Lewis Hamilton was on his solution to comfortably clearing Q1 in Abu Dhabi qualifying – quicker within the first two sectors than staff mate George Russell, simply as he had been all through observe – earlier than Kevin Magnussen’s Haas threw a bollard in his manner.
That outlined Hamilton’s complete weekend on what was his Mercedes farewell, leaving him to start out sixteenth on the grid on a weekend when the W15 appeared to be working nicely.