2013 Singapore Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 19 in the 2013 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 22 September 2013 | ||
| Official name | 2013 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Marina Bay Street Circuit Marina Bay, Singapore |
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| Course | Street circuit | ||
| Course length | 5.065 km (3.147 mi) | ||
| Distance | 61 laps, 308.965 km (191.982 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry and 29 degrees | ||
| Attendance | 87,500 (3-day average) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:42.841 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Sebastian Vettel
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Red Bull-Renault | |
| Time | 1:48.574 on lap 46 (lap record) | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Lotus-Renault | ||
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The 2013 Singapore Grand Prix (formally known as the 2013 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on Sunday, 22 September 2013 at 20:00 SST by the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore. The race was the thirteenth round of the 2013 season, and marked the 6th running of the night race, the Singapore Grand Prix.
Sebastian Vettel produced one of his most dominating performances. He took pole position, led every lap, scored fastest lap, and won by more than 32.6 seconds; his third Grand Chelem. With nearly perfect start and handling of safety car situation, Alonso took second position from seventh on the grid. Räikkönen, despite injury in the back and qualified only 13th, climbed up to the final podium position. Nico Rosberg, who started on the front row alongside Vettel, was caught out by a failed tyre strategy to finish fourth while British team-mate Lewis Hamilton followed him home for 5th place.Felipe Massa took sixth, over a minute behind the race winner while Jenson Button slipped down the order in the last few laps to finish seventh with Sergio Pérez, Nico Hülkenberg and Adrian Sutil picking up the final points places. The results meant that Vettel again increased his championship lead to 60 points over Fernando Alonso with Lewis Hamilton a further 36 points behind and Kimi Räikkönen two behind Hamilton's total.
The circuit layout was revised for the 2013 race, with the removal of the "Singapore Sling" chicane at Turn 10. The corner was condensed down to a single change in direction, with the large kerbs that had been used to mark the chicane removed entirely.
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-banded supersoft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre, as opposed to the previous year where soft and supersoft selection were provided.
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