Formula 1 Round 22 Abu Dhabi GP

Jordan 199

Championship showdown this weekend. Will Lewis win his eight title or will Max win his first? All will be revealed on Sunday.

TV Times:

Qualifying Live: 1PM. (Sky Sports)

Race Live: 1PM. (Sky Sports and Channel 4)

Bring! It! On!

flazio

Verstamilton all the way. 😁

McFly85

Can’t help but feel that Mercedes have pace to spare and Verstappen will need to be lucky and good on Sunday. but I have a feeling something special could happen(disclaimer: I also generally have this feeling a couple of days before watching Ireland play anyone in football!)

Thought I wouldn’t get to watch it as I booked a weekend away in Munich with the missus for Christmas markets, but Christmas markets are closed so we’ll be in the pub for lights out. Can’t wait!

TCP/IP

Anybody know of a pub in Kildare that will be showing the race?

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302229#Comment_118302229

Does Mondello have a bar on site?

TCP/IP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302239#Comment_118302239

Christ I meant somewhere nice 😂😂

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302109#Comment_118302109

You've done well there. You get the brownie points for being willing to go the the christmas markets in Munich and you get to watch the race. Score.

Ah, Mrs McFly85, I so wish the markets were open. But while were here let's go for a pint and a schnitzel in this sports bar...

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302270#Comment_118302270

I'm in Galway so I don't know🤷‍♂️🙂, I just thought the biggest motorsport venue in Ireland might have some means of hosting a party for the biggest motorsport event in years.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302601#Comment_118302601

Ye you would think they would alright. Could have been a great moneyspiner for them.

AMKC

Estaban Ocon getting p2 in FP2 is great. Alpine seem to be doing OK here. Hopefully they have a good race now.

Relax brah

Sainz is going to be told to go for it

I think it's also live on Sky showcase HD.

F1 is a risky sport to have a TV party for. Could be great but could also be 20 seconds of flash points and 50 laps of coronation King Hamilton commentary.

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302873#Comment_118302873

I can't see him winning this weekend, but I hope Ferrari can provide him with a winning car next year.

ShamoBuc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302888#Comment_118302888

And Channel 4

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302109#Comment_118302109

I have that same feeling

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302888#Comment_118302888

I will be watching on Channel 4. Stuff Sky.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118303366#Comment_118303366

I would agree but... HD though... So tempting.

lertsnim

HD on Channel 4 too and also Channel 4 will be simulcasting the Sky coverage so it makes no difference which one you watch.

guyfo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302601#Comment_118302601

You know there is both rallycross and a car show in Mondello on Sunday? I doubt sticking the F1 up on a TV somewhere will be high up on their agenda!

Be right back

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Itssoeasy

I’d prefer to see max win tomorrow so that he can get his first world championship but what I want isn’t how it works. I just hope it’s not a cluster like the Saudi race and given that the world championship is on the line I doubt it will be, because I want it won on the track whether that’s Lewis winning no 8 or max winning no1.

ednwireland

HD channel 4 just went back onto freesat epg in the last few weeks. channel 126 is what it came up on mine.

Wanderer78

really hope theres no crash, it would be a truly astonishing race if there wasnt

Hijpo

30 minutes in FP3.

Hamilton on softs 7 tenths quicker than verstappen on mediums.

Hes just extended that to 1.5 seconds.

Going to be a very underwhelming event for many.

Lip Out

Sickening to see that Hamilton's car with so much speed. Christian Horner joked yesterday that they removed all the corners that Mercedes didn't like when making the track changes for this year.

Hijpo

Rear wing giving trouble again on the RB.

Quick shot of what looked like Verstappen shaking his head in the car.

greenspurs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304578#Comment_118304578

Hamilton will win it wont he ...... :(

ABH

GO MAX !

MadYaker

Lewis locks up and taps the wall no damage. Tsunoda is flying.

edit: ignore that he didn’t actually touch the wall

Gallant_JJ

Hamilton's tardy exit from the pits forcing Mazepin to abort a fast lap. Highly peculiar behaviour to expose himself unnecessarily like that.

guyfo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304552#Comment_118304552

It's practice.... and a practice session not representative of race conditions on top of that.

Hijpo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304628#Comment_118304628

Ah, so he's not trying to drive the car before qualifying and them possibly changing the rear wing is a decoy, gotcha.

devnull

What do we think that the FIA should do if Perez takes out Hamilton or Bottas takes out Verstappen?

Of course, Hamilton or Verstappen will argue it's not their fault that their team-mate took the other one out, but it would be a very, very dirty way to win a title.

