Race · Round 22 of 22 · 20 November 2022

2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Yas Marina Circuit. 1 of the starters was not classified.

Dry · High of 31 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Yas Marina CircuitAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Winner: Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
Pole: Max Verstappen
Fastest lap: Lando Norris
Entries: 2019 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB18	1	58	Finished	25
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	F1-75	3	58	Finished	18
3	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	RB18	2	58	Finished	15
4	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	F1-75	4	58	Finished	12
5	George Russell	Mercedes	F1 W13	6	58	Finished	10
6	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL36	7	58	Finished	9	fastest lap
7	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	A522	8	58	Finished	6
8	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR22	14	58	Finished	4
9	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	MCL36	13	58	Finished	2
10	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	AMR22	9	58	Finished	1
11	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT03	11	58	Finished	0
12	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	C42	15	57	Finished	0
13	Alexander Albon	Williams	FW44	19	57	Finished	0
14	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT03	17	57	Finished	0
15	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	C42	18	57	Finished	0
16	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	VF-22	12	57	Finished	0
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-22	16	57	Finished	0
18	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W13	5	55	Gearbox	0
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	FW44	20	55	Collision damage	0
DNF	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	A522	10	27	Water leak	0

F1DB layout yas-marina-2 · 5.281 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Max Verstappen	1	1	58
Charles Leclerc	3	2	58
Sergio Perez	2	3	58
Carlos Sainz	4	4	58
George Russell	6	5	58
Lando Norris	7	6	58
Esteban Ocon	8	7	58
Lance Stroll	14	8	58
Daniel Ricciardo	13	9	58
Sebastian Vettel	9	10	58
Yuki Tsunoda	11	11	58
Zhou Guanyu	15	12	57
Alexander Albon	19	13	57
Pierre Gasly	17	14	57
Valtteri Bottas	18	15	57
Mick Schumacher	12	16	57
Kevin Magnussen	16	17	57
Sir Lewis Hamilton	5	18	55
Nicholas Latifi	20	19	55
Fernando Alonso	10	DNF	27

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:24.754	1:24.622	1:23.824	—	0 m	—
2	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:24.820	1:24.419	1:24.052	+0.228	14 m	+0.228
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:25.211	1:24.517	1:24.092	+0.268	17 m	+0.040
4	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:25.090	1:24.521	1:24.242	+0.418	26 m	+0.150
5	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:25.594	1:24.774	1:24.508	+0.684	43 m	+0.266
6	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:25.545	1:24.940	1:24.511	+0.687	43 m	+0.003
7	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:25.387	1:24.903	1:24.769	+0.945	60 m	+0.258
8	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:25.735	1:25.007	1:24.830	+1.006	63 m	+0.061
9	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:25.523	1:24.974	1:24.961	+1.137	72 m	+0.131
10	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:25.766	1:25.068	1:25.045	+1.221	77 m	+0.084
11	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:25.782	1:25.096	—	—	42 m	—
12	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:25.630	1:25.219	—	—	50 m	—
13	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:25.711	1:25.225	—	—	50 m	—
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:25.741	1:25.359	—	—	59 m	—
15	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:25.594	1:25.408	—	—	62 m	—
16	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:25.834	—	—	—	67 m	—
17	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:25.859	—	—	—	69 m	—
18	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:25.892	—	—	—	71 m	—
19	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:26.028	—	—	—	79 m	—
20	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:26.054	—	—	—	81 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Max Verstappen	1	58	1	20	22.7
Charles Leclerc	2	58	1	21	22.2
Sergio Perez	3	58	2	15, 33	21.4, 21.4
Carlos Sainz	4	58	2	17, 39	21.9, 21.6
George Russell	5	58	2	15, 39	24.2, 27.9
Lando Norris	6	58	2	15, 42	22.2, 21.6
Esteban Ocon	7	58	2	14, 41	21.9, 21.7
Lance Stroll	8	58	2	13, 40	21.8, 21.8
Daniel Ricciardo	9	58	1	19	21.9
Sebastian Vettel	10	58	1	25	23.2
Yuki Tsunoda	11	58	2	14, 38	21.6, 22.3
Zhou Guanyu	12	57	2	15, 44	22.4, 23.2
Alexander Albon	13	57	2	12, 35	21.8, 21.8
Pierre Gasly	14	57	1	14	21.9
Valtteri Bottas	15	57	1	30	22.6
Mick Schumacher	16	57	2	14, 34	22.3, 23.5
Kevin Magnussen	17	57	1	28	22.4
Sir Lewis Hamilton	18	55	1	18	21.3
Nicholas Latifi	19	55	2	15, 38	22.4, 25.2
Fernando Alonso	DNF	27	1	19	21.7

