Max Verstappen hoping to break major Singapore GP 'curse' in ultimate Red Bull test

For all his success in F1, one of the more remarkable statistics about Max Verstappen is that he has never won the Singapore Grand Prix - and only led three laps. 

Of the 24 tracks on the calendar this season, Verstappen has won at 23 of them, and won at 30 tracks overall, placing him just one behind Lewis Hamilton's record of 31 different venues won at.

This year, Singapore marks a crucial test for Verstappen and his resurgent Red Bull after victories in Italy and Azerbaijan. 

The RB21 has been a better machine in low downforce configuration throughout the year, but Verstappen's title credentials are set for their toughest exam at his bogey circuit. 

Should Verstappen be able to win and take even more points out of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris to further reduce Piastri's 69-point advantage, then it is truly game on in the title race.

Below, RacingNews365 takes a look at Verstappen's record in Singapore, as he aims to break the curse at Marina Bay this weekend. 

Of his seven finishes in Singapore, Verstappen's average position is 4.7, with the Dutchman only scoring one podium in the ground effects era.

That came in 2024, with Singapore 2023 marking the race which ended his record-breaking 10 successive wins on a weekend Red Bull's RB19 was disastrously off the pace, leaving him 11th in qualifying and fifth in the race.

In 2022, Verstappen was set for pole position, being well up on Charles Leclerc's pole lap, before being told to abort the lap owing to a shortage of fuel, leaving him eighth on the grid, and only seventh in the race.

Verstappen's only DNF at Marina Bay came in 2017, when he was sandwiched between Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen at the start of the first wet race in the event's history.

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