George Russell won the Singapore Grand Prix from pole to flag.
“Perfect weekend,” he said after his dominant drive for Mercedes.
Behind him, McLaren’s title fight exploded.
Lando Norris forced past Oscar Piastri at the start, touching wheels through turn three.
Piastri fumed: “Are we cool with Lando just barging me out of the way?”
The team replied they would review it later.
“That’s not fair,” Piastri snapped. “If he avoids a car by hitting his teammate, that’s a pretty bad job.”
Russell stayed flawless out front, securing his second win of the season.
Mercedes celebrated while McLaren sealed the constructors’ title.
Inside the team, anger simmered.
At Monza, McLaren ordered Piastri to give a place back to Norris.
Now, fairness was again under fire.
Toto Wolff had warned that “precedents make fairness hard to define.”
Piastri refused to discuss strategy mid-race.
“You do whatever you think is best,” he told his engineer, clearly frustrated.
Norris insisted it was “hard but fair racing.”
Russell led comfortably, Verstappen held second, Norris chased in third.
By lap 53, Norris nearly caught Verstappen but couldn’t pass.
Russell crossed the line five seconds clear.
“I owed myself this after last year,” Russell said.
Antonelli finished fifth, Leclerc sixth, Hamilton seventh.
Hamilton faced investigation for exceeding track limits late in the race.
Piastri left the circuit grim-faced.
Norris gained three points, cutting his deficit to 22.
McLaren’s championship harmony may be gone for good.
