The British driver, Lando Norris, riding his McLaren car, achieved his first victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final round of the Formula 1 Grand Prix season, after his success yesterday in covering the distance of the race that took place on the Marsa Circuit. Yas, who ran for 58 laps, came in first place, recording a total time of 1 hour, 26 minutes, 33 seconds, and 291 fractions of a second, ahead of the driver by 5.83 seconds. The Spanish Ferrari team, Carlos Sainz, while his teammate, Charles Leclerc, who hails from the Principality of Monaco, came in third place, 31.9 seconds behind the leader, Norris.
Norris’s victory gave his McLaren team a win in the World Constructors’ Championship with a total of 666 points, 14 points ahead of the runner-up Ferrari team, and the Red Bull team came third in the Constructors’ Championship with a total of 589 points.
It is noteworthy that the World Drivers’ Championship was decided early, last month, at the Brazilian circuit, and the Dutchman, Max Verstappen, driver of the Red Bull team, won his fourth title in a row.
Returning to the details of the race, Norris succeeded in making a good start and maintaining first place, especially since the first lap witnessed a collision between his teammate, the Australian Oscar Piastri, who started from second place, and the current season’s world champion and Red Bull driver, Max. Verstappen, which allowed Norris to move away at the end of the first lap from his pursuer, Spaniard Sainz, and behind him were Frenchman Pierre Gasly in an Alpine car, and British team driver George Russell. “Mercedes.”
Norris confirmed his ability to control the course of the race, especially after the drivers completed their entry into the pits to change tires, which Norris completed on lap 27, from which he returned to the lead of the race, leaving Spaniard Carlos Sainz in second place, but he was the biggest beneficiary of delaying the process of entering the pit. The pit stop was Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, who was able to advance from 19th place, at the start of the race, to third place.
Norris was able to expand the gap during the final stages, leaving second and third places to Sainz and Leclerc.
Double for the virtual Emirati champion in Formula 4 Middle East
The Emirati driver, Rashid Al Dhaheri, “Yas Heat Team Ambassador” for racing and driver of the “Mumbai Falcons Racing” team, continued his brilliance at the Yas Marina Circuit by winning, yesterday, the title of the second race of the Formula 4 Middle East Championship Cup round, after he achieved, the day before yesterday First race title.
Al Dhaheri presented a remarkable performance, during which he succeeded in dominating the course of the race, which extended for 14 laps, and crossed the finish line in first place with a time of 27 minutes, 24 seconds, and 363 hundredths of a second, with a comfortable difference of 3.4 seconds over the second-place finisher, driver of the Evans GP team. », Briton Kai Darinani, and Darinani’s teammate, Frenchman Renaud Francot, came third, four seconds behind the leader Al Dhaheri.
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