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I could celebrate a victory smoothly from start to finish for the second time this year at the top of the podium Verstappen, after breaking Mercedes’ dominance in abu dhabi racing since 2014.
The Red Bull driver got a safe lead early in the race, which was eliminated by the safety car interval.
“It was a nice race. It was a good start, and from there I kept going, built the right gap and then just worried about the tires, ”Verstappen said after the crash.
“The security car arrived at the wrong time. Because after that I had to stretch my stage on the hard tires. Fortunately, the tires worked, but I had to pay a little more attention to them. ”
“The car was good today and only thanks to the right balance was I able to protect the tires and build the lead that lasted until the end of the race.”
Eleven rounds before taxiing, the Dutchman complained of a strong vibration, who asked his engineer how much vibration and oscillation they see at the exit of the curve. According to his own confession, it was then that he remembered that he had been forced to abandon the race in Imola after a similar incident.
“I only paid attention to the straight lines, luckily the tires worked well.”
Verstappen added, he didn’t expect itwho can beat Mercedes both in the time trial and in the race.
“I read that they had to mount the engines a bit, it didn’t work well for them either.”
“In general, I think our car was stronger than we expected here. Of course I’m very happy, it’s good to finish the season like this, it motivates the members of our team a lot ”.
“As for next season, I hope we have learned from the past and are going to start the year much harder. It wouldn’t be bad if we could go harder several times, ”concluded Verstappen, now a ten-time winner of the race.
