Announced in 2008, an agreement for a five-year deal was signed by Singapore GP Pte Ltd, the
Singapore Tourism Board and
Bernie Ecclestone. Around 110,000 tickets were made available for the country's first Formula One race. Corporate hospitality suites and packages went on sale at the end November 2007, three-day passes to the public went on sale in February 2008. Single-day passes went on sale a month later. The event went on to achieve a full sell-out for all of its tickets. The 2008 race hosted the Amber Lounge after-party and in 2010, Singapore became the second location to host the Amber Lounge Fashion show.
2008 The first race held at the new
Marina Bay Street Circuit was the 15th round of the 2008
FIA Formula One World Championship, and was also the first night-time event in
Formula One history. On track,
Felipe Massa was the first man to sit on the Singapore pole in his Ferrari, and dominated the race until he was released early at a pit stop, breaking his fuel rig and dropping him to last place. The race was won by
Fernando Alonso driving for the
Renault team, though that result has since been tarnished by
controversy. Renault were found to have ordered
Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash, as the ensuing safety car would strongly benefit Alonso. •
Pole position:
Felipe Massa (
Ferrari) – 1:44.801 (174.055 km/h) • Race winner:
Fernando Alonso (
Renault) – 1:57:16.304 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Kimi Räikkönen (
Ferrari) – 1:45.599 (172.740 km/h)
2009 For the
2009 race, the circuit was reprofiled slightly, including modifications to turns 1, 2 and 3 to aid overtaking, and also at turn 10 where high kerbs caused many accidents in
2008.
McLaren driver and reigning World Champion
Lewis Hamilton took pole position and sprinted away to win.
Timo Glock finished second for
Toyota, and
Fernando Alonso was third in the first race for Renault after they received a suspended disqualification from the sport for manipulating the previous year's race. •
Pole position:
Lewis Hamilton (
McLaren) – 1:47.891 (169.270 km/h) • Race winner:
Lewis Hamilton (
McLaren) – 1:56:06.337 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Fernando Alonso (
Renault) – 1:48.240 (168.725 km/h)
2010 Fernando Alonso became the first man to win twice in Singapore. Now at Ferrari, he took pole and resisted
Red Bull's
Sebastian Vettel on his way to the 25th victory of his F1 career.
Michael Schumacher, making his F1 comeback in
2010, struggled in his Mercedes and was 13th, while
Heikki Kovalainen leapt from his burning
Lotus T127, borrowed a fire extinguisher and put the fire out himself. •
Pole position:
Fernando Alonso (
Ferrari) – 1:45.390 (173.287 km/h) • Race winner:
Fernando Alonso (
Ferrari) – 1:57:53.579 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Fernando Alonso (
Ferrari) – 1:47.976 (169.137 km/h)
2011 Sebastian Vettel, an eight-time winner in 2011 before Marina Bay, led the drivers' championship by over 100 points. He won the race from his 11th pole of the season. Vettel, Button, Webber, Alonso and Hamilton filled the top five places.
Michael Schumacher again struggled as he slammed into the
Sauber of
Sergio Pérez. •
Pole position:
Sebastian Vettel (
Red Bull) – 1:44.381 (174.962 km/h) • Race winner:
Sebastian Vettel (
Red Bull) – 1:59:06.757 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Jenson Button (
McLaren) – 1:48.454 (168.392 km/h)
2012 On 22 September 2012, the AP reported that Bernie Ecclestone and the Singapore Grand Prix had agreed that the Grand Prix would remain on the Formula One calendar until 2017.
Lewis Hamilton claimed his fifth pole of the season for
McLaren and his second in Singapore. A surprise visitor to the front row alongside him was the
Williams of
Pastor Maldonado, but it was
Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull that inherited the race lead when Hamilton pulled out with gearbox problems. Vettel then dedicated his 23rd Grand Prix win to
Sid Watkins, who had died shortly before the race. •
Pole position:
Lewis Hamilton (
McLaren) – 1:46.362 (171.704 km/h) • Race winner:
Sebastian Vettel (
Red Bull) – 2:00:26.144 (59 laps) • Fastest lap:
Nico Hülkenberg (
Force India) – 1:51.033 (164.480 km/h)
2013 's
Red Bull RB9 (2013) For the 2013 race, it was announced that the 10th turn of the track, the "Singapore Sling" chicane, would be reconfigured so the cars would have to navigate a flowing left-hander before accelerating towards the Anderson Bridge.
Sebastian Vettel took his third successive win in Singapore with
Red Bull and the 33rd of his career as a fourth straight title also loomed. He did it from his second Singapore pole, recovering from the surprise of seeing
Nico Rosberg's
Mercedes briefly ahead at race start to take victory by over half a minute.