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Max Verstappen · Charles Leclerc	1 · 3	1 · 2	20 · 21	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Sergio Perez	1 · 2	1 · 3	20 · 15	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Charles Leclerc	2 · 3	3 · 2	15 · 21	Sergio Perez	Swapped places
Charles Leclerc · Carlos Sainz	3 · 4	2 · 4	21 · 17	Carlos Sainz	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Carlos Sainz	2 · 4	3 · 4	15 · 17	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · George Russell	4 · 6	4 · 5	17 · 15	George Russell	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Sir Lewis Hamilton	4 · 5	4 · 18	17 · 18	Carlos Sainz	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · George Russell	5 · 6	18 · 5	18 · 15	George Russell	Swapped places
George Russell · Lando Norris	6 · 7	5 · 6	15 · 15	Same lap	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Esteban Ocon	7 · 8	6 · 7	15 · 14	Esteban Ocon	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Lance Stroll	8 · 14	7 · 8	14 · 13	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Sebastian Vettel	8 · 9	7 · 10	14 · 25	Esteban Ocon	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Lance Stroll	13 · 14	9 · 8	19 · 13	Lance Stroll	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Zhou Guanyu	14 · 15	8 · 12	13 · 15	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Daniel Ricciardo	9 · 13	10 · 9	25 · 19	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Mick Schumacher · Daniel Ricciardo	12 · 13	16 · 9	14 · 19	Mick Schumacher	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Yuki Tsunoda	9 · 11	10 · 11	25 · 14	Yuki Tsunoda	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Zhou Guanyu	11 · 15	11 · 12	14 · 15	Yuki Tsunoda	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Mick Schumacher	11 · 12	11 · 16	14 · 14	Same lap	Kept their order
Zhou Guanyu · Alexander Albon	15 · 19	12 · 13	15 · 12	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Zhou Guanyu · Kevin Magnussen	15 · 16	12 · 17	15 · 28	Zhou Guanyu	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Alexander Albon	17 · 19	14 · 13	14 · 12	Alexander Albon	Swapped places
Valtteri Bottas · Alexander Albon	18 · 19	15 · 13	30 · 12	Alexander Albon	Swapped places
Alexander Albon · Nicholas Latifi	19 · 20	13 · 19	12 · 15	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Kevin Magnussen · Pierre Gasly	16 · 17	17 · 14	28 · 14	Pierre Gasly	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Valtteri Bottas	17 · 18	14 · 15	14 · 30	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Mick Schumacher · Valtteri Bottas	12 · 18	16 · 15	14 · 30	Mick Schumacher	Swapped places
Mick Schumacher · Kevin Magnussen	12 · 16	16 · 17	14 · 28	Mick Schumacher	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Kevin Magnussen	5 · 16	18 · 17	18 · 28	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Nicholas Latifi	5 · 20	18 · 19	18 · 15	Nicholas Latifi	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:26.633	—	0 m	—	21
2	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:26.853	+0.220	13 m	+0.220	30
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:26.888	+0.255	16 m	+0.035	22
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:26.967	+0.334	20 m	+0.079	23
5	Liam Lawson	Red Bull Racing	36	1:27.201	+0.568	35 m	+0.234	22
6	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:27.268	+0.635	39 m	+0.067	20
7	Robert Shwartzman (never started a Grand Prix)	Ferrari	39	1:27.429	+0.796	49 m	+0.161	24
8	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:27.619	+0.986	60 m	+0.190	21
9	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:27.655	+1.022	62 m	+0.036	23
10	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:27.840	+1.207	74 m	+0.185	26
11	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:27.845	+1.212	74 m	+0.005	28
12	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:27.891	+1.258	77 m	+0.046	27
13	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:27.991	+1.358	83 m	+0.100	28
14	Robert Kubica	Sauber	88	1:28.064	+1.431	87 m	+0.073	22
15	Logan Sargeant	Williams	45	1:28.098	+1.465	89 m	+0.034	23
16	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:28.142	+1.509	92 m	+0.044	20
17	Pietro Fittipaldi	Haas F1 Team	51	1:28.204	+1.571	96 m	+0.062	26
18	Patricio O'Ward (never started a Grand Prix)	McLaren	28	1:28.350	+1.717	105 m	+0.146	22
19	Jack Doohan	Alpine	82	1:28.484	+1.851	113 m	+0.134	25
20	Felipe Drugovich (never started a Grand Prix)	Aston Martin	34	1:28.672	+2.039	124 m	+0.188	23

