F1 Singapore GP LIVE: Practice schedule and FP2 results after George Russell crash

Lewis Hamilton has called out FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem for a comment referring to rappers when discussing the broadcast of swearing in Formula One races – saying they had a “racial element” to them.

Ben Sulayem, head of F1’s governing body, says he has asked Formula 1 to limit the amount of swearing – usually from drivers over team radio – on TV coverage of races. Swear words are currently bleeped out before being broadcast.

The 62-year-old Emirati executive said: “We have to differentiate between our sport – motorsport – and rap music. We’re not rappers, you know. They say the F-word how many times per minute? We are not on that. That’s them and we are [us].”

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Max Verstappen has been told to “accomplish some work of public interest” in an odd ruling by the stewards after swearing during Thursday’s FIA press conference in Singapore.

The Red Bull driver, who leads this year’s world championship by 59 points to Lando Norris, has not won in seven races and struggled last week in Azerbaijan.

When asked about his car in Baku, Verstappen replied that he knew “the car was f*****” and was warned about his language by the moderator.

After being called to see the stewards on Friday, with a meeting lasting around 15 minutes, the decision reached by the stewards was an “obligation to accomplish some work of public interest.”

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1. McLaren - 476 points

2. Red Bull - 456 points

3. Ferrari - 425 points

4. Mercedes - 309 points

5. Aston Martin - 82 points

6. RB - 34 points

7. Haas - 29 points

8. Williams - 16 points

9. Alpine - 13 points

All times BST

Friday 20 September

• Free practice 2: 2pm

Saturday 21 September

• Free practice 3: 10:30am
• Qualifying: 2pm

Sunday 22 September

• Race: 1pm

Max Verstappen has been summoned to the race stewards for an alleged breach of the International Sporting Code, relating to “language used during the FIA Thursday driver press conference.”

The Red Bull driver swore during yesterday’s press conference.

Christian Horner says Red Bull have traced their decline all the way back to the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix last June, despite the dozen-plus races Max Verstappen won after that event.

Horner insists it was race seven of 22 last year which saw Red Bull make their first error, but the team didn’t take it seriously “because Max kept winning.”

“We traced the development history back and it turned out that the first mistake we made was with an underbody upgrade in 2023 in Barcelona,” Horner told German outlet Auto Motor und Sport.

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“We need to sort out the brakes. It cannot be that we changed the brake balance so much.”

Fine-tuning for the Ferrari man despite his third-quickest time.

Charles Leclerc, the man who stood out over one lap in Baku last week, sets the tone this weekend with the fastest lap, with the Ferrari’s time of 1:31:763 just 0.076 secs quicker than Lando Norris in second!

Carlos Sainz is third, 0.189 secs off his team-mate, with Max Verstappen in fourth - three-tenths off.

5-10: Tsunoda, Piastri, Ricciardo, Albon, Alonsom Ocon

Lewis Hamilton down in P12, with George Russell P16!

Perez: “I can’t stop the car with the front right.”