FP3: Perez leads Red Bull one-two in final practice

Red Bull Racing’s Sergio Perez set the benchmark in the third and final practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, pipping his workforce mate Max Verstappen with the Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell ending up third and fourth quickest.

The final practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix took half in full daylight circumstances, making the session much less consultant as qualifying and race are set to begin when the solar begins to set.

Interestingly, the Ferrari drivers had been among the many first to hit the monitor because the Scuderia needed to hold out a heavy gasoline run in the center a part of the session following their points with tyre degradation in yesterday’s second practice.

When drivers began their qualifying simulation in the second half of the session, Sergio Perez set the benchmark with a 1m24.982s, 0.152s away from two-time world champion Verstappen, who began his preparation for the final qualifying very late into the session as we was ready for the monitor temperatures to drop and thus grow to be extra consultant.

Lewis Hamilton ended up third-fastest and 0.240s down on Verstappen, along with his Mercedes teammate George Russell an extra two-tenths again in fourth. The seven-time world champion opted for a better downforce setup for his W13 whereas his teammate Russell went for a decrease downforce configuration for Free Practice 3.

The two Ferraris ended up sixth and seventh quickest with Sainz pipping Leclerc by 0.001s. Both drivers appeared to be sad with the behaviour of their SF-75, complaining concerning the entrance tyres on their qualifying simulation.

McLaren’s Lando Norris managed to go sooner than the Ferraris, taking fifth. His workforce mate Daniel Ricciardo completed three locations behind, 4 tenths of a second adrift of his Bristol-born stablemate.

Sebastian Vettel reported a front-right brake fireplace on the workforce radio, however accomplished the session with none interruptions. The German, who is about to finish his final and 299th grand prix tomorrow, took ninth whereas his workforce mate Lance Stroll ended the session in P16.

Williams racer Alexnader Albon continuously confirmed nice tempo in Free Practice 3, ending the session in an attention-grabbing tenth place. His workforce mate Nicholas Latifi seemed to be fast in the high-speed sections of the monitor, however his finest effort noticed him take P20 in the tip.

Finishing P11 and P12, Alpine pair of Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso had been break up by 0.0003s. Yuki Tsunoda took thirteenth for AlphaTauri whereas his workforce mate Pierre Gasly completed the session fifteenth quickest. The Frenchman endured issues midway into the session when the winglet over the front-right wheel of his AlphaTauri flew off with the particles touchdown on the exit kerb of Turn 9. The incident introduced out the crimson flag so the marshals might get better the piece of particles.