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In the first runs of Q3, Valtteri Bottas looked in control with a tenth advantage over Max Verstappen, who split the Mercedes. But Max Verstappen pulled it out of the bag at the end, with an incredible lap to take his first pole position of the season ahead of Valtteri Bottas in second and LewisContinue reading “Abu Dhabi GP: Verstappen saves best till last to take pole”

Day 2 at Abu Dhabi got off to a great start for Red Bull as Max Verstappen topped the timesheets on a 1.36.251, 5 tenths ahead of his team-mate Alexander Albon who set the second fastest time. It was another good session for Renault, with both cars finishing third and fourth fastest respectively, with DanielContinue reading “Abu Dhabi GP: Verstappen sets pace in final practice”

Valtteri Bottas ended the second free practice session on top, two tenths ahead of his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who had an eventful session, changing his steering wheel in the early stages and then getting momentarily stuck in the pitlane after he couldn’t find a gear. Max Verstappen set the third fastest time ahead of AlexanderContinue reading “Abu Dhabi GP: Bottas tops mechanical failure hit session”

It is not a very relevant practice session due to the differing temperatures to race running, and the majority of teams were focusing on 2021. But it was Max Verstappen who topped the session on a 1.37.378, 3 hundredths ahead of Valtteri Bottas in second place. Esteban Ocon set the third fastest time ahead ofContinue reading “Abu Dhabi GP: Verstappen tops first practice at Yas Marina”

After a thrilling race on the Bahrain Outer circuit, Formula One heads to Yas Island, home of the spectacular Yas Marina Circuit for the final round of a crazy 2020 season. Lewis Hamilton is back after missing a race for the first time since 2006 as a result of a positive COVID-19 test, and isContinue reading “Abu Dhabi GP: Race Preview”

Sergio Perez is now a grand prix winner after an incredible strategical drive after being hit on the first lap, whilst a strategical mistake from Mercedes sees them finish in eighth and ninth. At the start of the race, George Russell instantly seized the initiative and managed to get past Valtteri Bottas to take theContinue reading “Sakhir GP: Sergio Perez takes shock victory as Mercedes stumbles”

Formula 2 saw an incredible title decider that looked like it could go either way. Dan Ticktum was on reverse grid pole and fended off Jehan Daruvala for much of the race. But eventually Jehan was able to find a way past the DAMS driver and he took his maiden win in F2. Dan’s tyresContinue reading “Sakhir F2: Daruvala takes maiden win whilst Schumacher takes title”

In the early stages of Q3. Mercedes struggled. Max Verstappen was on provisional pole whilst Charles Leclerc did an incredible laptime to go second fastest, it felt so good that he decided to get out of the car and that he couldn’t go any faster. Eventually though Mercedes turned the wick up and Valtteri BottasContinue reading “Sakhir GP: Bottas gets pole whilst Russell stars”

The first race of the Sakhir Grand Prix proved to be a thriller, after an intense battle for the lead saw Yuki Tsunoda pass Nikita Mazepin and take a crucial victory, just fending off Guanyu Zhou who was on fresher tyres, although the Virtuosi had a 5 second penalty. However the battling behind resulted inContinue reading “Sakhir F2: Tsunoda wins Sakhir thriller”