Formula 1 Qualifying Time Tomorrow

Get all of the latest F1 results from practice sessions, qualifying and race day here. Alongside regularly updated standings, we'll cover the final driver and constructor points tallies at the end of each season. Together with all of the standard F1 race coverage, you'll find Esports results and standings from all Virtual Grand Prix events here too. The drama dutifully returned on the street circuit of Azerbaijan's capital, with a joint-record four red flags brought out during Saturday's qualifying session.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc managed to grasp pole position for the second race in a row but failed to keep it beyond lap two, when he was overtaken by Lewis Hamilton. After that the Monegasque went backwards down the order but recovered to fourth. The Mercedes driver completed a clean sweep of top times on Friday in Jeddah, leading FP2 by 0.061s from team-mate Valtteri Bottas despite both drivers having their soft tyre qualifying-style runs hampered.

The second practice session was ended prematurely by a heavy crash for Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. Qualifying could be crucial in determining the outcome of Sunday's race. Crucially, if neither Verstappen nor Hamilton finishes the Grand Prix, it is the Dutchman who will claim a maiden world title on Sunday owing to having more overall race wins this season. Q3 looked set to be a tight affair but Red Bull executed a strategic plan brilliantly as Sergio gave Max a tow on the first runs in the session and Max duly went on to complete a stunning final sector as he set the pace by over half a second. Nobody could come close to him on the final attempts and he took the 90th pole position for a Honda-powered car in Formula 1, giving him the best possible starting position for Sunday's championship showdown. The qualifying session started strongly as Max was third quickest ahead of Sergio in fourth, Yuki in fifth and Pierre seventh, ensuring all four Honda-powered cars made it through to Q2 in comfortable fashion.

The second part of qualifying is when the starting tyre compounds are decided for anyone in the top ten, and there was a real split as some teams opted for mediums and others for softs. The second of the back-to-back races at the Red Bull Ring saw Verstappen pick up where he left off, delighting the Austrian crowd with pole position and then leading every lap of his team's home grand prix. A huge number of Dutch fans also mad there way to Austria to watch their hero dominate proceedings. Hamilton earned the 100th pole position of his career in Barcelona, but duly gave up first position on the first corner of the grand prix, having no option but to sacrifice the spot to an aggressive move by Max Verstappen. It's not as if all is lost for the seven-time world champion after missing out on the pole position, however, given the fact that he is still set to start the race on the front row and on medium tires, compared to Verstappen's soft tires.

Alpine are due to give new Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri some track time, while both Ferrari and Haas will test another Formula 2 driver, Robert Shwartzman. Mercedes welcomes Formula E champion Nyck de Vries, and Formula 2's Logan Sargeant makes his debut in a Williams. All teams will be obliged to run rookies in free practice sessions from 2022, so expect to see a lot more of them during grands prix weekends. I'll be back tomorrow with the build-up to the title-deciding race from around 11am.

Hamilton second on the more favourable medium tyres, but with a bunch of soft tyre runners around him. Let's hope the season gets the finale it deserves. Lewis Hamilton is one of the most active Formula One racing drivers on social media, a job that he takes quite seriously (along with his team Mercedes-AMG) when it comes to connecting with its millions of fans.

Whether it be Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, the team/driver dynamic duo is constantly interacting with followers from across the globe day and night. Of course, that was until the 2021 F1 season finale in Abu Dhabi a couple of weeks back, when things didn't exactly go their way. Sky's race day coverage of this weekend's Abu Dhabi grand prix will also simulcast on Channel 4, as mentioned above.

All Sky customers will have access to qualifying on Saturday and the race via Sky Showcase. However, Sky Sports F1 will be the only place where you can watch every session, including free practice, as well as the Formula 2 finale. The qualifying race is held a day before the final race day. It is carried out to determine the starting grids of the drivers on the final race day. Meanwhile Stroll was by the accident ahead and drove into the side of Leclerc. After a safety car, teams were told there would be a standing start from the grid, but just beforehand all the drivers except leader Hamilton dived into the pits for slick tyres, as the track was drying.

On soft-compound tires, Verstappen took the fastest lap of the qualifying session. His Red Bull teammate, Sergio Perez, will be starting fourth. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen head into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix level on 369.5 points after a long, exhilarating and regularly acrimonious battle. The drama could not prevent Hamilton from taking a third successive chequered flag, though, to leave the drivers' championship resting on a knife-edge. Hamilton is almost 1.5s quicker than Verstappen so far, however, the Red Bull driver is still on medium tyres.

We'll get a far more realistic look at the gap once he switches to softs nearer the end of the final practice session. In a dramatic twist, Verstappen suffered a flat-spot to his medium tyres in Q2, forcing Red Bull to switch his starting set to softs ahead of tomorrow's race. The 24-year-old will start on the faster set of tyres while Hamilton, who joined him on the front row, will be on the mediums. Red Bulls' Max Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton are locked in a close battle for the F1 drivers championship. Both of them will look to improve their place in the standings with a victory on Sunday in the 2021 United States Grand Prix.

