2023-11-25 18:01:40
He will start at the front to try to improve his record and achieve a 19th victory this season. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) won qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday by winning ahead of Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and Oscar Piastri (McLaren), separated by only 7 thousandths, on the Yas Marina circuit. The Dutchman, already assured of a third world title in a row since the beginning of October, took his 12th pole position of the season in the United Arab Emirates.
The first Frenchman, Pierre Gasly, set the tenth time in these qualifications, while his partner from Alpine, Esteban Ocon, did not make it past Q2 (12th). Briton Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) also failed at this stage a week after experiencing a similar failure during the Las Vegas Grand Prix in the United States. “Something is wrong with the car,” he said on the radio to justify his performance.
His team and Ferrari, whose Spanish driver Carlos Sainz was ejected from qualifying in Q1, are competing for second place in the constructors’ world championship behind the untouchable Red Bull. One of the last issues of this final weekend in the Gulf of the Formula 1 season with the fight for fourth place between McLaren and Aston Martin.
Max Verstappen has the opportunity to score a seventh consecutive victory on the circuit where he won his first world title in 2021 after a breathtaking duel with Lewis Hamilton. Only two other drivers, his Red Bull partner Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz, have won this year in the discipline.
The race will start on Sunday at 2 p.m. It is broadcast on Canal + which holds the rights to Formula 1 in France.
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