2016 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - LIVE THREAD

11/27/2016 | Chode

[Chode]

Yas Marina Circuit

First Grand Prix 2009

Number of Laps 55

Circuit Length 5.554KM

Race Distance 305.355KM

Lap Record 1:40.279 by Sebastian Vettel (2009)

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UP...!!!

[2banana]

Can I get a BBQ and bacon sandwich with a budwiser there?

[Chode]

the beer, yes, IF you can afford it. the BBQ, well... that's prolly a different story. 8^)

[Carriage Hill]

They have Kuffir-On-A-Roll with Taqiyya Sauce.

[henkster]

I’ll take a gin & tonic on a yacht at the dock. I don’t have to have the bacon if they have some good kafta.

[Chode]

i’m in!

[Shark24]

Not right at the track but if you go down the street a bit:

http://www.mcgettigans.com/restaurants-in-abu-dhabi/

Excellent pulled pork and BLT sandwiches. Lot’s of beer choices too.

[Cruising Speed]

Keke was simply the coolest. Recall Dallas, the most grueling race ever, half the drivers crashed out, the track came up all over the place, the fans were melting-—at the end Mansell was passed out on the pavement and there was Keke, helmet in one hand, a lit Marlboro in the other, strolling toward the podium like that’s the way it should always be.

[Chode]

100%... first race i saw him run was Can/Am, and i knew he had the hot shoe

[Moltke]

Decision time!

[Chode]

the first turn will be, interesting...

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First free practice results - 2016 Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix

Pos. Driver Team Time Laps
1. L. Hamilton Mercedes 01:42.869 28
2. N. Rosberg Mercedes 01:43.243 31
3. M. Verstappen Red Bull 01:43.297 26
4. D. Ricciardo Red Bull 01:43.362 27
5. S. Vettel Ferrari 01:44.005 27
6. S. Perez Force India 01:44.155 23
7. K. Raikkonen Ferrari 01:44.556 27
8. C. Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso 01:44.685 21
9. F. Massa Williams 01:45.039 27
10. M. Ericsson Sauber 01:45.168 20
11. A. Celis Jr. Force India 01:45.476 26
12. R. Grosjean Haas 01:45.600 13
13. F. Nasr Sauber 01:45.778 17
14. E. Gutiérrez Haas 01:45.925 20
15. V. Bottas Williams 01:45.940 31
16. J. Palmer Renault 01:46.219 33
17. K. Magnussen Renault 01:46.372 21
18. F. Alonso McLaren 01:46.379 21
19. P. Wehrlein Manor 01:46.458 29
20. J. Button McLaren 01:47.127 10
21. J. King Manor 01:47.558 27
22. D. Kvyat Toro Rosso 02:01.989 4

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Second free practice results - 2016 Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix

Pos. Driver Team Time Laps
1. L. Hamilton Mercedes 01:40.861 36
2. N. Rosberg Mercedes 01:40.940 38
3. S. Vettel Ferrari 01:41.130 31
4. M. Verstappen Red Bull 01:41.389 24
5. D. Ricciardo Red Bull 01:41.390 33
6. K. Raikkonen Ferrari 01:41.464 34
7. V. Bottas Williams 01:41.959 35
8. S. Perez Force India 01:42.041 35
9. N. Hulkenberg Force India 01:42.264 36
10. F. Massa Williams 01:42.268 36
11. F. Alonso McLaren 01:42.366 33
12. J. Button McLaren 01:42.823 24
13. E. Gutiérrez Haas 01:43.012 35
14. R. Grosjean Haas 01:43.108 17
15. J. Palmer Renault 01:43.272 33
16. E. Ocon Manor 01:43.600 35
17. P. Wehrlein Manor 01:43.754 33
18. F. Nasr Sauber 01:43.903 36
19. M. Ericsson Sauber 01:44.045 34
20. K. Magnussen Renault 01:44.117 25
21. C. Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso 01:44.478 5
22. D. Kvyat Toro Rosso 01:45.948 4

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Third free practice results - 2016 Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix

