The attention is all on them and it could not be otherwise: Lewis Hamilton And Max Verstappen will be the absolute protagonists of the last weekend of the season, in the glittering setting of Abu Dhabi. After having overtaken each other, on the track and in the standings, throughout the year, the two great rivals will play for the world title on the Yas Marina track in what will be a real play-off. In fact, the couple arrives paired in the standings, with 369.5 points each. As was widely expected, the FIA decided to bring the two challengers together as early as Thursday, in the press conference to present the race. The English and Dutch will close the program of meetings with the media, preceded by their respective teammates: Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez. For Hamilton and Verstappen this is only the second joint pre-race press conference, after the French Grand Prix.
The long-distance duel between Red Bull and Mercedes will then be continued on Friday by the close encounter between Toto Wolff And Christian Horner, in the press conference of the team principals. A comparison, the latter, which could turn out to be even more heated than that between the respective drivers, given the constant attacks that the bosses of the two teams have exchanged in recent weeks. Among the other particularly interesting combinations to note in the press conference is the one that involves Charles Leclerc And Lando Norris. In fact, the two young talents of Ferrari and McLaren are playing for fifth place in the drivers’ standings, together with the Spaniard Carlos Sainz. Leclerc managed to overtake the standard bearer of the Woking team in the last GP and is in the Emirates with four points ahead of his rival.
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