Overview

• McLaren will secure a 10th constructors’ championship with at least 13 points this weekend, a target a single podium would achieve.
• Max Verstappen enters on back-to-back wins at Monza and Baku, trimming his deficit to Oscar Piastri to 69 points with seven grands prix and three sprints left.
• Marina Bay’s heat, humidity and high downforce make qualifying crucial and overtaking scarce, and it remains the only current venue where Verstappen has never won.
• Red Bull’s Monza floor upgrade has improved RB21 stability, and team boss Laurent Mekies says Singapore should not repeat the Budapest struggles, though Helmut Marko cautions the heat is a key benchmark.
• Piastri leads teammate Lando Norris by 25 points in the drivers’ race, Mercedes’ Toto Wolff calls a full Verstappen comeback a long shot, and McLaren plans no team orders between its drivers.