Fernando Alonso was on the podium yet again before stopping his Ferrari to pick up
Mark Webber, whose Red Bull was in flames at Turn 7. •
Pole position:
Sebastian Vettel (
Red Bull) – 1:42.841 (177.302 km/h) • Race winner:
Sebastian Vettel (
Red Bull) – 1:59:13.132 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Sebastian Vettel (
Red Bull) – 1:48.574 (167.574 km/h)
2014 On 15 April 2014, it was announced that
Singapore Airlines would sponsor the Singapore Grand Prix, starting from that year. F1's new-generation turbo-charged, hybrid-powered cars brought a new look to the track, ending the reign of the 2.4-litre power unit, but a controversial ban on radio communications dominated pre-race proceedings.
Mercedes's
Lewis Hamilton sailed to his seventh win of the year, becoming Singapore's third multiple winner in the process as teammate
Nico Rosberg retired with technical problems.
Sebastian Vettel, bound for
Ferrari in 2015, finished second ahead of new
Red Bull partner
Daniel Ricciardo. •
Pole position:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 1:45.681 (172.538 km/h) • Race winner:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 2:00:04.795 (60 laps) • Fastest lap:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 1:50.417 (165.137 km/h)
2015 Lewis Hamilton arrived in Singapore one pole position shy of his idol
Ayrton Senna's record run of eight in a row. Another win would also put Hamilton on 41 – the same number as Senna.
Sebastian Vettel took his first Ferrari pole, then made it four wins at Marina Bay as Hamilton retired with a loss of electrical power just after half-distance.
Daniel Ricciardo split the two
Ferraris in second place, while
Formula One rookie
Max Verstappen shouted 'No!' when told to move over for
Toro Rosso teammate
Carlos Sainz. During the
2015 race a spectator entered the track on the straight after Anderson Bridge, as leaders
Sebastian Vettel and
Daniel Ricciardo sped by. He climbed over the fencing when the safety car was deployed. Eventual race winner Vettel described the man as 'crazy' in his post-race interview. The 27-year-old man was arrested by Singapore police after the incident. CCTV footage showed he had sneaked through a gap in the fencing. •
Pole position:
Sebastian Vettel (
Ferrari) – 1:43.885 (175.521 km/h) • Race winner:
Sebastian Vettel (
Ferrari) – 2:01:22.118 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Daniel Ricciardo (
Red Bull) – 1:50.041 (165.701 km/h)
2016 Nico Rosberg was making his 200th Grand Prix start. He was locked in a two-man tussle for the title with
Mercedes teammate
Lewis Hamilton. Rosberg took pole position, and held off
Daniel Ricciardo to win while Hamilton finished third. Rosberg went on to win the title. •
Pole position:
Nico Rosberg (
Mercedes) – 1:42.584 (177.747 km/h) • Race winner:
Nico Rosberg (
Mercedes) – 1:55:48.950 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Daniel Ricciardo (
Red Bull) – 1:47.187 (170.113 km/h)
2017 On 19 June 2017, the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Geneva released its provisional 2018 calendar, in which the Singapore Grand Prix was given a tentative date of 16 September. At the time, the race (as well as the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai) were subject to confirmation by the commercial rights holders. On the eve of the 2017 race, the track and F1 announced an extension for the race through 2021. This race was a critical event in the season as polesitter and title contender, Sebastian Vettel, was involved in a first corner collision with Ferrari teammate
Kimi Räikkönen and Red Bull's
Max Verstappen, which led to the retirement of all three drivers. Vettel's title rival, Mercedes's
Lewis Hamilton, took full advantage and won the race from 5th on the grid to extend his championship lead over Vettel from 3 points to 28. •
Pole position:
Sebastian Vettel (
Ferrari) – 1:39.491 (183.272 km/h) • Race winner:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 2:03:23.544 (58 laps) • Fastest lap:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 1:45.008 (173.643 km/h)
2018 After a disappointing weekend in
Monza,
Ferrari arrived in Singapore with high hopes of a victory. However,
Lewis Hamilton took pole position, ahead of
Max Verstappen and the Ferrari of
Vettel. At the start, the two
Racing Point Force India drivers,
Sergio Pérez and
Esteban Ocon had an incident which resulted in Ocon retiring. Vettel overtook Verstappen right before the Safety Car was deployed. Vettel was the first of the front runners to pit, on lap 15. He was put on ultrasoft
tyres, while most other people who pitted during that time went for the softs. He exited behind Pérez but overtook him a lap later. Verstappen pitted for soft tyres on lap 18, and exited just in front of Vettel. Vettel, being on the higher wear ultrasofts, did not attack in order to make it to the end. On lap 34, Pérez had a clash with
