FIA steward Johnny Herbert has claimed that Max Verstappen’s collision with Oscar Piastri in Formula 1‘s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was about “intimidating” his rivals.

Verstappen attempted an ambitious lunge into Turn 1 at the season finale, tagging the rear wheel of Oscar Piastri’s McLaren and pitching both drivers into a spin.

The Dutchman was deemed to be at fault and was slapped with a 10-second time penalty for the collision – finishing in sixth place at the end as Piastri came 10th.

But while the clash didn’t cost McLaren the Constructors’ title, boss Andrea Stella labelled the move “unnecessary” with the championship on the line at that stage.

Piastri said it was “the move of a World Champion” on team radio, though the Red Bull driver sought to defuse the situation as he came out to apologise post-race.

However, ex-F1 driver Herbert believes that the move was a part of Verstappen’s plan to intimidate the competition heading into what could be a competitive 2025.

“It is all about intimidation,” Herbert told Coin Poker. “McLaren are going to be a threat to him next year.

“We have seen Oscar has the potential to win races and perhaps a World Championship, as of course does Lando [Norris].

“So, when you are wheel to wheel as they were in Abu Dhabi neither was going to give way.

Herbert pleased to see another driver stand up to Verstappen

Verstappen has endured a straightforward path to his previous three titles, with Lewis Hamilton the last to mount a serious challenge in that thrilling 2021 season.

Norris threatened to unsettle Verstappen in 2024, but numerous mistakes meant that the Dutchman clinched the Drivers’ Championship with three rounds to spare.

However, Herbert is convinced that Verstappen will have more rivals to contend with next term based on how much drivers “stood up” to him in the closing rounds.

“You heard the radio communication and Oscar saying, ‘Good’, when he heard Max had been given a penalty,” he added.

“That’s great, we have someone else prepared to stand up to Max. That is where we have seen a shift this season.

“George [Russell] has been having a few issues and verbal confrontations with Max.

“This is exactly what Max has done so well for years, using all the weapons he can, and that includes intimidation.

“The other drivers this year have said, ’OK, we are up for that.’

“[Charles] Leclerc, Russell, Oscar, Lewis, and we will be seeing more of it from Lando as well.”

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Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff dismisses the theory that Lewis Hamilton is “not driving as fast” because of the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi 2021 finale as nonsense.

Hamilton went into the final race of the 2021 F1 season level on points with Max Verstappen going into the final round in Abu Dhabi.

The seven-time Champion was leading heading into the latter stages of the race before a Safety Car, caused by the Williams Nicholas Latifi, brought Verstappen back into play.

The Dutchman pitted onto fresher tyres and overtook his rival on the last lap for his maiden title in F1.

Wolff angrily smashed his headphones when ex-F1 race director Michael Masi decided to resume the race with a lap to go and not allow all the lapped cars to overtake.

Three years later, and with no eighth world title, Hamilton has pledged his bets on Ferrari in 2025 after another difficult campaign with the Silver Arrows.

However, Wolff insists that the ending of the Abu Dhabi fiasco did not affect Hamilton’s ability or have an impact on the British driver’s overall pace.

“The ending of 2021 is something that’s going to be with us forever when it comes to our professional lives,“ he said on the Beyond the Grid podcast.

“But, I don’t think that the ending of ’21 had any whatsoever correlation to not driving as fast anymore, or any of that.”

Instead, Wolff believes Hamilton made improvements from that point on.

“Overall, as a human being, professional and outside of the car, he’s getting more complete every time,” he added.

Wolff reflects on Hamilton’s ‘best’ victory at the 2021 Brazil GP

The 2024 season has been full of many lows and highs for the 39-year-old – the darkest moments coming at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix and the Qatar Grand Prix.

Whilst there will be many troubling memories he’ll want to forget from the 2024 season, there have been a few bright glimpses of hope.

Especially, Hamilton’s record-breaking ninth victory at the British Grand Prix – surpassing Michael Schumacher for the most wins at one Grand Prix circuit.

It was also his first victory in the sport since the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in 2021.

The victory in Jeddah was part of a three-race win streak that saw Hamilton fight back to take the title challenge to Abu Dhabi.

It was certainly Hamilton at his best and it all started with his comeback to beat Verstappen at the 2021 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

Speaking of the victory, Wolff said: “So, Brazil ’21 was great, yeah.

“Because we got disqualified for the Sprint Race, and it was really nothing, and that was just not right.

“And I think what it triggered is such a momentum in the team of ‘now we show them’, and that’s what happened.

