Whether it was delivered through gritted teeth I can neither confirm nor deny. “We want to win the race but we also want Sergio to finish second in the championship.” The dictionary definition of a party line. “I am very happy both cars are on the front row,” said Verstappen after qualifying. It’s a fallout that may or may not have its origins in May’s Monaco GP.įriends again? They are for the cameras, at least. And Red Bull would quite like the one-two – an ambition that went wholly unaided last week by their star driver, who refused to let his teammate past in defiance of team orders. The odds favour Perez, who starts from second on the grid, sandwiched between his teammate on pole and his rival on third. Max Verstappen may have wrapped up his title a few weeks back and his Red Bull team similarly assured of the constructors’ crown, but there’s still the small matter of second place to be thrashed out between Checo Perez and Charles Leclerc, who are level on points going into the season finale. There’s less on the line this time, but that’s not to say there’s nothing at stake for the drivers today.
No one needs reminding what happened in Abu Dhabi last time round, but suffice to say you’d forgive Lewis Hamilton if some repressed and enraging memories happened to bubble to the surface over the next few hours.
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