After 23 races we reach the season finale in Abu Dhabi with a three-way battle for the title, so let\u2019s take a look at how the three championship contenders might approach the crucial final Grand Prix of the year\u2026<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen<\/p>\n
12 points behind Norris, four points ahead of Piastri<\/p>\n
The situation is simplest for Max Verstappen<\/a>. He has the full undivided support of Red Bull \u2013 a team that knows how to win titles and have form of being calm under pressure \u2013 and Max is still in the position of having little to lose.<\/p>\n Red Bull<\/a> have struggled recently in the Sprint format, taking time to get the car into the right working window after a poor initial set-up. Max wasn\u2019t ever satisfied with his balance in Qatar, yet still managed to win the race after McLaren\u2019s<\/a> strategy miss. But in Abu Dhabi, with three hours of practice running, he should be able to build into the weekend and get the car humming once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 23 races we reach the season finale in Abu Dhabi with a three-way battle for the title,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-326167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}