With the F1 titles decided, the main focus has shifted to the runner-up fight between Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc ⚔️ Despite hints of good qualifying pace, Leclerc might find beating Perez a particularly tough ask at the AbuDhabiGP – here's why ⬇️
Max Verstappen might have lost his chance to end the 2022 Formula 1 season with a string of five successive victories last time out in Brazil, but he appeared to be in ominous form in Abu Dhabi practice, despite missing FP1.
Topping the bill in Abu Dhabi will be Sergio Perez’s attempt to beat Charles Leclerc to second behind Verstappen in the championship. This scrap is turbocharged by Verstappen’s refusal to comply with team orders in Brazil, which would’ve helped Perez. The pack initially worked up to speed on the C4 and C3 compounds, before Leclerc and Perez traded times at the front after they finally ran the softs for the first time around the one-hour session’s halfway point. Verstappen sat out FP1 for Red Bull, with Formula 2 race winner Liam Lawson taking his place.
Perez’s attempt to beat Leclerc to second in the championship has been turbocharged by Verstappen’s refusal to comply with team orders in Brazilwith Russell 0.22s adrift, and Leclerc and Perez 0.255s and 0.334s behind respectively in third and fourth. FP1 was completed without major incident - bar Logan Sargeant spinning off at Turn 1.
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