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Red Bull While one of their drivers barely put a foot wrong, the other couldn’t seem to stay out of trouble. Verstappen jumped into the lead with a brilliant start and pretty much stayed there untroubled throughout the whole race to record a stunning victory. But Perez dropped back at the start, was penalised for overtaking behind the Safety Car, and spun off twice. After the highs of yesterday, it wasn’t the performance the Mexican would have been hoping for. Max Verstappen, 1st "I am of c...

Mercedes That was a very solid Friday for the Silver Arrows, helped in part by reliability woes suffered by their rivals. Bottas finished on top in both sessions, despite failing to improve on the soft tyres in FP2. Hamilton was narrowly behind his team mate, but both look comfortable here, citing the balance of the W12 as being much improved since Bahrain. But can they convert this form to front row grid slots tomorrow? Lewis Hamilton – FP1: 1:16.605, P2; FP2: 1:15.561, P2 "The team worked v...

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...

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from a busy Friday practice at the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2020 from the Yas Marina Circuit...