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F1 2015: Round 19 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

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  • 27-11-2015 11:28am
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    Charlie-Bravo
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    Ooh the excitement. The fight for fourth place. Bottas leading Kimi by one point, with Massa 18 points behind.

    Let's see if the finish to the season gives an exciting Finnish race. :pac:

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    Jordan 199
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    I'm still 50/50 whether to watch this race or not.


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    Charlie-Bravo
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    With all the money Bernie gets to have this race as the season finale, I would believe the organisers are rightly annoyed at the championship being concluded so early! TV ratings will be well down.

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    Jordan 199
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    150th Grand Prix for Force India this weekend:

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    Frank Bullitt
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    One more race, one more boring race.


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    Andrew76
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    Jordan 191 wrote: »
    I'm still 50/50 whether to watch this race or not.

    I'll record it, read the results later on and if it sounds like an excitng race (hahahaha yeah right) then I'll watch it.


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    El_Duderino 09
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    Andrew76 wrote:
    I'll record it, read the results later on and if it sounds like an excitng race (hahahaha yeah right) then I'll watch it.

    If only there was a way to sync the live timing app with a recording. It's the best part of watching a race live unfortunately. You don't have to rely on the race director to show the particular battle you want to follow, you can follow it by watching the gap between them.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Button's McLaren looked awesome through sector 1 there. Then he hits the straight and he's 20 km/h down. Bloody ridiculous.


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    bnt
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    Both Button & Grosjean pulled off very good laps, comfortably through to Q2. Alonso out due to a puncture, and Vettel didn't make Q2 either, just backing out of his last fast lap.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    Ghost Train
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    Kimi looking fast, strange for Vettel to get knocked out


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    HighLine
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    Team obviously told Vettel to back off as they thought he was safe in Q1. Silly error on their part. Vettel didn't throw his toys out of the pram and blame the team... a marked contrast to that of how some other drivers might react.


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    HighLine
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    I'm guessing that lap from Nico was something special.... shame we didn't get to see any of it.


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    HighLine wrote: »
    Team obviously told Vettel to back off as they thought he was safe in Q1. Silly error on their part. Vettel didn't throw his toys out of the pram and blame the team... a marked contrast to that of how some other drivers might react.

    Can't help but think his reaction would have been different if there was anything to race for tomorrow.


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    Ghost Train
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    Another good Saturday for Rosberg


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    Zcott
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    Completely mega lap from Rosberg to be down on the first sector and end the lap 0.3 up...with an engine reportedly down on power.


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    AMKC
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    I thought that was the best Qualifying session all season. Was a great lap from Button to get into Q2 just a pity that he could not make it into Q3. Big mistake by Ferrari and Vettel to think the lap he had done was good enough and no need to do another. Surprised Vettel did not just finish the lap he was on instead of backing off. Alonso was unlucky to get a puncture but unless the lap he was doing was faster than his last one Id say he was out anyway. Problems for Grojean and for Lotus. Id say he is looking forward to his Haas move in a lot of ways. Q3 was exciting. Some laps by Lewis and Rosberg. Am sure we will get to see them tomorrow when the BBC and Sky do there lap comparisons. Maybe we might get a good battle on track by Lewis and Nico tomorrow would be nice. Hopefully it will be a good race. Vettel going to have to work his way up from the bac. if he can do it like he did in 2013 when he started from the pit it should be good too.

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    Inquitus
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    What do we think is the root cause of the turnaround in Hamilton / Rosberg fortunes? I can understand Hamilton may have lost a bit of an edge once he wrapped up the championship, but he's ultra competitive and one would think that hangover wouldn't have lasted this long. He was well beaten again today by a fairly big margin.

    Is it more a case of Rosberg's temperament? He seemed to struggle with the pressure when he was fighting for the title, but now its done and dusted he's doing his best driving of the season. If he can bring this form into next season we should see a much more competitive battle between the 2 teammates.


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    Myrddin
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    Inquitus wrote: »
    What do we think is the root cause of the turnaround in Hamilton / Rosberg fortunes? I can understand Hamilton may have lost a bit of an edge once he wrapped up the championship, but he's ultra competitive and one would think that hangover wouldn't have lasted this long. He was well beaten again today by a fairly big margin.

    Is it more a case of Rosberg's temperament? He seemed to struggle with the pressure when he was fighting for the title, but now its done and dusted he's doing his best driving of the season. If he can bring this form into next season we should see a much more competitive battle between the 2 teammates.

    I think Rosberg has just upped his game, and I think Lewis has his eye off a ball (only very slightly) now. So a bit of both. If Nico comes out fighting like he is now in April, that's world championship material right there...he annihilated Lewis today. I agree I think Lewis is very competitive, so the hangover shouldn't be lasting this long, it's making him look bad (over 3/10's today is a massive gap)


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    Charlie-Bravo
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    From what I've gleaned from commentary it's the air pressures in the tyres being higher now since the Italian GP. Hamilton was a beast on much lower tyre pressures and now Rosberg qualifies in pole, gets a decent start and has preference on stops during the race.

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    Jordan 199
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    Perez did a great job qualifying fourth today.


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    Mike Litoris
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    Toto Wolf rocks! :D


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    antodeco
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    Hasta la Vista haha

    Wouldve preferred him to say "The goggles, they do nothing"


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    HighLine
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    Lewis and Nico to have a coming together at turn 1. At least that's what I'm hoping for :D


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    TheDoctor
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    Amateur hour from Williams


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    Zcott
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    It would have worked ok had Button's garage been slightly further down the pit lane, so I can see why they did it. Just a shame it happened, but even without that Raikkonen is pretty strong.


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    Ghost Train
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    Kimi has good pace today, although not enough to threaten Mercedes at the moment

    Williams not having such a good race


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    TheDoctor
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    Lewis to go super softs to finish?


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    #28
    antodeco
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    Some good mid field stuff, but nothing really edge of seat stuff.


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    #29
    TheDoctor
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    Another boring call from Mercedes


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    TheDoctor
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    Why with 5 laps left in the season are they turning the engines down


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    smellslikeshoes
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    That Merc radio conversation about engine modes was very weird, will be interesting to see what that was about.


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