F1: Ferrari Charles Leclerc on pole for Singapore Grand Prix again

SINGAPORE – As the skies cleared on Saturday evening, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc dazzled under the floodlights at Marina Bay, clinching pole position in the Singapore Grand Prix.

Championship leader Max Verstappen settled for eighth but his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez was quick enough for second.

The pole was Leclerc’s ninth from 17 races this season, and the Monegasque, who clocked 1min 49.412sec, will be joined on the front row by Perez, with Lewis Hamilton third-fastest for Mercedes.

Leclerc said: “An amazing crowd and it’s great to see so many people attending the event, it’s been a very tricky qualifying, Q1, Q2 with the intermediates then in Q3 we didn’t really know what to do we went for the softs at the very last minute and it paid off. I thought we wouldn’t get pole but it paid off.

“I’m very happy with today considering the Friday that we had, we had very limited laps but we recovered well, we don’t have much data for the race run but if we do the perfect execution I’m sure we can win.”