasly locks up, just avoids Alonso.
01:06 Sainz tags his fellow countryman, spins him around. Checo Perez gets avoided.
01:10 And then we see the two Alpines coming together.
01:14 Yeah, it was all caused by the contact between Carlos and Fernando.
01:18 I don't know where the two Alpines got to... Oh, there they are.
01:23 Right, it was... everything was happening at the restart there.
01:28 We see Carlos skidding off into the gravel, Perez losing it.
01:31 And that's the contact with the two Alpines.
01:33 Unbelievable. Anyway, the positives are Pierre drove a brilliant race and we had good pace.
01:41 Absolutely.
01:43 There's another 20 to go.
01:45 Absolutely. Ocmar, thank you very much indeed for joining us.
01:50 The restart procedure is under investigation by the stewards,
01:54 which means they're looking into, did they go through a sector?
01:59 And if they did go through a sector, that would be the finishing order if we can't finish.
02:05 And I'm assuming, Jenson, that we wouldn't finish because the lap to the grid would be the final lap of this race.
02:12 And then it'll be sat on the grid, the lights would go out and then someone would wave a chequered flag.
02:15 Yeah, there's the yellow. So that's what, turn eight, they're turning right at.
02:22 Ah, I don't see a car.
02:26 Nothing's come up on...
02:31 Oh, there's an... what, is that a lizard?
02:33 Yeah.
02:34 That's huge.
02:35 This is one of the intricacies of Singapore is that you tend to get these unusual animals.
02:40 It's not... we need those signs like Kepner Motorway, that there's something in the road.
02:43 And there's a lizard again on the track. A smaller one this time.
02:47 Okay, I understood. Maybe Godzilla had a kid.
02:50 I mean, that makes sense.
02:52 Brilliant.
02:55 There he is. So he comes out of eight and...
03:02 Oh, he's quite close to it.
03:05 The tracks are clear again.
03:07 Larry Lizard.
03:08 Yeah.
03:09 When did he say that?
03:09 Early, starting track.
03:12 Copy that, reporting.
03:14 The marshaller's telling me to get out of the car and he refused to get out because he was worried about the...
03:17 I'm not surprised.
03:18 Oh, it is another lizard.
03:20 How does he know it's a different one?
03:26 I was going to say, I mean, that's good recognition for George Russell to know it's a different lizard this time.
03:31 Stopped, Carlos Sainz has stopped on the entry, we've got a red flag.
03:35 That's our first red flag of the weekend. I suspect it won't be the last.
03:40 But what's happened here?
03:42 Actually, we're up as well, aren't we?
03:46 We're 600 meters above sea level, which we haven't really talked about, but we are...
03:50 We're not Mexico level or Sao Paulo, but we are elevated here.
03:53 I thought Sao Paulo was around that, 650. Is it not?
03:57 Yeah, I think we're just below.
03:58 Let's listen.
04:00 Oh, he hit a bump on the track.
04:05 Stopped the car engine off. It literally flashed up like that.
04:08 Yeah, I had exactly that at Indianapolis once when I went across the bricks in Indianapolis,
04:12 and it just turned the car off.
04:14 But that was severe, wasn't it?
04:15 That was a nasty bump.
04:17 We're just hearing that the session will not be resumed.
04:19 Yeah, and 10 worked a treat, and his turn 12 puts him closer.
04:23 This is the closest we've been.
04:24 So if he's eight tenths behind through the detection point, he hasn't got past Alonso.
04:29 This time, he was half a second behind Fernando Alonso.
04:32 And this time he is gaining on Fernando Alonso, and a rapid rain of nods.
04:36 Is he going to go for it down the inside?
04:38 He is going to go for it down the inside.
04:40 Sergio Perez takes third from Fernando Alonso.
04:44 Patience rewarded for the Mexican driver.
04:47 And finally, the move was there for him.
04:50 But now he's got to defend, because Alonso is picking up the slipstream.
04:53 He wants to go to the inside.
04:55 Perez moved left, then moved right, and he keeps Fernando Alonso at bay.
04:58 Perez left the car's width down the outside, but still Alonso's in the slipstream.
05:04 There's really nowhere to go in the horseshoe, though.
05:06 Round Ferradura, the long right-hander, we go.
05:10 Now, we've seen Fernando Alonso in the sprint yesterday,
05:13 pull off some very opportunist moves.
05:15 Jumps out, he managed to get past one overtake.
