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- Committed to Sustainability: Automobile Association of South Africa receives 1-star rating as part of the FIA Environmental Accreditation Programmeby aridsdillsmith on 27 november 2023 at 15:56
FIA newsThe rating was granted in recognition of the AASA’s commitment to developing their internal procedures and for the strength of environmental communication within the organisation.The certification follows the introduction of significant new sustainability initiatives, including new solar panels, battery storage units and an inverter which will power the Association’s call centre.The AASA have celebrated the award as a clear marker of progress in their efforts to make their offices more environmentally friendly.AASA CEO Willem Groenewald said: “We are extremely happy with the outcome of our application for this certification. While this is the base certification it’s an excellent start for us and provides us the motivation to go even further to ensure we achieve the 3-star level rating in the near future.”The AASA is now aiming to establish more environmental management systems as they look to achieve their next FIA certification.EnvironmentSustainabilityMembersMobilityFIA1FIAEnvironmentSustainabilityMembersMobility00Monday, November 27, 2023 – 4:56pmMonday, November 27, 2023 – 4:56pm
- The Safer Road Ahead: 2023 submissions to the FIA President’s Road Safety Awardby aridsdillsmith on 27 november 2023 at 11:54
FIA newsLaunched in September 2022, the FIA President’s Awards aim to recognise the work that FIA Member Clubs do to drive sustainable and measurable change across the fields of Climate Action, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Road Safety. By celebrating Clubs’ efforts and successes, the Awards aim to promote wider conversation and positive change, ensuring that effective solutions can be recognised, understood and adopted within the FIA community and beyond.The Road Safety Award specifically champions projects which improve road safety or promote a culture of safe mobility.This year, the FIA have received thirteen submissions, across a wide variety of innovative projects including those about road safety data, education, pedestrian safety, and advocacy. Today, we are pleased to announce that the entrants are:Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST)Automobile Club d’ItaliaAutomobile Association of KenyaRAC FoundationThe Australian Automobile AssociationMobilité Club MarocTouring y Automóvil Club del PeruTouring y Automóvil Club de ColombiaRoad Safety Institute ‘Panos Mylonas’AIP FoundationAutomobile Club of MoldovaAutomóvil Club del Ecuador ANETANational Roads and Motorists’ AssociationThe winner will be announced on 8 December at the FIA General Assemblies meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan.More detail on the entries can be found below: Ensuring Safe Pedestrian Crossings with Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST)Road safety isn’t just about improving streets for drivers, cyclists, and passengers – it’s about making them work for pedestrians too. With this in mind, the Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport introduced ‘Step by Step’, an initiative which aims to improve small scale pedestrian infrastructure across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. The organisation identifies key areas for interventions using crash data, observational study, and blackspot analysis, and then implements adjustments alongside local traffic police, NGO partners and city authorities. Since January 2022, EASST has used this approach to improve a total of nine crossings in Sumgayit (Azerbaijan), Chisinau (Moldova), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), and Uralsk (Kazakhstan).Part of the project was carried out using FIA School Assessment Toolkit based on the iRap methodology. EASST received support from the FIA Road Safety Grants Programme and the FIA Foundation. Discouraging Distracted Driving with the Automobile Club d’ItaliaUsing your mobile phone while driving makes you much more likely to crash your car – putting yourself and other drivers at risk. The Automobile Club d’Italia (ACI) decided to tackle the problem head on, and introduced ‘Guida@Sicura’ in their app SaraConMe. The new functionality monitors handheld calling, phone handling, and accelerometer events to measure how distracted users are at the wheel. It then provides a score and real-time behaviour coaching to encourage users to take a more focused approach to the roads. Promoting Good Road Safety Habits with the Automobile Association of KenyaGood road safety practices can start at any age, which is why the Automobile Association of Kenya introduced a new junior membership for 3–17-year-olds. The junior membership allows kids to access