Race · Round 22 of 22 · 26 November 2023

2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Yas Marina Circuit. Every starter was classified.

Dry · High of 30 °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: Max Verstappen
Entries: 2020 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB19	1	58	Finished	26	fastest lap
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF-23	2	58	Finished	18
3	George Russell	Mercedes	F1 W14	4	58	Finished	15
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	RB19	9	58	Finished	12
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL60	5	58	Finished	10
6	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	MCL60	3	58	Finished	8
7	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	AMR23	7	58	Finished	6
8	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT04	6	58	Finished	4
9	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W14	11	58	Finished	2
10	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR23	13	58	Finished	1
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT04	15	58	Finished	0
12	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	A523	12	58	Finished	0
13	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	A523	10	58	Finished	0
14	Alexander Albon	Williams	FW45	14	58	Finished	0
15	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	VF-23	8	58	Finished	0
16	Logan Sargeant	Williams	FW45	20	58	Finished	0
17	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	C43	19	58	Finished	0
18	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	SF-23	16	57	Engine	0
19	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	C43	18	57	Finished	0
20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-23	17	57	Finished	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. 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	2	2	58
George Russell	4	3	58
Sergio Perez	9	4	58
Lando Norris	5	5	58
Oscar Piastri	3	6	58
Fernando Alonso	7	7	58
Yuki Tsunoda	6	8	58
Sir Lewis Hamilton	11	9	58
Lance Stroll	13	10	58
Daniel Ricciardo	15	11	58
Esteban Ocon	12	12	58
Pierre Gasly	10	13	58
Alexander Albon	14	14	58
Nico Hulkenberg	8	15	58
Logan Sargeant	20	16	58
Zhou Guanyu	19	17	58
Carlos Sainz	16	18	57
Valtteri Bottas	18	19	57
Kevin Magnussen	17	20	57

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:24.160	1:23.740	1:23.445	—	0 m	—
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:24.459	1:23.969	1:23.584	+0.139	9 m	+0.139
3	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:24.487	1:24.278	1:23.782	+0.337	21 m	+0.198
4	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:24.337	1:24.013	1:23.788	+0.343	22 m	+0.006
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:24.368	1:23.920	1:23.816	+0.371	23 m	+0.028
6	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:24.286	1:24.207	1:23.968	+0.523	33 m	+0.152
7	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:24.501	1:24.131	1:24.084	+0.639	40 m	+0.116
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	27	1:24.425	1:24.213	1:24.108	+0.663	42 m	+0.024
9	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:24.209	1:24.116	1:24.171	+0.726	46 m	+0.063
10	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:24.600	1:24.078	1:24.548	+1.103	70 m	+0.377
11	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:24.437	1:24.359	—	—	39 m	—
12	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:24.565	1:24.391	—	—	41 m	—
13	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:24.405	1:24.422	—	—	43 m	—
14	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:24.298	1:24.439	—	—	44 m	—
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia AlphaTauri	3	1:24.461	1:24.442	—	—	44 m	—
16	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:24.738	—	—	—	36 m	—
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:24.764	—	—	—	38 m	—
18	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:24.788	—	—	—	39 m	—
19	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:25.159	—	—	—	63 m	—
NC	Logan Sargeant	Williams	2	—	—	—	—	—	—

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. 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	2	16, 43	21.7, 21.3
Charles Leclerc	2	58	2	17, 35	21.9, 21.2
George Russell	3	58	2	14, 34	21.6, 22.1
Sergio Perez	4	58	2	17, 42	21.4, 21.3
Lando Norris	5	58	2	14, 33	24.1, 21.4
Oscar Piastri	6	58	2	13, 36	21.7, 21.2
Fernando Alonso	7	58	2	12, 36	22.5, 21.8
Yuki Tsunoda	8	58	1	22	21.5
Sir Lewis Hamilton	9	58	2	15, 35	22.2, 22.0
Lance Stroll	10	58	2	22, 42	21.9, 21.7
Daniel Ricciardo	11	58	2	7, 31	21.7, 21.7
Esteban Ocon	12	58	1	15	22.2
Pierre Gasly	13	58	2	17, 32	23.1, 23.5
Alexander Albon	14	58	2	16, 43	22.2, 21.9
Nico Hulkenberg	15	58	2	13, 33	21.9, 22.1
Logan Sargeant	16	58	2	15, 41	22.1, 21.9
Zhou Guanyu	17	58	2	13, 37	22.9, 22.3
Carlos Sainz	18	57	2	23, 56	21.2, 21.6
Valtteri Bottas	19	57	1	29	22.7
Kevin Magnussen	20	57	2	5, 22	22.8, 22.2

