Pierre Gasly (P6, 8 pts): 8/10
After a lacklustre time in practice, if you'd told Pierre Gasly that he would qualify between the two Red Bulls in Singapore then he would have been over the moon. Unfortunately all three of them had failed to make the final cut on Saturday evening and he would take the start in P12, not a great place in terms of getting stuck in DRS traffic jam at a circuit notorious for being difficult to pass at the best of times. He got ahead of Liam Lawson at the start and had a smooth first pit stop to keep him in P11. Kevin Magnussen's mistake on lap 36 followed by the deferred pit stops of those who had start on hard tyres as well as those making a second stop under the Virtual Safety Car helped him gain forward momentum, and by lap 44 he was cruising along in sixth place. Max Verstappen passed him with six laps to go, but the deficit was made up by George Russell's last lap crash. A good way to wash away any taste of disappointment lingering from Monza.
Max Verstappen (P5, 10 pts): 7.5/10
All good things come to an end. After ten back-to-back race wins for Max Verstappen and a season full of Red Bull victories to date, suddenly the wheels came off in Singapore and no one is quite sure why. Is it a one-off setback unique to the nature of Marina Bay Street Circuit, or a sign and portent of something more serious for the presumptive world champions? Right now, Verstappen is looking unconcerned by the sudden slump and almost seeing the end of the historic run of wins as a monkey off his back. But it clearly wasn't a happy weekend for him, and while things were looking better as the race itself wore on there's no question that Max was suddenly appearing very ordinary this week. Who would have thought that fortunes could swing quite so far and so quickly?
