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Formula 1

Rosberg helds off Ricciardo to win in Singapore

The German driver recovered the championship lead by winning his 200th F1 race

The German won his 200th F1 race by just 0.4 seconds

It was an exciting race right to the final lap as Nico Rosberg survived a spectacular recovery by Daniel Ricciardo in the last laps to take the win at the Singapore Grand Prix. The German won his 200th F1 race by just 0.4 seconds and recovered the lead of Drivers' standings on the World Championship.

His Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton was third which means that the two drivers have eight points splitting them with just six races remaining to the end of the season.

Despite being warned for brake management Nico Rosberg was always controlling the race in the front. After the safety car, who came out because of Hulkenberg's crash on the start, the German managed to establish a comfortable lead over Ricciardo and Hamilton.

Behind the leader the Red Bull and Mercedes drivers were fighting one another until the second stint. While the Aussie driver stayed on super-softs, Hamilton went on softs and started to feel some pace problems. Behind him Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was on super-softs and pressured the Brit. The Finn eventually got past Hamilton to enter the podium spots.

After the second visit to pits Mercedes decided to switch to “plan B” and Hamilton started to push behind Raikkonen. He then made a surprise third stop to ulta-softs with just 16 laps to go. Ferrari caught by surprise asked Raikkonen to force the pace before he was asked to come in. However with a strong lap Hamilton managed to just get ahead of the Ferrari driver.

At the front Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo came in for another stint on super-softs, while Mercedes went for a two-strategy with Rosberg going to the end on softs. At that point The German had a 24 second lead, but in just seven laps it got cut to 5 seconds. However Ricciardo didn't get close enough to attempt a DRS overtake, but some traffic and Rosberg being allowed to push a little more troubled his final recovery.

Sebastian Vettel made a brilliant race. Starting from 19th place he made a great recovery with a long first stint with soft tires. He eventually finished fifth. With a late overtake Red Bull's Max Verstappen finished sixth ahead of McLaren's Fernando Alonso.

Sergio Perez brought his Force India home in eighth place bringing the team once again ahead of Williams, but just by one point. Daniil Kvyat finished ninth ahead of Kevin Magnusse who grabbed yet another point for Renault this season.

Check the Driver's and Consctructor's World Championship standings here.

**Results Singapore Grand Prix 2016**
POS	DRIVER	TEAM	TIME
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1h55m48.950s
2	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	0.488s
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	8.038s
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	10.219s
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	27.694s
6	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1m11.197s
7	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	1m29.198s
8	Sergio Perez	Force India	1m51.062s
9	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	1m51.557s
10	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	1m59.952s
11	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas	1 Lap
12	Felipe Massa	Williams	1 Lap
13	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	1 Lap
14	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	1 Lap
15	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	1 Lap
16	Pascal Wehrlein	Manor	1 Lap
17	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	1 Lap
18	Esteban Ocon	Manor	2 Laps
-	Jenson Button	McLaren	Collision
-	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	Collision
-	Romain Grosjean	Haas	Not started
-	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	Collision