training on road safety, complete with easy-to-understand road safety messaging, fun activities and quizzes. The organisation hopes that the new initiative can help drive far-reaching change, ultimately heralding a new future for road safety in Kenya. Encouraging People to Drive Fit with the RAC FoundationSpeeding, tiredness, drunkenness or mobile phone usage — all of them can put drivers, and other road users, at risk. DriveFit — a new RAC Foundation initiative — aims to mitigate these risks, by educating young people on what they are and how to avoid them. The programme consists of a film and online workshop, which are delivered over a two-week period to reinforce and strengthen learning. The programme has received national and international recognition as an example of good practice in road safety education. Improving Road Safety Research with the Australian Automobile AssociationRoad safety is a key issue for the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) and its 8.9 million members. In an effort to reduce the number of fatalities or crashes in Australia, the AAA and its seven member clubs created the AAA Road Safety Research Program (RSRP). The project allows AAA clubs to contribute directly to improving road safety knowledge, practices, behaviour, and technology through research. So far, the programme has funded six multi-year projects. Bringing Road Safety to Schools with Mobilité Club MarocIn June 2022, Mobilité Club Maroc introduced a new road safety campaign across public and private schools. Benefitting 2,000 pupils from across Marrakech, Agadir, Casablanca and El Jaida, the programme aimed to encourage better road safety practices among all young people. Reminding People to Wear Motorcycle Helmets with Touring y Automóvil Club del Peru’Usa un casco seguro’ is a new initiative which aims to encourage young people to wear helmets when riding motorcycles. The programme targets students in their final year of high school (as well as the wider general public), and includes training and awareness raising messages. By September 2023, 8,127 people had received the training, including 1,747 students.This road safety project was carried out with support from the FIA Road Safety Grants Programme funded by the FIA Foundation. Highlighting Road Safety Issues to Government Leaders with Touring y Automóvil Club de ColombiaGovernment leaders are pivotal to road safety. Their interventions can save lives. But in order for them to intervene, they first need to understand the full extent of the issue. That’s why the Touring y Automóvil Club de Colombia (ACC) organised bicycle tours for mayors and councils across five major cities, showcasing issues with infrastructure, signage, and high-speed vehicle usage. The ACC plans to continue to monitor outcomes over the course of the election year, to see the impact of the initiative. Launching a Road Safety Academy with Road Safety Institute ‘Panos Mylonas’Road Safety Institute ‘Panos Mylonas’ introduced an easy-to-use eLearning course, known as the ‘Road Safety Academy’, to promote better traffic safety culture. The course has three different variations for drivers, novice drivers and parents, plus plenty of useful educational material, quizzes, and FAQs. Users have celebrated the platform, with an overall rating of 97%. Using Big Data to Analyse Road Safety Around Schools with the AIP FoundationThe ‘AI and Me’ project uses big data and AI to evaluate the safety of roads and infrastructure around schools in Ho Chi Minh, Pleiku, and Yen Bai. So far, 106 school areas have been assessed, with the support of the International Road Assessment Programme’s Star Rating for Schools methodology, as well as anecdotal data from the Youth Engagement App (YEA), which young people can use to record areas they find unsafe or uncomfortable. Making School Zones Safer with the Automobile Club of MoldovaEnsuring kids are safe walking to, from, and around schools is essential. The Automobile Club of Moldova successfully campaigned for changes in policy around Safer School Zones, to help mandate 30kph speed limits, and improve infrastructure in critical areas around school buildings.This project was carried out with support from the FIA Road Safety Grants Programme and the FIA Foundation. Delivering Road Safety Education with the Automóvil Club del Ecuador ANETAThe Automóvil Club del Ecuador ANETA carried out a road education project, with the aim of reducing traffic crashes and promoting safe and sustainable mobility. The project was delivered over 11 months to 34,080 students in 23 cities of Ecuador. Using Tech to Reduce the Risk of Distracted Driving in Australia with the National Roads and Motorists’ AssociationConcerned about distracted driving, the National Roads and Motorists’ Association (NRMA) created a new technology to reduce phone usage on public roads. The software enabled detection and photographic evidence capture to help enforcement agencies identify and prosecute illegal mobile phone use while driving — ultimately helping to keep Australian roads safer. An initial pilot was used to survey 8.5 million cars in New South Wales, and effectively identified 100,000 drivers illegally using their phones.President’s AwardsMobilityRoad SafetyMembersFIA1FIAPresident’s AwardsMobilityRoad SafetyMembers00Monday, November 27, 2023 – 12:54pmFriday, November 24, 2023 – 3:54pm