“We knew we need to win every single race to win the championship and he climbed back in the Sprint in a great way, and then in the race itself, albeit all the defence, clean and less clean, he won the race.

“That was the best.”

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The arrival of an 11th Formula 1 team in the form of Cadillac could make expansion plans at Haas more difficult within a saturated UK F1 job market.

Only two of the 10 teams on the F1 grid operate wholly outside the UK: Ferrari and Sauber.

The remaining eight teams are either solely based or have a portion of their operations in the UK, including Haas.

Haas is the smallest team on the grid and has to fight the big teams like Mercedes and Red Bull in a competitive UK job market, but the arrival of Cadillac in 2026 will make this task more difficult.

Cadillac has a site set up in Silverstone and has already begun work on its F1 project with a growing workforce, one unbound by financial regulations until it joins the F1 grid.

Komatsu was asked during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix whether Cadillac would hurt Haas’ expansion plans.

“I don’t know if it’s only Cadillac,” Komatsu said (via PlanetF1), “but it’s hard to recruit in the UK because you’ve got so much competition.

“We are finding some good people, some positions, actually finding good people. Some positions is really hard.”

Haas operating ‘below critical mass’

Haas competes in F1 with a workforce of a few hundred people, whereas the likes of McLaren and even Williams have 1000 staff on hand.

A technical alliance with Toyota will help bolster Haas’ testing and simulator programmes, but that will take time.

And due to Haas’ limited workforce, Komatsu is feeling the strain and the need to expand.

“We are trying to grow, but recruitment is hard, and finding good people is not easy,” he said.

“But there’s no doubt we need to grow. You know, we’re below critical mass, shall I say. We’re just about to be saturated all the time, and anything happens, we’re completely overflowing.

“That’s not sustainable. I want to make this thing sustainable. We’re want to be able to operate, let’s say normal operation, with some margin.

“At the moment, I feel very, very little margin.

“Every time something happens, you have to send somebody out from UK.

“But then that means that this UK operation is already on edge, so taking this guy out means they’re gonna be even more on edge.

“That drains people. That really rocks people hard. For me, it’s not fair to ask such an extra effort, so we’ve got to increase the size.”

Haas competing with top F1 teams in recruitment

Luckily for Haas, 2024 was a strong campaign which saw it finish seventh in the Constructors’ standings.

Development at the team is positive, the aforementioned Toyota alliance is attractive and the team boasts a strong 2025 driver line-up in Esteban Ocon and Ollie Bearman.

As a result, Haas is starting to compete with the big boys when it comes to F1 recruitment.

“Hopefully people see now what we’re doing this year and think, OK, Haas is really serious,” said Komatsu.

“We are here for a long time. We are improving, and hopefully our people think it’s a good chance to be part of.

“We actually get people coming from much bigger teams like Mercedes and Red Bull.”

Komatsu explained the trick in recruiting staff to a smaller team like Haas and tempting them away from bigger teams is all about “personality.”

He explained: “We are a much smaller team, so it’s hard work. You’ve got to do a lot more. But certain things are better, right? It just depends on the personality.

“If you are somebody who just wants to be given, ‘This is your job, this is what you have to do as best as possible, then we are a race-winning team.’ If that’s what he or she likes, they will go for that big team.

“But if he or she wants to have a bigger overview or wants to me more multi-tasking — it depends on the personality.

“So again, we got to make sure we have the right personality that fits the organisation.”

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Alpine boss Oliver Oakes revealed Esteban Ocon is welcome to have a farewell with the team at its Formula 1 headquarters in Enstone.

Ocon and Alpine’s time together was cut short by one round with the Frenchman replaced by Jack Doohan for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The Frenchman quickly got on with his new life at Haas in Tuesday’s post-season test at the Yas Marina Circuit.

Despite the Alpine/Ocon partnership ending on peculiar terms, Oakes is keen for the Frenchman to have a proper farewell.

“Esteban can have a guard of honour if he wants,” he told media post-race in Abu Dhabi (via Motorsport.com).

“He’s got to come by. I’m actually serious.”

In the build-up to the Abu Dhabi GP, Ocon wrote on social media, saying: “As you know, the plan was always to race one last time this weekend and personally say goodbye to you all next week. I was looking forward to both of those things.

“This is not how I wanted things to end.”

Oakes adamant Ocon should visit Enstone one last time

Ocon and Alpine’s deal revolved around the Frenchman’s desire to get in the Haas VF-24 at the post-season test, rather than waiting until 2025 to make a start with his new team.

