Round 21 · 2019

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Yas Island, United Arab Emirates29 Nov – 1 Dec

Practice 1
Fri 09:00
Data published
track 37° ·air 26° ·56% hum ·5.8 km/h wind
Practice 2
Fri 13:00
Data published
track 29° ·air 25° ·60% hum ·4.0 km/h wind
Practice 3
Sat 10:00
Data published
track 39° ·air 27° ·55% hum ·6.1 km/h windwet
Qualifying
Sat 13:00
Data published
track 31° ·air 26° ·64% hum ·5.4 km/h wind
Fantasy lock
Grand Prix
Sun 13:10
Data published
track 30° ·air 26° ·66% hum ·4.7 km/h wind

Times in UTC

Grand Prix result

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Moved	Time / gap	Pts
1	HAM	Mercedes	1	—	1:34:05.715	26
2	VER	Red Bull Racing	2	—	+16.772	18
3	LEC	Ferrari	3	—	+43.435	15
4	BOT	Mercedes	20	16	+44.379	12
5	VET	Ferrari	4	1	+64.357	10
6	ALB	Red Bull Racing	5	1	+69.205	8
7	PER	Racing Point	10	3	+1 Lap	6
8	NOR	McLaren	6	2	+1 Lap	4
9	KVY	Toro Rosso	13	4	+1 Lap	2
10	SAI	McLaren	8	2	+1 Lap	1
11	RIC	Renault	7	4	+1 Lap
12	HUL	Renault	9	3	+1 Lap
13	RAI	Alfa Romeo Racing	17	4	+1 Lap
14	MAG	Haas F1 Team	14	—	+1 Lap
15	GRO	Haas F1 Team	15	—	+1 Lap
16	GIO	Alfa Romeo Racing	16	—	+1 Lap
17	RUS	Williams	18	1	+1 Lap
18	GAS	Toro Rosso	11	7	+2 Laps
19	KUB	Williams	19	—	+2 Laps
20	STR	Racing Point	12	8	Brakes

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap to pole
1	HAM	1:35.851	1:35.634	1:34.779
2	BOT	1:36.200	1:35.674	1:34.973	+0.194
3	VER	1:36.390	1:36.275	1:35.139	+0.360
4	LEC	1:36.478	1:35.543	1:35.219	+0.440
5	VET	1:36.963	1:35.786	1:35.339	+0.560
6	ALB	1:36.102	1:36.718	1:35.682	+0.903
7	NOR	1:37.545	1:36.764	1:36.436	+1.657
8	RIC	1:37.106	1:36.785	1:36.456	+1.677
9	SAI	1:37.358	1:36.308	1:36.459	+1.680
10	HUL	1:37.506	1:36.859	1:36.710	+1.931
11	PER	1:36.961	1:37.055	—	+2.276
12	GAS	1:37.198	1:37.089	—	+2.310
13	STR	1:37.528	1:37.103	—	+2.324
14	KVY	1:37.683	1:37.141	—	+2.362
15	MAG	1:37.710	1:37.254	—	+2.475
16	GRO	1:38.051	—	—	+3.272
17	GIO	1:38.114	—	—	+3.335
18	RAI	1:38.383	—	—	+3.604
19	RUS	1:38.717	—	—	+3.938
20	KUB	1:39.236	—	—	+4.457

How the weekend has moved

Practice 11:36.957run 1:45.744

Practice 21:36.256−0.701run 1:44.443

Practice 31:36.566+0.310

Qualifying1:34.779−1.787

Grand Prix1:39.283+4.504run 1:45.065

Fastest lap of each session, the change from the session before, and the midfield's median fuel-corrected long run. Times normally tumble as the track rubbers in.

