McLaren crowns after 26 years! Emotional farewell to Hamilton!

McLaren crowns after 26 years! Emotional farewell to Hamilton!

In the last race of the Formula 1 season 2024, the Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi, McLaren celebrated a historical victory, which has been crowning the team for the first time for 26 years. The vice world champion Lando Norris triumphed after a gripping competition, while Lewis Hamilton missed the podium for fourth place in his last race for Mercedes. McLaren secured the title due to a superior team performance, while Ferrari, represented by Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, could not collect enough points despite rankings to endanger McLaren, reported both Radio Herford href = "https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5976429/12/07/f1-abu-dhabi-gp-preview-mclaren-championship-ferrari-lewis-hailton/"> The New York Times .

Hamilton's emotional farewell

Lewis Hamilton stated that after 245 races, in which he set numerous records, such as 84 wins and six world championship titles, to say goodbye. He starts from disappointing position 16 after it has been affected by technical problems in qualification. Despite the adverse circumstances, Hamilton estimated his time at Mercedes and was eagerly looking forward to the upcoming move to Ferrari. "It is a strange feeling, I can't put it into words what I feel right now," he said before he went on the track. The emotional moments were also noticeable when his former team -mate Nico Rosberg described him as "the greatest natural talent of the history of Formula 1".

turbulent racing action and punishments

Max Verstappen, the world champion of the previous year, only took sixth place in the race, but also got a bad start when he was hard against Oscar Piatri and was punished with a ten -second penalty. Verstappen, who started to catch up, was upset about the situation and expressed his displeasure on the box radio: "stupid idiots". At the same time, it was his last race for Haas for Nico Hülkenberg, in which he took eighth place, while Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc from Ferrari did their best, but ultimately fell back in the overall ranking.