The 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 2018 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was the twenty-first and final race of the 2018 Formula One season, and the tenth time the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was held. It was held between 23 November and 25 November 2018.
In qualifying, Lewis Hamilton took his eighty-third pole position. Valtteri Bottas qualified second to take another front-row lockout for Mercedes, while Sebastian Vettel qualified third.
In the race, Hamilton made a good start to keep the lead, before the safety car was deployed on the first lap after Nico Hülkenberg collided with Romain Grosjean and barrel-rolled into the tyre barrier. The safety car came in at the end of lap 4, but the virtual safety car was soon deployed on lap 7 after Kimi Räikkönen stopped on the start/finish straight with a problem on his car. Hamilton took his pit stop at the end of the lap before the virtual safety car ended on the next lap, and took back the lead after Daniel Ricciardo pitted at the end of lap 33. Bottas lost second place to Vettel on lap 35 after having a lockup, and was then passed by Max Verstappen on lap 38, but not without making contact. Bottas then lost fourth place to Ricciardo on the following lap. Hamilton went on to take his seventy-third win overall, breaking the record of scoring the most points in a season with 408 points. Vettel and Verstappen completed the podium respectively. Fernando Alonso, who was making his final F1 race, finished 11th and he was flanked by both Hamilton and Vettel, performing donuts on the pit straight when the race ended.
Background[]
To celebrate Fernando Alonso's final race, McLaren used a one-off livery on his car, marking the first time they have used a one-off livery since the 1986 Portuguese Grand Prix.[1]
Entry list[]
Practice Overview[]
FP1[]
FP2[]
FP3[]
Practice Results[]
| No | Driver | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Pos | Time | Pos | Time | Pos | ||||||||
| 2 |  Stoffel Vandoorne
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 McLaren-Renault
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1:42.114 | 18 | 1:39.938 | 18 | 1:40.233 | 19 | |||||
| 3 |  Daniel Ricciardo
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 Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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1:38.945 | 2 | 1:37.428 | 3 | 1:38.090 | 6 | |||||
| 5 |  Sebastian Vettel
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 Ferrari
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1:40.453 | 8 | 1:37.569 | 6 | 1:37.587 | 3 | |||||
| 7 |  Kimi Räikkönen
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Ferrari
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1:40.417 | 7 | 1:37.461 | 5 | 1:37.464 | 2 | |||||
| 8 |  Romain Grosjean
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 Haas-Ferrari
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1:40.663 | 10 | 1:38.060 | 7 | 1:38.304 | 7 | |||||
| 9 |  Marcus Ericsson
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 Sauber-Ferrari
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1:41.928 | 17 | 1:39.502 | 17 | 1:39.997 | 17 | |||||
| 10 | Pierre Gasly
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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1:40.671 | 11 | 1:38.506 | 11 | 1:39.740 | 15 | |||||
| 11 |  Sergio Pérez
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Force India-Mercedes
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1:41.075 | 13 | 1:38.806 | 14 | 1:39.053 | 11 | |||||
| 14 |  Fernando Alonso
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McLaren-Renault
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1:42.313 | 19 | 1:38.725 | 13 | 1:39.974 | 16 | |||||
| 16 |  Charles Leclerc
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Sauber-Ferrari
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1:38.831 | 15 | 1:39.282 | 13 | |||||||
| 18 |  Lance Stroll
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Williams-Mercedes
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1:41.493 | 15 | 1:40.046 | 19 | 1:40.117 | 18 | |||||
| 20 |  Kevin Magnussen
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Haas-Ferrari
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1:40.235 | 6 | 1:38.318 | 9 | 1:39.612 | 14 | |||||
| 27 | Nico Hülkenberg
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Renault
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1:41.023 | 12 | 1:38.230 | 8 | 1:38.850 | 8 | |||||
| 28 |  Brendon Hartley
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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1:41.137 | 14 | 1:38.957 | 16 | 1:39.074 | 12 | |||||
| 31 | Esteban Ocon
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Force India-Mercedes
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1:40.102 | 5 | 1:38.402 | 10 | 1:39.011 | 10 | |||||
| 33 |  Max Verstappen
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Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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1:38.491 | 1 | 1:37.280 | 2 | 1:37.747 | 4 | |||||
| 35 |  Sergey Sirotkin
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Williams-Mercedes
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1:40.935 | 20 | 1:41.182 | 20 | |||||||
| 36 | Antonio Giovinazzi
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Sauber-Ferrari
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1:41.662 | 16 | |||||||||
| 40 |  Robert Kubica
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Williams-Mercedes
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1:42.992 | 20 | |||||||||
| 44 | Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes
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1:39.543 | 4 | 1:37.443 | 4 | 1:37.176 | 1 | |||||
| 55 | Carlos Sainz, Jr.
