< > I wrote on Thursday that despite its relatively passing-unfriendly layout, Marina Bay Circuit tends to deliver the goods. Well, that continued to ring true on Sunday. Having granted Lewis Hamilton a free 25-point boost, what happened at the first corner between Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen will probably go down as “the crash that decided the championship.' In trying to simultaneously squeeze Verstappen, both Ferrari drivers were responsible for their own destruction – Kimi for the initial contact, Seb for everything afterwards – and while mathematically it might not be over, together they’ve essentially submarined Ferrari’s 2017 title chances....
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