2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the final race of the season with a one-stop medium-hard strategy, as did Red Bull's Max Verstappen in second. Third-placed Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari used a different strategy, using softs at the end of the race after his initial medium-hard run, taking advantage of the red tyre's extra speed in the key final stages.

KEY MOMENTS

• The top 10 cars used a total of five different pit stop strategies.
• Hamilton who started from pole was never troubled throughout the 55 laps and kept the lead from the start. There was a close fight for second and third, but the Englishman was impressive throughout with the hattrick of pole, win, and fastest lap.
• Ferrari had different strategies for their cars but both of them pitted twice, and each time the cars were double stacked in the pits. During the race all three available tyre types were used by both drivers but in a different order by each.
• Valtteri Bottas finished fourth for Mercedes after starting last on the grid due to a penalty. He started on mediums for a long section of the race before switching to hard for the final burst. In the end he was less than a second behind third place.
• Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly completed the longest stint on hard tyres following a contact on lap one, when he had to pit to change tyres, and then stayed on them for the rest of the race finishing two laps down at 52 laps.
• The race lap record that had stood since 2009 was broken by Hamilton with just two laps to go when he was on hard tyres.

HOW EACH TYRE PERFORMED

• HARD C3: Used by all drivers who stopped just once, except Renault's Nico Hulkenberg, who finished 12th in his last F1 race for now.
• MEDIUM C4: The most popular compound to start the race on, thanks to its excellent compromise between durability and performance in the falling temperatures of Abu Dhabi.
• SOFT C5: The softest compound in the range coped well with the demands of this track, regularly completing in excess of 10 laps even on full fuel at the start of the race.

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF F1 AND CAR RACING

"From a tyre point of view, with the three softest compounds in our range, we are satisfied with the overall performance here. We saw some long stints and low degradation, but also plenty of tactical variation and raw speed, with the decade-old race lap record finally broken on quite old hard tyres. This underlines the constant increase in performance we have seen in Formula 1 this year, which we have to bear in mind for the future. So now our focus turns to testing for 2020 and beyond as we remain at Yas Marina. On Tuesday and Wednesday all the teams will try out a range of 2020 tyres, with the opportunity to compare them to the current 2019 tyres. After that, we'll also be testing the 18-inch tyre for 2021 in the last of our private tests this year. Congratulations to Hamilton and Mercedes, not just for this emphatic race win but also for claiming both championships."

BEST TIME BY COMPOUND

LONGEST STINT OF THE RACE

PIT STOP SUMMARY

Source: Pirelli