So, we finally made it. 259 days ago the lights went off and the season kicked off in Melbourne. Today is the season final in Abu Dhabi. And not much is into play. The most important question is whether cash-stricken Lotus can hold off Toro Rosso for the important 6th place in the WCC and which Finn will win end up the season in 4th. It will be also interesting to see whether Rosberg can continue his recent positive run. And hey, there is always at least one reason to watch the Abu Dhabi GP
Starting grid
- Rosberg
- Hamilton
- Raikkonen
- Perez
- Ricciardo
- Bottas
- Hulkenberg
- Massa
- Kvyat
- Sainz
- Verstappen
- Button
- Maldonado
- Nasr
- Vettel
- Alonso
- Ericsson
- Merhi
- Stevens
- Grosjean
Circuit
Race facts
Circuit length: 5.554 km
Laps: 55
Race distance: 305.355 km
Lap record: 1:40.269 (Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 2009)
Full throttle: 59 %
Braking zones: 12
Braking: 18 %
Brake wear: high
Tyre wear: medium/low
Fuel consumption: high
Overtaking: difficult
Pitstop window: 23 seconds
Safety car likehood: 40 %
Distance pole to turn 1: 278 m
Pole conversation: 16.67 %
Wins from: 2nd (4), 1st (1), 4th (1)
Winners drivers: Vettel (3), Hamilton (2), Raikkonen (1)
Winners teams: Red Bull (3), McLaren (1), Mercedes (1), Lotus (1)
Winners engine: Renault (4), Mercedes (2)
Pirelli
-tyres: soft/super soft
-most likely strategy: supersoft - soft (10) - soft (32)
-theoretically the fastest strategy (depends on traffic): supersoft - soft (7) - soft (23) - soft (39)
Top speeds
- Bottas 338.1
- Massa 336.9
- Hulkenberg 335.1
- Hamilton 335.0
- Perez 334.4
- Maldonado 334.3
- Nasr 334.0
- Vettel 333.9
- Ericsson 332.5
- Raikkonen 332.3
- Rosberg 332.1
- Grosjean 331.6
- Verstappen 323.4
- Sainz 322.9
- Kvyat 321.4
- Merhi 321.3
- Stevens 318.3
- Ricciardo 318.0
- Alonso 311.3
- Button 310.2
Weather forecast: Well, even ubimet doesnt care, it seems....temperatures around 26C are expected and no rain
FP2 long runs
Soft
Rosberg 46.841 (7 laps)
Vettel 47.366 (12 laps)
Ricciardo 47.373 (8 laps)
Hamilton 47.578 (9 laps)
Bottas 48.058 (6 laps)
Kvyat 48.119 (8 laps)
Massa 49.015 (13 laps)
Verstappen 49.050 (7 laps)
Maldonado 49.395 (14 laps)
Perez 49.495 (6 laps)
Hulkenberg 49.535 (6 laps)
Nasr 49.587 (6 laps)
Button 50.065 (8 laps)
Supersoft
Hamilton 47.500 (4 laps)
Kvyat 47.615 (6 laps)
Rosberg 47.655 (11 laps)
Bottas 47.928 (5 laps)
Sainz 48.049 (5 laps)
Maldonado 48.083 (5 laps)
Raikkonen 48.129 (16 laps)
Ricciardo 48.297 (11 laps)
Verstappen 48.478 (12 laps)
Hulkenberg 48.650 (10 laps)
Grosjean 48.704 (6 laps)
Button 49.962 (5 laos)
Alonso 50.365 (9 laps)
Track limits
- Any car which uses a part of the areas behind the apex of turns 6, 9 or 12, and which is suspected of gaining any sort of advantage from doing so, will be immediately reported to the Stewards.
- If two cars are close to each other entering turn 8 and, by cutting behind the apex of turn 9, the leading one re-joins the track with a greater lead over the following car he will be reported to the stewards as having gained an advantage by leaving the track. This will apply whether or not the advantage gained had any influence upon the operation of the DRS by the driver in the following car.
- If two cars are close to each other entering turn 8 and, by cutting behind the apex of turn 9, the following one re-joins the track within DRS detection distance of the leading car that driver may not deploy his DRS in the following activation sector. Any driver seen to be using his DRS under these circumstances will be reported to the stewards as having gained an advantage by leaving the track.
Live timings
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Live chat
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Greetings to the guys who will watch todays race together in the Jetlag bar
And hey, 85 days to go until the first pre season testing day and 112 days until Melbourne....
Edited by Marklar, 29 November 2015 - 11:18.