Jeopardy is in short supply as Formula 1 heads into the final race of a season, but what there is surrounds the fight between titans Mercedes and Ferrari over second place in the constructors’ championship. Leclerc has qualified his Ferrari second; George Russell is fourth for Mercedes. After the Dutch Grand Prix, Ferrari were in fourth place, also behind Aston Martin, and 54 points adrift of Mercedes. With Leclerc starting in second, Russell in fourth, Lewis Hamilton in 11th and Sainz in 16th, the fight between Mercedes and Ferrari is on a knife-edge. Leclerc said: “The only thing that matters to me is that we challenge Mercedes and take second in the constructors’.

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