Sebastian Vettel’s Singapore Victory Keeps Him in the F1 Title Hunt (Barely)

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Published: September 20, 2015

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Sebastian Vettel's blood-red Ferrari shone brightly in the Singapore night on Sunday, en route to his third victory of the 2015 Formula One season.

Vettel appeared to toy with his nearest pursuer—former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo—as he bolted to an early lead in the Singapore Grand Prix and then held it through two safety car periods, including one when a fan darted across the track in front of him and then casually strolled past several other cars before climbing through a gap in the protective fencing.

Despite Mercedes' season-long dominance, Vettel's win keeps him peripherally in the championship hunt, 49 points behind Lewis Hamilton—who retired with a turbo problem, per ESPN F1's Laurence Edmondson—and now just eight points adrift of Nico Rosberg.

With six races remaining, Vettel remains a long, long, long shot for the title—but there he is. In the last five races, his results are: third, first, DNF (which could have been third, had his tyre held on for another lap), second and first.

However, despite that impressive run of form, Vettel has gained exactly nothing relative to Hamilton in those five races, with both drivers scoring 83 points.

Asked on the podium whether Ferrari can catch Mercedes this year, Vettel responded: "If we have more weekend like this, yes. But all we have to do is look after ourselves, maximum attack and then what they do is not in our hands. We still have a small chance, maybe we can make the impossible possible; we'll definitely go for it."



After starting the season with a perfect finishing record at 11 straight grands prix, Mercedes demonstrated at the last two races that they are not, in fact, bulletproof. Rosberg retired from the Italian Grand Prix when his engine failed spectacularly. In Singapore, television viewers heard Hamilton pleading with his team to find a solution to what he thought was a throttle problem as he d...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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