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2015 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Yas Marina


Season standings



2010 - Vitaly Petrov holds Alonso and Webber, helping Sebastian Vettel to become the youngest F1 World Champion, also the last race for Bridgestone as tire supplier


2012 - Kimi Raikkonen gets mad with his engineer and earns the first victory for Lotus since 1987


2014 - Lewis Hamilton wins the only double points race in history to clinch his 2nd F1 World Championship, also the first for Mercedes since 1955

Timetables
all times are local

Fri 27 – Sun 29 Nov 2015

Practice 1 Friday 13:00 – 14:30
Practice 2 Friday 17:00 – 18:30
Practice 3 Saturday 14:00 – 15:00
Qualifying Saturday 17:00 – 18:00
Race Sunday 17:00 – 19:00

Finally the last race, thank God is ending

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The race with literally nothing to race for at a track no one wants to watch.

Woooo!

Congrats rosberg

All I ask is one uber-tast-pass from max to make it worthwhile.

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Now over to fabs for our weather prediction.

Fabs, what chance rain?

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Reverse grid handicapped start please.

Reverse the driver but keep the car. Or reverse the car but keep the driver. Put Hamilton on a Caterham.

That's not entirely true. Kimi and Valteri are seperated by one point only. So 4th position is totally wide open. But like Kimi said, who cares.

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Finnish MTV3 decided to show this race live and free for everyone, as a celebration of MTV3 being involved with F1 for 30 years next year. And they totally picked the worst race to do it! Now all the average Joes, who would next March be in between of either buying their channel packages or not, are probably going to skip that after seeing Abu Dhabi race.

So based on that, I expect MTV3 to really build up a MEGA HYPE over the the fight between Kimi and Valtteri and they'll be calling their strategies and track positions on every lap like something exciting is happening. Which will not happen. Kimi with a better car runs an uneventful race, finishes 4th and Valtteri follows him home on 5th place and loses position in the Championship standings to Kimi. Hangover-Hamilton wins, Britney is 2nd and Vettel 3rd, top5 is on same spots as in Qualifying.

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I don't care. Glad the season is over soon.


...says the person who is here the first to post "FP1 starting soon".

they could at least water the track halfway the race by surprise, since this a farcical race

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There is absolutely no reason to watch this GP. The season should have ended two weeks ago.

No. Even the most awesome passes look like shit when made on shitty tracks surrounded by miles of shit-colored tarmac run-offs.

I don't know why I will bother tuning in, but I'm hooked. I need my fix. I'll just watch these bastards one last time before the much dreaded months-long wait (during which I will probably build up anticipation for a crazy Ham/Vet championship battle).

Also, the Kimi Valteri crash. Who wants to miss that?

I disagree

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Abu Dhabi has two big long straights so I believe it's closer than in Brazil, and we might see battle with the Willies & Ferrari. Hopefully.

A shitty race on a shitty track will end this shitty season. How fitting.

oh yes, reminds me that I still have a lot of work

Yeah, but Williams will struggle in the 3rd sector and first two laps without DRS is just enough for the Ferraris to pull away. Williams will then screw their strategy and/or pitstops.

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Serious question springs to mind: has the eventuality of rain during a night race been considered, and what is F1's stance on that? Immediate red flag, or they just keep going with all the glare/reflection until it's judged un-driveable by race officials?

I would understand that, some of the most uncomfortable situations in my life involved highway night driving on wet roads - not even during the actual rainfall.

Rain in the desert?

Driving on the road in rain is only problematic for me cause of oncoming traffic. Thát glare blinds me, the rest is nothing.

Back to your point. FIA, or marshalls, have never shown any consistency. Okay, that in itself us consistency, but anybodys guess is as good as yours or mine.

Okay, there is rain:
http://www.worldweatheronline.com/Abu-D ... bi/AE.aspx

If it would rain, in combination with sand, would it even be driveable?

Yes, I mean as a general guideline now that we have night races. There's one in Singapore where it could rain depending on the time of the year.

As for sand, I keep hearing about that for desert races, but do you see any on the track really? I've seen more dust/dirt out the racing line in Brazil and in Hungary than I've ever seen in Bahrain or Abu Dhabi.

Also, careful about the weather stereotypes. To my disappointment, it rains 2 times as much in Roma compared to Paris during the month of November ^^ (glad I checked before booking the trip: 130mm of rain instead of the usual 50mm in Paris).

You should have seen my confused neurons when i saw the weather graph.

I assume you mean Rome, Italy? That is just weird.