FILE PHOTO: Formula One F1 - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - November 26, 2023 McLaren's Oscar Piastri in action during the race REUTERS/Rula Rouhana/File Photo
Dec 3 (Reuters) - Formula One statistics for Sunday's season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina:
Lap distance: 5.281km. Total distance: 306.183km (58 laps)
2024 pole position: Lando Norris (Britain) McLaren, One minute 22.595 seconds.
2024 winner: Norris
Race lap record: Kevin Magnussen (Denmark) 1:25.637, Haas, 2024. (The circuit was modified after the 2020 race)
Start time: 1300 GMT (1700 local)
DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP
Norris leads Red Bull's Max Verstappen by 12 points, with McLaren's Oscar Piastri a further four behind. There are 25 points to be won.
Norris will be champion for the first time on Sunday if he finishes on the podium, ending Verstappen's reign that started amid controversy at Yas Marina in 2021.
It will be the 31st time the championship has been decided at the last race.
Other permutations are here.
ABU DHABI
Sunday will be the 17th Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and 14th season-ender at the anti-clockwise track.
Three current drivers have won at Yas Marina, with five-times winner Lewis Hamilton (2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019) the most successful. Verstappen has won four of the last five (2020-2023) and Norris one (2024).
Hamilton has been on pole five times.
Only once has the winner not started on the front row: Kimi Raikkonen from fourth in 2012 with Lotus.
The track has 16 corners and a 1.2km long straight and a one-stop is the usual strategy.
CONSTRUCTORS' CHAMPIONSHIP
McLaren clinched the team's 10th constructors' championship, and second in a row, in Singapore in October.
Mercedes are second, 33 points clear of Red Bull with 43 still in play. Ferrari are fourth and cannot catch Red Bull or be caught by fifth-placed Williams.
McLaren have scored 800 points, the second highest tally in a single season, and cannot break Red Bull's record of 860 set in 2023.
WINS
Norris, Verstappen and Piastri have each won seven of the 23 races so far. Mercedes' George Russell has won two.
Ferrari's seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton has not won since his career 105th victory, with Mercedes, in Belgium on July 28, 2024.
Ferrari have not won since October 27 last year and are the only top four team without a win.
Verstappen has won 70 grands prix and is third on the all-time list after Michael Schumacher on 91.
POLE POSITION
Verstappen and Norris have both been on pole seven times this season, Piastri six, Russell twice and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc once. Fifteen of 23 races have been won from pole.
McLaren have taken the last four poles.
PODIUM
Norris has been on the podium 17 times, the most of any driver, and Piastri 15.
Verstappen has been on the podium for the last nine in a row.
Leclerc has been second twice and has seven podiums for the season. Hamilton has yet to stand on the podium for Ferrari since he joined in January. Nine drivers from seven teams have been on the podium in 2025.
POINTS
Alpine rookie Franco Colapinto is the only driver on the grid yet to score this year.
MILESTONES
Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg is making his 250th start.
Sunday will be a last hurrah for the generation of power units in use since 2014. Mercedes-powered cars have won 10 of the 12 constructors' titles in that period.
Renault-owned Alpine end their history of competing with the French manufacturer's engines, with the team switching to Mercedes in 2026.
It will be the last race for Sauber, the Swiss-based team that will become Audi's factory outfit.
Japanese driver Yuki Tsunoda will have his last race for Red Bull before handing over to Isack Hadjar and switching to a reserve role.
Honda say farewell to the Red Bull teams before starting over with Aston Martin.
The 10-team era also ends, with debutants Cadillac turning the number up to 11 next year.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Christian Radnedge)
