2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Best Of Team Radio

2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Race Highlights

2017 Final Driver Standings

2017 Final Constructors Standings

2017 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - RACE

2017 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - QUALIFYING

2017 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - PRACTICE 3

2017 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - PRACTICE 2

2017 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - PRACTICE 1

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2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Fast Facts

2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix preview

Wow! The season's final race is almost here. A little while ago we were all waiting for the season to start and now it's almost over! Time flies when we are having fun.

Not much to say about Abu Dhabi so I will talk about the same things as last year:

The Yas Marina track has hosted the Abu Dhabi GP 8 times in it's history. The facilities are one of the best in the world at least for me as a spectator. It is the only GP that has daylight and darkness in the same race.

In 2010 Sebastian Vettel won his first world championship when Alonso couldn't get pass Vitaly Petrov. It was one of the most moving moments of Vettel's career when he cried on the podium.

After winning his first championship in 2010.

In 2011 he had already won the championship when the Formula One circus returned to Abu Dhabi. That race he retired right after the start and the whole crowd in Abu Dhabi cheered. The sound was quite loud, trust me, I was there.

In 2012 Sebastian started from the back of the grid but managed to get 3rd place. Alonso was second and Kimi Räikkönen took the maiden victory for the new Team Lotus. Everybody remembers the classic radio conversations between Kimi and Alan Permane.

Here is a video with the radio conversations:

They made t-shirts of Kimi's comments.

In 2013 Sebastian Vettel had already secured his championship before Abu Dhabi. In 2014 the story was different - it was between two friends, teammates and almost brothers, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton when they were younger.

In 2015 Hamilton had secured the championship already but Rosberg had been beating him in the past five qualifyings and the past two races. Rosberg continued to beat Hamilton in Abu Dhabi.

In 2016 Rosberg was in the championship lead but 2nd in the race. Hamilton was in the lead and tried to slow down so that the cars behind them could possibly overtake Rosberg and help Hamilton. Mercedes was furious about this and even considered to kick Hamilton out of the team. When the race was over we got a new F1 champion (Rosberg) and later on he announced that he will retire from the sport. Valtteri Bottas took his place as I had said years earlier if we would be in a situation like this. Of course now nobody remembers what I said... they just thought I was crazy when I said it.

This year Hamilton is already champion but we might still get a great final race. I am also going there for the third time and I am very excited!


Now let's see my predictions:

Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

Race:

1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
2. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes
3. Max Verstappen, Red Bull

Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

Surprise: Kimi Räikkönen. Leave him alone he knows what he's doing!

Post your own predictions to our F1-4-LIFE PREDICTORS LEAGUE!

The rules:

POINTS:  1st - 3  2nd - 5  3rd - 10 

HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. If you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points same if you get 1 correct. eg. 2nd you get 5 points. If a driver wins the race and you said he would come 2nd or 3rd no points would be awarded. Same if he came in another position, and you predicted that wrong. A table will be posted up every race weekend. The point scoring system will change once the cars become more competitive. Everyone will say a merc 1,2 so it won't be close or fun. 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick! like the Mercedes. 

THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MW, MH, JI, PM and DL. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway. We may also come up with some other prize if it helps. 

That's it for today and if you want to send me feedback then email me: f14lifeblog@gmail.com

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2017 PREDICTORS LEAGUE standings after the Brazilian GP

1. James Redman - 177 points

2. AE (F1-4-LIFE) - 159 points

3. Larry Gallagher - 91 points

4. JT (F1-4-LIFE) - 72 points

5. Vitor Lobo - 65 points

6. Alexandre Langlois - 10 points

7. Leonardo Machado - 3 points

(The ones who have not scored points are not on the list)

Come onboard in the next GP if you want to be a part of our league!

POINTS: 1st - 3
2nd - 5
3rd - 10

+ possible bonus points

HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. For example if you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick!

THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MW, MH, JI & PM. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway.

2017 Brazilian Grand Prix review

Before the race start I said that the man who leads after the first corners will win the race. When the race started I saw that Valtteri Bottas had a little better start than Sebastian Vettel but lost the position in the first corner. Bottas tried to challenge Vettel a few times for the lead but was unsuccessful.