- F1 – Verstappen takes 19th win of 2023 in Abu Dhabi as Mercedes beat Ferrari to P2 in Constructors’ Championshipby jhynes on 26 november 2023 at 17:02
Sport newsMax Verstappen took a comfortable 19th win of the season at the final round of the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship, but it was behind this year’s champion that all the drama took place, as Mercedes beat Ferrari to P2 in the Constructors’ Championship. In the breathless final few laps, second-placed Charles Leclerc allowed Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez past in the hope that the Mexican would build a five-second gap to fourth placed Mercedes man George Russell thereby erasing the effects of a time penalty for Pérez and. That would have been enough to give Ferrari P2. But though Pérez crossed the line in second place, his gap to Russell wasn’t big enough and after the penalty was applied he slipped to fourth. Third for Russell, allied to ninth place for team-mate Lewis Hamilton, meant that Mercedes took the runner-up championship spot, just three points ahead of Ferrari. When the lights went out at the race start, Verstappen reacted well from pole to take the lead ahead of Leclerc and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, while behind them McLaren’s Lando Norris got the jump on Russell to steal fourth place. Further back, Pérez dropped a place from P9, as Alpine’s Pierre Gasly powered past, Hamilton shot forward from P11 and Haas’ Nico Hülkenberg slid down the order. However, in getting past the Mexican, Hamilton had gone off track in Turn 1 and two laps later he offered little resistance as Pérez eased past to retake ninth place. At the front, after resisting a strong opening-lap challenge from Leclerc, Max quickly broke DRS to the Ferrari and began to pull away, racing to a 1.5-second advantage at the start of lap 7. Norris then made his way past team-mate Piastri to steal third, while Russell too moved past the Australian to take P5. Behind them, Pérez was all over the back of Gasly’s Alpine and on lap 12, he closed up to the Frenchman through the chicane and stole seventh place on the run to Turn 9 under DRS. Piastri was the first of the frontrunners to make a pit stop, switching to hard tyres at the end of lap 13. He was followed in by Norris and Russell at the end of lap 14, but Norris’ stop was slow one and Russell got ahead as they exited the pit lane.Verstappen made his first stop at the end of lap 16 and in a 2.9s halt he made the switch to Hard tyres and emerged in P7, behind the long-running, Hard-tyre shod Ferrari of Carlos Sainz. Ferrari responded by pitting Leclerc at the end of the next tour and he was followed in by Pérez. Leclerc rejoined three seconds behind Verstappen. Yuki Tsunoda now led a Grand Prix for the first time in his career. Verstappen quickly made his way past Hard-tyre starters Carlos Sainz and Lance Stroll and when Tsunoda made his sole stop on lap 22, the champion returned to P1. Norris then sparked the second round of stops among the frontrunners as he tried to undercut Russell. Mercedes covered that move by pitting Russell on the next lap, with Ferrari also bringing Leclerc in to deny Mercedes any undercut. Pérez then made his second stop at the end of lap 42, taking on a set of Hard tyres for his final stint, while Verstappen made his final stop at the end of the following lap, re-emerging in the lead.Pérez found himself tucked up behind Norris and on lap 47 he attacked into Turn 6. There was contact and as a result the Mexican was handed a five-second time penalty for causing the collision – a sanction that would have major implications elsewhere in the final stages of the race. Norris was still in Checo’s sights and on the next lap he muscled his way past the McLaren in Turn 6 to take P4, four seconds behind Russell. And on lap 54 the Mexican powered past the Mercedes driver to take P3. He now needed to build a five-second gap to the Briton in just four laps in order to hold on to the podium position. And with Ferrari battling Mercedes for P2 in the Constructors’ Championship, Leclerc calculated that if he let the Mexican past there would be a better chance that the Mexican would gap Russell. So, with a lap left Leclerc backed off allowing Pérez to sweep past. Pérez couldn’t forge the necessary gap, however, and though he crossed line in P2, when the five-second penalty was applied he slid back to fourth behind Russell. Leclerc’s gambit had been audacious but despite the Ferrari driver finishing second, Russell’s P3 allied to Lewis Hamilton’s P9 meant that Mercedes secured the Championship runners-up slot, three points ahead of Ferrari.Behind Pérez, Norris finished fifth for McLaren, just ahead of team-mate Piastri, while Fernando Alonso finished seventh for Aston Martin. Tsunoda took eighth place AlphaTauri with Hamilton in P9 and the final point went to Lance Stroll in the other Aston Martin. 