Sebastian Vettel won the Singapore GP in style on Sunday but there was disappointment for Lewis Hamilton at the Marina Bay circuit after the world champion was forced to retire.
Vettel, the polesitter, led the race from start to finish in his Ferrari to take the chequered flag for the 42nd time in his career, moving the 28-year-old ahead of Ayrton Senna to third in the all-time winners' list behind Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost.
He finished narrowly ahead of Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull, with Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari finishing third after a race that nudged the two-hour mark.
Nico Rosberg finished fourth, meanwhile, and therefore closes the gap on Hamilton in the battle for the world championship to 41 points following the latter's retirement on lap 34.
Hamilton was himself hoping to equal Senna's tally of 41 wins from 161 starts but with Mercedes struggling for pace this weekend, lined up only fifth on the grid.
He had run fourth ahead of his Mercedes team-mate in the race but started dropping down the field midway through the race after his car developed a turbo boost problem.
Hamilton fell down to 17th place and eventually suggested retirement in order to save his car's engine for next weekend's Japanese GP.
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