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Our car was very quick today, as were our drivers, which is a very important factor on such a unique track as this one.

Today's team representatives press conference with Guenther Steiner, Frederic Vasseur, Laurent Mekies, Jost Capito, Christian Horner and Andreas Seidl.

Lewis came close today, unfortunately, he had a small lock up in Turn 16 and that cost him momentum through the rest of the lap.

We have mixed feelings after today's qualifying.

Charles Leclerc secured his ninth FIA Formula 1 World Championship pole position of the season around the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore as Max Verstappen on his birthday weekend could only manage eighth on the grid for tomorrow’s race after aborting his second run and being told by his Oracle Red Bull Racing team to pit on his third run due to running low on fuel.

Verstappen’s team-mate Sergio Perez will line up on front row of the grid behind Leclerc with Lewis Hamilton putting on an impressive display throughout qualifying to put himself and Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team on the second row in third position.

Q1: Williams out, Surprising exit for Esteban Ocon

Before qualifying had begun, Hamilton had been summoned to the stewards for wearing a nose stud which the FIA made clear a few months ago that drivers would not be allowed to wear any kind of jewellery while out on track. This has been ongoing between Hamilton and the FIA for a little while now as the British driver luckily avoided a fine but Mercedes were fined twenty-five thousand euros even though the team claims he wasn’t wearing any jewellery.

All the drivers started the first round of qualifying on the intermediate tyres as Verstappen went quickest in the first session with a 1:53.057 outpacing both Hamilton and Leclerc who were over three tenths behind the Dutchman.

The first round of qualifying saw a surprise exit for BWT Alpine F1 Team’s Esteban Ocon who complained of braking issues on his second run which may have meant that he had to lift and cost on his final lap which would have affected his time as he’ll be starting tomorrow’s race in eighteenth.

We've got both cars starting in strong positions and the aim is points tomorrow.

Sports commissions generally prohibit athletes from using cannabis. However, public opinion is rapidly changing, and official sports associations have had to relax their policy on white sports marijuana. 

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This concept encompasses increasing the permitted level of THC metabolite in the urine by a factor of 10, from 15 ng/ml to 150 ng/ml. On occasion, drug tests allow a level of 180 ng/ml to make an individual decision in case of uncertainty in the results.

The ethical issues of marijuana use in sports have been vigorously debated several times:

In 1989, the International Olympic Committee organized the First World Doping Conference in Switzerland and created the World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA.Their 2004 code is now enforced by 700 sports organizations, including the IOC, the International Paralympic Committee, professional sports leagues, and national anti-doping agencies. The World Anti-Doping Code refers to cannabis as a prohibited substance.In 2012, the percentage of positive tests for cannabis was 9 per cent; in 2012, it was at 2.4 per cent.The scandal erupted in 2021 when American track and field athlete Shakarrie Richardson was suspended from the Tokyo Summer Olympics. This WADA decision was criticized by American society and U.S. congressmen, calling the approach “outdated and restrictive.”In September 2022, WADA announced the scientific results and left cannabis on the list of prohibited substances while still actively continuing to research the effect of THC in increasing exercise performance.

Sports where Marijuana Can Help

Is marijuana legal in any professional sport? The health effects of controlled substances are still a controversial issue to this day. In 2019, the World Health Organization recommended changing the level of cannabis control in the United Nations. 

This result is not what we were expecting based on the good performance we showed on Friday.

Mercedes has been fined �25,000 for failing to declaring Lewis Hamilton's nose ring in Singapore.

World champion is left seething after being told to abort possible pole-winning lap due to fuel fears.

Red Bull boss, Christian Horner threatens legal action as he demands rivals withdraw their "defamatory" claims.

It's a very happy day today.

Tomorrow we will be looking to fight for points.

Charles Leclerc went fastest in an underwhelming and delayed final FIA Formula 1 World Championship practice session at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore with a time of 1:57.782. The man that the Scuderia Ferrari driver is trying to chase down in Max Verstappen finished only 0.526 seconds behind the Monegasque driver with his team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr., who was at top of the timesheet yesterday in practice two, had to settle for third.

The session got off to a very slow start due to a heavy downpour of rain which eased away throughout the hour but, the wet conditions on track were evident throughout.

Despite the session beginning on time, the pit lane exit remained closed for more than half of the session due to the wet weather, as the marshals worked hard to get the standing water off of the track.

With twenty-eight minutes remaining in the session, the pit lane exit went green and the cars were finally able to go out on track with Pierre Gasly going out first for Scuderia AlphaTauri and setting a lap time of 2:09.894, joined shortly by his team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.

It wouldn’t be long before Valtteri Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo headed out onto the circuit, followed closely by the Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team pairing of Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel.

The weather could still be an issue tomorrow and we have a good set of tyres available to cover most eventualities.

Charles Leclerc claims pole for the Singapore Grand Prix, ahead of Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton, while George Russell fails to make it to Q3 and Max Verstappen has a meltdown.

Times from today's qualifying session for the Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix.

Wet conditions leave drivers with just thirty minutes of practice as Charles Leclerc edges out Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz.

Times from the final free practice session for the Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix.

Mercedes boss, Toto Wolff claims that Red Bull's exceeding of the 2021 budget cap was common knowledge within the F1 paddock.