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Renault
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1:40.588 | 9 | 1:38.511 | 12 | 1:38.970 | 9 | |||||
| 77 | Valtteri Bottas
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Mercedes
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1:39.452 | 3 | 1:37.236 | 1 | 1:37.933 | 5 | |||||
| Source: [2][3][4] | |||||||||||||
Qualifying[]
Q1[]
Q2[]
Q3[]
Qualifying Results[]
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Grid | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Time | Pos | Time | Pos | Time | ||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes
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3 | 1:36.828 | 1 | 1:35.693 | 1 | 1:34.794 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas
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Mercedes
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2 | 1:36.789 | 4 | 1:36.392 | 2 | 1:34.956 | 2 | |||
| 3 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel
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Ferrari
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1 | 1:36.775 | 3 | 1:36.345 | 3 | 1:35.125 | 3 | |||
| 4 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen
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Ferrari
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5 | 1:37.010 | 7 | 1:35.735 | 4 | 1:35.365 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo
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Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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6 | 1:37.117 | 10 | 1:36.964 | 5 | 1:35.401 | 5 | |||
| 6 | 33 | Max Verstappen
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Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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8 | 1:37.195 | 2 | 1:36.144 | 6 | 1:35.589 | 6 | |||
| 7 | 8 | Romain Grosjean
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Haas-Ferrari
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11 | 1:37.575 | 7 | 1:36.732 | 7 | 1:36.192 | 7 | |||
| 8 | 16 | Charles Leclerc
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Sauber-Ferrari
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7 | 1:37.124 | 5 | 1:36.580 | 8 | 1:36.237 | 8 | |||
| 9 | 31 | Esteban Ocon
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Force India-Mercedes
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4 | 1:36.936 | 9 | 1:36.814 | 9 | 1:36.540 | 9 | |||
| 10 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg
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Renault
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10 | 1:37.569 | 6 | 1:36.630 | 10 | 1:36.542 | 10 | |||
| 11 | 55 | Carlos Sainz, Jr.
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Renault
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13 | 1:37.757 | 11 | 1:36.982 | 11 | |||||
| 12 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson
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Sauber-Ferrari
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12 | 1:37.619 | 12 | 1:37.132 | 12 | |||||
| 13 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen
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Haas-Ferrari
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15 | 1:37.934 | 13 | 1:37.309 | 13 | |||||
| 14 | 11 | Sergio Pérez
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Force India-Mercedes
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9 | 1:37.255 | 14 | 1:37.541 | 14 | |||||
| 15 | 14 | Fernando Alonso
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McLaren-Renault
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14 | 1:37.890 | 15 | 1:37.743 | 15 | |||||
| 16 | 28 | Brendon Hartley
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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16 | 1:37.994 | 16 | |||||||
| 17 | 10 | Pierre Gasly
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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17 | 1:38.166 | 17 | |||||||
| 18 | 2 | Stoffel Vandoorne
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McLaren-Renault
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18 | 1:38.577 | 18 | |||||||
| 19 | 35 | Sergey Sirotkin
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Williams-Mercedes
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19 | 1:38.635 | 19 | |||||||
| 20 | 18 | Lance Stroll
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Williams-Mercedes
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20 | 1:38.682 | 20 | |||||||
| 107% time: 1:43.549 | |||||||||||||
| Source: [5] | |||||||||||||
Grid[]
| Pos. | Pos. | |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | Driver | |
| ______________ | ||
| Row 1 | 1 | ______________ |
| Lewis Hamilton | 2 | |
| ______________ | Valtteri Bottas | |
| Row 2 | 3 | ______________ |
| Sebastian Vettel | 4 | |
| ______________ | Kimi Räikkönen | |
| Row 3 | 5 | ______________ |
| Daniel Ricciardo | 6 | |
| ______________ | Max Verstappen | |
| Row 4 | 7 | ______________ |
| Romain Grosjean | 8 | |
| ______________ | Charles Leclerc | |
| Row 5 | 9 | ______________ |
| Esteban Ocon | 10 | |
| ______________ | Nico Hülkenberg | |
| Row 6 | 11 | ______________ |
| Carlos Sainz, Jr. | 12 | |
| ______________ | Marcus Ericsson | |
| Row 7 | 13 | ______________ |
| Kevin Magnussen | 14 | |
| ______________ | Sergio Pérez | |
| Row 8 | 15 | ______________ |
| Fernando Alonso | 16 | |
| ______________ | Brendon Hartley | |
| Row 9 | 17 | ______________ |
| Pierre Gasly | 18 | |
| ______________ | Stoffel Vandoorne | |
| Row 10 | 19 | ______________ |
| Sergey Sirotkin | 20 | |
| ______________ | Lance Stroll |
Race[]
Report[]
Results[]
- * Alonso was given a five-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.[7]
Milestones[]
- Final race for the following drivers until they returned in another season:
- Fernando Alonso, until the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix.
- Esteban Ocon, until the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix.
- This was also Ocon's 50th race start.
- Final race for the following drivers in their respective teams:
- Fernando Alonso in McLaren.
- Kimi Räikkönen in Ferrari.
- Charles Leclerc in Sauber.
- Daniel Ricciardo in Red Bull.
- Ricciardo also started his 150th race.
- Lance Stroll in Williams.
- Esteban Ocon in Force India.
- Pierre Gasly in Toro Rosso, until the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix.
- Carlos Sainz, Jr. in Renault.
- Final race for the following drivers to date:
- Lewis Hamilton scored the highest number of points in a season, being 408 points. He also reaches 3,000 points overall.
Standings[]
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Notes[]
- ↑ "McLaren reveal one-off livery for Alonso's final race in Abu Dhabi". 21 November 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.mclaren-reveal-one-off-livery-for-alonso's-final-race.8YzX6QexZmqag42OSykw2.html. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Practice 1 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 23 November 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/999/abu-dhabi/practice-1.html. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Practice 2 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 23 November 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/999/abu-dhabi/practice-2.html. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Practice 3 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 24 November 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/999/abu-dhabi/practice-3.html. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Qualifying results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 24 November 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/999/abu-dhabi/qualifying.html. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ↑ "Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2018 Race Results". formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 25 November 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/999/abu-dhabi/race-result.html. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ↑ "FIA Stewards Decision — Document No. 39". FIA.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 25 November 2018. https://www.fia.com/file/75322/download?token=_y_zi5ZK. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
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