Summary

  • Singapore Grand Prix qualifying under lights at Marina Bay circuit

  • Out in Q2: Albon, Colapinto, Perez, Magnussen, Ocon

  • Out in Q1: Ricciardo, Stroll, Gasly, Bottas, Zhou

  • Select audio icon to listen to BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra coverage (UK only)

  • Lando Norris has cut Max Verstappen's title lead to 59 points

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Live Reporting

Lorraine McKenna

  1. Go! Go! Go!

    "Unbelievable bunch of idiots," was Max Verstappen's clean rant over the team radio at the traffic - which looked to be the two Saubers - ahead of him in Q1.

    Come on down Q2.

  2. The top five in the opening session of qualifying were Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri, Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez.

  3. Rosanna Tennant
    5 Live F1 reporter in Singapore

    That's a difficult watch for Daniel Ricciardo, that could have well been his final qualifying session in Formula 1, not able to make it into Q2.

  4. That will be a bitter blow for Daniel Ricciardo if this is to be his final race on the 2024 grid.

  5. Out in Q1

    16. Daniel Ricciardo (RB)

    17. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

    18. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

    19. Valtteri Bottas (Sauber)

    20. Zhou Guanyu (Sauber)

  6. Esteban Ocon jumps up the order and dumps Daniel Ricciardo into the bottom five. Carlos Sainz then leaps up the table from P15 and goes sixth, leaving Frenchman Ocon to just avoid a knockout of his own.

  7. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Our timing screens are just lit up full of green, but Lewis Hamilton hasn't done his best first sector. He's done a better second sector but he's three-tenths down on Lando Norris on a new set of tyres, Lando did it on a used set.

  8. George Russell is furious on the team radio, telling Mercedes the tyres are "totally different" to FP3.

  9. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Due to the nature of this circuit and the way that the lap times are going to ramp up, everybody will be running again which is quite rare for a Q1.

    I don't think anybody really quite understands where the cut off is just yet.

  10. The RB of Daniel Ricciardo has been in decent shape this weekend but when it matters most, the car can only lift the Australian to P12 on the board.

  11. OK, it didn't last long for Alex Albon, as Lando Norris gobbles up purple sectors in the McLaren. The new top marker is 1:30.002, which Oscar Piastri comes closest to - although it's still 0.256 seconds away from Norris - to go second. Albon is third.

  12. Albon goes fastest

    Track evolution is kicking in and Alex Albon takes full advantage.

    The Williams man goes quickest with a 1:30.679 on his soft tyres.

  13. Daniel Ricciardo, in what could be his last qualifying session for RB if the rumours are true, has his toes dangling in the elimination zone fire in P15. The second Red Bull of Sergio Perez is also trying to inch away from danger in p14.

  14. Drop zone

    16. Pierre Gasly

    17. Valtteri Bottas

    18. Zhou Guanyu

    19. Franco Colapinto

    20. Lance Stroll

  15. Rosanna Tennant
    5 Live F1 reporter in Singapore

    Last night in Singapore there was a huge rainstorm and it lasted for about half an hour and it changed the track conditions coming into today's running.

    A lot of dust was brought back onto the track and you would have thought it would have cleared up.

  16. Alpine's Esteban Ocon is up in the top 10 along with the two Haas drivers Nico Hulkenberg and the returning Kevin Magnussen.

    The Red Bull of Max Verstappen is being drawn to the wall, but the Dutchman is confident enough to catch the slide and avoid any major incident. The reigning world champion is third on the timesheets.

  17. Team radio - Hamilton

    "The rear is sliding a lot."

  18. Alex Albon is joining the big dogs in the top five with his first attempt on the softs. The Williams is quicker than the Red Bull of Sergio Perez and his team-mate Franco Colapinto.

    But here comes Lewis Hamilton, who shuffles Albon down the line. However, the seven-time world champion only takes fifth spot, which now becomes P8 by the time the others clock their lap.

    "The rear is sliding," says Hamilton.

  19. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The fight for pole position tonight is going to be between one of the McLarens and one of the Ferraris, but which ones will it be?

  20. The McLaren, with its one-off special livery, is rapid in the hands of Lando Norris today. The British driver was a surprise knockout in Q1 in Azerbaijan last weekend, but he's already put his banker lap in now and it's enough to beat Charles Leclerc's by 0.172 seconds.

    The best time now is 1:30.724.