Max Verstappen confidently converted pole position into victory during Sunday evening’s season-ending 2023 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, making it 19 wins across 22 races in a remarkable year for the Dutchman and his Red Bull team. As was generally forecast, the C3 compound was far and away the most popular, while the C5 was only used by Sainz for one lap, which he didn’t even complete at the very end of the race. The difference between the one-stop and two-stop strategies was minimal in our pre-race simulations. Each Team can use two cars, one for their race drivers and the other for a rookie. The cars used by the race drivers will have ten sets of tyres available: one C1, one C2, two C5, three C4 and three C3. The young drivers can use a maximum of eight sets: two C4, two C5 and four sets of C4.

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