2023 FIA Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Race 1 Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing 58 1:27’02.624 2 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 58 1:27’20.617 17.9933 George Russell Mercedes 58 1:27’22.952 20.3284 Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing 58 1:27’24.077 21.4535 Lando Norris McLaren 58 1:27’26.908 24.2846 Oscar Piastri McLaren 58 1:27’34.111 31.4877 Fernando Alonso Aston Martin 58 1:27’42.136 39.5128 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 58 1:27’45.712 43.0889 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 58 1:27’47.048 44.42410 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 58 1:27’58.256 55.63211 Daniel Ricciardo AlphaTauri 58 1:27’58.853 56.22912 Esteban Ocon Alpine 58 1:28’08.997 1’06.37313 Pierre Gasly Alpine 58 1:28’12.984 1’10.36014 Alexander Albon Williams 58 1:28’15.808 1’13.18415 Nico Hülkenberg Haas 58 1:28’26.320 1’23.69616 Logan Sargeant Williams 58 1:28’30.415 1’27.79117 Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo 58 1:28’32.046 1’29.42218 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 57 1:26’50.923 Power Unit19 Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo 57 1:27’15.035 1 lap /12.41120 Kevin Magnussen Haas 57 1:27’17.500 1 lap /14.876 FIA Formula One World ChampionshipF1SEASON 2023SportCircuit1SportFIA Formula One World ChampionshipCircuitSEASON 2023F101Sunday, November 26, 2023 – 6:02pmSunday, November 26, 2023 – 6:02pm
- F2 – Jack Doohan victorious as Théo Pourchaire seals 2023 Drivers’ titleby arichard on 26 november 2023 at 11:27
Sport newsJack Doohan claimed the final win of the 2023 Formula 2 season while Théo Pourchaire clinched the Drivers’ Championship in a spirited battle against Frederik Vesti.The ART Grand Prix driver did what he needed to do, finishing fifth on the road and with teammate Victor Martins second, ART Grand Prix also claimed their first F2 Teams’ title.Despite his best efforts, Vesti ended the season third after fighting his way up from ninth and capped off his campaign with another podium finish.AS IT HAPPENEDDoohan held the lead comfortably at lights out while Kush Maini cleared Martins to take second, with the latter opting for mediums for the start. Further back, Vesti was up to eighth at Turn 1, passing Richard Verschoor having also started on the yellow-walled tyres.Starting on the softs, Pourchaire was on the cusp of the points by the end of the opening lap, but an opportunistic Oliver Bearman snatched 10th from the ART driver to leave him 11th going into Lap 2.Those on softs nursed their tyres in the early stages, and Iwasa was in as soon as the pitstop window opened on Lap 7. He was joined by Pourchaire, both swapping to the medium compound tyres and rejoining in 19th and 20th respectively.Maini pitted from second on Lap 8 as Bearman also pitted in response to Pourchaire’s stop one lap earlier. The PREMA Racing driver rejoined ahead on the road, but with his tyres up to temperature, the Frenchman got the traction he needed to set up a pass on the run to Turn 6.Zane Maloney, Isack Hadjar and Dennis Hauger made their way to the pits on Lap 9 for their mandatory stops, but a slow release for the Hitech Pulse-Eight driver dropped him behind the Norwegian on pit exit. Pourchaire was ahead of all three after a dive to the inside of Hauger at Turn 5 as he continued to make the most of his fresh rubber.Having led from the start, Doohan relinquished the lead on Lap 10 to fit the mediums. The Australian was back out in 12th position, three seconds clear of Maini, who found himself under pressure from Iwasa. The DAMS driver was able to make a move stick, clearing the Campos Racing man at Turn 9 with a late dive down the inside.Now in clear air, Vesti set about closing the gap to new leader Martins, who was six seconds up the road. That gap was down to four seconds by Lap 15 as the PREMA driver took a minimum of two-tenths of a second per lap out of the Alpine junior’s advantage.Having been closing on Maini ahead, Rodin Carlin’s Maloney passed the Indian driver into Turn 6 to take 11th on the road on Lap 18.Bearman was out of the running with an issue just past the halfway