Pos. Driver Team Time Laps
1. S. Vettel Ferrari 01:40.775 16
2. M. Verstappen Red Bull 01:40.912 21
3. K. Raikkonen Ferrari 01:40.999 14
4. L. Hamilton Mercedes 01:41.065 15
5. N. Rosberg Mercedes 01:41.168 19
6. D. Ricciardo Red Bull 01:41.831 20
7. S. Perez Force India 01:41.885 19
8. N. Hulkenberg Force India 01:42.067 13
9. V. Bottas Williams 01:42.076 19
10. E. Gutiérrez Haas 01:42.354 16
11. F. Alonso McLaren 01:42.585 14
12. J. Palmer Renault 01:42.616 18
13. J. Button McLaren 01:42.664 15
14. F. Massa Williams 01:42.683 20
15. R. Grosjean Haas 01:42.805 17
16. K. Magnussen Renault 01:43.057 17
17. P. Wehrlein Manor 01:43.145 17
18. C. Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso 01:43.301 10
19. F. Nasr Sauber 01:43.417 22
20. E. Ocon Manor 01:43.733 15
21. D. Kvyat Toro Rosso 01:44.105 13
22. M. Ericsson Sauber 01:44.238 20

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Qualifying results - 2016 Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix

Pos. Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps
1. L. Hamilton Mercedes 01:39.487 01:39.382 01:38.755 12
2. N. Rosberg Mercedes 01:40.511 01:39.490 01:39.058 12
3. D. Ricciardo Red Bull 01:41.002 01:40.429 01:39.589 17
4. K. Raikkonen Ferrari 01:40.338 01:39.629 01:39.604 14
5. S. Vettel Ferrari 01:40.341 01:40.034 01:39.661 14
6. M. Verstappen Red Bull 01:40.424 01:39.903 01:39.818 13
7. N. Hulkenberg Force India 01:41.000 01:40.709 01:40.501 12
8. S. Perez Force India 01:40.864 01:40.743 01:40.519 12
9. F. Alonso McLaren 01:41.616 01:41.044 01:41.106 17
10. F. Massa Williams 01:41.157 01:40.858 01:41.213 15

11. V. Bottas Williams 01:41.192 01:41.084 9
12. J. Button McLaren 01:41.158 01:41.272 14
13. E. Gutiérrez Haas 01:41.639 01:41.480 16
14. R. Grosjean Haas 01:41.467 01:41.564 15
15. J. Palmer Renault 01:41.775 01:41.820 14
16. P. Wehrlein Manor 01:41.886 01:41.995 14

17. D. Kvyat Toro Rosso 01:42.003 9
18. K. Magnussen Renault 01:42.142 6
19. F. Nasr Sauber 01:42.247 8
20. E. Ocon Manor 01:42.286 8
21. C. Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso 01:42.393 9
22. M. Ericsson Sauber 01:42.637 8

[Chode]

what are the odds Nico will take Hammy out in the first turn???

[Moltke]

Aww, man, don’t even go there...;-)

All Rosberg has to do is stay on Hamilton’s tail to clinch it. Hope he tries to go for the win anyway, to make it a bit more exciting. All fair and square, of course.

[Moltke]

at the end Mansell was passed out on the pavement

It's been ages, but I recall a race where they had to lift Mansell out of the cockpit, he was that beat. Was that Dallas, or just SOP for him in the later days?

[Chode]

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2015/10/9-reasons-why-the-84-dallas-grand-prix-was-one-of-the-wildest-ra.html

4. Nigel Mansell passed out trying to push his car across the line

“This is the toughest place I’ve ever been to, without a doubt,” Nigel Mansell had said on the Friday in Dallas - but little did he know how much tougher his weekend was going to get. After qualifying his Lotus on pole, the determined Englishman shot into the lead at the start of the race and doggedly held the advantage until Rosberg squeezed past. It was from that point that Mansell’s race began to unravel. A couple of laps later he clipped a wall, a mistake which not only necessitated a tyre change - dropping him to fifth - but which quite probably led to the gear linkage problem which brought his black and gold machine to an agonising halt within sight of the finish. Instinctively Mansell leapt from his cockpit and, in a moment of incredible, almost irrational single-mindedness, tried to push his car across the line. But exhausted and dehydrated from toiling for nearly two hours in the blazing heat, the future world champion was always fighting an uphill battle and within a matter of metres collapsed dramatically to the ground. “I was so angry, I just kept pushing,” Mansell would later explain. “Then the lights went out and I woke up in hospital, on a drip in a bed packed with ice...”

[Moltke]

Thanks for the history - have to say I wasn’t following F1 back in ‘84.

I guess I was thinking about his last stint with McLaren in ‘95. Where they had to “build a bigger car” for him to fit in...sort of recall him being lifted out of the cockpit after one race.

[Chode]

guess i remember something like that but i can’t put my finger on it right now