Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull) won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the last of the Formula One World Championship, which closed with the well-known seventh title of Englishman Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), third this Sunday at the Yas Marina circuit .
Verstappen, 23, achieved his tenth victory in F1, the second of the year, by winning, ahead of Finn Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) – who retained second place in the championship – and Hamilton, a test that the Spanish Carlos Sainz He finished sixth, just behind his English teammate Lando Norris, certifying McLaren’s final third place in the Constructors’ World Championship.
McLaren snatched third place in teams from the team of Mexican Sergio Pérez, who retired in the tenth of 55 laps when the engine of his Racing Point failed.
The other Red Bull, that of the Thai Alexander Albon, was fourth, ahead of the two McLarens and the Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who finished his last race with Renault seventh, in which he signed the fastest lap.
The French Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri) and Esteban Ocon (Renault) were eighth and ninth; and the last point in play, the one that grants the tenth place, it took the Canadian Lance Stroll (Racing Point).
A point that did not prevent the third place in the constructors’ championship from being taken by McLaren, captained once again by Sainz, who, in his last race with the Woking team – the talented man from Madrid will be at Ferrari next year – certified the repetition from sixth place in the World Championship he had already occupied in 2019. This time with the best score since driving in F1: 105 points
Hamilton won his seventh World Cup with a total of 347, 124 more than Bottas and 133 ahead of Verstappen; In a contest that the Mexican ‘Checo’ Pérez, despite his retirement this Sunday, finished fourth. With 125 units
Mercedes, which had celebrated its seventh consecutive constructors’ title five races ago, won this championship with 573 points, 254 more than Red Bull. McLaren was third, with 202.
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