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Lando dominates but Max does what he needs to do
It was hard to decide on the angle for this week’s Autosport cover. On the one hand, Lando Norris put in one of the most dominant non-Red Bull Formula 1 performances we’ve seen for a long time in the Singapore Grand Prix (see page 14). But, on the other, Max Verstappen (with a little help from Daniel Ricciardo’s fastest lap) minimised the points loss to seven and remains a chunky 52 ahead.
In the end, we went for the ‘dream is still on’ approach, partly because that tallies with McLaren team principal Andrea Stella’s attitude, and partly because the situation seems to sit neatly between Norris having a realistic title chance and merely a mathematical one. McLaren will be encouraged that the MCL38 remained the pacesetter despite the requirement for its clever rear wing to be tweaked (p25), but Red Bull has some upgrades coming and it’s hard to believe that it won’t strike back at some point over the final six events.
There’s no doubt that we have a brilliant British Touring Car title fight to settle at the Brands Hatch finale next month. Jake Hill and Tom Ingram have been outstanding this year (whether that be in their regular mounts or more rorty historic machinery!), and it seems entirely appropriate that they are tied at the top of the table following a dramatic Silverstone weekend in soaking conditions (p30).
This week we also reveal the four rising British talents who will battle it out for an F1 test and £200,000 in the Silverstone Autosport BRDC Award (p10). Congratulations to all four, who will be trying to follow in the footsteps of previous victors Norris and George Russell.
Kevin Turner Chief Editor kevin.turner@autosport.com
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PIT & PADDOCK 4 Verstappen quit threat amid swearing row 7 Toyota enters Australian Supercars 9 Ilott becomes Prema’s first IndyCar racer 10 Young Driver Award finalists revealed 12 Opinion: Phil Branagan 13 Opinion: James Newbold
RACE CENTRE 14 Singapore GP report and analysis 30 Ingram and Hill star at soaking Silverstone 38 World of Sport: IMSA; GT World
Challenge Europe; F1 Academy; Super GT; MotoGP
CLUB AUTOSPORT 51 Elite buys GT3 Ferrari for GT Open attack 52 Boutsen to race Shadow at Spa 54 Britcar to merge its two series 56 Champions crowned at 750MC events 57 Opinion: Ed Hardy 58 National reports: Silverstone;
Castle Combe; Thruxton; Donington Park 68 Life of a race team mechanic
FINISHING STRAIGHT 70 What’s on this week 72 From the archive: 1984 Brazilian GP 74 My favourite car: Ralph Firman
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