Max Verstappen

We take a look at the updated F1 standings as the circuit heads into the Singapore Grand Prix. Max Verstappen can clinch his second straight title.

He failed to finish the Australian Grand Prix and saw his odds slip to +250. Given Verstappen’s 116-point lead, that opens the door for him to clinch during the Singapore Grand Prix. The Dutchman is running away with the season-long points lead and has a chance to clinch the title on Sunday at Marina Bay Street Circuit.

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I am not really counting on it happening.” Another triumph here would take his career tally to 32, moving him to sixth in the all-time list alongside Fernando Alonso. Let’s hope for the future it’s a bit better.”

Fernando Alonso has praised 2022 world champion elect Max Verstappen and thinks the Dutchman will only get better.

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Fernando Alonso believes Max Verstappen will lead the F1 field by over two seconds at Singapore on Friday as the two-time champion revealed a key strength.

“That’s something I consider one of my strengths and that’s why I stopped Formula 1 in 2018 to try different things because I thought that my career was not progressing, just being 10th or 12th in Formula 1 every weekend," said Alonso. Then in quali, they will be close to him. “It happens in a way as well on a small scale between my team-mate sometimes.

Few people are better versed at knowing what it's like at the head of a procession to the Formula 1 world title than Lewis Hamilton.

“It’s a bit unrealistic for it to happen so I don’t really think about it,” he said. “But from my side of course it’s also nice to win it in a more calm way. Yes, in one way I would have liked them to still be in the fight. Despite the one-sided nature of it all, fans don’t appear to being put off just yet. And the Briton said: “I feel for the fans. Hamilton’s seventh title in 2020 is the only time he’s come close to Verstappen’s level of dominance in the standings.