Alpine’s terms meant Ocon had to forgo the race to see this through, but Oakes revealed there’s no ill will held with its former driver.

“Look, people say that [treated harshly], but I think it’s not really right,” Oakes exclaimed.

“I think at the end of the day, he had an option. He chose to start with his new team earlier. That’s fine. I’m cool with that.

“We’ve been texting, and I’ve been honest, he’s welcome to come to Enstone, if you’d like, like everything was planned.

“I’ve also been really honest that he’s been a big part of the team, not just previous years, but even in my short stint.”

Ocon joined the Alpine squad back in 2020 in its final year as Renault.

During his five-year stint, Ocon scored the team’s only win in Alpine colours, the 2021 Hungarian GP and scored a further three podiums.

His early parting of ways with Alpine allowed the team’s 2025 driver, Jack Doohan, to get an early debut, which Oakes explained was a boost for the young Australian.

“I have a lot of admiration for [Ocon], but I think also we have to do what’s right for us and getting Jack in the car earlier, it’s a big advantage when we look to next year,” Oakes said.

“The teams we’re fighting have all got rookies who’ve had a bit of experience under their belt and for me, it may seem a little bit harsh, but really, that isn’t the reason at all.”

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On the latest episode of Motorsport Speak – the podcast by Motorsport Monday and Motorsport Week.com – Dan Lawrence and Jack Oliver Smith review the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and Formula E Sao Paulo E Prix.

Lando Norris and McLaren ended their 26-year wait for a Constructors’ title with victory at the Abu Dhabi GP.

Dan and Jack speak about McLaren’s landmark moment, but there was a lot more going on at the Yas Marina Circuit.

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Ferrari agonisingly missed out on Constructors’ glory and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen landed himself in hot water with the race stewards.

Pierre Gasly ensured Alpine beat Haas to sixth in the final Constructors’ standings and the sport said goodbye (for now) to Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu, Kevin Magnussen and Franco Colapinto.

And who could forget the gravity of Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes curtain call?

Moreover, Jack and Dan review the FIA Formula E Season 11 curtain raiser in Brazil, where Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans made history.

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McLaren is set to face a hiked Formula 1 entry fee thanks to clinching the Constructors’ title at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Lando Norris’ victory at the Yas Marina Circuit last Sunday sealed McLaren’s first Constructors’ title in 26 years, albeit just fractionally ahead of age-old rivals Ferrari (14 points)

McLaren’s Constructor’s Championship win has caused a steep hike in its F1 entry fee, raising the price to £4.8 million ($6.1 million) for 2025.

The highest-placed constructor in F1 is expected to pay the FIA the highest entry fee, which has been raised over the last few years.

In 2025 all 10 teams must pay a base fee of $680,203, but as the best-placed team, McLaren has to pay an additional $8161 per point scored in 2024.

The remainder of the grid pays an additional $6799 per point.

The maths plays out to land McLaren with its $6.1 million bill for 2025 which totals more than its last three entry fees.

The FIA has raised the entry fee in F1, collecting £20.3 million ($25.7 million) from constructors in the new year.

This is a steep rise compared to fees from five years ago, and even £1.5 million ($2 million) more than the 2023 fee.

McLaren is set to pay more in entry fees than Aston Martin, Alpine, Haas, RB, Williams and Sauber combined.

McLaren receives biggest slice of the F1 prize pot following title success

While the nearly £5 million fare for McLaren is high, Red Bull paid the FIA £5.8 million ($7.4 million) to enter the 2024 F1 season.

That’s down to its dominant 2023 campaign, where Red Bull scored all but one Grand Prix and scored a total of 860 points, more than double that of the nearest competitor.

The Milton Keynes-based team fell to third in the Constructor’s Championship in 2024, hampered by poor car balance and Sergio Perez’s alarming form.

The net result was a points tally of 589 points and a fee of £3.6 million ($4.6 million).

While this is a positive in terms of smaller outgoing finances, Red Bull will receive a smaller some of the prize money for finishing third.

Winners McLaren takes the biggest slice of the prize pot, $140 million to Ferrari’s $131 million, while Red Bull receives $122 million.

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Charles Leclerc has claimed that Ferrari wouldn’t have achieved the “perfect season” in Formula 1 even had it beaten McLaren to the title at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Ferrari missed out on the Constructors’ Championship at the Yas Marina Circuit last weekend as the team’s double podium wasn’t enough to overturn McLaren’s lead.

The Maranello-based squad coming up 14 points short has meant its title drought since 2008 has extended into 2025, which will deliver the arrival of Lewis Hamilton.

