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Topping Free Practice five times and taking four poles, Trevor Carlin could have pinpointed pace as the strongest tool in Carlin’s armoury last season, but the team principal believes that it was their driver development which stood out above anything. The British outfit took third in the Teams’ Championship in 2020, one place and 36 points better off than the previous year, and enjoyed an explosive end to the season, taking 123 points from the final three rounds – over 30 more than any ...

In the final round of the 2020 season, in Bahrain, Yuki Tsunoda aced his final audition for a seat in Formula 1 with Alpha Tauri next season, securing his Super Licence in the season finale with the strongest and complete weekend of his Road to F1 career. In the space of one weekend, he scored a pole position, a third victory of the year in the Feature Race and a seventh podium in the Sprint Race. Following todays announcement that this years best rookie will debut in F1 in 2021 alongside Pier...

Red Bull He’s threatened all year, but finally at the last time of asking Verstappen grabbed a 2020 pole position. He wasn’t quicker than Mercedes in any particular part of the lap, but was able to extract the maximum from his tyres to nail every single corner and cross the line narrowly ahead. After the first runs in Q3 it looked like Albon was right in that fight at the front, but he faded on his second run and had to make do with fifth. Max Verstappen, 1st, 1:35.246 “It was a very nice...

Valtteri Bottas headed Free Practice 2 for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix by 0.203s from his returning Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen taking P3, seven-tenths adrift – although that picture might not be quite as clear as it seems, after issues for all three drivers during the session. Bottas, Hamilton and Verstappen’s fastest times from FP2 were all set on the medium tyres, rather than the softs, with Hamilton and Verstappen having times deleted for track limit...

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