Abu Dhabi update
source https://www.essentiallysports.com/wp-co ... 2016-c.pngThe Abu Dhabi FINALE is finally here and what a historic year in F1 we have witnessed with not one but two 4x champions battling it out for a 5th title. After an excruciating 21 race calendar both championships have already been clinched before the final race, so now it’s all about bragging rights, who will be victorious??
In practice Redbull topped the charts early on. The Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas then topped fp2 by a hair over Max Verstappen but in fp3 it was Hamilton who topped the charts ahead of the iceman Kimi Raikkonen.
Heading into qualifying all eyes were on Lewis Hamilton who didn’t seem to comfortable with his car and wasnt happy with the car it seemed at times. On the other hand Sebastian Vettel was moving along quite nicely setting a solid time of 1:35.125 but was then was shown some break neck speed by Lewis Hamilton who set a blistering 1:34.794 taking all the wind out of the Ferrari sail once again.
At lights out we had yet another Mercedes front row lock out with both Ferrari and Redbull side by side. After a very strange collision between Hulkenberg and Grosjean which saw the hulk retire. Upfront Hamilton lead the way but pitted surprisingly early during vsc handing the lead over to his teammate Valtteri Bottas. After the front runners pitted the smiling assassin Daniel Riccardo was pounding out some good laps on a long stint of the ultra soft tires on his final farewell to Redbull racing. As the racing continued it became a race of attrition as one by one we saw Räikkönen, Ericsson, ocon and Gasly’s engines all go bang with multiple failures across the board leaving us to wonder who’s next????
In the final stint of the race we saw bottas struggle with grip allowing vettel to snatch 2nd followed by an aggressive dash on the inside by mad max for 3rd as bottas stumbled down the order. Hamilton up front nursing some very old tires held off the chasing pack and wins the final GP of the season.
With the last race of the season you guys didn’t disappoint with the highest top 4 scores in 1 round being posted!!!!!
Congratulations to Ernie_f1 aka F1_Ernie for winning the Abu Dhabi GP 
Race results as follows
🥇° Ernie_f1 170
🥈° Suit Up Racing 100
🥉° KimiforWDC 97
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