MARINA BAY, Singapore -- He may have won the Singapore Grand Prix and extended his championship lead to a season-high 40 points but Lewis Hamilton said the hairs were standing up on his body when he caught traffic that failed to obey blue flags midway through the race.
On lap 38, Hamilton was enjoying a four second lead over Red Bull's Max Verstappen in P2 but in the space of a few corners his advantage was wiped out as he came up to lap Romain Grosjean and Sergey Sirotkin. With the Haas and Williams cars squabbling for position, Hamilton was unable to get past and as a result Verstappen closed right up to his gearbox, almost close enough to try a move on the Mercedes.