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Verstappen was the winner of the pole position in Abu Dhabi, which started at sunset and ended in the dark.
In Abu Dhabi, where Mercedes drivers are expected to take first place, Verstappen became the fastest name, scoring 1: 35.246 in the final round of the session, earning his first and third career pole positions this year. .
Valtteri Bottas, who took the lead in the last session, overtook his teammate but could not avoid passing Verstappen at the last minute and remained in 2nd place.
Lewis Hamilton, who missed the Sakhir GP due to COVID but managed to come back in the last race, couldn’t find what he was looking for in the last session, despite completing the first two sessions at the top, and staying at the top. third place, just 0.08 seconds from pole position.
The last race of the season, the Abu Dhabi GP, will start on Sunday at 4:10 p.m.
3. Seans – Verstappen pole’de, Bottas 2!
The first rounds of the last ranking session were very exciting. Although Hamilton finished at the top of the first two qualifying sessions, he was unable to maintain his place in the opening rounds of the final session in which he would earn pole.
After the first rights, Bottas temporarily won pole position with 1: 35.415, while Red Bull driver Verstappen was able to overtake Hamilton and came in second. Hamilton completed his debut in the last episode in 3rd place, while Albon was behind him.
Competing for third place in the team championship, McLaren drivers came fifth and sixth in the top rights, followed by Racing Point Stroll drivers, Ferrari’s Leclerc and AlphaTauri, who are currently in third place.
In race two, Hamilton climbed to the top at the start, followed by Bottas with the fastest lap, but Verstappen had the last word.
Verstappen became the fastest player in the last session with 1: 35.246, and during the turbo-hybrid period, Red Bull was the first team to win pole position in Abu Dhabi except for the Mercedes drivers, and Honda became the first engine.
Although Bottas stayed on top for a long time in the final session, after Verstappen took the lead, he was second, 0.025 seconds behind, Hamilton was third, 0.086 seconds behind.
McLaren driver Lando Norris finished fourth in a good qualifying session, while his teammate Sainz, who will start on intermediate tires, is sixth. Among them was Red Bull’s Albon. Albon’s range is 0.3 seconds behind pole position.
Daniil Kvyat, who had no seat for the following year, came in seventh, followed by Racing Point’s Stroll and Ferrari’s Leclerc. Gasly was the name that couldn’t improve his position in the last session.
Session 2: Hamilton leader, Sainz moves to final session on intermediate tire
The Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari, Renault and McLaren drivers, Carlos Sainz, entered the first laps of the second qualifying session on intermediate tires, and the rest of the drivers on soft tires.
After the first few laps on medium tires, Hamilton and Bottas took first place, followed by McLaren soft tire driver Lando Norris and another McLaren intermediate tire driver, Sainz.
Other intermediate tire names were Verstappen 5th, Leclerc 7th, Vettel and Ocon 10th and 11th. The ratings for the Albon and Ricciardo intermediate tires were erased as they crossed the track boundaries.
Verstappen and Leclerc started on intermediate tires, while everyone else switched to soft tires on the final rights of the second session.
At the end of the session, Hamilton and Bottas took the first two places with their qualifications on intermediate tires, followed by Verstappen and Albon.
Mercedes drivers Hamilton and Bottas, Red Bull’s Verstappen, sixth-place Ferrari driver Leclerc and eighth-place McLaren driver Sainz were the names who made it into the last segment on intermediate tires.
Lando Norris, Lance Stroll, and AlphaTauri pilots Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly were the other names that made the last episode.
The Renault drivers stayed in places 11 and 12 and were eliminated in the second session, followed by Vettel, who moved on to the final qualifying session with Ferrari. While Alfa Romeo’s Giovinazzi turned 14th, Sergio Pérez, who was on the penalty grid, ended the session without registering the lap time.
1. Seans – Hamilton suffers
Qualifying for the Abu Dhabi GP started with 23 degrees of air and 29 degrees of temperature on the track. Although the weather was brilliant in the first session, the sunset started shortly after.
Hamilton, who was annihilated because his first fastest lap went off the track, was able to do another lap on the same tires, where he was able to pass the first session.
Hamilton came to the pits and checked the base of the vehicle, he was back on track and at the last moment he was the fastest name of the first session, doing 1: 35.528. Hamilton used an extra set of tires in the first session.
Bottas, who led most of the session, was second just 0.171 seconds after Hamilton improved his range, followed by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.
The names that were eliminated in the first session were Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen, Haas drivers Kevin Magnussen and Pietro Fittipaldi, Williams drivers George Russell and Nicholas Latifi. Latifi spun while trying to accelerate in the final turn at the end of the session, briefly eliciting yellow flags. Apart from that, it was announced that the Latifi and Verstappen incident will be examined after qualifying due to what happened in the pitlane.