05:18 Can he stay behind Perez long enough to try that again as we start the final lap for this?
05:24 Not quite far enough, but we've got DRS, surely.
05:28 But is it enough to get anywhere near the back of the red bull for a final lunge?
05:33 We're homing in.
05:34 He's coming, is Fernando Alonso.
05:36 Is he going to go for that final lunge here?
05:38 Not quite.
05:39 Will he do it down at the Cedo de Lago, which is the next straight?
05:43 Yeah, because Perez has gone a little bit wide into turn one, put him out of position.
05:47 Alonso's got a chance down the back straight into turn four.
05:50 Here he goes, got the slipstream.
05:51 Perez moves to the left.
05:53 Fernando Alonso goes to the right, and Fernando Alonso gets that podium spot back again.
05:57 Wow, this is brilliant racing at the end of the South Polo Grand Prix.
06:02 And one thing you can always guarantee, Fernando Alonso never, ever gives up.
06:07 This man never gives up his thoughts, his aspirations, and his desires of winning.
06:13 And it's Max Verstappen for a 17th time this season, who wins the South Polo Grand Prix.
06:20 Fireworks on November the 5th, and Verstappen does it again.
06:24 Lando Norris comes home to take second place.
06:28 It's another runner's up spot.
06:29 It's another great race from Lando Norris to McLaren, but this isn't over yet.
06:33 A drag race up the hill we've got now.
06:36 What can Perez do?
06:37 Can he get in the slipstream and beat him to the finish line?
06:40 We've seen this before.
06:41 Gasly and Hamilton once upon a time in the Interlagos race,
06:45 but this time it's Alonso ahead of Perez.
06:47 Perez has got the Iris.
06:49 He's gaining.
06:50 The chequered flag is there, and it's there for Fernando Alonso to take third place ahead of Sergio Perez.
06:58 And the margin was less than a tenth of a second.
07:01 Three laps to go.
07:02 The gap between the top four now 2.3 seconds.
07:05 This is the pivotal work.
07:06 Norris doing a great job for his former teammate, Carlos Sainz.
07:10 Mercedes then, well, it looks like they're going to start squabbling each other.
07:13 They can't afford to do that.
07:14 They've got to get past this McLaren on this lap.
07:17 Like a naughty schoolboy, Carlos Sainz has backed Lando Norris into the clutches of the two Mercedes
07:22 and then scamping off into the distance to try and build that lead.
07:27 All this is going on.
07:28 Max Verstappen could still get fifth place.
07:31 He is catching Charles Leclerc hand over fist by about four seconds a lap.
07:36 Leclerc's tyres really are finished.
07:38 You can hear the cheers of the crowd here.
07:41 Over to...
07:41 Oh, and that goes off the Mercedes!
07:43 And into the barrier goes George Russell!
07:45 Been struggling on his tyres.
07:47 Russell's bid for Singapore glory ends up in the barriers.
07:52 Sainz now leads Norris and Lewis Hamilton in third place.
07:56 Russell was giving it one last go and just ran out of track at the wrong, wrong moment
08:02 and hitting the barriers.
08:04 They hope he's okay, but that is such an unfair end to his race.
08:09 He so did not deserve that, George Russell.
08:16 Mercedes have given it an absolute brilliant go here.
08:19 They really have, but Ferrari have controlled this race from the front.
08:23 And Carlos Sainz, who started on pole and didn't get the win in Monza,
08:27 does it tonight in Singapore!
08:30 Carlos Sainz wins the Singapore Grand Prix.
08:33 Lando Norris comes home to collect that second place.
08:37 And it's Lewis Hamilton who completes the one, two, three.
08:41 Bravo!
08:42 Take a bow.
08:43 What a thrilling end to that Grand Prix.
08:47 Meanwhile, Charles Leclerc trying to hang on to fourth place and does so.
08:52 Just by two tenths of a second from Max Verstappen.
08:56 Pierre Gasly will come home for sixth.
08:58 Oscar Piastri will take seventh.
09:00 Perez eighth.
09:01 Liam Lawson deserves a round of applause too for a first ever points finish in Formula 1.
09:08 And Kevin Magnussen should complete the points.
09:11 He's holding off Alex Albon at the moment, down in tenth.
09:15 But it's Sainz who's triumphant.
09:16 Go Alfred! Go Ricky!
09:19 What a mega job you did there.
09:21 What a smart race.
09:22 You know what?
09:24 This is my first smooth operation in Ferrari.
09:29 Smooth operator!