The race will be 56 laps of the 3.426 mile Circuit of The Americas Sunday. The weekend will include three days of events and entertainment to enjoy. You can also watch Formula 2, Formula 3 and Porsche Supercup coverage. Channel 4 has free-to-air Formula 1 qualifying and race highlights which usually start airing a few hours after the chequered flag has been waved. It also has live free-to-air coverage of the British grand prix every year, and is home of the all-women's W Series.

Going into the final grand prix of the year at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit, Max Verstappen and Sir Lewis Hamilton are tied on 369.5 points each. The last time where the two leading Formula 1 drivers in the championship went into the final race tied on points was in 1974. One thing is certain, this season, which has won the sport a whole legion of new fans, is unlikely to have had its final plot twist. The possibility that the destination of this year's title is eventually decided in the stewards' room, or even a court room, remains very real.

McLaren's Lando Norris, who starts third after a brilliant performance, admitted he was so nervous of getting caught up in the drama, he wasn't even sure he would try to race the two championship leaders. Another exciting element of the 2021 F1 season was the debut of Sprint Qualifying. The 100km races determined the starting grid for Sunday's grands prix and awarded championship points to the top three drivers. Channel 4's commentator called the inaugural Saudi GP "an incredible day of confusion," which is an understatement – this will go down as one of the most contentious races of all time. But it delivered on thrills and means a final race of the season with the two leading drivers tied on points, as the incredible 2021 season reaches its conclusion. Red Bull's Max Verstappen took the pole position for Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix by recording the fastest lap time in the third and final round of qualifying.

Three other qualifying sessions earlier this year set the starting lineup for a sprint qualifying race, which then determined the starting lineup for the main event. Ahead of qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in the third and final practice session. The Brit is chasing an unprecedented eighth title. May the best man and the best team win," Wolff said to Horner. "This one is just a fierce fight between teams and drivers that have done a really great job, but, sometimes in the races were 45 seconds up the road lapping almost the whole field. Hamilton tells the Mercedes crew that the rear of his car is very hot.

The track temperature is around 38C right now, although that'll cool down considerably during the gap between this final practice session and the start of qualifying. The qualifying for the Brazilian F1 weekend will include the standard Q1, Q2 elimination format, coupled with the final shoot-out for pole in Q3, with the results of the session determining the starting grid for the sprint on Saturday . In the event of one of these relatively unlikely outcomes leading to a tie on points, the driver who has claimed the most wins of the season would take the title. This season, Max has won nine grands prix while Lewis has won eight, which would therefore make Max the drivers' champion if they were tied on points. In the event two drivers had the same number of points and grand prix victories, the countback continues through the highest number of second places, highest number of third places and so on. Wolff and his Red Bull counterpart Christian Horner have been involved in back-and-forth encounters too, drawing amusement from some and disdain from others, as the fight goes on for the constructor championship as well as the drivers' title.

Elsewhere outside the big two, Fernando Alonso's podium finish, the changing team line-ups for next year and even the additions of rules such as sprint qualifying have all been big talking points in Formula One recently. Crucially Verstappen will be on soft tyres after flat-spotting his set of mediums during the second qualifying session - which he otherwise would've started the race on - while Hamilton will be on mediums as expected. For those on a budget, once again there are extended highlights of all F1 races on Channel 4, with additional live coverage of the British Grand Prix in July.

A last-minute rights deal meant the Channel 4 also showed live coverage of the Abu Dhabi finale, though using the Sky Sports F1 feed and commentary. Highlights were also available on the channel's on-demand service, All 4. Verstappen started seventh but made a storming start to reach fourth by turn one, but Hamilton capitalised on pole position and kept his lead. By lap five, Vesrtappen was up into second place, driving the doors off his Red Bull , with Bottas and Perez also driving through the field to make up for lowly grid positions.

Norris led for much of the race, and regained the advantage shortly after a late stop for a set of fresh rubber. It was "won" by Max Verstappen, who had qualified on pole, with a delighted George Russell in the Williams finishing behind him after a sensational lap on Saturday. For the final time in the 22-race 2021 Formula 1 season, the starting lineup for a Grand Prix was set by way of a three-round knockout qualifying session. Get stuck into race weekend early with free practice results published on the Friday of every event and keep track of how things are progressing throughout the season with our regular 'as things stand' updates.

Stay close to this page for all of your F1 practice, qualifying and race results. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen traded fastest times in the opening two practice sessions yesterday, with Red Bull fastest in the morning and Mercedes dominant in the second session. Max Verstappen will start ahead of title rival Lewis Hamilton at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after clinching pole position ahead of Sunday's race. The qualifying session for the 19th round of the 2021 F1 season in Brazil will be held on Friday at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace circuit in Sao Paulo after the first free practice session.

