Race – perfect Vettel made to wait for title

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel crushed his opposition to score an easy victory in Singapore on Sunday, despite major late-race pressure from McLaren’s Jenson Button, whom he had outrun early on. And it was Button’s presence in second place that prevented Vettel from confirming his second consecutive world championship by a mere point.

To put the title beyond doubt he needed to be 125 points clear, but Button remains a tantalising 124 behind and takes the battle to Japan at the very least