Max Verstappen, the two-time reigning Formula One world champion, finished second in this past Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix at Marina Bay Street Circuit, snapping a record-breaking 10-race winning streak.
After a bad qualifying performance at the temporary 19-turn, 3.07-mile (4.941-kilometer) street circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore, Red Bull’s driver will start from the sixth row in Sunday’s 62-lap race.
He finished fifth after utilizing a varied tire strategy that saw him race as high as second and as low as fifteenth throughout the tumultuous night.
The competition was won by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr.
Verstappen’s 15-race top-two stretch, which began late last season, was snapped, as was his 10-race winning streak.
It also ended his chances of repeating Michael Schumacher’s 2002 accomplishment of finishing on the podium in all 22 races on the schedule this year.