In the final practice session of the season, Lewis Hamilton was a good two tenths of a second quicker than Max Verstappen - and that's even before you factor in that the Brit tends to find a little bit more than his title rival during qualifying. As David Brent would say, this is the 'real quiz' now. This will decide the starting order of the top 10 for tomorrow's race.

Despite those Q2 times, on even tyres I would just about still make Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton favourites. That growing archive includes past grands prix and highlights packages, season reviews going back to the 1970s, plus documentaries about drivers, teams and the sport's tech. In terms of track dynamic, there will be long straights at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit this weekend, which ought to favour Mercedes as they gun for a one-two finish. After 21 exciting races, the F edition heads into the season finale in Abu Dhabi this weekend to determine the Drivers' and the Constructors' Champions. Title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are level on points (369.5) going into the final race, with the Dutchman having a slight advantage due to more race wins this year. Verstappen has won nine GPs as compared to Hamilton's eight.

We just couldn't compete with that time at the end. We're in a good position I'd like to think with our tyres tomorrow. Verstappen complained of having worn tyres with five laps to go, but he couldn't pit without losing second place to Ocon. Hamilton nursed his own car home to take the win, with Verstappen 7sec behind – his time penalty making no difference to the order.

Completing the excitement, Bottas passed Ocon metres before the chequered flag to complete the podium. But when the leader slowed on the straight to hand back the place, Hamilton ran into the back of the Red Bull, causing damage to his front wing – a result of poor communication between teams and race control, it is thought. Both cars were able to continue and Verstappen yielded again but immediately re-took the position at the next corner. Then the Dutchman got a stormer of a start to retake the lead on the medium tyres versus Hamilton's hards.

Verstappen started second and finished second, after a steady performance. The seven-times world champion again had to settle for second place, although he did snatch an extra point for the fastest lap thanks to a late pit stop. Mercedes Boss Toto Wolff admitted that, for the first time in the turbo-hybrid era that his team has dominated, Mercedes had "no weapons in our armoury". Hamilton agreed, estimating that Red Bull had an advantage of a quarter of a second on every lap of its home circuit. However, the real drama came in the latter part of the race, when leader Max Verstappen suffered a tyre blowout at high speed on lap 45 of 51, becoming the second driver after Aston Martin's Lance Stroll to suffer the same issue. That triggered a red flag, with Red Bull's Sergio Perez and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton lining up on the first row of the grid.

After 21 races, Formula 1's world championship will be decided at this afternoon's season finale as Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton go head-to-head at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Sunday's crazy race saw two red flags, multiple virtual safety car interventions and five drivers crash out before Hamilton won his eighth race of the season to level the drivers' standings. In the championship-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, it will be Max Verstappen starting from pole position, his 10th pole of the season — and the most important of the year. Results from the final practice session at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Round 21 of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship.

Results from the third and final practice session at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Round 22 of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. Here is our report from that final practice session. The advantage would appear to be with Hamilton, but it's certainly all to play for as we gear up for qualifying. In the meantime, Carlos Sainz, on soft tyres, clocks the fastest lap of Q2 so far. As a reminder, drivers must start Sunday's race with the tyre compound in which they record their fastest time of Q2. Good afternoon all, welcome to our live coverage of qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton expect to jostle for pole position at Yas Marina.

Adding to this, tyre choice is restricted to make it more difficult for teams and, of course, there's the risk of damage to cars in the sprint that could put them out of the running for Sunday's main race. What does all this mean for the championship after a close, dramatic and often controversial season? Will Max win his first ever drivers' title, or will Lewis add an eighth to his record-equalling haul?

All will be revealed this weekend – and here's how to keep in tune with the action. Ahead of the season finale, here is a look at what time is F1 qualifying and the details of how to watch Abu Dhabi GP live in India, the US and the UK. Verstappen flat-spotted his mediums in Q2, then got a slipstream from Sergio Perez to set his eventual pole position lap in Q3. Guess their biggest concern will be the fact that they could have been on pole AND starting on the medium tyres; the same as Hamilton. There is a possibility of strategic vulnerability there. That said, the soft tyres did seem to last quite a while, so it may not be too big a deal.

I am also worried for tomorrow because their long runs were much better on Friday. The car that's faster tomorrow will win the race, irrespective of who starts on each tyre. "We really are trying to get everything out of our cars to the last lap, the last corner. It has been really enjoyable for most of the time. In 20 years myself and other people will look back on it and remember this year." Hamilton, seated to his right, looked over at his rival.

I am grateful I have had such a close battle with Max and his team. They have done an exceptional job, shown true strength and pushed us to the limit in ways that we needed. I hope we have many more season like this." And so say all of us.