The Ferrari driver is known as one of the nicest guys on the Formula One circuit, but these days he is also in a huge hurry. There is a padel game waiting for him in the evening, and this weekend, the defending champion of the Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix has a race to win.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz were ecstatic heading into F1’s 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend. A win for Ferrari at the preceding F1 weekend in Monza had rekindled their 2024 championship challenge.

McLaren Racing heads into the Singapore Grand Prix as Formula 1’s hot new darlings and the team that just may be the ones to finally dethrone Red Bull and Max Verstappen

Formula One statistics for Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay circuit, round 18 of the 22 race season:

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen leads the Drivers’ Championship with 313 points, but McLaren’s Lando Norris is just 59 points behind. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Initially there were doubts about holding events in the evening, and on the streets of a city, but they faded quickly.