Nico Rosberg’s turquoise gloves waved defeat from the cockpit of his ailing Mercedes. And so, after four months of misfortune, hurt and rancour, Lewis Hamilton was handed the World Championship lead.
Rosberg’s race-ending gesture while sitting in the pit lane having completed just 13 laps was the result of electrical problems that beset him from the moment he turned out of the Mercedes garage here under the floodlit splendour of Singapore.
A broken steering column forced him to go straight back for a replacement even before the race had started, and he returned to the grid just in time for lights out.
But that did him no good. He could not get going and remained glued to his grid place — second, behind Hamilton — as the formation lap began around him.
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