2020 F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix race results
Max Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final round of the Formula 1 World Championship, for Red Bull as he stayed out of reach of Mercedes duo Valtteri Bottas and world champion Lewis Hamilton.
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Hamilton was returning to the sport after missing the previous weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain after testing positive for COVID-19.
From his first pole position of 2020, Verstappen aced the start to lead Bottas – who had a big slide on the exit of the first corner – and Hamilton. Verstappen quickly pulled clear of DRS range, while his teammate Alex Albon hounded Lando Norris’s McLaren for fourth.
Albon moved ahead on Lap 6, but was already 5s shy of third-placed Hamilton. Last weekend’s winner Sergio Perez was the race’s first (and only) retirement with an oil pressure problem within his Racing Point, which caused a virtual safety car under which all of the frontrunners pitted. A full safety car was then required as Perez’s car appeared to be jammed in gear.
Neither Ferrari nor Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) took the opportunity to pit, so Ricciardo – who started on the hard tyres – jumped to fifth but would have to pay with a pitstop with 15 laps to go. That dropped him behind both McLarens of Norris and Carlos Sainz, but just ahead of Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri.
Sainz will be investigated after the race for backing up the pack in the pitlane when McLaren double-stacked its cars under the VSC. Regardless of a likely 5s time penalty, that was enough for McLaren to take third place in the 2020 constructors' championship.
Verstappen stroked to a straightforward victory, well clear of the Mercedes, with Albon fourth ahead of Norris, Sainz, Ricciardo (who took fastest lap) and Gasly. Lance Stroll (Racing Point) lost ninth place to Esteban Ocon (Renault) on the final lap.
F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix race results
Cla | Driver | Chassis | Engine | Laps | Time | Pits | Points | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Max Verstappen
|
Red Bull | Honda | 55 | 1 | 25 | ||
2 |
Valtteri Bottas
|
Mercedes | Mercedes | 55 | 15.976 | 1 | 18 | |
3 |
Lewis Hamilton
|
Mercedes | Mercedes | 55 | 18.415 | 1 | 15 | |
4 |
Alex Albon
|
Red Bull | Honda | 55 | 19.987 | 1 | 12 | |
5 |
Lando Norris
|
McLaren | Renault | 55 | 1'00.729 | 1 | 10 | |
6 |
Carlos Sainz Jr.
|
McLaren | Renault | 55 | 1'05.662 | 1 | 8 | |
7 |
Daniel Ricciardo
|
Renault | Renault | 55 | 1'13.748 | 1 | 7 | |
8 |
Pierre Gasly
|
AlphaTauri | Honda | 55 | 1'29.718 | 1 | 4 | |
9 |
Esteban Ocon
|
Renault | Renault | 55 | 1'41.069 | 1 | 2 | |
10 |
Lance Stroll
|
Racing Point | Mercedes | 55 | 1'42.738 | 1 | 1 | |
11 |
Daniil Kvyat
|
AlphaTauri | Honda | 54 | 1 lap | 1 | ||
12 |
Kimi Raikkonen
|
Alfa Romeo | Ferrari | 54 | 1 lap | 1 | ||
13 |
Charles Leclerc
|
Ferrari | Ferrari | 54 | 1 lap | 1 | ||
14 |
Sebastian Vettel
|
Ferrari | Ferrari | 54 | 1 lap | 1 | ||
15 |
George Russell
|
Williams | Mercedes | 54 | 1 lap | 1 | ||
16 |
Antonio Giovinazzi
|
Alfa Romeo | Ferrari | 54 | 1 lap | 1 | ||
17 |
Nicholas Latifi
|
Williams | Mercedes | 54 | 1 lap | 2 | ||
18 |
Kevin Magnussen
|
Haas | Ferrari | 54 | 1 lap | 2 | ||
19 |
Pietro Fittipaldi
|
Haas | Ferrari | 53 | 2 laps | 3 | ||
Sergio Perez
|
Racing Point | Mercedes | 8 | |||||
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F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fastest laps
Cla | Driver | Chassis | Engine | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Daniel Ricciardo
|
Renault | Renault | 55 | 1'40.926 | 198.109 | |||
2 |
Max Verstappen
|
Red Bull | Honda | 14 | 1'40.958 | 0.032 | 0.032 | 198.046 | |
3 |
Valtteri Bottas
|
Mercedes | Mercedes | 40 | 1'41.131 | 0.205 | 0.173 | 197.707 | |
4 |
Alex Albon
|
Red Bull | Honda | 42 | 1'41.227 | 0.301 | 0.096 | 197.520 | |
5 |
Lewis Hamilton
|
Mercedes | Mercedes | 37 | 1'41.420 | 0.494 | 0.193 | 197.144 | |
6 |
Sebastian Vettel
|
Ferrari | Ferrari | 37 | 1'41.475 | 0.549 | 0.055 | 197.037 | |
7 |
Antonio Giovinazzi
|
Alfa Romeo | Ferrari | 29 | 1'41.675 | 0.749 | 0.200 | 196.650 | |
8 |
Pietro Fittipaldi
|
Haas | Ferrari | 50 | 1'41.707 | 0.781 | 0.032 | 196.588 | |
9 |
Lance Stroll
|
Racing Point | Mercedes | 41 | 1'41.866 | 0.940 | 0.159 | 196.281 | |
10 |
Charles Leclerc
|
Ferrari | Ferrari | 24 | 1'41.908 | 0.982 | 0.042 | 196.200 | |
11 |
Carlos Sainz Jr.
