It was the first time that a non-Mercedes had won at the Yas Marina Circuit since 2013 in which the year when Sebastian Vettel won for Red Bull. Valtteri Bottas was able to keep his teammate Lewis Hamilton at bay for the entirety of the race and finished second.
Max Verstappen who started on pole position had a good clean race and finished home first, marking his 10th win in F1 and second of the year. From there it was like any other F1 race around the Yas Marina circuit with little overtaking happening throughout the grand prix. However, most fans were sad to see Perez out of the race so early as it was his last grand prix in F1. The only excitement or glimmer of hope came when Sergio Perez lost power on lap 10 and brought out a virtual safety car. From start to finish there weren’t too many exciting moments during the race. The Abu Dhabi grand prix rarely creates exciting races and this was evident again this year. Estebon Ocon managed to stay out of trouble and finished second, while Lance Stroll got on the podium for the second time in 2020. Perez made an excellent recovery after being down in P18 after lap 1 to finishing first on the podium and capturing his first race win in Formula 1. Mercedes’ race went downhill from there, a terrible double stacked pitstop with mixing tyres and ultimately losing the race for George Russell and Valtteri Bottas. Russell continued to lead for several laps, until Jack Aitken crashed just before the start finish line, causing him to lose his front wing bringing out a virtual safety car. Russell got an excellent start and propelled himself past Bottas and into first place after the first turn. However, for some it was a different story. Max Verstappen was the innocent bystander in the whole thing, he simply forced off the track causing him to crash into the barrier along with Leclerc. Perez was taking the natural racing line, when Leclerc failed to break early enough causing contact to be made between the Ferrari and Racing Point.
This time it involved Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. Like almost every race, there is a lap one incident. It was action packed racing from the start to the final checkered flag.
Round 16 of the F1 season was a spectacular race.
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