LONDON (Reuters) - World champion Lewis Hamilton has confirmed his sixth world title after winning the Mercedes-Benz Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday, the final round of the Formula One season. »After Hamilton succeeded yesterday in registering the fastest lap of the qualifying race, Yas Marina Circuit.
Hamilton scored the fastest time of one minute 34 seconds and 779 seconds, ahead of his teammate Valteri Botas, who had the second fastest time in the world, 194 ahead of the Finnish. The team had to change the engine, allowing the Red Bull driver, Max Verstappen, to take advantage of his record of the third fastest time of one minute 35 seconds and 139 milliseconds to start second in the race.
The qualifying tests saw a comfortable preference for the Mercedes team duo throughout the three qualifying sessions, with Botas and Hamilton sharing the advantage in scoring the fastest times, met with the suffering of the Ferrari duo in terms of tires, especially after Charles Leclerc, from Monaco The fourth fastest time of the minute, 35 seconds and 219 milliseconds, ahead of 120 seconds ahead of his teammate, Sebastian Vettel, but both drivers took advantage of the penalty of the Finnish Valtieri Botas, to take a step forward and start from third and fourth place Race.
It is the first pole position in the first Abu Dhabi race for Hamilton, since the German Grand Prix this summer, and 88 in his professional career, but it came to confirm the extent of its dominance on the pole of the first pole of the Yas Marina Circuit, winning this position for the fifth time after 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Hamilton said he was delighted with his performance during the qualifying tests, and said in press statements: «Although it is the 88th time in my career during which I succeeded in winning the first pole position, but my joy here in Abu Dhabi is exactly the feeling when I achieved this position for the first time, Especially it is the fifth time that I will launch this race in the first place for the race ».
`` I have come to the middle of the road and have to concentrate on my race as I look forward to the conclusion of an exceptional season befitting my sixth World Cup trophy, especially as I expect strong competition with the next Red Bull driver Max Verstappen after winning two weeks ago in Brazil. ''
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