On the race’s 55th and final lap, Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo stole the point for the race’s fastest lap en route to a seventh place finish, robbing Verstappen of what would have been his first career Grand Chelem and the first Grand Chelem for anybody this year.ĪlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly finished in eighth place ahead of Renault’s Esteban Ocon in ninth and Racing Point’s Lance Stroll in 10th. The only blemish on Verstappen’s day was what his former teammate was able to do. Their top six runs helped solidify McLaren a third place finish in the constructor standings, their first top three result since 2012. He finished ahead of McLaren teammates Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz Jr.
The victory was the 10th of his Formula 1 career and his second of the season, tying Bottas for second on the 2020 wins list behind 11-race winner Hamilton, who secured a record-tying seventh world championship.Īlexander Albon rounded out the top four in what was Red Bull’s strongest all-around weekend in quite some time. Formula 1: Daniel Ricciardo talks ‘little perk’ of not driving in 2023.Formula 1: Christian Horner talks ‘different challenges’ at the top.Formula 1: Is 2023 the year Williams make the jump?.Formula 1: Max Verstappen talks ‘little details’ needed to improve.Formula 1 Drive to Survive: Complete list of all 50 episodes.In what was arguably the best performance of his young career, Verstappen led every lap of this 55-lap Abh Dhabi Grand Prix around the 21-turn, 3.451-mile (5.554-kilometer) road course on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates en route to a 15.976-second win over Valtteri Bottas in second place, with Lewis Hamilton a further 2.439 seconds behind in third. In fact, the Silver Arrows, despite another double podium finish, were dominated by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Yas Marina Circuit, a track which had produced six consecutive Mercedes wins from pole position going back to the start of Formula 1‘s V6 turbo hybrid era in 2014, again produced a fairly straightforward race to cap off the 2020 season.īut it wasn’t Mercedes which prevailed via another dominant effort. Max Verstappen turned in a career-best performance to close out the 2020 Formula 1 season at Yas Marina Circuit in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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