Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen will compete in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, hoping to win the most fantastic championship races in Formula 1’s history.
Their battle will be a genuine winner-take-all on Sunday, which is unusual in a sport with 18 other cars and drivers. It’s also jam-packed with plot twists. It feels like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for purposes based on statistical information, personal qualities, and upcoming modifications to athletics.
If you get a rush from watching the world’s best sportsmen attempt to sabotage one another, then Sunday’s race could be a one-of-a-kind championship.
What is predicted to be happening on Sunday?
Although if you do not even count legends in team sports, it’s not uncommon for the two best athletes in a fool to go head-to-head with everything on the line. (Did Peyton Manning and Tom Brady ever go “head-to-head?”) (Not quite.) Grand Slam tennis tournaments frequently come down to world No. 1 and 2 players.
Muhammad Ali knocked out Joe Frazier. Usain Bolt had a lot of races against Justin Gatlin or whoever his main rival was at the time. These are special occasions, so adding a “but” feels unnecessary. If there even is one, they might continue to occur due to the competition formats in those sports.
The best Formula 1 drivers will compete for championships well into the season—Hamilton won his first title on the last lap of the final race in 2008. But they won’t usually do so in a dead heat, where the entire season could be decided by something as minor as one of them having finished 10th and the other 11th.
On Sunday, that won’t happen, and only because Hamilton and Verstappen are expected to make it into the top 2 or 3.
The Math Behind the Tie
The most victorious driver in Formula 1 history, Lewis Hamilton, is involved in a very seldom viewed title race this year to be crowned Formula 1 champion. Somewhere at the final moment of the penultimate race of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday, Hamilton’s main rival, Max Verstappen, was tied with him on 369.5 points.
However, that’s where Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton will start the season’s final race in Abu Dhabi on Sunday at 8 a.m. Eastern time. This is the first occasion as of 1974 that the top two drivers are tied for points (369.5) going into the final race.Â
History of best drivers competing in F1
The 1976 season was the pinnacle of James Hunt and Niki Lauda’s long-running rivalry, eventually turning further into film ‘Rush’ by director Ron Howard. The British fire was in marked contradiction to the Austrian’s ice. Lauda, the titleholder, had a comfortable lead with seven races remaining when Lauda was nearly killed in an accident in August.
Weeks later, at Monza, with his face covered in bandages, Lauda returned to the wheel of his Ferrari, severely burned and with lung damage. Hunt had closed the gap in his absence and was only three points behind entering the final race at Fuji in Japan. Due to the torrential rain, Lauda decided to retire after two laps, citing the hazardous situation.
Hunt managed to keep racing in his McLaren and, despite a puncture, finished third to win his only championship by one point.
Coming back to our tie, Verstappen technically holds the lead with as many as nine victories this season; Hamilton is only one win away from catching up. Everyone’s gaze is now on Abu Dhabi for the season’s closing lap race next weekend, in which F1 enthusiasts are placing bets that their favorite team will break the tie and win the title and the championship.
