Gloves off, Red run, vested interests: Singapore GP talking points

McLaren clinched the Formula One constructors title, but their drivers’ tempers frayed in the heat of a Singapore Grand Prix won by the Mercedes of George Russell.

AFP highlights three talking points from Sunday’s night race, one of the most physically brutal tests of man and machine on the motor racing calendar:

– Gloves off for Piastri, Norris –

With the constructors’ championship safely tucked away for a second successive season, the question now is: will McLaren let the gloves come off in a head-to-head fight for the drivers’ title?

If the start of the Singapore GP was anything to go by, the battle between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris over the last six races could be very spicy.

Norris forced his way past Piastri into third place, barging his teammate out of the way in a wheel-t