RENAULT F1 ABU DHABI GP FACT FILES

PRESS RELEASE/Renault Sport F1 Team – Photo: Renault Media

Renault Sport Formula One Team heads to Yas Marina for the twenty-first and final Grand Prix of the 2018 Formula 1 season, the Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The Circuit 
• Yas Marina has hosted the final round of a Formula 1 season six times since being introduced to the calendar in 2009.
• The circuit has the second most corners on the 2018 calendar with 21, only Marina Bay (Singapore) has more with 23.
• 4,700 lights illuminate the circuit and over 8,000 litres of paint is used on the tarmac around the 5.554km lap.

The Team 
• This time last year, the team finished sixth in the Constructors’ Championship on 57 points. This season, the team has exactly doubled that points tally and heads to Abu Dhabi in fourthplace with 114 points.
• The team has averaged 5.7 points per race in 2018, courtesy of 23 top ten finishes.

The Drivers 
• Carlos enters his final race with the team in twelfth place in the Drivers’ Championship. Since joining in October 2017, Carlos has raced 1,356 laps, scored 51 points, recorded 13top ten finishes and qualified 16 times inside the top ten from his 24 outings. His best result came in Azerbaijan earlier in the year, where he finished fifth.
• Nico sits in seventh place in the Drivers’ Championship and remains on course to clinch his highest finishing position in the standings in his Formula 1 career. His best effort so far is ninth, achieved in 2014 and 2016.

In other news… 
• Renault Sport Affiliated Driver Anthoine Hubert aims to wrap up the 2018 GP3 Series Drivers’ Championship this weekend, as he holds an advantage of 32 points over his nearest rival.
• Academy Driver Sacha Fenestraz finished in third place in the FIA Formula 3 World Cup in Macau last weekend and will make his second GP3 appearance of the season in Abu Dhabi.

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