{"id":331206,"date":"2025-12-06T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331206\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:53:34","slug":"catch-up-on-fp3-in-abu-dhabi-as-george-russell-goes-fastest-and-lewis-hamilton-crashes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331206\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up on FP3 in Abu Dhabi as George Russell goes fastest and Lewis Hamilton crashes out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">George Russell set the pace during the third and final practice hour of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, a session that was briefly interrupted following a crash for Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The Mercedes man lead the way on a 1m 23.334s, a mere 0.004s ahead of championship leader Lando Norris in second. Norris\u2019 title rival Max Verstappen put his Red Bull in third place, ahead of Aston Martin\u2019s Fernando Alonso in fourth and the other McLaren of Oscar Piastri completing the top five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">In an eventful final practice of the weekend \u2013 and the season \u2013 the red flags were thrown when Hamilton <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoic3B1bl9vZmZfaW50b190aGVfYmFycmllcnNfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC9hcnRpY2xlL3dhdGNoLWhhbWlsdG9uLWJyaW5ncy1vdXQtcmVkLWZsYWdzLWFmdGVyLWNyYXNoaW5nLWR1cmluZy1maW5hbC1wcmFjdGljZS1pbi43S3hDNTV5VlZoZ1lFVEJ2UDNwemZ3IiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJpbnRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/watch-hamilton-brings-out-red-flags-after-crashing-during-final-practice-in.7KxC55yVVhgYETBvP3pzfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spun off into the barriers<\/a> at just over halfway through the hour, bringing the Ferrari man\u2019s outing to an early end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Meanwhile there was a collision between Kimi Antonelli and Yuki Tsunoda in the pit lane during the latter stages of the session when the former was released into the path of the Red Bull, a clash that will be investigated after the session for an unsafe release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To watch all the highlights from final practice in Abu Dhabi, click on the player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell set the pace during the third and final practice hour of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331207,"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-331206","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\/331206","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=331206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}