George Russell (Mercedes) achieves the pole position of the Singapore GP

The British pilot of Mercedes George Russell It will leave on Sunday from the first position of the departure grill of the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prize after having achieved this Saturday the best time in the classification session.

In the complicated urban circuit of Marina Bay, Russell (1: 29.158) exceeded less than 200 hundredths to the Dutch of Red Bull Max Verstappen (1: 29,340), which built the first line of the grill.

Behind, the championship leader, McLaren Oscar Piastri (1: 29,524), and the other Mercedes pilot, the young Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli (1: 29,537) will come out (1:

The British Lando Norris, who fights with his partner in McLaren for the world title, will leave from the third line, in fifth position (1: 29,688), accompanied by his compatriot Lewis Hamilton, with Ferrari (1: 29,688).

The Monegasco Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), the Frenchman Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls), the British Oliver Bearman (Haas) and the veteran Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) completed the Top 10.

Proof of equality that has been verified from the first free training on Friday, the 10 pilots who participated in the Q3 rolled in less than eight tenths of difference, all below the minute and a half.

The other Spanish of the grill, Carlos Sainz was out in Q2 and will leave from the 13th place with his Williams, while the Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto (Haas) will do so from the 16th position and the Argentine Franco Colapint in the 18th place, ahead of his partner in Alpine Pierre Gasly, last.