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:25.146	—	0 m	—	25
2	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:25.487	+0.341	21 m	+0.341	27
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:25.599	+0.453	28 m	+0.112	30
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:25.761	+0.615	38 m	+0.162	22
5	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:25.852	+0.706	44 m	+0.091	26
6	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:25.932	+0.786	49 m	+0.080	31
7	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:26.038	+0.892	55 m	+0.106	28
8	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:26.043	+0.897	56 m	+0.005	29
9	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:26.124	+0.978	61 m	+0.081	14
10	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:26.300	+1.154	72 m	+0.176	29
11	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:26.377	+1.231	76 m	+0.077	28
12	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:26.395	+1.249	77 m	+0.018	28
13	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:26.479	+1.333	83 m	+0.084	30
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:26.547	+1.401	87 m	+0.068	27
15	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:26.680	+1.534	95 m	+0.133	30
16	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:26.750	+1.604	99 m	+0.070	29
17	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:26.839	+1.693	105 m	+0.089	26
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:26.915	+1.769	110 m	+0.076	25
19	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:27.036	+1.890	117 m	+0.121	29
20	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:27.262	+2.116	131 m	+0.226	30

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:24.982	—	0 m	—	15
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:25.134	+0.152	9 m	+0.152	15
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:25.222	+0.240	15 m	+0.088	20
4	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:25.395	+0.413	26 m	+0.173	15
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:25.518	+0.536	33 m	+0.123	16
6	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:25.571	+0.589	37 m	+0.053	24
7	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:25.605	+0.623	39 m	+0.034	23
8	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:25.950	+0.968	60 m	+0.345	18
9	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:26.012	+1.030	64 m	+0.062	13
10	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:26.051	+1.069	66 m	+0.039	16
11	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:26.073	+1.091	68 m	+0.022	17
12	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:26.076	+1.094	68 m	+0.003	18
13	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:26.170	+1.188	74 m	+0.094	19
14	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:26.189	+1.207	75 m	+0.019	17
15	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:26.239	+1.257	78 m	+0.050	12
16	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:26.298	+1.316	82 m	+0.059	20
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:26.356	+1.374	85 m	+0.058	21
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:26.473	+1.491	93 m	+0.117	19
19	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:26.482	+1.500	93 m	+0.009	17
20	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:26.646	+1.664	103 m	+0.164	14

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

3 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 22 of 2022
Grand Prix: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Dates: 20 Nov 2022
Layout raced: Reprofiled · 5.281 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-RBPT
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.