There was early drama on Sunday evening in Abu Dhabi, when Nico Hulkenberg suffered a significant airborne crash in his Renault on the first lap of the season finale. 

Max Verstappen was on course to win the Brazilian Grand Prix from fifth on the grid when he collided with Esteban Ocon as the Force India driver was attempting to unlap himself.

Sunday afternoon in Mexico saw Lewis Hamilton crowned Formula One World Champion for the fifth time, equalising the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio’s record.

There can have been few more popular winners of a Grand Prix in recent years than Kimi Raikkonen, whose US Grand Prix win was straight out of his younger days.

Fittingly for the Japanese Grand Prix, Max Verstappen was on a kamikaze mission at Suzuka Circuit on Sunday afternoon.

After a terrible start to the weekend that saw both Red Bulls suffer engine penalties and start towards the back of the grid it was down to birthday boy and racing ingénue Max Verstappen to put smiles on the faces of the factory workers back in Milton Keynes with a banzai performance from lights to flag.

Lewis Hamilton delivered a faultless performance under the Marina Bay lights during Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix, ceding the lead only briefly during the pit stops.

Best to begin at the beginning: the man who heads the team that heads the World Championship, Toto Wolff of Mercedes, knows better than most the challenge that Singapore presents – especially when your team is gunning for the drivers’ and constructors’ titles.

The Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix was almost made for Instagram. We caught up with top F1 photographer Steven Tee for how to capture the best of the event armed just with a smartphone.

The Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix is a fan’s paradise, but an intense physical challenge for the drivers.

Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Italy was a body blow to Ferrari, which yet again had the fastest car, but for the third time in the last four races – along with Germany and Hungary - had failed to win with it.

This race showed that Ferrari has the fastest car in F1 at the moment and with a new engine Sebastian Vettel was untouchable at Spa.

For the second race in succession, Lewis Hamilton won a race he didn’t expect to win going into the weekend. Ferrari had the faster car in Germany last weekend but rain intervened and Sebastian Vettel crashed.

Lewis Hamilton could not believe that he had won the German Grand Prix from 14th place on the grid, the lowest grid slot he had ever won from in over a decade as a Formula 1 driver.

With over 15 combined years in the entertainment industry working on more than 55 large-scale concerts and festivals, both Singapore GP’s Senior Operations Executive Patrick Chan and Entertainment Executive Sarah Lu know to always expect the unexpected. 

Sebastian Vettel drew level with legendary racer Alain Prost on 51 Formula One victories, a real milestone, after this measured drive at Silverstone. He finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen on the podium.

What should have been an easy win for Mercedes at a circuit the team have dominated in recent years descended into disaster, when first Valtteri Bottas and then Lewis Hamilton retired with mechanical failures.

Lewis Hamilton moved back into the F1 World Championship lead, by 14 points over Sebastian Vettel with this win in the French Grand Prix. Max Verstappen was second and Kimi Raikkonen third. 

Ferrari hadn’t won the Canadian Grand Prix since Michael Schumacher’s seventh and last win there in 2004.

Daniel Ricciardo’s victory in Monaco is certainly redemption for the win that got away in 2016, when the Red Bull team made a pit stop blunder that handed the win to Lewis Hamilton. 

A strong weekend for Mercedes with their first 1-2 finish of the season and for Lewis Hamilton, who won the race from pole position. 

It was like Istanbul 2010 all over again as the battling Red Bulls managed to take each other out of the race on lap 40, throwing away a chunk of championship points in the process.

Daniel Ricciardo’s F1 future became even more of an open question after a blistering drive that saw the Red Bull driver swoop past Max Verstappen, Kimi Räikkönen, Lewis Hamilton, and Sebastian Vettel before pouncing on race leader Bottas.

“You work for just three days in a year?” – a question Singapore GP employees frequently face when meeting well-meaning associates. We chat with key personnel from the race promoter to find out what they do for the rest of the year in the lead up to Asia’s largest sporting and entertainment extravaganza, the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. 

Ferrari were celebrating hard after this result but in fact it was a great win for Sebastian Vettel.

Ferrari won the Australian Grand Prix, but the Scuderia’s much anticipated strong race pace was not in evidence on Sunday.

After a close battle for the world championship last year between Mercedes and Ferrari, many fans around the world are hoping that the competition will be even hotter in 2018.

“You work for just three days in a year?” – a question Singapore GP employees frequently face when meeting well-meaning associates. The reality is far from that.