Personally I'd disqualify the constructor from the constructors championship and disqualify the driver from the drivers championship, so they had 0 points, but even then it's still not fair on the person who got took out.

The FIA should come out and almost say that today to discourage any dirty racing of that type or using a team mate as an accessory.

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304652#Comment_118304652

Ban said driver from competing in F1 in 2022. If that happened they'd never drive in Formula1 ever again.

devnull

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304660#Comment_118304660

Yes, but that driver would argue that it was not done on purpose and instead was a 'bad decision' or a 'bad piece of driving' or an 'error of judgement' rather than being deliberate.

But in my view any team or driver that resorts to that or anyone who is involved in designing such a tactic, should receive a ban. I would include Team Principals in that as well as drivers if they were actively involved.

Car99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304652#Comment_118304652

That won't happen a driver may take it on himself to take out an opponent to win but why would a team mate do that for the benefit of a competitor? What would they gain ? F1 has a small pool of drivers if you loose your integrity getting another job would be very difficult. F1 is a small world.

guyfo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304648#Comment_118304648

I didn't mention anything about the rear wing.

I responded to your post where you were trying to equate pace in the daylight practice 3 session to qualy and the race at sunset....

It's practice, the laptimes you are reading into are almost meaningless. There is no way of comparing the cars as we have no idea what fuel load they are running etc.

Hijpo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304686#Comment_118304686

Yeah but they still try and set representative times, you would imagine they have their long runs etc done by now and at this point they are looking at individual laps because that's what is next, hence cooldowns and tyre changes. Conditions are the same for everyone during these sessions.

A pace advantage is a pace advantage, we know the Merc has one. He was 1.5 ahead at the time.

greenspurs

Lads , how great is Drive to Survive going to be on Netflix !!!!

This race, the last race, the penalties!!

Imagine the carry on behind the scenes in Red Bull and Mercedes !! Toto, Max, Horner !! It will be riveting

tanko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304652#Comment_118304652

What did the FIA do when Hamilton took out Verstappen at Silverstone???

Car99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304725#Comment_118304725

He didn't take him out intentionally .

guyfo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304709#Comment_118304709

And how far ahead was he at the end??

As I said reading into practice times, especially in the middle of sessions when drivers are obviously on different strategies and tyres (as they were when you made the comment about the race basically being a foregone conclusion) means absolutely nothing.

Of all the races AD is the hardest to call from practice times, seeing as only FP2 takes place with the same track characteristics as qualy and the race.

MadYaker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304664#Comment_118304664

It’s easy to tell from the cars telemetry if something was done on purpose or not. Look at Max’s braking last weekend. If team principals were proven to have given such an order they would be banned. Flavio got banned after crashgate in 2008 and that’s basically what happened. There might be a crash but I don’t think we’ll see anyone getting taken out on purpose.

McFly85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304652#Comment_118304652

Yep, team ban sounds about right(or even massive points deduction). The FIA should be stressing that they want this tournament won on the track.

However, they should be stressing that every race is won on track. The dumpster fire that has been F1 discourse this season hasn't been helped by the fact that drivers causing DNFs haven't really been punished or have benefitted from them. You should never be able to benefit from causing a DNF. I think these incidents can be cut out with points deductions on par with the position of the driver you have been judged by the stewards to have caused to DNF(cause DNF of 1st place car, maximum penalty of 25 points so guaranteed to finish on zero, DNF to second maximum penalty of 18 points etc, DNF to 11-20 grid penalty for the next race).

It would stop this but Silverstone but Monza but Hungary etc as mostly drivers will have earned their points by racing.

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304725#Comment_118304725

That wasn’t intentional.

Hijpo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304743#Comment_118304743

He was 0.2 behind at the end when Hamilton backed out three times and had a flat spot. That Merc can go faster. The RB is on its limit.

tanko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304732#Comment_118304732

Don’t make me laugh, Hamilton knew exactly what he was doing. If it was ok to take another driver out then i don’t see why it won’t be ok to do it tomorrow. I’ve no doubt Hamilton would take Verstappen out again tomorrow if he had more race wins now.

Killinator

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304795#Comment_118304795

By extension and your logic, Max has taken out Hamilton at Monza and would do again if he had more race wins.

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118304795#Comment_118304795

Haha, ok.

Thankfully Hamilton has a cooler head or this championship might have been over by now thanks to Max’s erratic driving.

Vicxas

Have a feeling this is going to be very anti-climatic and Hamilton will win.

Cool_CM

Yeah, failing something ridiculous, it's hard to look beyond Lewis winning this weekend and getting the 8th title.

skipper_G

Was the Hamilton and Mazepin incident from FP3 investigated at all?