Sebastian Vettel reignites title chance

Sebastian Vettel has trimmed Fernando Alonso’s lead of the World Championship to 29 points after winning a Singapore GP that looked to be the property of Lewis Hamilton until the McLaren driver’s luckless retirement with a broken gearbox. In a rough and ragged race that beat the clock and was brought to a halt after passing the two-hour mark, Hamilton’s cruel retirement - unannounced and understood to be unrelated to his brush with the wall during qualifying - from what had appeared to be a comfortab