Good afternoon, all, and welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Singapore Grand Prix. It's a Mercedes front row on the grid once more, with Lewis Hamilton in pole and Nico Rosberg just behind him by the very finest of margins in qualifying. The Red Bulls are behind them, with Daniel Ricciardo third and Sebastian Vettel fourth; and the Ferraris and Williamses alternate behind them - Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa, Kimi Raikkonen (unlucky in the final stages of qualifying) and Valtteri Bottas.

Formula 1 | Singapore Grand Prix

Marina Bay Street Circuit | 21.09.2014

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Updated 21/09/2014 at 14:13 GMT

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Out on to the podium, then, as the fans throng across the track to hail the drivers. 'God Save The Queen' plays out, Lewis Hamilton beams, and that's it from me for this afternoon. Thanks for your company - what a terrific season this is turning out to be!

Once more, the drivers are applauded to the scales by a line of women, apparently flight attendants. Vettel tells Hamilton the race was one lap short; Ricciardo comes in to say hello; and it's all very convivial.

Hamilton and Vettel shake hands, and then Hamilton pats his car as if it's a horse.

Niki Lauda on Hamilton: "He's worth his money!"

Terrific drive from Lewis Hamilton. He deserves the fireworks that are exploding across the track at the moment.

"Nice work, Lewis, great stuff," his team tell him. "Fantastic job this weekend, guys, thank you so much for all your hard work - it's really starting to pay off," he replies.

Vettel and Ricciardo take second and third, with Alonso in fourth and Massa fifth, and Vergne finally taking sixth, albeit with a time penalty.

A win and the championship lead for Lewis Hamilton!

Ten seconds left...

So we're into the final lap, with 30 seconds to go.

And Vergne, who's had an eventful evening, overtakes Bottas and moves into sixth.

Two and a half minutes left before the race times out...

59/61

Ricciardo's got two laps left to get past his team-mate - the gap is less than half a second.

58/61

Looks like this race is set to time out after that extensive safety car spell.

57/61

Ricciardo is closing on Vettel for second now! Alonso isn't far behind Ricciardo as well - only 0.7 seconds.

56/61

Another investigation for Vergne. And Maldonado is overtaken by Magnussen.

55/61

It's been an intriguing weekend when it comes to the reliability of the cars, hasn't it? The Mercedes cars are indisputably better, but they're not immune from glitches, as we've seen throughout the season - and it's taken some great driving from Hamilton to hold that lead.

Button's car is left at the side of the track - shouldn't need a safety car there, so Hamilton can start to stretch away.

54/61

Vergne skews off the track; Button reports a shut down - and Hamilton goes back into the lead!

Hamilton is right up there behind Vettel aleady, closing down and down and down and pulling further away from Ricciardo.

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