It's the first time since 2016 that the Formula 1 Championship has come down to the wire, with the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix the last time the title was fought over at Yas Marina. It's a track where overtaking is reasonably straightforward, due to long DRS zones on the back straight, although the second braking zone has been made less severe and could actually curtail opportunities as a result.
Annoyingly for Red Bull, those fiddly bits were to their strengths, as the circuit is now more demanding in terms of outright power and is made up of more medium- to high-speed corners. Yas Marina is some 14 seconds quicker this year, in terms of lap time, after extensive renovations to remove some of the fiddlier bits of the circuit. In what represents a microcosm of the season, it was a race that seemed to be going Verstappen's way, until that moment of controversy regarding track limits at Turn 4.įrom there, Verstappen was powerless to stop Hamilton from claiming the win and, heading to Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina Circuit, it's difficult to see how the Red Bull driver can fend off the Mercedes. After a season that feels like it only began a few short weeks ago, an intense eight-month-long battle will reach its conclusion this weekend in Abu Dhabi, the final round of the 2021 campaign.īahrain, the season-opener, gave us a taster of what was to come as Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen went wheel-to-wheel for victory.
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