Ahead of Sunday’s race, Leclerc lies in fifth place on 158 points, ahead of Lando Norris on 154 and Sainz on 149.5. Norris gave himself a good shot at jumping Leclerc by qualifying third at Yas Marina, while Sainz will start fifth, and Leclerc seventh. Although he has a two-place advantage on his teammate, Sainz […]
The news was contained in a document issued by F1 as an update on future developments within the organisation. It indicated that Brawn, who turned 67 last month, was “expected” to leave his role, and it’s understood that the exact timing of his departure has not yet been finalised. Following his departure from Mercedes at […]
Before he dominated Q3 to take pole at the Yas Marina track ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen had initially tried to get through Q2 on the mediums – the same compound his rival ran at that stage to take for the start of Sunday’s race. But after posting a time that would have got him […]
The Briton will enter his fourth F1 title decider at Abu Dhabi in Sunday’s race at Yas Marina, following the 2010 event that ended with Sebastian Vettel’s first championship triumph in a four-way scrap against Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber and Hamilton, then in 2014 and 2016 Hamilton and Rosberg had to-the-wire title battles decided at […]
The Red Bull driver produced a stunning lap to take his 10th pole position of the season, beating title rival Lewis Hamilton by 0.371s who will join him on the front row for the finale. With both drives on equal points going into the title decider, the simple equation is whoever finishes in front between […]
Verstappen pulled off a brilliant effort in his first run in Q3 to deliver a lap that was half a second clear of everyone else – although it was slightly helped by a tow from team-mate Sergio Perez. But despite Hamilton improving on his second run to close the gap, with his first lap having […]
Since this year’s Belgian Grand Prix, F1 has been experimenting with a new mini camera that is positioned in the lining of a drivers’ helmet. First trialled by Fernando Alonso at Spa-Francorchamps, it has been run several times over the second half of the campaign, with Charles Leclerc trialling it at this weekend’s Abu Dhabi […]
The title contenders topped a practice session each on Friday, Verstappen leading the way in FP1 before Hamilton took over at the top in the second session, with the Mercedes driver setting the quickest time of the day with a 1m23.691s. Since F1’s last visit to the Abu Dhabi track, the Yas Marina complex has […]
Defending F1 world champion Hamilton grabbed top spot in FP2 after title rival Max Verstappen was fastest in the first practice session at the revamped Yas Marina Circuit, with both drivers going into the season finale level on points for a winner takes all race. With tensions still high between the two title fighters and […]
While their respective teams and drivers have gone wheel-to-wheel, Wolff and Horner have fired shots at each other throughout the season. Amid flexi-wing sagas, rights to review, accident reconstructions and threats to protest, it has fuelled what Horner called in the tense Qatar press conference “by far the most intense political title fight we’ve been […]