Practice 1

Fri 29 Nov, 09:00 UTCFastestBOT1:36.957

Single-lap pace

BOT1:36.957—22 laps

VER1:37.492+0.53522 laps

HAM1:37.591+0.63420 laps

ALB1:38.084+1.12723 laps

VET1:38.906+1.94919 laps

GRO1:39.146+2.18918 laps

LEC1:39.249+2.29218 laps

MAG1:39.350+2.39319 laps

GIO1:39.423+2.46619 laps

HUL1:39.505+2.54822 laps

NOR1:39.628+2.67118 laps

STR1:39.864+2.90723 laps

RAI1:39.888+2.93116 laps

PER1:39.901+2.94417 laps

KVY1:39.969+3.01220 laps

GAS1:40.401+3.44417 laps

SAI1:40.687+3.73022 laps

KUB1:40.792+3.83521 laps

RIC1:40.850+3.89312 laps

RUS1:41.362+4.40524 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
STR	H	7*	1:45.661	—	±0.599	—
SAI	S	5*	1:45.744	+0.083	±0.444	—
RUS	S	5*	1:46.398	+0.737	±0.461	—

Each driver's longest clean stint, using green-flag laps only. Cool-down laps go first (anything more than 7% slower than that stint's best), then laps sitting well above the stint's own trend — traffic and mistakes — and a stint is discarded entirely if what remains isn't one continuous run. Times are corrected for fuel burn at 60 ms per lap, measured from 2024 race stints rather than assumed. Runs under eight laps (marked *) get no degradation figure, because a trend through so few laps is noise. Teams don't publish fuel loads, and 15 kg is worth about 0.4s a lap, so read these as driver groupings rather than exact gaps, and compare runs on the same compound.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
BOT	17.262	41.376	38.319	1:36.957	1:36.957	0.000
VER	17.272	41.438	38.782	1:37.492	1:37.492	0.000
HAM	17.330	41.738	38.427	1:37.495	1:37.591	0.096
ALB	17.482	41.904	38.698	1:38.084	1:38.084	0.000
VET	17.541	41.968	39.073	1:38.582	1:38.906	0.324
LEC	17.343	42.110	39.435	1:38.888	1:39.249	0.361
GRO	17.517	42.220	39.287	1:39.024	1:39.146	0.122
HUL	17.564	42.320	39.423	1:39.307	1:39.505	0.198
MAG	17.531	42.254	39.565	1:39.350	1:39.350	0.000
NOR	17.556	42.176	39.681	1:39.413	1:39.628	0.215
GIO	17.557	42.143	39.723	1:39.423	1:39.423	0.000
RAI	17.493	42.375	39.855	1:39.723	1:39.888	0.165
STR	17.612	42.444	39.808	1:39.864	1:39.864	0.000
KVY	17.796	42.311	39.767	1:39.874	1:39.969	0.095
PER	17.654	42.313	39.930	1:39.897	1:39.901	0.004
SAI	17.665	42.132	40.253	1:40.050	1:40.687	0.637
GAS	17.770	42.503	39.883	1:40.156	1:40.401	0.245
KUB	17.793	42.548	40.315	1:40.656	1:40.792	0.136
RIC	17.941	42.790	40.119	1:40.850	1:40.850	0.000
RUS	17.796	42.722	40.531	1:41.049	1:41.362	0.313

Best sector times are usually set on different laps, so their sum — the ideal lap — is quicker than anyone's actual best. The last column is the time left out there. Purple marks the session's fastest sector.

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.308(9 drivers ran both)Honly 2 drivers ran both — too few to price

Measured within each driver — only drivers who set a representative time on both compounds count — then averaged, so this isn't distorted by who happened to run which tyre. A lap counts only if it is within 2% of that driver's own best of the session, which keeps genuine runs on a slower tyre while dropping in-laps and aborted runs that would otherwise masquerade as a compound's best. A compound fewer than three drivers tried is listed but not priced. Even so, these laps aren't all qualifying simulations, so read this as the order of the compounds rather than an exact price.