However, Leclerc, who ended the campaign third in the Drivers’ Championship, has denied that Ferrari’s 2024 would have been complete with the Constructors’ crown.

“A perfect season? No. Because I would only rate a perfect season if we win,” Leclerc told media including Motorsport Week prior to the season finale.

“And even when we win the Drivers’ and the Constructors’, probably there’s always something we can do better. So, not a perfect season.”

Leclerc heralds Ferrari execution in 2024

Ferrari boss Frederic Vasseur has pinpointed the mid-season dip which saw it lose “80 or 90 points” to McLaren as the period which cost his team the championship.

The Italian marque had begun the campaign in encouraging shape until an update package in Spain induced accentuated bouncing which hindered the squad’s pace.

But while he’s recognised the SF-24 wasn’t competitive enough in that run, Leclerc has argued Ferrari maximising that stint was decisive to its eventual title challenge.

“However, a very good season in terms of execution-wise,” he continued. “I think we executed always at a very, very high level.

“This is why today we are still in the fight for the Constructors’, because if you look at the performance in itself, at the beginning of the season, I don’t think we would have believed anybody that would have said that we would be in the fight for the Constructors’ at the last race.

“The performance was not good enough. However, we worked extremely well.

“We had a really massive improvement throughout the year and in the difficult weekends, we didn’t demotivate ourselves.

“We maximised all the points possible. That means that we are still in the fight today.

“So, execution-wise, we were at a very high level. Performance, a little bit less than the first half.”

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Lewis Hamilton has proclaimed that his experience leaving Mercedes in Formula 1 was “much more emotional” in comparison to when he departed McLaren in 2012.

The curtain came down on Hamilton’s protracted spell with Mercedes last weekend in Abu Dhabi, bringing an end to the most decorated partnership that F1 has seen.

Hamilton made the decision last winter to curtail his extensive association with the German marque to agree a move to Ferrari on a multi-year deal beginning in 2025.

The Briton’s impending venture with the Italian marque will mark the second occasion he has switched sides in F1, having traded McLaren for Mercedes back in 2013.

Hamilton had been tied to McLaren since he was 13 but chose to go having become disillusioned with the team’s recurring failure to mount sustained title challenges.

Hamilton’s move would materialise to be a masterstroke as he went on to take 84 victories and six Drivers’ Championships across his 12-season spell with Mercedes.

The seven-time F1 champion has admitted the relationships he formed in that time made his Mercedes swansong more challenging to process than his McLaren exit.

“Obviously, I remember meeting Niki [Lauda]. And I remember making the decision [to go to Mercedes],” Hamilton told media including Motorsport Week.

“But I don’t really remember the final days, if I’m really honest.

“It definitely wasn’t as painful and difficult as this year has been in terms of the emotions.

“And I think because it was at the end of the year, it was much quicker and there wasn’t enough time for it to really settle in for anyone, I think, within the team.

“Yeah, this one is much more emotional because I’ve been with the team so long and we’ve been through so much together.”

Hamilton picks abiding Mercedes memories

Hamilton concluded his Mercedes career on a high as he surged from 16th place on the grid to come home fourth, passing team-mate George Russell on the final lap.

Asked post-race what his abiding memory will be of his time at Mercedes, Hamilton responded: “There’s so many amazing moments, it’s impossible to say one.

“I think about the times we won championships together, the times we saw, we celebrated together as a team in so many different ways, some of the wins were less exciting for people and you see the engineers just go back to work and some of them really meant a lot; Silverstone this year, the first win, the first championship we had, the losses that we’ve had, the tears you see in certain individuals, times where people have had their head in their hands and then we’ve got back up and pushed and succeeded, there’s too many to mention.

“This weekend, I think what’s evident within the relationship is you have the ups and downs and I think this year we’ve definitely as a team had our ups and downs.

“There’s been certain feelings because I’ve chosen to go a certain way and it’s not been easy for people to accept and to get over but then bit by bit through the year, what’s come through is that there’s real love at the end of the day and I’ve got the board members from Mercedes who have stood by and supported me all these years, who were upset at the beginning, but then today [say] you’ll always be a part of the family.

“So it just shows that love conquers all and I think there is a lot of love between us.

“This weekend on Thursday the team surprised me upstairs and that was super emotional, I ain’t got no more tears really, everything came out there.”

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Pierre Gasly has labelled Alpine’s climb up the Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship to claim sixth place “unthinkable“ amid the team’s sluggish start to the season.

