Daniel Ricciardo has watched on at the Singapore Grand Prix as his future outlook took another big twist.
The Australian was on the AlphaTauri pit wall as his replacement Liam Lawson blew the Formula 1 world away to knock Max Verstappen out from progressing through to the third qualifying session.
Lawson’s impressive drive to reach Q3 was one of several wild storylines to emerge from Sunday morning’s qualifying.
Carlos Sainz took pole position for Ferrari on a day where both Red Bulls failed to make it through to Q3 — the first time this has happened since 2018.
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Verstappen was eliminated in Q2 after finishing 11th fastest in an “undriveable” Red Bull and then escaped penalties that could have demoted him to last place.
Sainz’s lap of 1min 30.984sec pipped the Mercedes of George Russell by 0.072sec and the second Ferrari of Charles Leclerc who was third, 0.007sec further back.
Earlier, Q1 was brought to a premature halt by a red flag after Lance...
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