Sergey Sirotkin which resulted in him getting a drive-through penalty. Sirotkin himself got a 5-second time penalty after forcing
Brendon Hartley off the track. Later on in the race, he was battling with
Romain Grosjean as Hamilton and Verstappen approached to lap them. Instead of letting the leaders pass, Grosjean continued to attack Sirotkin, which allowed Verstappen to close the gap to Hamilton and nearly overtake him. The Frenchman was handed a 5-second penalty and 2 penalty points on his licence. In the end Hamilton won, with Verstappen second and Vettel third, increasing his championship lead over the German to 40 points. •
Pole position:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 1:36.015 (189.832 km/h) • Race winner:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 1:51:11.611 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Kevin Magnussen (
Haas) – 1:41.905 (178.860 km/h)
2019 Coming off a second consecutive victory for Ferrari under rising star
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari was on course to continue their rise in form; after an early trip back to pit lane during FP1, Leclerc powered through to take pole position ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. After making a pit stop, Leclerc lost the lead to his teammate Vettel and eventually Hamilton, who had gambled on an extended running time on the soft tyres and later came out behind both Ferrari drivers. For a brief moment, Antonio Giovinazzi led the race for the Alfa Romeo-Sauber team before being overtaken four laps later by Vettel. After Giovinazzi was passed by faster cars, three safety cars were called for the retirements of
George Russell,
Sergio Pérez and
Kimi Räikkönen. Ultimately, the podium consisted of Sebastian Vettel, who took his last career race win, Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen. This was Ferrari's first 1–2 finish since the
2017 Hungarian Grand Prix. •
Pole position:
Charles Leclerc (
Ferrari) – 1:36.217 (189.434 km/h) • Race winner:
Sebastian Vettel (
Ferrari) – 1:58:33.667 (61 laps) • Fastest lap:
Kevin Magnussen (
Haas) – 1:42.301 (178.168 km/h)
2020–2021 Both the 2020 and 2021 iterations of the event were cancelled due to the global
COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting travel restrictions then-imposed by the Government of Singapore, on arriving foreign tourists.
2022 On 27 January 2022, the Singapore Grand Prix's contract was extended up to 2028. •
Pole position:
Charles Leclerc (
Ferrari) – 1:49.412 (166.588 km/h) • Race winner:
Sergio Pérez (
Red Bull) – 2:02:20.238 (59 laps) • Fastest lap:
George Russell (
Mercedes) – 1:46.458 (171.211 km/h)
2023 The Grand Prix had major changes in the layout, with turns 16–19 removed to facilitate the construction of
NS Square. Instead, there was a new flat-out section until turn 16, former turn 20, with number of laps increased from 61 to 62 and lap times decreased by approximately ten seconds. Race distance was expected to be covered by an hour and a half unlike previous editions usually lasting until the two hours time limit. •
Pole position:
Carlos Sainz Jr. (
Ferrari) – 1:30.984 (195.462 km/h) • Race winner:
Carlos Sainz Jr. (
Ferrari) – 1:46:37.418 (62 laps) • Fastest lap:
Lewis Hamilton (
Mercedes) – 1:35.867 (185.507 km/h)
2024 The Grand Prix had a fourth
DRS zone added to the circuit between turns 14 and 16 to increase overtaking, making it the second track in
Formula One history, along with the
Albert Park Circuit, to feature as many as four DRS zones.
Lando Norris took pole position and won the race as he led every lap. He missed out on a first career
grand slam as
Daniel Ricciardo took the fastest lap of the race.
Max Verstappen finished in second and
Oscar Piastri rounded off the podium.
George Russell came fourth for
Mercedes, while
Charles Leclerc recovered to fifth for
Ferrari.
Lewis Hamilton finished in sixth place as he started on a different tyre strategy.
Carlos Sainz Jr. took seventh place as he started in tenth place after crashing in qualifying.
Fernando Alonso,
Nico Hülkenberg and
Sergio Pérez rounded off the scoring positions. It was the then fastest Singapore Grand Prix, as well as the first not to feature at least one
safety car. •
Pole position:
Lando Norris (
McLaren) – 1:29.525 (198.648 km/h) • Race winner:
Lando Norris (
McLaren) – 1:40:52.571 (62 laps) • Fastest lap:
Daniel Ricciardo (
RB) – 1:34.486 (188.218 km/h)
2025 The Grand Prix saw the increase in the pit lane speed limit from to . It was the fastest Singapore Grand Prix and the first without retirements, as well as the second in a row not to feature at least one
safety car. •
Pole position:
George Russell (
Mercedes) – 1:29.158 (198.941 km/h)
All Time Lap Record • Race winner:
George Russell (
Mercedes) – 1:40:22.367 (62 laps) • Fastest lap:
Lewis Hamilton (
Ferrari) – 1:33.808 (189.079 km/h)
Official Lap Record ==Track description==