A genuine threat in Singapore

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Throughout this year’s championship Mercedes have spoken of a pending challenge, of rivals closing the gap and fighting at the front, only this weekend in Singapore those words may yet be true.

The 2016 championship has belonged to Mercedes with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg trading victories. Although Hamilton leads the standings by two points over his team-mate, it is Rosberg who tops the victory count with seven to six.

Mercedes have in fact won all but one grand prix, Spain, although there is a very bright shining light for their rivals in Singapore as they were under threat in Monaco – a grand prix that is similar to this weekend’s Marina Bay outing, it just swaps the glamour and money for lights and humidity.

Since its controversial debut in 2008, a race in which Nelson Piquet Jr was ordered to crash to assist team-mate Fernando Alonso to the win, the twisty slow street circuit …

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