Leclerc ends the second year after resisting the harassment of ‘Checo’ Pérez
Carlos Sainz finishes fourth and Fernando Alonso says goodbye to Alpine with an abandonment
Ferrari achieves Constructors’ runner-up in Vettel’s last race
MADRID, 20 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Dutch driver Max Verstappen (Red Bull) has prevailed this Sunday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the last round of the Formula 1 World Cup, a race in which the Monesgascan Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) has tied the runner-up of drivers and Ferrari , that of Constructors, while the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) finished fourth and Fernando Alonso said goodbye to Alpine with an abandonment.
In the fifteenth victory of the season for ‘Mad Max’, current world champion, Leclerc resisted the harassment in the final stretch of the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), with whom he arrived at Yas Marina tied at 290 points overall, to finish second and confirm his second final position in the World Cup.
Ferrari also achieved second place in the Constructors’ World Championship, partly thanks to the work of Carlos Sainz in his fight with the Mercedes of the British Lewis Hamilton, who could not finish the race after being advanced three laps from the end by the man from Madrid.
For his part, Alonso consummated his sixth retirement of the year after his engine said enough on lap 28, a sad farewell to his third stint at Renault, now as Alpine. The Asturian, who next year will run for Aston Martin, could not return the German Sebastian Vettel to the hall of champions that he gave him along with Hamilton in his first withdrawal from Formula 1.