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Pirelli - F1, 2017 Singapore Grand Prix

For the first time in its history, the #singapore Grand Prix was a wet race, with the top six starting on the intermediate tyre and a mixture of wets and intermediates further down the grid. There were two safety car periods in the first half of the race, with the track still wet, which were used by some drivers to change from wet to intermediate tyres, while Daniel Ricciardo, who had started on intermediates, opted to change to a fresh set of intermediates. The Red Bull driver finished the grand prix second, behind the Mercedes of race winner Lewis Hamilton The track eventually dried out after the restart, with the first drivers to change onto slicks being Haas’s Kevin Magnussen and Williams’s Felipe Massa on lap 24. Once the crossover point had been reached, all the frontrunners switched to slicks with most opting for the ultrasoft, although Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz went for supersofts – claiming his best career result of fourth at the finish. Jolyon Palmer (Renault) and Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren) also took their best results in Formula 1, while Hamilton set a new race lap record of 1m45.008s on the ultrasoft: more than two seconds faster than last year’s fastest race lap.

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