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'Rub your tummy and pat your head'

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ESPN's Radio Ga Ga rounds up the best radio soundbites from the Singapore Grand Prix.

"The car is hot. Avoid the tow when possible."
"Anything else!?"

Early in the race, Jenson Button gives a hint of frustrations boiling with McLaren's situation as he gets another request from the pit wall to help keep the car running.

"He got lucky, didn't he?"

Daniel Ricciardo reacts to the deployment of the safety car, which ended his first stint prematurely as he had started to chip away at Sebastian Vettel's lead.

"Quickly guys, quick!"

A frantic Lewis Hamilton asks for advice to fix the "freak" problem with his Mercedes as he starts dropping rapidly through the field.

"A shame. Think we had the pace to win."
"I think we had the strategy to win as well Lewis."

Hamilton bemoans his retirement from what was looking like an increasingly strong position to challenge Vettel and Ricciardo at the end - albeit before he knew about the race-altering second safety car period.

"Fan on track, fan on track!"

Vettel reacts to seeing a man wandering down the straight between Turns 13 and 14, a moment which triggered the second safety car period which nullified any remaining threat from Ricciardo behind.

"Rub your tummy and pat your head."

Button's radio responses continue to hint at a man losing the motivation to soldier on through McLaren-Honda's struggles, this time after another long list of requests during the safety car period.

"I need everything you've got Kimi, everything you've got."

With Vettel controlling the race and Nico Rosberg still in a potentially threatening position in the middle stint, Ferrari issues a hurry-up to Kimi Raikkonen.

"I should have known, really, he's mental!"

Button continues his impressive array of one-liners after clipping the back of Pastor Maldonado's Lotus as the Venezuelan slowly made his way back on track at Turn 15.

"Max, we need to swap positions."
"No!"
"Max, just do it."

Max Verstappen issues a point-blank refusal to cede eighth position to Toro Rosso team-mate Carlos Sainz to allow the Spaniard a shot at Sergio Perez in front. Toro Rosso would later say the 17-year-old made the right call.