F1 2021: Abu Dhabi GP - Yas Marina (Dec 12)

[paulo_f80m3]

It's advantage Hamilton. Max is starting on the wrong tire. Towards the end of the race Lewis will catch him and pass. I just don't see max holding him off with his older power unit. But who knows. We will see tomorrow.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Killed by Death

‘My wife will be more emotional than me’ says Raikkonen ahead of his final F1 appearance.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...Ess2exWvI.html

Love the tribute livery

"Dear Kimi, we will leave you alone now"

Mate . It's been changed !

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

MAX is born 14 miles from me ...

The latest is that dumbo sky has said sorry to Max and RB for posting that disgusting silverstone clip.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

And what has BOT done in his whole Mercedes career ?

My friend you're killing me softly with that one, can't get up lol

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

My friend you're killing me softly with that one, can't get up lol

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by StatenEye

Yea hate*... Why do you hate him so intensely?

I support Max and RB, don't bring that old chestnut into it.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by StatenEye

Double?

Yes double the distance to what Max was born from my friend, do keep up mate.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by StatenEye

Yea hate*... Why do you hate him so intensely?

Because HAM loves J. Bieber ! And HAM bought a wedding dress ..

[Wakka]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Throughout FP3 BOT was apparently used as a tow for HAM and HAM also looked elsewhere for a tow. But some laps had to be aborted. The best time of FP3 was with a tow. For sure we will see Mercedes using BOT as a tow for getting HAM to P1 during Q3.

Horner said that Red Bull have been experimenting again with fuel loads.

For sure… Perez gave max a tow.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Because HAM loves J. Bieber ! And HAM bought a wedding dress ..

Oooooooh I would never have thought it

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

The latest is that dumbo sky has said sorry to Max and RB for posting that disgusting silverstone clip.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Artemis

A mistake ? Yeah ...my A$$ !

[Killed by Death]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Oh I agree but lo and behold someone will think I hate him for thinking that oh F*

Exactly, kinda hard to hate someone you don't know

[Bubbles]

Bottas qualifying so low down the grid is interesting.

Maybe he doesn’t want to get involved in the title and it was a final one finger salute to Merc

Or

Merc plans to keep Bottas to go long with enough straight line speed to slow Max after his first pit?


Hammy gets Abu Dhabi tuned exhaust for rocket ship. Bottas gets a new gearbox.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by E92inPHX

Lewis definitely has the upper hand tomorrow with the tire situation, hopefully Max doesn’t try anything dirty with the tire disadvantage and we get a clean race. Shame that Max flat spotted his mediums during Q2 and they had to put him on softs. I wonder how many laps were on his other medium set and if they could’ve used that instead.

Hopefully Hammy doesn’t try to Silverstone Max again and we have a good race.

Hammy quote after the race: “this title is closely contested and I was giving it my all, I had a hard time getting the temp in the medium tires and I tried my best to race fair. Fans have supported me all year and Max has always raced me hard. He did a good job this year but we [MERC] did better in the second half of the season. I couldn’t have done it without the fans’ support. Thank you to my fans and my team. This means so much to me, something I trained my whole life for!”

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

So apparently Norris is "a bit nervous" about the start and doesn't want to mingle in the WDC.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/n...ilton/6874524/

This means Toto called him not to intervene in the start although he is on the faster red tyres.....

Any self respecting race car driver looks at his own performance and results first and not at battles that others do with eachother.
Can you imagine in the past drivers like Senna or Schumacher saying this?!?

Lando may be the least emotionally mature member of the grid. Stroll may give him a run for his money.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Oooooooh I would never have thought it

Check this out my friend !!!
You "REALLY" should read this , in Dutch => https://www.gptoday.net/nl/nieuws/f1...r-in-abu-dhabi

In short :
HONDA Japan and Red Bull Powertrains have for this last race of the season refurbished MAX's HONDA PU .
Currently It's still unclear if it is MAX's spec. 3 or 4 HONDA PU , but everything went according the FIA regulations .

Interesting fact is that HAM and MAX ran today during the QF's with the PU's at 120 % !
It's very clear that MAX's refurbished HONDA PU is the antidote for HAM's ROCKETSHIP !
On the other hand : MAX was forced to run with softs and a tow to beat HAM , that's how fast HAM's Rocketship really is !

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by E92inPHX

Yes but I think Max is the more desperate of the two here with Lewis clearly having the better pace the past few races and the tire advantage. If they both DNF and the stewards don’t act its Max’s title.

It’s likely the other way around. Hammy’s best shot at 8WDC is this year. He doesn’t want to go out losing in the hybrid era. Toto echos this for his team.

Max just started his career.

[GuidoK]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Because HAM loves J. Bieber ! And HAM bought a wedding dress ..

And because HAM has multiple times blamed his team when he wasn't as fast as he should have been.
And because HAM decided to sue a watch company named Hamilton (existing for over 130 years under that name I kid you not....) because his name is also Hamilton...(that to me is pretty much the summum of megalomania....). Obviously he lost, the judges weren't impressed....

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Check this out my friend !!!
You "REALLY" should read this , in Dutch => https://www.gptoday.net/nl/nieuws/f1...r-in-abu-dhabi

In short :
HONDA Japan and Red Bull Powertrains have for this last race of the season refurbished MAX's HONDA PU .
Currently It's still unclear if it is MAX's spec. 3 or 4 HONDA PU , but everything went according the FIA regulations .

Interesting fact is that HAM and MAX ran today during the QF's with the PU's at 120 % !
It's very clear that MAX's refurbished HONDA PU is the antidote for HAM's ROCKETSHIP !
On the other hand : MAX was forced to run with softs and a tow to beat HAM , that's how fast the Mercedes Rocketship really is !

Based on the data, acceleration in the straights was much closer today than it has been over the last 6 races. Maybe Merc started the refurbishment process post Silverstone and RBR finally got wise to it and replicated it for their PUs.

[FormulaMMM]

Originally Posted by Bubbles

Bottas qualifying so low down the grid is interesting.

Maybe he doesn’t want to get involved in the title and it was a final one finger salute to Merc

Or

Merc plans to keep Bottas to go long with enough straight line speed to slow Max after his first pit?


Hammy gets Abu Dhabi tuned exhaust for rocket ship.

Bottas being Bottas. He's flamed out.

Other than Max's GB DNF, he's finished ahead of / taken points away from VER once this year? Lame given the equipment.

Merc should have put RUS in the car at some point this season to help HAM secure the championship. Give him a head start on next year, with the directive you're racing VER not HAM.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

And because HAM has multiple times blamed his team when he wasn't as fast as he should have been.
And because HAM decided to sue a watch company named Hamilton (existing for over 130 years under that name I kid you not....) because his name is also Hamilton...(that to me is pretty much the summum of megalomania....). Obviously he lost, the judges weren't impressed....

That can’t be true, no way.