Overview

• Championship picture before the race: Oscar Piastri leads on 324 points, Lando Norris has 299, and Max Verstappen sits third on 255 with seven race weekends remaining.
• Oscar Piastri topped a red flag‑hit FP2, with incidents for George Russell and Liam Lawson, while Fernando Alonso led FP1 as Aston Martin showed surprise pace.
• Red Bull fitted Verstappen’s car with a new front wing that team figures say reduced bouncing and understeer, and his practice times were within tenths of Piastri.
• Ferrari were fined €10,000 after Charles Leclerc was unsafely released into Norris in the pit lane during FP2, with stewards imposing no further penalty on the driver.
• The FIA summoned Verstappen’s RB21 for the standard car display procedure, and the Dutchman enters the weekend on back‑to‑back wins at Monza and Baku yet still seeking a first Singapore victory.