Just seven days after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and we are back for the 18th race of the season, hosted on the streets of Singapore. Oscar Piastri is the most recent race winner after an impressive victory in Baku while Red Bull will be wanting to claw back the championship lead from McLaren. The Sauber seat is one of just two yet to be decided for 2025 but a new potential candidate appears to be Williams junior and current F1 driver Franco Colapinto.
The Argentine, who made a surprise debut in Monza before a points finish in Baku, is reportedly being pushed by Williams to the Sauber team in the hope of getting him some more experience. Sauber’s own candidates appear to be Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu and Gabriel Bortoleto but Colapinto may have thrown the cat amongst the pigeons. The best thing the 21-year-old can do is put in another strong performance this weekend but Singapore takes no prisoners, especially for a driver who had not been training for its physical challenges until recently.
Another rumour on the grapevine is that Red Bull are preparing to announce their driver lineup for 2025 and there are hints that it will be Liam Lawson, not Daniel Ricciardo, in the VCARB seat. The decision has most likely already been made but if Ricciardo were to put in the best drive of his season in Singapore then he may make the Red Bull bosses reconsider. If that is not the case then it would at least put him in the shop window for the Sauber seat if he is desperate to stay in F1.