Wolff praises Leclerc for not ‘pulling the handbrake’ in F1 Abu Dhabi GP

The fight for second in the constructors’ championship between Mercedes and Ferrari went down to the wire in the season finale. In a late but ultimately unsuccessful bid to thwart Mercedes, Leclerc allowed a penalised Sergio Perez to overtake in a bid to prevent George Russell landing a podium.

Leclerc wanted Perez, handicapped by five seconds for tagging Lando Norris, to pass and build a gap so that Russell, then running in fourth, would be…