stage, pulling to the side of pit entry to retire.Still yet to pit, Vesti had the lead down to 3.8s by Lap 21 as he was informed over the radio the following three laps were crucial to his chances. The Dane was in on Lap 23 to switch to soft tyres, and rejoined directly behind title rival Pourchaire in ninth place. Martins pitted from the lead in immediate response to Vesti’s stop, and he was back out in third.After forcing Iwasa to defend one lap earlier, Maloney was pressuring the #11 DAMS for P5 on the road as the Japanese driver desperately attempted to keep him back. The Rodin Carlin man fought his way by at Turn 6 and was late on the brakes at Turn 9 in his efforts to keep the position, but Iwasa bravely fought back around the outside to hold on.Their battling allowed Vesti to close onto the rear wing of Pourchaire and with DRS, he scythed down the inside of his title rival to take the place. The ART driver fought back through immediately at Turn 9 to retake sixth.Defence turned to attack immediately as the French driver battled by Maini in the final sector, improved to fifth, while Vesti made a late dive to the inside of the last corner to pass the Campos and keep within touching distance of Pourchaire.Onto Lap 26 and Vesti managed to pass Pourchaire into Turn 6 and once again, Pourchaire slipstreamed his way past by Turn 9. It was third time lucky for Vesti as he waited for DRS out of Turn 8 to clear his Championship rival and claim fifth position.Maloney finally passed Iwasa for third on Lap 28 after their extensive battle in the second half of the race, jumping to the inside at Turn 9 to clear the DAMS.Vesti was next to pass Iwasa, breezing by with DRS to claim fourth position, though with Pourchaire running in sixth, the Dane knew he needed a victory to overturn the points deficit.Entering the final lap of the season, Vesti drew to within DRS range of Maloney in the fight for third. The Bajan driver went defensive into Turn 6, opening up the chance for Vesti on the run to Turn 9. The pair banged wheels on corner exit, sending Maloney into a spin and leaving the PREMA driver in third.Doohan secured a comfortable victory by 3.8s from Martins with Vesti rounding out the podium, but it was Pourchaire and ART Grand Prix’s day, as they secured the double with the Drivers’ and Teams’ titles.Iwasa crossed the line in fourth ahead of Pourchaire in P5. Arthur Leclerc claimed sixth for DAMS as Hauger, Hadjar, Maini and Jak Crawford rounded out the final top 10 of the season.KEY QUOTE – Jack Doohan, Invicta Virtuosi Racing“Great to finish off my F2 campaign with a win. It was a tricky race in the end, I don’t think that option-prime was ideal, but we made it work and were able to keep the tyres alive at a crucial stage in the race and bring home a win. To sign off like this with Invicta Virtuosi Racing, I couldn’t be happier. Looking forward to the future and big kisses and hugs to all you F2 supporters and to all of those who’ve supported us the last two years, I’m so, so grateful for it and I’m already missing you guys.”THE CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGSThéo Pourchaire is the 2023 FIA Formula 2 Drivers’ Champion with 203 points. Frederik Vesti finishes up 192 points adrift in second after his huge comeback effort, while Jack Doohan’s victory lifts the Invicta Virtuosi Racing driver up to third in the final standings, ending up on 168 points.Iwasa ends his F2 career fourth overall on 165, while Victor Martins’ P2 finish leaves him as the highest-placed rookie, fifth in the Drivers’ Standings on 150.ART Grand Prix are Teams’ Champions for the first time in their F2 history, finishing up with 353 points. PREMA Racing end up on 322 points in second, with Rodin Carlin third on 220 points.UP NEXTPost-season testing wraps up the 2023 season, beginning on Wednesday, November 29 at Yas Marina Circuit and running across three days until December 1. Formula 2 ChampionshipFormula 2SEASON 2023SportCircuit1SportFormula 2 ChampionshipCircuitSEASON 2023Formula 200Sunday, November 26, 2023 – 12:27pmSunday, November 26, 2023 – 12:27pm
- F1 – Verstappen on pole in Abu Dhabi ahead of Leclerc and Piastriby jhynes on 25 november 2023 at 17:16
