With the constant threat of rain that has already marked Saturday morning, Marina Bay will once again witness a qualifying session, one of the most decisive moments in the liturgy of a Grand Prix, and in which this track has produced some of the best laps of the decade. Not in vain, the pole he got charles leclerc in 2019 it is still revered, and the one Lewis Hamiton achieved the year before is no slouch.
A priori, who has the best numbers to use the circumstances of Singapore in their favor is Ferrari, which has shone with more intensity in the three free sessions. After the universal deluge this morning, Leclerc has picked up the baton launched yesterday by his teammate in the dry, and although the condition of the track could well be a soft tyre, the confidence gained will be key to attacking the vertices and guardrails of this track.
At the same time, Carlos Sainz’s situation in this regard seems quite advantageous. The man from Madrid, who hit the table yesterday, may benefit from a dry classification due to the fact that the track would be quite green, a situation in which he has used to show some of his best performances this year. Thus, it is not unreasonable to think that it could be his third pole of the yearespecially given that Red Bull has shown some signs of weakness.
With the run of a possible severe sanction for exceeding the budget limit last season, the Austrian team is also looking to leave in a good starting position Max Verstappen to maximize their chances of winning the championship this weekend, something that would require a not-to-be-discarded debacle of his Monegasque rival and, of course, taking the victory, in addition to the absence on the podium of a rather discreet Sergio Pérez so far.
Within the fluid middle zone, and in the absence of specifying how the classification will be, Alpine seems to have placed in good hands in Singapore, a circuit where they have historically performed at a good level when they were known as Renault. You can benefit greatly from all of this. Fernando Alonso, which has not competed on this track since 2018, but does not seem to have suffered from this fact given its competitiveness. One thing is clear: the river can be rough enough to be able to catch something, and few have such trained rods.