We took the official race results, starting grids and final standings of all 16 races from formula1.com, every world-championship Singapore Grand Prix since the first, in 2008, with no race in 2020 or 2021. We counted as in our history of the Malaysian Grand Prix, our history of the Australian Grand Prix and our study of pole position.
Every Singapore Grand Prix winner, 2008 to 2025
Fernando Alonso won the first, for Renault in 2008, and Russell the latest, for Mercedes. In all, eight drivers and five teams have won at Marina Bay. Eleven winners started from pole and 12 from the front row; the furthest back was Alonso, 15th on the 2008 grid.
| Year | Winner | Team | Started | On pole | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Fernando Alonso | Renault | 15th | Felipe Massa | No |
| 2009 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | Pole | Lewis Hamilton | No |
| 2010 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | Pole | Fernando Alonso | No |
| 2011 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | Pole | Sebastian Vettel | Yes |
| 2012 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 3rd | Lewis Hamilton | Yes |
| 2013 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | Pole | Sebastian Vettel | Yes |
| 2014 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | Pole | Lewis Hamilton | Yes |
| 2015 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | Pole | Sebastian Vettel | No |
| 2016 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | Pole | Nico Rosberg | Yes |
| 2017 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 5th | Sebastian Vettel | Yes |
| 2018 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | Pole | Lewis Hamilton | Yes |
| 2019 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 3rd | Charles Leclerc | No |
| 2022 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 2nd | Charles Leclerc | No |
| 2023 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | Pole | Carlos Sainz | No |
| 2024 | Lando Norris | McLaren | Pole | Lando Norris | No |
| 2025 | George Russell | Mercedes | Pole | George Russell | No |
Most wins at the Singapore Grand Prix
Vettel won five: three in a row for Red Bull, in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and two for Ferrari, in 2015 and 2019. Formula1.com notes that Marina Bay was the first venue where Vettel won five times, and that the 2019 race was the last of Vettel's 53 Grand Prix wins. Lewis Hamilton won four, for McLaren in 2009 and Mercedes in 2014, 2017 and 2018, and Alonso two, for Renault and then Ferrari in 2010. Five drivers won once.
- Teams: Mercedes 5, three of them by Hamilton and the other two by Nico Rosberg in 2016 and Russell in 2025; Ferrari 4, with three drivers; Red Bull 4, three for Vettel and one for Sergio Pérez in 2022; McLaren 2; Renault 1.
- Podiums: Vettel 8, the most, Hamilton 7 and Alonso 5.
- Pole positions: Hamilton and Vettel 4 each. Charles Leclerc started from pole in 2019 and 2022 and finished second both times.
- One-twos: only one in 16 races, Ferrari's in 2019, with Vettel ahead of Leclerc.
Singapore Grand Prix pole position win rate
The driver on pole won 11 of the 16 races, 69 percent, as our pole study found, the fourth-highest rate of the 16 circuits that have held at least 15 Grands Prix since 2000 and well above the 52 percent of all 518 Grands Prix it covered. Only two winners started lower than third. The last three races were all won from pole: Carlos Sainz in 2023, Lando Norris in 2024 and Russell in 2025.
The five races that pole did not win:
- 2008: Alonso won from 15th, one of only 10 wins from outside the top 10 in our pole study, while Felipe Massa, on pole for Ferrari, finished 13th.
- 2012: Vettel won from third after Hamilton retired from pole.
- 2017: Hamilton won from fifth, in the wet, after Vettel, on pole, Kimi Räikkönen and Max Verstappen collided at the start.
- 2019: Vettel won from third, ahead of Leclerc, who had started from pole.
- 2022: Pérez won from second, again ahead of Leclerc.
Does the Singapore Grand Prix winner win the championship?
In 7 of the 16 seasons, 44 percent. Across every Grand Prix of the same 16 seasons, the year's champion won 156 of 325, 48 percent, so the champion has won in Singapore a little less often than in the average race. The Singapore wins came in one run: none of the first three winners became champion, then seven of the eight from 2011 to 2018 did. The exception was 2015, when Hamilton retired and Vettel won.
Since then, none of the five Singapore winners has taken the title. The champions finished fourth in 2019, seventh, fifth and second in Verstappen's title years from 2022 to 2024, and third in 2025, when Norris was champion and Russell won the race.
Singapore night race history: safety cars, rain and the two-hour limit
The 2008 race was the first night race in Formula 1 history, as formula1.com's circuit page notes, and Alonso's win there is still a controversial one: a year later it emerged that Renault had ordered Alonso's teammate, Nelson Piquet Jr., to crash on purpose and bring out the safety car, according to Wikipedia's history of the race. The result stands in the official record.
- Safety cars: every Singapore Grand Prix until 2024 had at least one, formula1.com says. On the slowest track of the season except Monaco, with walls on both sides, races ran long: five winners needed more than two hours, the longest Hamilton's 2:03:23.544 in the rain in 2017.
