FOX Sports HD (FPT) | F1 2020 Main Race : Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - video Dailymotion

Ha Hong

13/12/2020

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00:00...along to the season finale for Formula One this season.

00:03We started on July the 5th and in 161 days we packed in 17 races and so much excitement.

00:10Here we are in Abu Dhabi then for the 12th world champ number of Valtteri Bottas.

00:14As we have five lights for the final time ahead of the drivers, it's lights out.

00:19And away we go, Verstappen ahead of Bottas.

00:21Norris getting a good start but behind Lewis Hamilton, Sainz and Albon neck and neck going into the first corner.

00:26Verstappen leads from Bottas, he once again gets all squirrelly out of the first corner.

00:30Bottas ahead of his team mate Lewis Hamilton, there's Norris, Albon, Sainz and then Danny Kriat.

00:35Charles Leclerc ahead of Sebastian Vettel, the two Ferraris.

00:37Now he's leaving Ferrari moving to Racing Point and talking to Aston Martin.

00:42But talking of this team, oh Sergio Perez what's happened here?

00:46It looks like to be, just press the button, open the clutch and push that.

00:51It should be recoverable quite easily without needing a full safety car but you can just see the frustration there for Sergio Perez.

01:01In his last race with Racing Point, could be his last race.

01:04Perez and the Racing Point team as well.

01:08His number one mechanic Mikey right at the front of the crew there.

01:11He paid tribute to him on the radio going to the grid.

01:13And the engine just completely went on him.

01:18Oil pressure kill that says on his steering wheel.

01:24Absolute heartbreak and sporting tragedy for the Racing Point team.

01:28Otmar Satna, the team principal, will go to the most.

01:31I love you.

01:32The engine's off again.

01:34Oh, I'm off.

01:37Ferrari made a mistake here.

01:39This aero looks good.

01:40Yeah, yeah, I'm talking Ferrari.

01:45Not Mercedes, but Sens could have split them.

01:47But, sorry, I segued in something else there.

01:50It looks to me as if Ferrari made a mistake.

01:53Unless, of course, the leaders run out of tyres towards the end.

01:57See what happens.

01:59And that is the scene in the paddock at the moment.

02:01Sergio Perez making his weapon already.

02:041.3 seconds clear of Valtteri Bottas out in front.

02:08Yeah, that's crucially good, isn't it?

02:10Build the gap.

02:11It's very Mercedes-esque, isn't it?

02:13Build the gap so that you can't give the DRS to the man chasing you.

02:18And just you can see where the car's touching the ground there.

02:20And look, it's puffs of blue smoke as the underneath the car's burning for Carlos Sainz.

02:26But a fairly technical go of the throttle and does slow down the car behind.

02:30I didn't realise that there was a position change because of it.

02:34And there might be a position change here as well.

02:36Because Pierre Gasly has gone down the inside of Lance Stroll.

02:39And he has forced that out for Tauri.

02:40Past the racing point.

02:42They did touch as Gasly went through.

02:45And Lance Stroll down into 10th now with Gasly up in the 9th.

02:48It was a bold move.

02:49Are you saying, Anthony, that once he got into the speed limit zone,

02:53he slowed down again and backed up the racing point?

02:59Anthony, race control.

03:02Yeah, yeah, he definitely did.

03:03Yeah, so he slows down initially to get the car into the speed limit.

03:09And then he slowed down even more after that.

03:12I'm sure we'll see the clip.

03:13And eventually that Antep race control has been at a party too.

03:17Yeah, absolutely.

03:18He's made that happen by stretching that first stint over.

03:23If Max is starting to lose tyre,

03:25and Lewis Hamilton has now had two track limits at 21 consecutive laps,

03:29but if Max is starting to lose tyre temperature,

03:32that means he's losing the tread, the meat of the tyre as well,

03:36with 15 laps to go.

03:38There's still plenty of jeopardy here, yeah?

03:40Charles Leclerc on Kimi Räikkönen.

03:44The brakes so much later than Kimi Räikkönen Carney,

03:46and he dances around the Alfa Romeo that then fights back.

03:49Kimi Räikkönen, the most experienced driver on the grid,

03:53the oldest driver on the grid,

03:55the only canniest driver at times on the grid as well.

