Bojan Vrbnjak
The first free practice of the final race is behind us GP Abu Dhabi this season, on which the decision on this year will be made champion. Who will rule on Sunday night local time joy and with whom sadness, will be revealed. They are candidates Max Verstappen in Lewis Hamilton, which have the same number of points.
The best of the racing weekend started the finals Max Verstappen, which overtook both racers Mercedesa, where he was Valtteri Bottas faster than Lewis Hamilton. Another racer Red Bulla Sergio Perez however, with fourth place, he made sure the two silver arrow racers found themselves in a red bull sandwich. The body is in good shape here in Abu Dhabi say both racers AlphaTauria and veteran Fernando Alonso in AlpineF1.
Training is over no incidents, because obviously the racers, especially those who are fighting for better places - including their teams - did not want to take risks. We saw quite a few wide rides to endless excursion zones and surprisingly, Mercedes was in the lead here.
result
Max Verstappen he needed for his fastest lap 1: 25.009 minutes and was thus nearly two-tenths of a second faster than Valtteria Bottas. The main rival of the Dutchman in the fight for the title Lewis Hamilton he was 3,5 tenths of a second behind in third place. He was a good hundredth behind the Briton in fourth place Sergio Perez.
He recorded an additional hundredth of a second in fifth place Yuki tsunoda, which was less than three tenths of a second faster than Fernanda Alonso in sixth place. He finished seventh with a gap of eight tenths of a second Pierre Gasly, eighth and ninth place were occupied by both Ferrari racers, where he was Charles Leclerc closely before Carlos Sainzem. He finishes ten Sebastian Vettel with just under a second behind.
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: Esteban Ocon (AlpineF1), Lando Norris (McLaren), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Jack aitken (Williams - instead of Russell), Nicholas latifi (Williams), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and Nikita mazepin (Haas).
Incidents
He took care of the only phase of the yellow flag Kimi Raikkonen, who lost the rear of his car at the entrance to the new left turn at the end of the second DRS zone. Finn he spun onto the paved excursion zone, but was able to continue training.
However, he dealt with technical problems Esteban Ocon - at least in the short term. At full speed he was his gearbox suddenly placed in a neutral position. After talking to the team and some attempt at shifting, his gearbox listened to his commands again.
Hamilton he was not the only one to be commissioners erased time due to violation track restrictions. The Briton was joined by a number of colleagues who left the track illegally. He caused the most problems for the racers target bend, as well as the right turn directly in front of it and the seventh turn of the track.