- 2022: heavy rain delayed the start by more than an hour, and the race ended at the two-hour limit after 59 laps.
- 2023: Sainz's win from pole for Ferrari was the only one of the season's 22 Grands Prix not won by Red Bull, as formula1.com's 2023 results show. The track was cut from 23 corners to 19 that year.
- 2025: all 20 starters were classified, the first time at Marina Bay, and Russell's winning time, 1:40:22.367, was the shortest of the 16. Oscar Piastri's fourth place was enough for McLaren to seal the 2025 teams' title.
Across the 16 races, 272 of 335 starters were classified at the finish, 81 percent. The fewest was 12 of 20, in 2017.
Australian drivers at the Singapore Grand Prix
No Australian has won at Marina Bay, but three have reached the podium seven times between them. Mark Webber was third for Red Bull in 2010 and 2011. Daniel Ricciardo was third in 2014 and then second three years running, for Red Bull from 2015 to 2017. Piastri was seventh in 2023, third in 2024 and fourth in 2025, all for McLaren.
Singapore Grand Prix 2026: date, times and the Sprint
The 2026 race is round 17 of 23 on formula1.com's calendar, the next Grand Prix after the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, and the first Sprint weekend in Singapore, with the last of the season's six sprints. Times at the track, eight hours ahead of UTC, from formula1.com's timetable, with Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT), which began on October 4:
- Friday, October 9: the only practice session at 16:30 (08:30 UTC, 19:30 AEDT) and Sprint Qualifying at 20:30 (12:30 UTC, 23:30 AEDT).
- Saturday, October 10: the Sprint, over 21 laps, at 17:00 (09:00 UTC, 20:00 AEDT), and Qualifying at 21:00 (13:00 UTC, midnight AEDT).
- Sunday, October 11: the Grand Prix, 62 laps of the 4.927-kilometer circuit or two hours, at 20:00 (12:00 UTC, 23:00 AEDT and 22:00 AEST in Brisbane).
The F1 title race before Singapore
Verstappen won in Malaysia on October 4, the first win of 2026 for Verstappen, ahead of Antonelli and Hamilton, while Russell retired after 49 laps and scored nothing, in the official result. That took Antonelli's lead over Russell from 66 points to 84 in formula1.com's standings. Mercedes leads the teams' championship with 556 points to Ferrari's 405.
| Driver | Team | Points | Wins | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 320 | 8 | - |
| George Russell | Mercedes | 236 | 3 | 84 |
| Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 214 | 1 | 106 |
| Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 191 | 1 | 129 |
| Lando Norris | McLaren | 188 | 2 | 132 |
| Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 188 | 1 | 132 |
| Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 128 | 0 | 192 |
With seven Grands Prix and the Singapore Sprint left, a driver can still score 183 points, so six drivers can still reach Antonelli on paper, down to Norris and Verstappen, 132 behind. Piastri, 192 behind, can no longer catch Antonelli. As our title-clinch scenarios showed before Malaysia, Antonelli cannot seal the title in Singapore: even with 33 points more than Russell there, Antonelli would lead by 117 with 150 still to play for.
Hamilton has won four times at Marina Bay and is third in the standings for Ferrari. Russell won there last year, while Antonelli's only Singapore Grand Prix, in 2025, ended in fifth place from fourth on the grid. Verstappen has started nine times in Singapore without a win, finishing second in 2018, 2024 and 2025. The full calendar is on the 2026 F1 schedule, and the points table on our F1 standings.
Singapore Grand Prix: frequently asked questions
Who has won the most Singapore Grands Prix? Sebastian Vettel, with five: 2011, 2012 and 2013 for Red Bull and 2015 and 2019 for Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton won four, and Mercedes, with five, is the most successful team.
Who won the 2025 Singapore Grand Prix? George Russell, from pole for Mercedes, ahead of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, on October 5, 2025.
What time is the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix? Sunday, October 11, at 20:00 local time, which is 12:00 UTC and 23:00 AEDT in Sydney and Melbourne. The Sprint is on Saturday at 17:00 local time, 20:00 AEDT.
How often does pole win in Singapore? In 11 of the 16 races, 69 percent, including the last three. Only Fernando Alonso in 2008 and Lewis Hamilton in 2017 won from lower than third.
Has a Singapore Grand Prix ever been run without a safety car? Yes. Every race from 2008 had at least one until 2024, formula1.com says.
How this was built: the official race results, starting grids, season results and final drivers' standings of the 16 world-championship Singapore Grands Prix, 2008 to 2025, from formula1.com, saved for our earlier F1 studies. Pole is the first slot on the official grid; a starter listed as NC is not classified; drivers' nationalities come from formula1.com's standings. The 2008 crash controversy comes from Wikipedia. The 2026 calendar, timetable, Malaysia result and standings were checked on formula1.com on October 5, 2026.