Verstappen ends unprecedented season in style at Abu Dhabi GP, Alonso protects himself with magic

it’s over.Under the impressive city lights after sunset in Abu Dhabi Yas Marina Circuit, “The Great Circus” The season ended with the last Grand Prix, ending next year. Abu Dhabi GP. This year started with a landslide victory for Max Verstappen in March last year. And it ended the same way. The Dutchman took his 19th win of the season out of 22 races that year., brutality that says absolutely everything. It’s an absolute record, and one that probably no one can break. With him, he achieved an overall win rate of 86%, surpassing Alberto’s Ascari’s 75%, dating back to 1952. This fact says it all about how long Max’s legacy will last in history.

F1 2023 Abu Dhabi GP Results

F1 World Cup classification after 2023 F1 Abu Dhabi GP

Max Verstappen achieved his 54th victory in F1 this Sunday, overtaking Vettel to become the third driver to do so. If you win more in the “Great Circus”, He is only 26 years old and his times are consistently better than him, but he is still a long way from Michael Schumacher’s 91 points and Hamilton’s 103 points.

Max has the best car. That’s true. However, it is too simplistic to say that we won based on that alone, without any analysis. It would be unfair not to emphasize Max’s ability to virtually never make a mistake. The Dutch driver always stands at the decisive moment. He took pole position yesterday after a weekend away. And this Sunday, in the most complicated moment, at the start he again marked the difference against Charles Leclerc.

The Monaco-born driver did well to maintain pole position at Turn 1, defending well against Leclerc. The Monaco rider tried to do it in Turn 6, but Max took from the outside and had better traction on the inside in the subsequent turns to take first place. Then, on the second lap, he improved his acceleration on the outside and defended his position again. But Charles was like, even though I wanted to, I couldn’t do it. He could have tried, he could have overtaken Max and taken the lead. But it wasn’t against the grain. In the long run, Verstappen’s race pace would have made things impossible. Max had the upper hand no matter what. But he chose to do it the champion way. He refused to give in to Charles and started running away. He made a 5-inch gap by the first stop and maintained it through an extended second stint. He ultimately won by a 15-second margin.

The Dutch smashed it again. He had no rivals. He won again and hoped that his marriage to Victory would last into the next year. His rivals prayed that the opposite would eventually happen, that the battle for victory would be evened out on an increasingly even grid, and this year that has almost always been the case for Verstappen. Perez was the only driver with two wins in the early stages, with Singapore’s Sainz achieving the only win by a non-Red Bull driver. F1 deserves a bigger show in the battle for the jackpot.

Leclerc, great final experiment

With Charles losing the race, he focused on fighting for the Constructors’ World Championship. Carlos Sainz started 16th and was out of the points. (He ended up dropping out on the last lap.) The Monegasque had to fight on his own for Ferrari’s second place with Mercedes, who started the race four points behind the Italian. Charles had “Czeco” Perez right behind him on the final lap.

Recognize that the Mexican received a 5-inch penalty for touching norrisKnowing that Russell was a driver chasing the Mexican, he devised a desperate last resort to take second place. builder Points deducted from Russell. He asked the engineer about the time difference. “Czech” and George Then he decided to let Perez pass.

He said that if the Mexican did not get more than 5 seconds ahead of him, he would pass him to maintain second place and slow Russell down, causing George to be more than 5 seconds behind the Mexican and lose the position. I knew. Leclerc also tried, but ultimately fell short by one second. Russell finished third and Hamilton ninth, giving Mercedes enough points to secure second place in the Constructors’ World Championship.

Carlos Sainz couldn’t do anything. His result in qualifying punished him too much on a track like this. The end of the course that doesn’t do justice to his performance this year.

Their only hope for this Sunday’s race was to stop and bring out the ‘safety car’. His strategy was therefore based on buying tickets and extending his first stint as long as possible. Ferrari chose hard rubber for this, but this tire never worked for the red car in the early races throughout the season. This time was no different. I made a mistake. Terrible.

Starting in 16th place, it would be difficult to score points, so we decided to take the maximum risk. By extending his first stop, he lost any chance of a comeback and was left in no man’s land. The wheels didn’t hold up as well as I expected so I had to stop twice and run like the rest, but I had already pitted too late and lost a lot of time. He had to extend the second stop as long as possible for the sole purpose of the “safety car” giving him wings. However, his number did not win in that lottery. It was too tempting a fate. He was forced to fit a different tire compound on the final lap, forcing him to make a second stop. In the end, he never left the pits and quit on the track. 18th place.

Alonso unexpectedly finishes 4th in the World Cup

Sainz finished 4th in the World Championship, 200 points behind Alonso, with Norris 5th and Leclerc 12th. But what happened this Sunday, with Leclerc second and Norris fifth, sank Sainz in that battle. And Alonso, the driver who started with the worst weapons in recent races, surprisingly maintained that fourth place in the World Championship, ahead of Charles in points for having more podiums this year. We lined up. can’t believe it.

Fernando endured everything and everyone. Just a few races ago, it seemed impossible for Fernando not to sink against Charles and McLaren. Even he had no intention of continuing to win after qualifying. Alonso gave up that fourth place and was satisfied with seventh. But he achieved it against all odds.

Alonso ran a consistent 7th place and ran a mistake-free race with his team to maximize the result. ‘Czeco’ Perez overtook him in the much faster Red Bull and at times approached the McLaren, but in the end could do nothing to overtake Woking’s two cars and challenge Aston Martin for fourth place in the constructors’ championship. Norris was fifth and Piastri sixth.. 7th place Alonso won the final battle with Tsunoda (8th place), and most importantly, Lewis Hamilton, who was derailed in a hand-to-hand fight after the second pit stop. Alonso passed Hamilton when the Asturian finally pitted. Fernando was complaining about his lead in the straight, but then managed to put his car in the British’s position and secure the position.