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesBOTahead of HAM+0.634

Red Bull RacingVERahead of ALB+0.592

FerrariVETahead of LEC+0.343

Haas F1 TeamGROahead of MAG+0.204

Alfa Romeo RacingGIOahead of RAI+0.465

RenaultHULahead of RIC+1.345

McLarenNORahead of SAI+1.059

Racing PointSTRahead of PER+0.037

Toro RossoKVYahead of GAS+0.432

WilliamsKUBahead of RUS+0.570

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

BOT87214

VER1957

HAM8471

ALB583223

VET3916

GRO1656

LEC36117

MAG1756

GIO17146

HUL119146

NOR11754

STR1949

RAI1717

PER1826

KVY118163

GAS1826

SAI2938

KUB19722

RIC11712

RUS11116617

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 2

Fri 29 Nov, 13:00 UTCFastestBOT1:36.256

Single-lap pace

BOT1:36.256—29 laps

HAM1:36.566+0.31033 laps

LEC1:36.642+0.38630 laps

VET1:36.691+0.43528 laps

VER1:36.807+0.55130 laps

ALB1:37.288+1.03230 laps

GRO1:37.601+1.34517 laps

PER1:37.637+1.38132 laps

KVY1:37.651+1.39534 laps

GAS1:37.770+1.51436 laps

SAI1:37.834+1.57832 laps

NOR1:37.918+1.66232 laps

STR1:37.985+1.72932 laps

MAG1:38.080+1.82431 laps

HUL1:38.122+1.86629 laps

RIC1:38.400+2.14426 laps

RAI1:38.415+2.15930 laps

GIO1:38.464+2.20832 laps

RUS1:39.512+3.25632 laps

KUB1:40.455+4.19932 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
LEC	H	6*	1:43.340	—	±0.527	—
ALB	M	6*	1:43.388	+0.048	±0.398	—
BOT	M	8	1:43.516	+0.176	±0.970	+0.328s
GAS	H	5*	1:43.645	+0.305	±0.261	—
RAI	S	5*	1:43.917	+0.577	±0.676	—
VET	S	5*	1:43.987	+0.647	±0.591	—
KVY	M	6*	1:44.196	+0.856	±0.348	—
GIO	H	6*	1:44.364	+1.024	±0.148	—
SAI	S	7*	1:44.521	+1.181	±0.342	—
VER	M	5*	1:44.707	+1.367	±1.426	—
HUL	S	5*	1:44.734	+1.394	±1.301	—
PER	S	8	1:44.787	+1.447	±1.017	+0.399s
MAG	M	5*	1:45.021	+1.681	±1.247	—
RUS	H	7*	1:45.314	+1.974	±0.356	—
NOR	S	8	1:45.432	+2.092	±0.967	+0.358s
STR	S	6*	1:45.446	+2.106	±0.797	—

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
BOT	17.270	41.161	37.825	1:36.256	1:36.256	0.000
VER	17.125	41.318	37.972	1:36.415	1:36.807	0.392
HAM	17.311	41.343	37.807	1:36.461	1:36.566	0.105
LEC	17.040	41.128	38.474	1:36.642	1:36.642	0.000
VET	17.059	41.368	38.264	1:36.691	1:36.691	0.000
ALB	17.260	41.506	38.435	1:37.201	1:37.288	0.087
GRO	17.277	41.601	38.723	1:37.601	1:37.601	0.000
PER	17.233	41.693	38.711	1:37.637	1:37.637	0.000
KVY	17.417	41.653	38.581	1:37.651	1:37.651	0.000
GAS	17.400	41.567	38.803	1:37.770	1:37.770	0.000
SAI	17.327	41.504	39.003	1:37.834	1:37.834	0.000
NOR	17.340	41.641	38.937	1:37.918	1:37.918	0.000
STR	17.348	41.564	39.035	1:37.947	1:37.985	0.038
HUL	17.486	41.871	38.705	1:38.062	1:38.122	0.060
MAG	17.278	41.777	39.025	1:38.080	1:38.080	0.000
RIC	17.547	41.918	38.935	1:38.400	1:38.400	0.000
RAI	17.372	41.690	39.353	1:38.415	1:38.415	0.000
GIO	17.517	41.678	39.269	1:38.464	1:38.464	0.000
RUS	17.631	42.257	39.414	1:39.302	1:39.512	0.210
KUB	17.655	42.636	39.926	1:40.217	1:40.455	0.238

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+1.009(11 drivers ran both)H+1.616(5 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesBOTahead of HAM+0.310

