In an exciting end to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Red Bull’ max Verstappen had to attend until the ultimate lap to overtake Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and seal his maiden F1 World Championship title at the Yas dock Circuit on Sunday. When Nicholas Latifi crashed within the 54th lap, the Dutch driver took advantage of a second safety car to overtake Hamilton, who was heading in the right direction to win a best eighth title. Here is that the video of the 58th lap when Verstappen overtook Hamilton to win his maiden championship title:
View from the North Grandstand in Abu Dhabi turn 5 as #Verstappen overtakes #Hamilton in #AbuDhabiGP pic.twitter.com/WsdBNgVn9l
— Doug Cutchins (@dougcutchins) December 12, 2021
The pair had entered the race level on points, with Verstappen having a plus because of a countback rule.
Once finishing behind Verstappen throughout qualifying within the second grid, Hamilton started well and grabbed an early lead. Verstappen had to accept some extraordinary cooperation from Red Bull’ Sergio Perez to claw himself into the race and the second position.
Such was Perez’ facilitate that Verstappen exclaimed within the team radio, “Checo is a legend”.
With Hamilton border nearer to a best eighth title, Latifi’ crash modified everything with Verstappen quickly pitting for a new set of tyres.
Hamilton witnessed Verstappen go past him with degrading hard tyres within the final lap. The country driver did try to} come back to his position; however, he couldn’t get past his opponent thanks to his older tyres.
The race additionally saw Kimi Raikkonen retire midway, swing a finish to his spectacular Formula one career.
Mercedes have launched two protests against max Verstappen’ Abu Dhabi Grand Prix victory that may see the F1 Drivers’ Championship handed to Lewis Hamilton. each driver headed into the season finale level on points.
It’s not over yet…. #AbuDhabiGP https://t.co/liXPO9macq
— WTF1 (@wtf1official) December 12, 2021
