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F1 Abu Dhabi GP: Norris victory wraps up McLaren constructors’ title
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F1 Abu Dhabi GP: Norris victory wraps up McLaren constructors’ title

Motorsports December 9, 2024
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Lando Norris received the Formulation 1 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to safe McLaren’s first constructors’ championship since 1998, with Carlos Sainz second for Ferrari after Max Verstappen hit Oscar Piastri.

That incident aided Charles Leclerc’s run up from the ultimate row of the grid to complete third within the different SF-14, which was not sufficient to assist the Scuderia because it ended up 14 factors behind within the groups’ title battle.

In his remaining race for Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton beat his team-mate George Russell to fourth, with Verstappen ending up sixth after serving his penalty.

In the beginning, Norris simply led away from pole, with any considerations of intra-McLaren contact on the first nook wiped away – changed by the drama of Verstappen’s dive on Piastri at Flip 1.

As Piastri got here throughout with the Purple Bull dedicated on the within, they collided simply previous the apex as Verstappen understeered within the McLaren’s facet and each spun – Verstappen falling deep into the pack and Piastri on the again.

That elevated Sainz to second – getting again the place he had misplaced to Verstappen off the road – with Norris clear within the lead.

His benefit on the finish of lap one among 58 was 1.8s, which was preserved for the subsequent lap and a 3rd, because the digital security automobile was activated for Sergio Perez stopping on the run out of Flip 9 on account of contact sustained in one other lap one conflict – this with Valtteri Bottas at Flip 6.

By the point the VSC ended, Verstappen and Bottas had been handed 10-second penalties for his or her clashes, with Norris then transferring to extend his lead over Sainz to round three-seconds over laps 4 to 9.

Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38 and Max Verstappen, Purple Bull Racing RB20 collide on the nook inflicting one another to spin

Picture by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Pictures

They have been quickly in a two-horse race for the win as Pierre Gasly held up Russell to the tune of almost 10s by the point the Alpine stopped on lap 14 – by which level Norris was almost 4 seconds away from Sainz.

They have been in a position to lap within the low 1m29s and excessive 1m28s for Norris, with Russell unable to match their tempo even when unleashed from behind Gasly.

Whereas plenty of automobiles pitted from the pack behind, the leaders stayed out for the subsequent part of the race, with Sainz lastly coming in to change the mediums all of the frontrunners had began on for hards on lap 25.

He had simply squeezed Norris’s lead again underneath 4 seconds and when the McLaren was referred to as in to cowl the subsequent lap, the chase for the lead resumed with Sainz having gained two extra seconds again.

Norris’s benefit then held on the two-second mark as they pounded round matching one another within the low 1m28s.

However by lap 34, the elastic-back to the Ferrari lastly snapped, with Norris then in a position to rapidly edge his lead again above three seconds, as he was in a position to hit the excessive 1m27s and Sainz might solely achieve this intermittently.

On lap 41, Norris was again to 4.6s forward and from there he continued stretching away – bar a part as the ultimate 10 laps kicked off when he misplaced a bit little bit of time lapping site visitors.

However when Sainz hit this too, Norris was within the clear and he finally eased residence to win by 5.8s.

Leclerc completed 26 seconds behind his team-mate after making a collection of daring strikes on the opening lap across the varied contacts, then charging up in the direction of Russell’s try to overcut Gasly.

On lap 20, Leclerc stopped for his medium-hards swap and he rapidly caught and handed Gasly and when Russell pitted for his sole service concurrently Norris Leclerc was by into third.

Hamilton had began on the hards and stayed out till lap 34, rejoining in seventh after which rising – together with getting by Fernando Alonso’s two-stopping Aston Martin – whereas erasing a 14s hole to Russell.

On the ultimate lap, Hamilton attacked Russell with DRS into the surface of Flip 9 and claimed fourth on the exit, with Verstappen 12s behind the Silver Arrows pair after serving his penalty at his cease on lap 29.Gasly ended up seventh forward of Haas’s Nico Hulkenberg, which sealed Alpine’s sixth place within the constructors’ towards the American squad.

Alonso took ninth as Piastri recovered to tenth after serving his personal 10s penalty at his pitstop – for whacking Franco Colapinto’s rear on the VSC restart.

Colapinto was one among three retirements along with Perez, because the Williams driver’s F1 cameo ended on account of an engine subject, which was what additionally appeared to eradicate Liam Lawson late on for RB.

Valtteri Bottas’s F1 profession led to disappointment as he additionally hit Kevin Magnussen at Flip 6 simply previous midway – an incident that gave the Sauber an excessive amount of injury to proceed however from which the Haas was in a position to escape after a spin and Magnussen completed his personal F1 profession having made three stops.

The Dane secured the race’s quickest lap at 1m25.637s on the ultimate tour.

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