Abu Dhabi GP 2012

Wow! what a race that was!

Sadly for Hamilton his car gave up on him while he was leading the race, i think he will be looking forward to having a more reliable car next year in Mercedes.

Kimi finally took a race win, it was funny hearing the ice man on the radio telling the Team to shut up and let him drive!

Alonso run pretty much flawless and has been amazingly consistent and calm throughout the whole season.

Amazing performance by Sebastian Vettel, having started from the pit lane due to yesterdays penalty, he battled his way up to 3rd place.

For me this has been the best race of the season, lets wait and see what the 2 remaining races bring to the table.

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, results:
Leading Positions after Race (55 Laps)

1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus F1 Team 1hr 45min 58.667secs
2 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:45:59.519
3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1:46:02.830
4 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren 1:46:06.454
5 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams 1:46:11.674
6 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari 1:46:18.743
7 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1:46:21.563
8 Bruno Senna (Bra) Williams 1:46:22.209
9 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India 1:46:22.827
10 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:46:26.130
11 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:46:26.742
12 Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:46:33.573
13 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Caterham 1:46:46.431
14 Timo Glock (Ger) Marussia 1:46:55.140
15 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 1:46:55.435
16 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Caterham 1:47:03.262
17 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) HRT-F1 1:47:10.445

Not Classified:
18 Charles Pic (Fra) Marussia 41 Laps completed
19 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Lotus F1 Team 37 Laps completed
20 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 37 Laps completed
21 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 19 Laps completed
22 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-F1 7 Laps completed
23 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 7 Laps completed
24 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Force India 0 Laps completed

 

Such an awesome race, Hamilton probably would have won if his car didn't die on him but Vettel finishing third after starting on pit lane? wow, super impressive!

 

 

Well, his from Finland, my mother in law is also from Finland, what can I say

 

Gotta love how he apologized for Vettel's comments on the podium with the cover up English isn't his first language hahah!

 

Here's a great recap of the race btw -> Formula 1

 

Best race of the year! Second to only Valencia. Kimi's radio responses were epic funny too.

 

If you watched the race, only impressive thing he did was passing button at turn 13.

 

...yeah yeah yeah, I watched the entire race. I am a Jenson fan so I was hoping to see more from him but he did need a tire change, or so they said.

BTW how lucky was Nico here, fast forward to 1:30 or so

 

Button did a great job with older tires...that battle showed, at least to me, amongst the sea of Seb fans that Seb's racecraft is just not up there. He had the clear car advantage, tire advantage & adjusted top speed gear ratio advantage from his penalty the day before but he just couldn't get by button for the longest time who I will point out had been having traction issues on the softs ever since qualy.

I feel for Narain, and Rosberg couldn't react quickly enough to avoid him unfortunately. Glad to see both of them walk away.