Verstappen won the sprint race in Singapore!

Dutch pilot Max Verstappen from the Red Bull team won the sprint race at the Formula 1 World Championship Singapore Grand Prix.

A 20-lap sprint race was run before the Singapore Grand Prix to be held tomorrow over 62 laps at the 4.9-kilometer Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore.

In the sprint race, Verstappen saw the checkered flag in first place and scored 8 points.

Ferrari's British driver Lewis Hamilton took the second place, 2.591 seconds behind the leader, and Ferrari's Monaco pilot Charles Leclerc took the third place with a difference of 16.871 seconds.

Mercedes' British pilot George Russell, while leading on the second lap, lost control at the bend, crashed into the barriers and was out of the race.

Lando Norris's car contacted his teammate Oscar Piastri's car from behind in the last lap of the sprint race, and after the two McLaren cars collided, Piastri was out of the race, and Norris finished the race in 8th place.

Qualifying rounds for the Singapore Grand Prix will start today at 16.00 CET, and the race will start tomorrow at 15.00 CET.