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Absolutely insane ending.ĩ:32 a.m.: The safety car ends, and lapped cars were allowed to pass - one lap of racing remains. FINISH: The 2021 World Championship goes to Max Verstappen.
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Maldonado took fifth ahead of Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi.įerrari's Felipe Massa, Senna, Force India's Paul di Resta and Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo completed the top 10.MORE: Watch Formula 1 live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Formula 1 live updates, highlights from 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prixĩ:34 a.m.
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In the last laps Kimi was a bit slower so we attack, but second was the best possible result for us today. "We fought good in the first laps, good overtaking then strategy enabled us to fight for the victory. "We were not super-competitive this weekend. Meanwhile, with seven laps to go Alonso's Ferrari began to come alive and he started closing in on Raikkonen in the lead.Īlonso got the lead down to a second but Raikkonen just held on. I was really struggling to pass but then I just squeezed my way past in Turn 11. "The second safety car was helping, then a nice fight with Jenson.
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After that I said I had to go full attack or nothing. "Then behind the safety car I made a little bit of a big mistake with Daniel who was stopping behind the safety car on the straight and I was very surprised and I had to go to the right. Kimi Raikkonen has now taken 37% of his career victories after starting from outside the top three on the grid The race was restarted with 13 laps to go and as Raikkonen quickly built a three-second lead, Vettel immediately started to pressure Button for third.īutton appeared to have the Red Bull under control but then Vettel made a final push and managed to pass Button for third around the outside into Turn 11 and then taking the inside into Turn 12 on lap 52. It set up a thrilling climax to the race. Two laps later, an incident between Sauber's Sergio Perez, Lotus's Romain Grosjean and Red Bull's Mark Webber brought out the safety car again and wiped out Vettel's deficit. Instead, Vettel pitted again on lap 37 for another set of tyres, rejoining fourth about 15 seconds behind the lead group of Raikkonen, Alonso and McLaren's Jenson Button. Those stops promoted Vettel to second place behind Raikkonen and Lotus believed Red Bull might be trying to get to the end of the race without stopping again.
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He made superb use of these in the next few laps, climbing through the field, making passes and benefiting from some lurid incidents between other drivers in front of him to climb up to seventh place by the time the leaders started to make their pit stops for fresh tyres. The impact wrecked his front wing but actually worked to his advantage, as it forced the German into the pits for a new wing and he put on a new set of fresh tyres. Nico Rosberg flies over Narain Karthikeyan in Abu Dhabi In the queue behind the safety car, Vettel misjudged the pace of Daniel Ricciardo's Toro Rosso in front of him, had to take avoiding action and smashed into a trackside marker board. However, the safety car was then deployed following a frightening crash in which Nico Rosberg's Mercedes was launched over the back of Narain Karthikeyan's HRT. The German damaged his front wing in a collision with Williams's Bruno Senna but that barely impeded his progress through the backmarkers. Meanwhile, Vettel had been working his way through the field after starting from the pit lane following his disqualification from qualifying for not having enough fuel in his car to provide a sample. "I hope this can turn around the tables and give us many more wins if not this year then next year." "For sure we have a good party today and after a long night we will remember why we feel like that. "I'm happy but nothing to jump around about," said Raikkonen. That left Raikkonen in the lead, and he appeared in control, edging away from Alonso, who had passed Williams's Pastor Maldonado to take second place on the lap Hamilton retired.
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The problem was later found to be a fuel-pump failure, continuing a dismal run of reliability from McLaren in recent races. Hamilton was in the region of half a second a lap quicker than Raikkonen behind him when his car ground to a halt on lap 20 of 55.
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The McLaren driver led away from pole and, apart from a brief scare when he made a mistake while struggling to warm up his tyres in the early laps and had to fight off an attack from Raikkonen, appeared in control. In a thrilling, nail-biting, incident-packed race that belied the Yas Marina track's reputation, Hamilton initially looked set to take a dominant win.