Lewis Hamilton the tenth victory of the season, he has been known to worse than any abandonment. The briton took the race in Abu Dhabi, but his companion Nico Rosberg the title of world champion. The second place was enough to clinch the championship, despite Sebastian Vettel that he was about to give the surprise.
Mess from the start
Max Verstappen she starred in the only incident destacablede the output when in the third curve he lost control of his Red Bull and trompeó. That forced him to climb from the bottom of the stroke, which is always a guarantee of performance: at lap 5 he was already 13 and 10 (in the middle of pit stops), 2nd. Also your companion (19459005] Daniel Ricciardo went wrong, because he could not resist the third square grill Kimi Räikkönen. Other riders were also affected by a touch, as was the case of Kevin Magnussen that had to change the nose of his Renault. The Danish left a few laps after, laid off from the factory in Enstone with a bitter taste.
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Ferrari led the singing voice in the pit stops, to the point that its two pilots estorbaron to the Mercedes. Both Hamilton as Rosberg’s had a few stops slightly slow because of Raikkonen and Vettel came in to change his tyres at the same time.
Bitter farewell Button
Saturday already barruntaba that the strategy to contrapie of the Red Bull could give problems to Mercedes, and after the first change of tyres saw Verstappen putting in danger his podium, Petrov at this same stage in 2010. To Rosberg, he was told not to take any risk: he was still champion at that time.
behind, Jenson Button saw how McLaren left him lying in his last race in Formula 1 by the breakage of the front suspension right. Tears in the box of the team uk and in the stands in honor of the world champion 2009.
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In the following lap, Daniil Kvyat was forced to leave his Toro Rosso pulled in a lateral, because the gearbox said ‘enough’. The image of the Russian getting back on a bike was sufficiently eloquent as to summarize a season quite surreal for him.
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Time is “critical” for Rosberg
The bet Verstappen to stay on track until you reach the window just a stop forced the Mercedes to move. They warned Rosberg that it was “critical” that adelantase the Dutch at that time because it provided that I could give you problems at the end of the race.
Said and done: the German threw all the arrest that is expected of a pilot who aspires to the world championship of Formula 1 and threw off the Red Bull, in an overtaking to the limit, almost with a touch between both.
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Despite the fact that Verstappen was ahead, Rosberg ended his fight there: he was ordered to tighten even more to get to Lewis Hamilton, which until now had not had any problems.
Hamilton puts a song slow
Mercedes will not be played, nor a minimum. From the box they nailed the strategy with its two pilots, and led with two stops-the perfect pit (last forecasted year) in the absence of 25 turns to the end. The strategy of Hamilton from that point, you’ve seen that in the pit lane, nothing happened, went to be get nervous to Rosberg. Started to slow down the pace of the test to the point that their engineers asked for explanations: “why are you going so slow?”. Silence for an answer.
The thrill is moved back. Sebastian Vettel he stretched out the most of his second pit stop to get to the end with superblandos, that a priori you could give it some advantage in the face of a hypothetical car security with respect to the Red Bull and even Mercedes.
Sainz says goodbye to the fault of Palmer
Carlos Sainz left ten laps to the end because of Jolyon Palmer. The renewed pilot of Renault took place when Ricciardo was doubling both of them, and broke the gearbox to touch the rear. The five-second penalty at the british deprived them of their attempts
times Table Race Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi
Pos. | Piloto | Dorsal | Equipo | Tiempo | Laps |
1 | ![]() |
44 | Mercedes | GANADOR | 55 |
2 | ![]() |
6 | Mercedes | +0.439 | 55 |
3 | ![]() |
5 | Ferrari | +0.843 | 55 |
4 | ![]() |
33 | Network Bull | +1.685 | 55 |
5 | ![]() |
3 | Network Bull | +5.315 | 55 |
6 | ![]() |
7 | Ferrari | +18.816 | 55 |
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27 | Force India | +50.114 | 55 |
8 | ![]() |
11 | Force India | +58.776 | 55 |
9 | ![]() |
19 | Williams | +59.436 | 55 |
10 | ![]() |
14 | McLaren | +59.896 | 55 |
11 | ![]() |
8 | Haas F1 Team | +76.777 | 55 |
12 | ![]() |
21 | Haas F1 Team | +95.113 | 55 |
13 | ![]() |
31 | Manor F1 | +1L | 54 |
14 | ![]() |
94 | Manor F1 | +1L | 54 |
15 | ![]() |
9 | Sauber | +1L | 54 |
16 | ![]() |
12 | Sauber | +1L | 54 |
17 | ![]() |
30 | Renault | +1L | 54 |
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55 | Toro Rosso | 0 | |
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26 | Toro Rosso | 0 | |
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22 | McLaren | 0 | |
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77 | Williams | 0 | |
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20 | Renault | 0 |
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