And Red Bull would quite like the one-two – an ambition that went wholly unaided last week by their star driver, who refused to let his teammate past in defiance of team orders. The odds favour Perez, who starts from second on the grid, sandwiched between his teammate on pole and his rival on third. Max Verstappen may have wrapped up his title a few weeks back and his Red Bull team similarly assured of the constructors’ crown, but there’s still the small matter of second place to be thrashed out between Checo Perez and Charles Leclerc, who are level on points going into the season finale. There’s less on the line this time, but that’s not to say there’s nothing at stake for the drivers today. No one needs reminding what happened in Abu Dhabi last time round, but suffice to say you’d forgive Lewis Hamilton if some repressed and enraging memories happened to bubble to the surface over the next few hours. In fact, a Ferrari win is important to keep the team’s morale in high spirits, in a year where they’ve won only three Grands Prix, two of which came on the back of new gun Leclerc’s assaults.Here we are again. Them for the first half of the season, an event that resulted in eight To put it mildly, successes came only when Mercedes seemed tired of punching

Racing event isn’t only down to them having endured a year where, if one were How dearly, one wonders, would the German miss the good old days, when nearly a decade back in time from his 2018 blistering lap, he had set the track record, going easily six-tenths quicker back in the day, under the shiny purple Red Bull helmet. Red-clad team was Vettel’s fastest lap- the one wherein he registered a In 2018, the last Abu Dhabi GP, the only high for the Implicit in Bottas’ only triumph at the salubrious event, was not only the Finn’s victory from pole but his clinching the famous triumvirate- the fastest lap, pole-position, and race win.

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