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 · 2	1 · 2	16 · 17	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · George Russell	2 · 4	2 · 3	17 · 14	George Russell	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Oscar Piastri	2 · 3	2 · 6	17 · 13	Oscar Piastri	Kept their order
Oscar Piastri · George Russell	3 · 4	6 · 3	13 · 14	Oscar Piastri	Swapped places
George Russell · Sergio Perez	4 · 9	3 · 4	14 · 17	George Russell	Kept their order
George Russell · Lando Norris	4 · 5	3 · 5	14 · 14	Same lap	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Sergio Perez	5 · 9	5 · 4	14 · 17	Lando Norris	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Sergio Perez	8 · 9	15 · 4	13 · 17	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Pierre Gasly	9 · 10	4 · 13	17 · 17	Same lap	Kept their order
Oscar Piastri · Lando Norris	3 · 5	6 · 5	13 · 14	Oscar Piastri	Swapped places
Lando Norris · Yuki Tsunoda	5 · 6	5 · 8	14 · 22	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Oscar Piastri · Fernando Alonso	3 · 7	6 · 7	13 · 12	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Fernando Alonso	6 · 7	8 · 7	22 · 12	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Nico Hulkenberg	7 · 8	7 · 15	12 · 13	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Sir Lewis Hamilton	6 · 11	8 · 9	22 · 15	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Sir Lewis Hamilton	10 · 11	13 · 9	17 · 15	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Lance Stroll	11 · 13	9 · 10	15 · 22	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Esteban Ocon	11 · 12	9 · 12	15 · 15	Same lap	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Lance Stroll	12 · 13	12 · 10	15 · 22	Esteban Ocon	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Daniel Ricciardo	13 · 15	10 · 11	22 · 7	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Lance Stroll · Alexander Albon	13 · 14	10 · 14	22 · 16	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Daniel Ricciardo	12 · 15	12 · 11	15 · 7	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Alexander Albon · Daniel Ricciardo	14 · 15	14 · 11	16 · 7	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Carlos Sainz	15 · 16	11 · 18	7 · 23	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Esteban Ocon	10 · 12	13 · 12	17 · 15	Esteban Ocon	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Alexander Albon	10 · 14	13 · 14	17 · 16	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Alexander Albon	8 · 14	15 · 14	13 · 16	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Logan Sargeant	8 · 20	15 · 16	13 · 15	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Zhou Guanyu · Logan Sargeant	19 · 20	17 · 16	13 · 15	Zhou Guanyu	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Zhou Guanyu	16 · 19	18 · 17	23 · 13	Zhou Guanyu	Swapped places
Valtteri Bottas · Zhou Guanyu	18 · 19	19 · 17	29 · 13	Zhou Guanyu	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Valtteri Bottas	16 · 18	18 · 19	23 · 29	Carlos Sainz	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Kevin Magnussen	16 · 17	18 · 20	23 · 5	Kevin Magnussen	Kept their order
Kevin Magnussen · Valtteri Bottas	17 · 18	20 · 19	5 · 29	Kevin Magnussen	Swapped places

