The third free practice is behind us GP Abu Dhabi, general of the afternoon qualifiers, and Lewis Hamilton has sent a clear message to his rivals that he is aiming for the best starting position for tomorrow's final race of the season on the track Yas Marina Tour.
The Briton who has it in his ass today engine from Brazil, indicated that in the fight for the title of champion he will not leave anything to chance and will do his best best prepared to fight for the best starting places. While the two rivals were apart two tenths, the racers were already half a second behind the third place.
Again, both racers were good AlphaTauria, but this time we are looking in vain for the team racer in the foreground AlpineF1, who impressed yesterday with great performances. McLaren much better this time, for example Lando Norris compared to yesterday made a big step forward.
result
Lewis Hamilton he took his fastest lap time in time 1: 23.274 minutes and was two tenths of a second faster than Max Verstappen, who had quite a few problems with the back wing and managed to achieve his time at the end of training. Third Valtteri Bottas he was a good seven tenths of a second behind his teammate and two hundredths more in fourth place Sergio Perez.
Fifth place belonged Land Norris, and in sixth and seventh place are both AlphaTauri racers namely Yuki tsunoda before Pierre Gasly, both separated by just under three hundredths. He finished eighth Carlos Sainz, in front of his teammate Charles Leclerc, who took tenth place, came in ninth Daniel Ricciardo.
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: Lance stroll (Aston Martin), Esteba Ocon (AlpineF1), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Fernando Alonso (AlpineF1), Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), George Russell (Williams), Nicholas Latifi (Williams), Mick Schumacher (Haas) and Nikita mazepin (Haas).
Incidents
In fact, it's just about one incident, as the training was very calm, but he could have a great response. Just over ten minutes before the end, they met just like a week ago Lewis Hamilton in Nikita mazepin. He was a Mercedes racer again to be in the way to a young Russian in Haas.
Hamilton, who seduced out of the pits, was on the ideal line when mazepin in the second turn he ran into a Briton. Racer Haas he had to take action again, partly off the track to avoid crashing into Hamilton. He said on the radio: "He tried to get me out of his way."It simply came to our notice then comments flared up, although the commissioners did not even look at it.
Technology
After it is Pirelli warned loudly yesterday before aggressive curbs in the fifth and ninth turns, some were given accepted changes. There are several recorded the second type of curbs at exit from turns. At the same time, the Italians also accepted measures and have adjusted significantly lowest pressure in tires.
Changes were also made to Red Bullu. They were yesterday Verstappen in Perez vehicles with different settings, Perez with less vacuum, Verstappen with more. They switched in the third practice aerodynamic configurations. During training, however, they are at Verstappen replaced the rear wings again, there may have been problems with the DRS.