The Enstone-based squad endured a dismal beginning to 2024, not scoring points in the first five races and only fixing its weight issues come the Miami Grand Prix.

Alpine continued to languish down in ninth place with 14 points in 20 rounds until the team managed a shock double podium in Brazil to leapfrog its rivals into sixth.

Gasly then proceeded to claim a top-five result in Qatar and a seventh-place finish at the season finale in Abu Dhabi, helping Alpine to end seven points ahead of Haas.

“Sixth in the Constructors was unthinkable at the start of the year,“ he told media including Motorsport Week.

“The lows of the season were extremely low and the highs were extremely high.

“The first part of this season, very tough for all of us in the team with an underperforming car, but very proud of the reaction of the guys and the way they’ve managed to bring that much performance to give me a car on the last few races, which really allow me to perform really, really strongly.

“It just shows that we’re heading in the right direction, that the mentality and the spirit inside the team is the right one, I was seeing all these positive changes already back in April and May.

“There was a lot of progress inside the factory and obviously it doesn’t translate straight away onto the track.

“A couple of months later we got all these rewards, sixth in the Constructors.“

Gasly ‘couldn’t afford to do any mistakes’

With the result in Abu Dhabi, Gasly managed to also secure 10th place in the Drivers’ Championship, ahead of Nico Hulkenberg’s Haas.

The Frenchman also kept hold of his record of not costing the team any money by damaging the car himself during the entirety of the 2024 F1 season.

“There were three targets; to get sixth in the Constructors, tenths in the driver and keep my nose clean so we’re still on zero dollar damage – we all completed the targets,” he added.

“[Flavio Briatore’s] gonna like that but also the $10 million I got them today [in extra prize money for finishing sixth], yeah, but this [no crash damage] is personal.”

Gasly avoiding the Turn 1 collision, between Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri at the start of the Abu Dhabi GP to move up into third from fifth place on the grid.

Asked if he felt a podium was on at that stage, he responded: ”No, I was obviously in third and that was nice.

”I thought I’m in third, I have George [Russell] in between me and Nico, it’s better to keep him there.

”But he wasn’t too keen on staying behind me so I had to fight him quite hard and then after, I must say, Lewis [Hamilton] and Charles [Leclerc] were incredibly fast today.

”I knew the target was us and Nico, the entire race was within two seconds, keeping a lot of pressure.

”I couldn’t afford to do any mistakes and even with the tyre, trying to keep them until the end of the race, which was very tough because we had a very long stint on Hard.

”But we made it happen.”

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Ferrari boss Frederic Vasseur has admitted the team didn’t give much thought to making a late second pit stop with Carlos Sainz in Formula 1‘s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The Italian marque missed out on the Constructors’ Championship to McLaren in the last round, despite Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc both claiming podiums.

Sainz, who lined up third behind the McLaren duo, was unable to maintain pace with eventual race victor Lando Norris, who crossed the line with five seconds in hand.

The Spaniard’s gap to Norris extending with each passing lap in the second stint on the Hard compound created the situation where Ferrari might have rolled the dice.

But while Sainz had the margin to Leclerc behind to pit again without losing a position, Ferrari decided to not grant him the chance to chase Norris down on new tyres.

Vasseur has divulged how Ferrari’s wish to remain close enough to Norris to capitalise had misfortune struck McLaren led to its choice to not consider a second stop.

“Honestly not, because I think the most important is to be focused on yourself and to do the best that we can do,” he explained to media including Motorsport Week.

“Then, if you stay close, you don’t know what could happen, so that he could have an issue, a puncture, and so that we are just focused on ourselves and to try to do the best. 

“The best was the strategy that we did, but now it was exactly what we didn’t want to do, to change the strategy or to change the attitude, just because we are fighting with McLaren.

“We are just focused on ourselves from Friday, and I think overall, considering the penalty, the track limit [violation in Q2 with Leclerc], we did a good job.

“But it was the most important just to be focused on ourselves,” he reiterated.

Ferrari’s forlorn McLaren chase

Ferrari had triggered an undercut on McLaren earlier in the race which had placed Sainz under two seconds behind Norris once the Briton exited the pitlane on Lap 28.

But even with the gap having been slashed, Vasseur has conceded that he was more hopeful that Ferrari would have the pace at the end to mount an attack on Norris.

“We were more expecting to push Norris at the end of the race and on the degradation, but it didn’t happen,” he explained.

“But we knew also that overall the delta pace from one stint to the other one between McLaren and us is plus or minus one-tenth, this is not enough to overtake.

“It’s much more on the degradation at the end of the stint than something else.”

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