With Hamilton handing back the places, no further investigation is needed by the stewards. On you go in fifth, Lewis.

Max Verstappen, meanwhile, has pulled his Red Bull up to ninth spot and into the points but. the Haas of Kevin Magnussen is defending strong from the reigning world champion.

"I got pushed wide by George."

Carlos Sainz is 1.179 seconds ahead of his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc as George Russell stays in third.

Is Lewis Hamilton still in fourth place? No, the Mercedes man gives the place back to Lando Norris after going wide and off the track in the battle after lights out.

Alice Powell
British racing driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Lewis Hamilton is really fired up and George Russell with the fastest lap of the race, as these two Mercedes drag Lando Norris along on the hunt for the two Ferraris.

Lewis Hamilton has been noted by the stewards for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

Lando Norris is also fuming with Lewis Hamilton and like George Russell, the McLaren driver is on the radio to say the seven-time world champion should let him through and give that fourth place back.

Alice Powell
British racing driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

A great start from Lewis Hamilton but a disaster for George Russell who really slipped back, I am expecting him to be on the radio because Lewis cut at Turn 2.

Yuki Tsunoda has brought out an early yellow flag as his Alpha Tauri gives up after one lap. The track has gone green, the Japanese racer is out of the car and the race can continue without a safety car.

George Russell is on the radio and thinks his Mercedes team-mate Hamilton has gained an advantage. Is he going to give the place back, Russell asks?

Carlos Sainz has zoomed away from George Russell from his pole position spot. Charles Leclerc is through on Russell and now he's under pressure from his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who managed to shuffle past the McLaren of Lando Norris.

Will we see a safety car to spice things up?!

A remainder this is no Lance Stroll tonight and Zhou Guanyu is starting from the pit lane.

The rest of the top 10 are on the medium compound, while Max Verstappen in an unfamiliar 11th spot has the hard tyres bolted onto his Red Bull.

Carlos Sainz and George Russell are on the mediums but Charles Leclerc in third has gone soft - the Monegasque is a red runner for the start of this race.

Rosanna Tennant
5 Live F1 reporter

Speaking to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff: "It is (an opportunity) there's no car really in front only to the right. We were good on Friday but there's no guarantee, we have got to stay humble and the car is hopefully good for a podium and if we get more we will take it.

"You've got to have the confidence to drive well here and he's (Russell) at one with the car, Lewis wasn't keen on how the car behaved but everything is to play for both."

I asked you earlier if you thought Max Verstappen would have to make do with watching the podium celebrations from the sidelines tonight.

Sorry, Max. There will be no top-three finish from your P11 starting position today according to 1,427 of our readers.

However, 656 of you said 'yes', Verstappen can come through the field and take a podium place at Marina Bay.

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Lando Norris starts in P4 in an heavily-upgraded McLaren, he told Sky Sports ahead of the race: "It's not going to be easy either way, just to overtake is going to be too difficult so it's going to be about lap one, the start, safety cars, all of the fun stuff.

"It's going to be difficult on track to do a lot but I think we have the pace to stay there and compete against them."

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Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer

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On paper, this is a one-stop race, starting on the medium tyres and then changing to the hards. But a Singapore Grand Prix is fraught with jeopardy - every single event since its debut in 2008 has had at least one safety car. Traditionally, the field starts the race slowly, the front-runners looking after their tyres, which are prone to surface overheating caused by wheel spin, and then begins to speed up as the leader’s pre-determined optimum pit stop time approaches. Then it becomes a question of under-cut - gaining time by stopping first - or over-cut, the opposite. Pit stop time loss is 29 seconds under racing conditions and 16 seconds under safety car.

At the front, Ferrari will be concerned about tyre wear - as always, but also because Charles Leclerc lost his tyres on his race-simulation run on Friday. But the difficulty in overtaking in Singapore makes it possible to protect them by running slowly, as long as Carlos Sainz can hold position at the start - the chances of which are increased by the expected grip off-set between the odd and even-numbered sides of the grid, pole being on the racing line, and therefore cleaner and grippier.

What do Red Bull do, with Max Verstappen starting 11th? They are not likely just to accept it, so will be thinking outside the box. The car was uncompetitive in qualifying, but despite its problems with bouncing, caused by running it at too low a ride-height in search of grip, it is expected to be more competitive in the race.

Back in Miami, Verstappen chose a long opening stint on the hard tyre, giving him a chance to run in free air at his own pace, and he came back to win. If he does the same today, and bides his time before running fast while others pit, could he come back to the podium, or even win, even though he ruled it out on Saturday?

The temperature is 29C in Singapore tonight with humidity around 70% but will we see any thundery showers causing a long delay like last year's race?

The 2022 grand prix was run in treacherous wet-dry conditions following a heavy downpour before lights out.

It looks like the risk of any showers is low for the 62-lap race but there has been rain around Marina Bay earlier on today.

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The circuit has undergone a bit of a makeover because of redevelopment work taking place in the Marina Bay area, with Turns 16, 17, 18 and 19 removed to become one long straight.

This means the number of corners has been reduced from 23 to 19, while the circuit length now comes in at 4.940km compared to the previous layout of 5.063km.

We’ve also been blessed with one more lap this year, so strap yourselves in for 62 laps of drama (we hope) today.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a fancy graphic to show you the changes, so enjoy my poor, left-handed attempt to trace both versions. The great Tony Hart I am not.

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