We saw a few crashes on the first lap as well. Stoffel Vandoorne, Kevin Magnussen and Daniel Ricciardo were in a small sandwich but the Aussie was able to continue even though he dropped to the back. We also saw Esteban Ocon and Romain Grosjean crash into each other. It was Ocon's first retirement in Formula One! 27 finishes in a row. What a long streak for a rookie! Grosjean was able to continue after the crash and got a penalty for it later on.

The safety car was deployed and Bottas continued to hunt down Vettel. It seemed that it was not easy so easy so Mercedes decided to pit Bottas and do an undercut. They lost by half a second and Vettel remained in the lead.

On lap 44 the car number 44 (Lewis Hamilton) pitted from the lead even though he had started from the pit lane. Absolutely fantastic drive! The pitstop obviously made him drop to 5th place but it didn't take long for Hamilton to overtake Max Verstappen for 4th. He even tried to challenge Kimi Räikkönen for 3rd place but the Iceman told the press that he wasn't worried about Hamilton.

In the and they cross the finish line in that same order and Hamilton was chosen by the fans to be the driver of the day and I couldn't have agreed more.

Here are my predictions and the results:

Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. The other Merc (Bottas) took pole.

Race:

1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. Vettel won the race and Hamilton was 4th.
2. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes - CORRECT
3. Max Verstappen, Red Bull - WRONG. Räikkönen was 3rd and Verstappen was 5th

Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. Verstappen was fastest.

Surprise: Felipe Massa will have a great weekend - CORRECT! I bet he was much happier with this year's home GP.

Post your own predictions to our F1-4-LIFE PREDICTORS LEAGUE!

The rules:

POINTS:  1st - 3  2nd - 5  3rd - 10 

HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. If you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points same if you get 1 correct. eg. 2nd you get 5 points. If a driver wins the race and you said he would come 2nd or 3rd no points would be awarded. Same if he came in another position, and you predicted that wrong. A table will be posted up every race weekend. The point scoring system will change once the cars become more competitive. Everyone will say a merc 1,2 so it won't be close or fun. 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick! like the Mercedes. 

THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MW, MH, JI and PM. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway. We may also come up with some other prize if it helps. 

That's it for today and if you want to send me feedback then email me: f14lifeblog@gmail.com

2017 Driver Standings after the Brazilian GP

2017 Constructors Standings after the Brazilian GP

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FORMULA 1 GRANDE PRÊMIO HEINEKEN DO BRASIL 2017 - PRACTICE 2

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2017 Brazilian Grand Prix preview

The 2003 Brazilian GP was slippery.

How many can remember the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2003 when most of the cars retired the race and Alonso was taken to the hospital? Let's hope nothing like that happens.

When the 2003 race at Interlagos was red flagged there was only two men on the podium: Kimi Räikkönen and Giancarlo Fisichella. Kimi stood on first place, Fisi on the second and Alonso was supposed to be standing on third place but was forced to go to the hospital after the crash that ended the race.

At the next Grand Prix Kimi had to give his number one trophy from Brazil to Fisi because the race control changed the results after the race. There was so much going on that they didn't even know who had won the race when it was stopped. If Kimi had kept his 1st place he would have been world champion in 2003.

Here is a video with a few highlights of the race:

Last year Lewis Hamilton won the race. Take a look at last year's results:

I am pretty sure the top3 will have the Mercs and a Red Bull up there this year.

Here are my predictions:

Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

Race:

1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
2. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes
3. Max Verstappen, Red Bull

Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

Surprise: Felipe Massa will have a great weekend.

Post your own predictions to our F1-4-LIFE PREDICTORS LEAGUE!

The rules:

POINTS:  1st - 3  2nd - 5  3rd - 10 

HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. If you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points same if you get 1 correct. eg. 2nd you get 5 points. If a driver wins the race and you said he would come 2nd or 3rd no points would be awarded. Same if he came in another position, and you predicted that wrong. A table will be posted up every race weekend. The point scoring system will change once the cars become more competitive. Everyone will say a merc 1,2 so it won't be close or fun. 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick! like the Mercedes. 

THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MW, MH, JI and PM. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway. We may also come up with some other prize if it helps. 

That's it for today and if you want to send me feedback then email me: f14lifeblog@gmail.com

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