|
McLaren | Renault | 48 | 1'41.947 | 1.021 | 0.039 | 196.125 | |
12 |
Lando Norris
|
McLaren | Renault | 53 | 1'41.964 | 1.038 | 0.017 | 196.092 | |
13 |
Kevin Magnussen
|
Haas | Ferrari | 50 | 1'41.999 | 1.073 | 0.035 | 196.025 | |
14 |
Kimi Raikkonen
|
Alfa Romeo | Ferrari | 53 | 1'42.148 | 1.222 | 0.149 | 195.739 | |
15 |
Pierre Gasly
|
AlphaTauri | Honda | 53 | 1'42.474 | 1.548 | 0.326 | 195.116 | |
16 |
Nicholas Latifi
|
Williams | Mercedes | 49 | 1'42.497 | 1.571 | 0.023 | 195.073 | |
17 |
Daniil Kvyat
|
AlphaTauri | Honda | 47 | 1'42.704 | 1.778 | 0.207 | 194.679 | |
18 |
Esteban Ocon
|
Renault | Renault | 47 | 1'42.894 | 1.968 | 0.190 | 194.320 | |
19 |
Sergio Perez
|
Racing Point | Mercedes | 6 | 1'43.263 | 2.337 | 0.369 | 193.625 | |
20 |
George Russell
|
Williams | Mercedes | 54 | 1'43.328 | 2.402 | 0.065 | 193.504 | |
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F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix tyre history
Cla | Driver | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Max Verstappen
|
Red Bull | Honda | M | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
2 |
Valtteri Bottas
|
Mercedes | Mercedes | M | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
3 |
Lewis Hamilton
|
Mercedes | Mercedes | M | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
4 |
Alex Albon
|
Red Bull | Honda | S | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
5 |
Lando Norris
|
McLaren | Renault | S | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
6 |
Carlos Sainz Jr.
|
McLaren | Renault | M | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
7 |
Daniel Ricciardo
|
Renault | Renault | H | 39 | M | 16 | |||||
8 |
Pierre Gasly
|
AlphaTauri | Honda | S | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
9 |
Esteban Ocon
|
Renault | Renault | M | 10 | H | 45 | |||||
10 |
Lance Stroll
|
Racing Point | Mercedes | S | 13 | H | 45 | |||||
11 |
Daniil Kvyat
|
AlphaTauri | Honda | S | 13 | H | 44 | |||||
12 |
Kimi Raikkonen
|
Alfa Romeo | Ferrari | M | 10 | H | 44 | |||||
13 |
Charles Leclerc
|
Ferrari | Ferrari | M | 25 | H | 32 | |||||
14 |
Sebastian Vettel
|
Ferrari | Ferrari | H | 35 | M | 19 | |||||
15 |
George Russell
|
Williams | Mercedes | M | 10 | H | 44 | |||||
16 |
Antonio Giovinazzi
|
Alfa Romeo | Ferrari | M | 27 | H | 27 | |||||
17 |
Nicholas Latifi
|
Williams | Mercedes | M | 11 | H | 24 | M | 19 | |||
18 |
Kevin Magnussen
|
Haas | Ferrari | H | 31 | M | 16 | M | 7 | |||
19 |
Pietro Fittipaldi
|
Haas | Ferrari | M | 10 | H | 24 | M | 14 | S | 8 | |
Sergio Perez
|
Racing Point | Mercedes | H | 8 | ||||||||
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