𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐚

The stage for the 2025 World Driver's Championship decider of F1 is set with the intensity one would expect from a season this closely battled among Max and the two McLaren drivers' (Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri). Max Verstappen delivered a lap of sheer precision under the Yas Marina lights to secure pole position, placing his Red Bull exactly where it needs to be to pressure the championship leader Lando Norris. Max was helped by his teammate Yuki Tsunoda as he gave Max slipstream (m: Slipstream is an aerodynamic advantage a car gains by following another car closely on a straight, which reduces air resistance and allows the trailing car to accelerate to a higher speed) to set his pole setting lap. Lando Norris, despite the immense weight of a potential maiden title on his shoulders, held his nerve to lock out the front row in P2. The margin was two tenths, but the grid order is definitive. Oscar Piastri, underlining McLaren's dominance this year, starts P3, ...