When your team-mate is sitting on pole position and you aren't at least alongside them, you will have questions to answer – even in the modern era of convergence when the gaps are that much tighter.

Mercedes' Andrea Kimi Antonelli turned that scrutiny on himself as he qualified fourth in Singapore, 0.379s off polesitting team-mate George Russell .

"My emotion took over," he explained after the qualifying session. "And I just started to drive a bit tense, because I felt I had a real shot to at least front row – because we were quick. But then I started to overdrive.

"I started to push more and more. Starting to carry a lot of speed into the corners. But just, it was too much over the limit."

Antonelli had something of a harum-scarum ride through all three sessions, coming close to

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