Both drivers on 369.5 points with one race to goHamilton collides with rival’s suddenly slowing carAfter chaos, needle, misunderstanding and some absolutely uncompromising racing it took a cool head to prevail and
Lewis Hamilton duly delivered, his win at the Saudi Arabian
Grand Prix ensuring there is now nothing in it going into the
Formula One season finale.
Beating his title rival, Max Verstappen, into second, he is now level on points after a race of complexity and confusion fitting perhaps in a season that has been impossible to predict. The two protagonists endured an ill-tempered race and both left with differing views, Hamilton accusing his rival of being dangerous and Verstappen aggrieved. What it made clear is that neither will leave anything on the table next week in Abu Dhabi.