03:57Looked like he'd been passed there by Leclerc,

04:00but he found a way to keep that Alfa Romeo ahead,

04:04to hang on to 12th place.

04:05Nothing heard about his poor indiscretions on the track limits so far,

04:10are there, with Charles Leclerc?

04:11And the stewards, I wonder, saying,

04:12well, look, you're exceeding track limits,

04:14but you're not necessarily gaining advantage.

04:19There's nothing, you're right,

04:21on the screen at all about that one.

04:23It's the tracks, you know, the corners...

04:27There you go.

04:28Finally, Martin, black and white flag for Charles Leclerc.

04:30There you go.

04:31So that is his third one, isn't it?

04:33So...

04:34The corners in the same place every lap.

04:37So there's a track limit.

04:38No surprises.

04:40Max Verstappen, with the Dutch vote going his way at the moment,

04:4520% leading the driver of the day polled.

04:48Yep, that looks pretty much the same infringement,

04:53just going over that white line.

04:56Big cop.

04:58I think so.

05:00Charles Leclerc,

05:02didn't run right of its hair,

05:04but it did 12 months ago.

05:06There's Lauren Meckis, by the way,

05:07who's taken over trackside duties

05:08in terms of running that Ferrari team this weekend.

05:11Mathieu Bonotto, watching back at Marinello,

05:14didn't travel to Abu Dhabi,

05:16not Covid-related,

05:18but wasn't feeling too well.

05:23Look at Max's lead, look.

05:26Now, 11.

05:27He's not a run all the way through.

05:28He's looked absolutely imperious

05:30and has not been the greatest race.

05:32That is a fact.

05:34But for Max Verstappen,

05:36it's another fantastic feeling

05:38as he rounds the final corner.

05:40The checker flag's in sight.

05:42Verstappen wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

05:45and rounds off the season

05:46in perfect fashion

05:48for himself and for Red Bull.

05:51Verstappen victorious in Abu Dhabi.

05:54Mercedes,

05:55the Constructors' Champions,

05:57playing second best

05:58under the lights here tonight.

06:00Bottas finishes ahead of Hamilton

06:01in second and third.

06:03Alex Albon's late charge

06:04sees him stay in fourth

06:06but only a second and a half behind.

06:09And the fireworks start to take effect

06:12in the night sky

06:13as we look down

06:15to see who's coming next.

06:17It'll be the two McLarens.

06:18Time is some donuts, I think.

06:21I was going to say,

06:21are we going to see some donuts?

06:23Yes, we are.

06:24The world champion

06:26in the world championship winning car

06:29for the seventh consecutive season.

06:31Mercedes, world champions

06:33for the seventh time

06:35in his Formula One career.

06:36Lewis Hamilton, world champion.

06:39Donuts, as is traditional now

06:42on the grid at the final race.

06:45Valtteri Bottas joining him

06:47on that grid as well.

06:51Whilst Mercedes

06:52did their donuts,

06:55it would be wrong

06:56to not let Kevin Magnussen

06:58join in the fun as well.

07:00For the first time in a while.

07:02It's the first time in four races

07:04we've seen now

07:04from Bottas on the podium.

07:06And for Max Verstappen,

07:08well, it's the first time

07:10since that 70th anniversary Grand Prix

07:13at Silverstone

07:14that we see him

07:15and his Red Bull winning a race.

07:17Of course, you know,

07:18they've missed out

07:19in this crazy year we've had.

07:20They've missed out

07:21on the races

07:21where Red Bull tradit all.

07:24But, you know,

07:25well done Formula One.

07:27That's all I'll say.

07:28Formula One

07:29has started its season

07:30on July the 5th.

07:32It ended

07:33in the middle of December.

07:35It saw Mercedes

07:36clinch both titles

07:37once again.

07:38It saw Max Verstappen

07:39and Red Bull

07:40leave their

07:41most dominant performance

07:42right until the very end.

07:43He got 17 races in

07:46that celebrate Formula One

07:48in 2020

07:49as Verstappen

07:50celebrates another win

07:52under the lights

07:53here in Abu Dhabi tonight.

08:01I think the word

08:02a beauty in this regime.

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