Sport newsRed Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen took his 12th pole position of the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship season, beating Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc by just over a tenth of a second as both Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton failed to make Q3.At the start of Q1 Verstappen set the pace at 1:245.160 ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc and Alex Albon, with AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda looking swift in P5 ahead of the second Red Bull of Sergio Pérez. At the other end of the order Williams’s Logan Sargeant, Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu and Haas’ Nico Hülkenberg had it all to do ahead of the final runs, with all three seeing their opening laps deleted for track limits infringements. Verstappen had his final time deleted for a track limits infringement in Turn 16, but with no serious threat coming from behind his opening lap kept him in P1 despite improvements elsewhere. One of those who needed to improve was Pérez. The Red Bull driver was one of the last on track for the final runs and as other times came in he plummeted into the drop zone in P16. The Mexican was setting personal bests through each sector, however, and when he crossed the line he jumped up to P2 just 0.049s behind team-mate Verstappen. The Mexican jump up the order meant that Sainz, whose final flyer was hampered by traffic, was bounced out qualifying. Also ruled out at the end of Q1 were Haas’ Kevin Magnussen, Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas and Zhou, while Sargeant, under pressure, went over the track limits in Turn 1 for a second time and exited in P20.For the first runs of Q2, the bulk of the field took to the track on used Softs tyres, but Verstappen emerged on fresh rubber and he used the better grip to take P1 with a lap of 1:23.740. Pérez slotted into P2 a little under four tenths off his team-mate but the Red Bulls were split by Norris, who posted a lap of 1:23.920.Verstappen opted to sit out the final runs and again there was no substantial threat from behind and he eased through to Q3 in top spot. Norris held onto P2 ahead of Leclerc and Mercedes’ George Russell. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly went through in P5 ahead of Pérez, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso ahead of Tusnoda, Haas’ Nico Hülkenberg and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri. The Australian driver’s 1:24.278s meant that there was no place in Q3 for seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. The Mercedes driver exited in P11 ahead of Alpine’s Esteban Ocon, Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, Williams’ Alex Albon and AlpahTauri’s Daniel Ricciardo. At the start of the top-10 shootout Verstappen found three tenths of a second over his Q2 lap, posting a time of 1:23.445 to take provisional pole. Norris pushed to get close and stopped the clock at 1:23.816, a superb lap given that the McLaren driver was on used tyres. In the final runs the McLarens were first on track ahead of Leclerc and with Verstappen fourth on the road. Norris went purple through the first sector and set a personal best through the second sector but in the final corners the McLaren driver slid wide and his hopes of pole position evaporated.Piastri was next, but he too failed to beat Verstappen time and as the times flooded in no one managed to topple the three-time champion. Leclerc got closest to take P2 a little over a tenth off P1 but in the end the Dutchman’s opener proved unbeatable and he took his 12th podium of the year and his fourth in a row in Abu Dhabi. Behind Leclerc, Piastri took fourth place ahead of Russell, while Norris was left to rue his error in fifth place. Tsunoda took an excellent sixth for AlphaTauri ahead of Alonso, while Haas’ Nico Hülkenberg put in a super final lap to take P8. Pérez might have ended up fourth on the grid, but the Mexican driver went over the track limits in Turn 1 and his final flyer was deleted. He qualified in P9 ahead of Gasly.2023 FIA Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Qualifying 1 Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing 1:23.445 – -2 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:23.584 0.139 3 Oscar Piastri McLaren 1:23.782 0.337 4 George Russell Mercedes 1:23.788 0.343 5 Lando Norris McLaren 1:23.816 0.371 6 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 1:23.968 0.523 7 Fernando Alonso Aston Martin 1:24.084 0.639 8 Nico Hülkenberg Haas 1:24.108 0.663 9 Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing 1:24.171 0.726 10 Pierre Gasly Alpine 1:24.548 1.103 11 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:24.359 0.914 12 Esteban Ocon Alpine 1:24.391 0.946 13 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 1:24.422 0.977 14 Alexander Albon Williams 1:24.439 0.99415 Daniel Ricciardo AlphaTauri RBPT 1:24.442 0.997 16 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 1:24.738 1.293 17 Kevin Magnussen Haas 1:24.764 1.319 18 Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo 1:24.788 1.343 19 Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo 1:25.159 1.714 20 Logan Sargeant Williams – – FIA Formula One World ChampionshipF1SEASON 2023SportCircuit1SportFIA Formula One World ChampionshipCircuitSEASON 2023F101Saturday, November 25, 2023 – 6:16pmSaturday, November 25, 2023 – 6:16pm