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Max Verstappen won the Sprint on Saturday, took pole a few hours later, and led the Singapore Grand Prix from lights to flag. His 73rd career win, his 250th Grand Prix start, and the first time he has ever won at Marina Bay. Charles Leclerc finished second, Kimi Antonelli third. But the argument of the episode is about George Russell. He crashed out of the Sprint lead on lap one, took an engine penalty, started nineteenth and finished ninth — and Greeny and Cheese ask whether a season that began with him as the odds-on title favorite has broken him for good. Also: Lewis Hamilton stayed out on old softs through a virtual safety car, dropped from third to sixth, and took the blame on the radio — and why he no longer trusts the Ferrari pit wall. McLaren leave points on the board again and are now 105 behind Ferrari. The FIA admit a human error that left cars running in different power modes during Sprint qualifying. The Quizmaster's Cockpit goes three for three on Marina Bay history. And a Greenybucks ledger where both hosts lost money and the gap still closed. Plus Max on the paddock being more relaxed without Christian Horner, eleven days before Horner's book lands. Next week: an In The News special. Then Austin, and the United States Grand Prix on October 25. In The Paddock is published within hours of almost every Grand Prix podium.

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