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Bottas and Magnussen collide at flip seven. The monitor sector has been cleared so it seems to be like there gained’t be a neutralisation.
Verstappen pits – Pink Bull lastly inform him about his penalty and he calls the stewards “silly idiots.”
Lawson has been given a 10-second stop-go penalty for rejoining the monitor together with his automobile in an unsafe situation. Albon had the identical penalty in Imola.
Verstappen appears to be struggling to gradual his automobile, he goes vast at flip six. Hamilton inside three seconds now. The Pink Bull driver nonetheless has his penalty to serve.
L28 Colapinto pits to retire. Sainz is 2s behind Norris. Verstappen and Hamilton, each but to pit, now separated by simply three-and-a-half seconds.
L27 Norris pits from the lead and returns to the monitor. Russell pits as effectively so Norris retains the lead – however Sainz is just one.6s off the McLaren now.
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L26 Sainz pits from second – anticipate to see Norris in subsequent.
Lawson pits however tells his crew “the wheels aren’t on.” He comes again into the pits. RB may very well be in hassle right here.
L24 Leclerc passes Lawson after his pit cease and desires to choose Gasly off rapidly subsequent. He does within the DRS zone approaching flip seven.
Leclerc has pitted and Ferrari inform him he has efficiently undercut Russell forward. The Mercedes driver mentioned his tyres might go eight laps additional than they focused.
Norris says his rear tyres are beginning to fade. His lead over Sainz is 4.2 seconds. Leclerc was virtually inside DRS vary of Russell however has dropped again.
Stroll is already on three strikes for monitor limits – yet one more and he will get an automated penalty.
L17 Norris’s lead is now as much as 4 seconds. Gasly has pitted, Russell now edging in the direction of Sainz.
Zhou given a five-second time penalty for a false begin, Albon cleared.
Ferrari inform Leclerc that Hamilton’s lap occasions on hards are “not nice.”
Zhou underneath investigation for that begin, Albon now famous for a similar. Leclerc takes fifth off Hulkenberg.
The stewards are trying into whether or not Zhou jumped the beginning. Verstappen passes Magnussen simply with DRS, Leclerc likewise with Alonso.
Piastri will get a 10-second penalty for his collision with Colapinto.
L8 Norris’s lead is over three seconds. Russell continues to be attempting to assault Gasly for third. Leclerc is as much as seventh forward of Magnussen, Verstappen now closing on the second Haas. Lawson, eleventh, has the hard-tyred Hamilton for firm.
Verstappen: “I imply I used to be simply super-unlucky. I used to be all the way in which up the within earlier than the crash.” Piastri: “Yep. Transfer of a world champion, that one.”
Verstappen given a 10-second penalty for the collision with Piastri. Bottas additionally has a 10-second time penalty.
L5 Norris pulls 2.6 seconds away from Sainz. Piastri, who bumped into the again of Colapinto shortly after the restart, is in for recent tyres.
Verstappen is underneath investigation for inflicting a collision. There may be additionally an investigation involving the opposite Pink Bull driver and Bottas.
L3 VSC interval over. Verstappen and Leclerc have been complaining that their delta occasions didn’t look proper.
L2 Digital Security Automobile deployed. Norris leads Carlos Sainz Jnr, Pierre Gasly, George Russell, Nico Hulkenberg and Fernando Alonso. Kevin Magnussen is seventh and Charles Leclerc has made an unimaginable begin to take eighth! With Piastri nineteenth, Ferrari’s constructors’ championship hopes are nonetheless alive.
Perez has stopped, he’s been informed to modify his engine off.
Max Verstappen takes Oscar Piastri out on the first nook! Lando Norris leads.
The drivers are taking their locations on the grid prepared to begin the ultimate race of the yr.
Each driver will begin the race on the medium tyre compound besides one: Lewis Hamilton, sixteenth on hards.
Alpine, Haas and RB are additionally disputing sixth within the constructors’ championship, and the cash that comes with that. Alpine are 5 factors forward of Haas and have Pierre Gasly a superb fifth on the grid. However Nico Hulkenberg – demoted from fourth to seventh as a consequence of a penalty – and Kevin Magnussen in 14th shall be eyeing the factors locations.
Amid all of the farewells there’s additionally some severe enterprise to take care of. Above all, who will win the constructors’ championship? McLaren maintain a 21-point lead over Ferrari and have locked out the entrance of the grid so it’s their to lose. There’s loads of pleasure at stake right here together with the monetary reward – McLaren haven’t gained this title for 26 years, Ferrari for 16.
Spare a thought too for a driver who isn’t on the grid in the present day. Esteban Ocon anticipated this to be his closing begin for Alpine, however the crew selected to half methods with him after the final race, so Jack Doohan makes his grand prix debut in the present day.
Others are saying farewell to their present groups. Lewis Hamilton’s extremely profitable spell at Mercedes is drawing to a detailed. Carlos Sainz Jnr can be transferring on from Ferrari, the crew he gained his first grands prix with.
It’s an vital day for a lot of drivers as a number of are transferring on after this race – some to new groups, others out of F1 solely. Valtteri Bottas, Kevin Magnussen and Zhou Guanyu are all with out drives for subsequent yr.
The 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is arising subsequent.
