“We are getting eaten up!” he complained. It looked good for the German’s final race in F1 but the horribly applied one-stop strategy means he was a “sitting duck” in the Aston Martin. Vettel finishes in points, so does Ricciardoįor his last race of the season, Vettel had qualified P9. For the last five years, the season opener winner has only finished P2 in the driver’s championship. Leclerc taking P2 in the championship keeps alive one more sought-after trend in F1. Perez caught up but was left 1.3s too slow for Leclerc. What went wrong for Red Bull and Perez is that they opted for a two-stop strategy in Abu Dhabi, while Ferrari and Leclerc went strong for the one-stop strategy. A fruitful Saturday saw the Bulls securing their first-ever front-row lockout since 2018. With everything wrapped, Red Bull’s priority was to help Perez get the championship P2 in order to secure their first-ever 1-2 finish in the driver’s standing. Asian Games 2022: List of Indian athletes to have secured qualificationĬoming into the weekend, Leclerc and Perez were levelled in points for the second spot in the championship.Indian Sports Calendar in 2023: Major events to look forward to in July.India at Wimbledon: A look at history, records and titles.US Open 2023: Lakshya Sen, PV Sindhu storm into pre-quarterfinals.

Sumit Antil betters his own world record at World Para Athletics Championships 2023.Jyothi Yarraji wins India’s first gold medal at Asian Athletics Championships 2023.Wimbledon 2023 Highlights: Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden bow out after straight sets defeat in doubles semis.It just looks so casual,” said Martin Brundle, who always reminisces the Dutch with the seven-times world champion. It almost looks however slow he’s driving, he’s pulling away. “This is sort of a Michael Schumacher-esque drive here from Max Verstappen. After grabbing the pole by 0.228s, he dominated the entire race and won it with a comfortable margin of over 8 seconds. But still, he was pulling away with each lap from the rest of the grid. It appeared that the Dutch weren’t really giving it all during the Abu Dhabi GP. Brundle parallels Verstappen with Michael Schumacher

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