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	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:26.072	—	0 m	—	26
2	Felipe Drugovich (never started a Grand Prix)	Aston Martin	34	1:26.360	+0.288	18 m	+0.288	26
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia AlphaTauri	3	1:26.433	+0.361	22 m	+0.073	26
4	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:26.453	+0.381	23 m	+0.020	21
5	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:26.631	+0.559	34 m	+0.178	21
6	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:26.665	+0.593	36 m	+0.034	25
7	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:26.676	+0.604	37 m	+0.011	24
8	Robert Shwartzman (never started a Grand Prix)	Ferrari	39	1:26.703	+0.631	39 m	+0.027	25
9	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:26.720	+0.648	40 m	+0.017	26
10	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:26.725	+0.653	40 m	+0.005	27
11	Logan Sargeant	Williams	2	1:26.742	+0.670	41 m	+0.017	27
12	Frederik Vesti (never started a Grand Prix)	Mercedes	42	1:26.815	+0.743	46 m	+0.073	27
13	Jack Doohan	Alpine	61	1:26.865	+0.793	49 m	+0.050	23
14	Théo Pourchaire (never started a Grand Prix)	Sauber	98	1:27.093	+1.021	63 m	+0.228	20
15	Patricio O'Ward (never started a Grand Prix)	McLaren	29	1:27.114	+1.042	64 m	+0.021	23
16	Jake Dennis (never started a Grand Prix)	Red Bull Racing	36	1:27.208	+1.136	70 m	+0.094	24
17	Isack Hadjar	Red Bull Racing	37	1:27.244	+1.172	72 m	+0.036	20
18	Zak O'Sullivan (never started a Grand Prix)	Williams	45	1:27.460	+1.388	85 m	+0.216	28
19	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:27.462	+1.390	85 m	+0.002	26
20	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	50	1:27.569	+1.497	92 m	+0.107	24

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	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:24.809	—	0 m	—	16
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:24.852	+0.043	3 m	+0.043	18
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:24.982	+0.173	11 m	+0.130	17
4	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:25.024	+0.215	13 m	+0.042	16
5	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:25.112	+0.303	19 m	+0.088	17
6	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:25.122	+0.313	19 m	+0.010	17
7	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:25.223	+0.414	26 m	+0.101	18
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:25.315	+0.506	32 m	+0.092	16
9	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:25.321	+0.512	32 m	+0.006	15
10	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:25.361	+0.552	34 m	+0.040	18
11	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:25.397	+0.588	37 m	+0.036	17
12	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia AlphaTauri	3	1:25.467	+0.658	41 m	+0.070	16
13	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:25.492	+0.683	43 m	+0.025	17
14	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:25.566	+0.757	47 m	+0.074	17
15	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:25.669	+0.860	54 m	+0.103	17
16	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:26.081	+1.272	79 m	+0.412	20
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:26.413	+1.604	100 m	+0.332	18
18	Logan Sargeant	Williams	2	1:26.659	+1.850	115 m	+0.246	17
19	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:26.707	+1.898	118 m	+0.048	4
20	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	27	1:27.147	+2.338	146 m	+0.440	7

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	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:24.418	—	0 m	—	14
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:24.513	+0.095	6 m	+0.095	16
3	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:24.810	+0.392	25 m	+0.297	16
4	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:24.929	+0.511	32 m	+0.119	17
5	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:25.099	+0.681	43 m	+0.170	27
6	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:25.153	+0.735	46 m	+0.054	19
7	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:25.194	+0.776	49 m	+0.041	18
8	Logan Sargeant	Williams	2	1:25.205	+0.787	49 m	+0.011	17
9	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:25.222	+0.804	50 m	+0.017	15
10	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:25.258	+0.840	53 m	+0.036	23
11	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:25.259	+0.841	53 m	+0.001	21
12	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:25.292	+0.874	55 m	+0.033	26
13	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:25.303	+0.885	55 m	+0.011	18
14	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:25.343	+0.925	58 m	+0.040	25
15	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:25.405	+0.987	62 m	+0.062	24
16	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:25.420	+1.002	63 m	+0.015	16
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	27	1:25.584	+1.166	73 m	+0.164	22
18	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia AlphaTauri	3	1:25.597	+1.179	74 m	+0.013	15
19	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:25.652	+1.234	77 m	+0.055	20
20	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:25.713	+1.295	81 m	+0.061	29

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.

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Where this comes from

Round: 22 of 2023
Grand Prix: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Dates: 26 Nov 2023
Layout raced: Reprofiled · 5.281 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-Honda 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.