F1 2022-Round 22 ABU DHABI GP

Joeface

And For the Final Time this year . A return to the Normal Time line for viewing . It's been Long long season .

End of the Road for Mick Schumacher , Nicholas Lafiti , Daniel Riccardo and Sebastian Vettel(5)

What is still Up for Grabs

P2 is up for Play ,

Ferrari Can still be passed by Mercedes 19 point gap .

Apline V Mclaren also a 19 point Gap ( need a lot to go very very right to over come that but still )

Alfa Romeo V Aston Martin 5 point gap

Haas V AlphaTauri 2 point Gap .

Schedule :

Lets hope it is an entertaining weekend

Jordan 199

I want the Alpine drivers to stay ahead of the McLaren ones so Alpine can secure 4th spot in the Constructors Championship.

AMKC

I want Alpine to get 4th too.

As for Ferrari well they have no one to blame but themselves if they lose second to Mercedes.

I want to see Aston Martin ahead of Alfa Romeo only because Alonso is going to Aston.

I want to see Haas ahead of Alpha Tauri.

Jordan 199

Different livery for McLaren this weekend:

Frank Bullitt

Tasty enough fights throughout the field with this one. I reckon Alpine will keep 4th, barring any reliability issues. Perez will probably take 2nd, he has the faster car.

flazio

Alonso running in a replica Vettel helmet in tribute to the 4 time World Champion.

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEM8kso9qe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

dulpit

Classy from Fernando...

Frank Bullitt

That is a very nice touch from Fernando.

dulpit

More wholesome content:

https://twitter.com/wtf1official/status/1593340771385708611

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119887469#Comment_119887469

Max and Latifi standing beside each other confirming that Abu Dhabi 2021 was all a set up to give Max the win with FIA well and truly in the mix of it.

Faugheen

Also, on a much more serious note, completely missed Hamilton, Russell and Checo all beside each other and Max as far away from them as possible.

I’m sure it’s a coincidence but it’s still quite funny.

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119888085#Comment_119888085

Ah here...

waynescales1

The pantaloons on Hamilton...

blade1

Checo's runners FFS!! 😄

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119888383#Comment_119888383

Fashion,

Turn to the left,

Fashion,

Turn to the right,

Mmmm,

Fashion,

We are the goon squad,

And we're coming to town...

flazio

What time are the practice sessions?

Burkie1203

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119888422#Comment_119888422

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/61545268

...

Joeface

FP1 one results with Reserve Rookie drivers everywhere

Joeface

FP2 Results . Standard Drivers this time around

Burkie1203

https://twitter.com/EngineMode11/status/1593641859926134786?t=bDu8dbZRzpFI0zRhe5FDvQ&s=19

....bizarre

mr_edge_to_you

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119890785#Comment_119890785

Looks dangerous

waynescales1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119890785#Comment_119890785

Might see one of these this weekend...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJOlr3s6Amc

Joeface

Final FP3 of the year

Mitch Connor

hamilton passing a couple of cars (slowly) under reds; have to imagine that is going to be a grid penalty - unless you can claim hte other cars slowed down almost too much. Dont know if that is ever a viable excuse in such situations.

Burkie1203

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119893259#Comment_119893259

Given what happened to Gasly in Japan its hard to see no penalty being applied

PsychoPete

The board was flashing as he passed it, it looked yellow but the back of the board was red. Probably should be a slam dunk penalty but with the stewards who knows

BikeRacer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119893330#Comment_119893330

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.verstappen-at-risk-of-penalty-after-being-called-to-stewards-over-fp2-red.2R4kMT4iQYcp90nAaJhWhb.html

Mitch Connor

no penalty for Hamilton. He had slowed immediately and enough, was simply going faster to begin with, according to the stewards. Which feels like common sense. The verstappen incident linked above was also noted as precedent.

https://twitter.com/andrewbensonf1/status/1593959366176145408

Hijpo

Meh.....

flazio

There was no way Hamilton could have planted the anchors in the split between the board flashing and passing Tsnouda. It's like a traffic light turning yellow after you've committed to go through, stopping would have been more dangerous.

ctrl-alt-delete

Spending too much time on this Brazil Redbull thing.

Think the Hamilton decision is correct, the other two cars were going considerably slower before the red flag.

Merc look good here, Ferrari should be worried.

Hijpo

Ocon was extremely close to Norris in FP3

Itssoeasy

Hopefully that lap from vettel gets him into Q2.

BikeRacer

Mega lap from Seb

Cool_CM

Go on Mick and Seb!

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119893684#Comment_119893684

Threading a needle there for that lap!

MadYaker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119890785#Comment_119890785

It could make them slower to move away as well, hard to believe that wasn't noticed before now, you'd think the pit crews would spot that as a potential problem straight away.

Vicxas

Perez with the gloves off this Quali

Cool_CM

Go on Seb! Another great lap!

Itssoeasy

Daniel Ricciardo gets into Q3 as does seb.

LIGHTNING

Seb showing the team that he still has it as he walks out the door

ctrl-alt-delete

Seb is certainly in the mood.

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119893756#Comment_119893756

In case other drivers think he’s going to just trundle around in his last race and qualifying are mistaken.

ctrl-alt-delete

Sky trying their best to get that lap by Max deleted. It did look mighty close.

Itssoeasy

Jesus Christ crofty needs to stop with the verstappen track limits. The stewards would’ve called it if it was and he said people at sky said it was spot on.

ctrl-alt-delete

Max reigns supreme. He helps Perez to a second place grid position whilst improving his lap time.

Ferrari pull it out of the bag in the battle with Mercedes.

KillerShamrock

Ah well another Abu Dhabi snooze fest on the cards for tomorrow especially with those 2 up front could do with a nap around 1-2 tomorrow 🤣

Wonder how many times the 2 red bull drivers can throw 'team' and 'team work' in their interviews this weekend 🤣

ctrl-alt-delete

Good man Damon - Sergio seems on the pace he says as well as saying Max doesn't look like he has much left in the tank.

Just about 2 tenths on everyone else 😂

Ghost Train

Yes, some nicely scripted radio this weekend 😁

Cool_CM

This is so wonderfully awkward

https://twitter.com/there_is_no_if/status/1594028416814170112?t=xWVBVnLtgNLXC8VMksNBgA&s=19

AMKC

That was a good qualifying session that. Nice to see both Vettel and Daniel make it onto Q3. I see Daniel is heading back to Red Bull as a reserve driver there. Good that he will still be around next year.