It’s crunch time in Abu Dhabi, with a three-way combat for the System 1 world drivers’ championship.
From McLaren’s perspective it didn’t must be this manner. If it had prevented the disqualifications in Las Vegas, or made a greater technique name in Qatar, it will now be assured its first world champion since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
As it’s, Lando Norris might be champion if he finishes third or greater, whereas Max Verstappen is just 12 factors behind him and has probabilities. Oscar Piastri wants luck to go his method after the crushing disappointment of dropping a sure race win in Qatar.
James Allen explores all of this and what it’s wish to be in the course of a title showdown with somebody who was within the thick of it in 2007, when McLaren misplaced the championship from a place not not like in the present day’s – former McLaren mechanic now journalist and broadcaster Marc Priestley.
And our F1 author along with his ear to the bottom, Ronald Vording, joins us from Abu Dhabi.
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