FerrariLECahead of VET+0.049

Red Bull RacingVERahead of ALB+0.481

Haas F1 TeamGROahead of MAG+0.479

Racing PointPERahead of STR+0.348

Toro RossoKVYahead of GAS+0.119

McLarenSAIahead of NOR+0.084

RenaultHULahead of RIC+0.278

Alfa Romeo RacingRAIahead of GIO+0.049

WilliamsRUSahead of KUB+0.943

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

BOT53610113

HAM817854

LEC7251159

VET7513129

VER8679

ALB8679

GRO746

PER75119

KVY76759

GAS95679

SAI553109

NOR8510153

STR7799

MAG35599

HUL7589

RIC5579

RAI93819

GIO106619

RUS1651109

KUB77279

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 3

Sat 30 Nov, 10:00 UTCFastestVER1:36.566

Single-lap pace

VER1:36.566—15 laps

HAM1:36.640+0.07418 laps

BOT1:36.655+0.08917 laps

ALB1:36.927+0.36118 laps

VET1:36.975+0.40915 laps

LEC1:37.010+0.44416 laps

PER1:37.516+0.95016 laps

RIC1:37.615+1.04914 laps

SAI1:37.691+1.12522 laps

GAS1:37.736+1.17017 laps

GRO1:37.768+1.20212 laps

KVY1:37.963+1.39718 laps

NOR1:38.100+1.53418 laps

MAG1:38.198+1.63212 laps

STR1:38.462+1.89616 laps

RAI1:38.514+1.94821 laps

HUL1:38.580+2.01414 laps

GIO1:38.782+2.21618 laps

RUS1:39.206+2.64016 laps

KUB1:39.859+3.29317 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
HAM	17.284	41.425	37.747	1:36.456	1:36.640	0.184
VER	17.080	41.255	38.213	1:36.548	1:36.566	0.018
BOT	17.252	41.369	38.014	1:36.635	1:36.655	0.020
ALB	17.217	41.537	38.027	1:36.781	1:36.927	0.146
VET	17.085	41.313	38.577	1:36.975	1:36.975	0.000
LEC	17.075	41.277	38.649	1:37.001	1:37.010	0.009
PER	17.322	41.472	38.722	1:37.516	1:37.516	0.000
GRO	17.263	41.467	38.827	1:37.557	1:37.768	0.211
SAI	17.248	41.418	38.897	1:37.563	1:37.691	0.128
RIC	17.350	41.495	38.720	1:37.565	1:37.615	0.050
NOR	17.280	41.473	38.983	1:37.736	1:38.100	0.364
GAS	17.371	41.768	38.597	1:37.736	1:37.736	0.000
KVY	17.345	41.570	38.873	1:37.788	1:37.963	0.175
MAG	17.443	41.699	39.056	1:38.198	1:38.198	0.000
HUL	17.383	41.768	39.179	1:38.330	1:38.580	0.250
RAI	17.311	41.655	39.392	1:38.358	1:38.514	0.156
STR	17.428	41.905	39.129	1:38.462	1:38.462	0.000
GIO	17.443	41.888	39.432	1:38.763	1:38.782	0.019
RUS	17.544	42.025	39.637	1:39.206	1:39.206	0.000
KUB	17.665	42.310	39.884	1:39.859	1:39.859	0.000

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.928(7 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

Red Bull RacingVERahead of ALB+0.361

MercedesHAMahead of BOT+0.015

FerrariVETahead of LEC+0.035

Racing PointPERahead of STR+0.946

RenaultRICahead of HUL+0.965

McLarenSAIahead of NOR+0.409

Toro RossoGASahead of KVY+0.227

Haas F1 TeamGROahead of MAG+0.430

Alfa Romeo RacingRAIahead of GIO+0.268

WilliamsRUSahead of KUB+0.653

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

VER663

HAM873

BOT7163

ALB9135

VET415113

LEC41614

PER817

RIC6143

SAI55363

GAS16118

GRO156

KVY198

NOR81333

MAG156

STR97

RAI15537

HUL5153

GIO117

RUS2554

KUB278

SSoftMMediumHHard