Singapore GP: Nico Rosberg holds off charging Daniel Ricciardo

Summary

Rosberg wins, Ricciardo 2nd, Hamilton 3rd
Hulkenberg crashes on grid
Marshal nearly hit after being caught on track
Grosjean, Hulkenberg, Bottas, Button out

Live Reporting

Gary Rose

Lap 47/61published at 14:35 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Ferrari respond to Mercedes' move and bring in Kimi Raikkonen, stick on the ultrasofts but Lewis Hamilton gets the undercut! Whoops and cheers in the Mercedes garage. Hamilton owes his team's strategists a beer. He is up to third.
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Ferrari team radiopublished at 14:32 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Kimi Raikkonen: "So we are boxing this lap?"
Race engineer: "I'll let you know, I'll let you know."
Definite panic in Raikkonen's race engineer's voice...
Lap 46/61published at 14:32 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Lewis Hamilton is coming in for his fourth stop. He puts on supersofts and heads back out. It's a move that appears to send panic through Ferrari...
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Lap 45/61published at 14:31 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Max Verstappen pits for softs and is back out in ninth.
Meanwhile, Jenson Button's race is over. He brings the McLaren in to retire to end a miserable weekend for the Briton.
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Listen as Raikkonen overtakes Hamiltonpublished at 14:29 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Media caption,
Kimi Raikkonen overtakes a struggling Lewis Hamilton to take third
Lap 44/61published at 14:29 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Forty second between Lewis Hamilton in fourth and Max Verstappen in fifth, so the top four are out of reach. Verstappen's main priority is keeping a charging Sebastian Vettel at bay. Vetell is 2.5 seconds quicker than the Red Bull.
Lap 43/61published at 14:28 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Sebastian Vettel pits from fifth and takes on more ultrasofts. He is back out in sixth, with Max Verstappen up to fifth.
Vettel got 18 laps out of the last set of ultras, so can get to the end of the race.
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Too much informationpublished at 14:26 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Lap 42/61
Daniel Ricciardo is 4.5 seconds behind Nico Rosberg and the Red Bull is clearly getting the Mercedes driver all hot and bothered.
His race engineer starts to inform Rosberg of the current gap, but the German snaps: "Stop telling me that!"
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Postpublished at 14:24 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Mark Gallagher
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst
Such is the rollercaster nature of this year's championship, you can make up a lot of ground. Lewis will have a deficit as it stands but there is everything still to play for. You just need one weekend to go not to planned and you can fall away off the pace.
Lap 41/61published at 14:23 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Kevin Magnussen, who was as high as seventh at one stage, is currently hovering just outside the top 10 after making his third stop of race to put on a fresh set of supersofts.
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Postpublished at 14:22 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Tom Clarkson
BBC Radio 5 live commentator
The fact that Lewis Hamilton can just find 0.8 seconds - it's proof enough that all of the cars have been very, very conservative. Everyone is worried about getting the cars to the end.
Lap 40/61published at 14:22 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Lewis Hamilton turns up the wick. He is the fastest man on the circuit as he rattles off a 1:49.797 to shave a second off Kimi Raikkonen's advantage over him.
Lap 39/61published at 14:21 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
There roughly five seconds between each driver inside the top four. If, as it seems, the two Mercedes have brake problems, things could get interesting towards the end.
Sebastian Vettel, meanwhile is up to fifth but is currently on 15-laps old ultrasofts. He'll have to make another stop soon.
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Mercedes team radiopublished at 14:18 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Lewis Hamilton's race engineer: "Switch to plan B - pull Raikkonen in."
Lap 38/61published at 14:18 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
After conceding third to Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton is assured all is not lost. "There will still be opportunities towards the end of this race - use all of the power of unit."
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Lap 37/61published at 14:16 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
There's something still not right with Valtteri Bottas' car. After a lengthy pitstop while his seatbelt was adjusted he pits again but this time it is to retire. Race over.
Fastest laps leaderboardpublished at 14:14 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Postpublished at 14:14 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Hang about, the K-Mag is currently seventh!? An excellent effort from the Renault driver.
Postpublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
Tom Clarkson
BBC Radio 5 live commentator
Who would have expected a Ferrari to overtake a Mercedes? As we speak now, the Ferrari is the fastest car on the racetrack - it seems to be reacting really well to the soft tyre.
Top 10 as it standspublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 18 September 2016
1) Rosberg 2) Ricciardo 3) Raikkonen 4) Hamilton 5) Vettel 6) Kvyat 7) Magnussen 8) Verstappen 9) Alonso 10) Perez
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