Podium for Verstappen and Red Bull at Singapore Grand Prix

Red Bull picked up a podium finish as Max Verstappen took second at the Singapore Grand Prix.

The Dutchman took a fourth Grand Prix podium in a row with a runner-up finish in Singapore, as he resisted a fight from McLaren’s Lando Norris to take the second place crown and finish as runner-up to the Mercedes of George Russell.

While Verstappen took a podium, it was a tricky evening for his teammate Yuki Tsunoda, with the Japanese driver finishing 12th and a lap down on Verstappen.

With six Grand Prix weekends, three of which are sprints, still to fight for, Verstappen remains third in the Driver’s Championship in his goal of winning a fifth consecutive championship. The Dutchman is 63 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri, while he is also 41 points behind Norris in second and 36 clear of fourth place Russell.

Meanwhile, Tsunoda sits 17th in the standings, having picked up 20 points in the 2025 F1 season so far.

Red Bull remain fourth in the Constructors Championship on a weekend that saw McLaren win the title for 2025. The Milton Keynes-based team remain in a competitive fight with Mercedes and Ferrari for second place, with Red Bull 35 points behind second place Mercedes and 8 behind third place Ferrari.

Verstappen had missed out on pole on Saturday, with the Dutchman aborting his second lap in Q3 after feeling he was impeded by dirty air coming off Norris’ McLaren. But on race day, the reigning Driver’s Champion had gone for a different strategy by choosing to start on soft tyres.

As it was, Verstappen was unable to match Russell’s fast start and slotted into second, though he did see Norris make minor contact with the back of his car and in turn Norris also made contact with Piastri, who was left irritated for much of the first phase.

Like his teammate, Tsunoda also started on softs, but he made a poor start and lost places off the line, falling to 16th by the end of the first lap.

Tsunoda opted to box on lap 14 for a pit-stop onto hard tyres, before Verstappen later made a stop on lap 20.

When the other top end drivers made their pit stops, Verstappen remained in second, sat in-between Russell and Norris. Initially, the Red Bull looked to be closing on the Mercedes, but on lap 37, a major lock-up saw Verstappen have to slow down to avoid hitting the wall, allowing the Mercedes to stretch out a lead and seeing Norris close in.

Verstappen and Norris then found themselves on the tail of multiple cars that were set to fall a lap down, including Tsunoda, with Norris at one point making a lunge into turn 7 that ultimately wasn’t enough to make the overtaken happen.

In the final stages, however, Verstappen was able to create enough of a gap that Norris was unable to challenge, allowing the Red Bull to take second.

Tsunoda did have his own engagements in the final stages, with the Japanese driver nearly shoved into a wall by Franco Colapinto before getting past the Alpine when the Argentine driver overshot turn 7.

It had looked at one point as though Tsunoda might be in line to take the final point position, but he was unable to clear the Racing Bulls car of Isack Hadjar despite the Frenchman being held back by an engine problem. In the late stages, Tsunoda would also be passed by Carlos Sainz, who took an aggressive strategy in the latter stages to finish 10th and take the final point after starting at the back due to Williams being excluded from qualifying.

Red Bull will seek to make it 3 wins in 4 races next time out when F1 heads to Texas for the United States Grand Prix, in what will be a sprint race event.