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.
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:
Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
Surprise: Kimi Räikkönen. Leave him alone he knows what he's doing!
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
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.
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| 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.
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| Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton when they were younger. |
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:
- Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
- Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes
- 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
