Poll: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2020, Yas Island - Race 17/17

Rate the 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix out of ten

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clv101 said:
I was surprised to see him push so hard in a 15 year old machine. Surely it's not as 'tough' as it was factory fresh? Carbon fibre doesn't always age well, and the engine itself... well they weren't super reliable brand new and presumably this one has a few GP under it's belt already, plus they aren't making spare parts any more. Another few dozen laps like that and it'd let go? Or has it been significantly detuned now?
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Generally these historic/retro F1 cars are extremely well maintained. The engine in that Renault (for an F1 engine) was also made in significant numbers, so parts availability is not as bad as you might initially think.

You should see what VSCC events are like, with vehicles significantly older and rarer than this - they really don't take it easy.
 
Mr Jack said:
I think he'll continue to disappoint. I expect Stroll to finish ahead of him. But I hope you're right and I'm wrong.
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On his day, Stroll has a decent turn of speed. He's just not consistent enough and has trouble managing tyre life. I'm expecting Stroll to marginally win the quali battle next year, but Vettel to finish better in most races.

I don't believe the RP/Aston will be anywhere near as strong next year though. Next year they won't have the technical help from Merc and will have to develop that car themselves so they are only going to fall back in to the clutches of McLaren and Renault.
 
Dull as ditchwater, though I did enjoy Verstappen doing a Hamilton and disappearing into the distance from the start.

Would have been more impressive if Hamilton had been match fit as he looked utterly knackered after the race and Yas Marina isn’t the most demanding track.

Albon’s toast, isn’t he? Too little too late. Fully expect Perez to get the RB second drive next year.
 
GravyMonster said:
On his day, Stroll has a decent turn of speed. He's just not consistent enough and has trouble managing tyre life. I'm expecting Stroll to marginally win the quali battle next year, but Vettel to finish better in most races.

I don't believe the RP/Aston will be anywhere near as strong next year though. Next year they won't have the technical help from Merc and will have to develop that car themselves so they are only going to fall back in to the clutches of McLaren and Renault.
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We thought that this year too with McLaren and Renault overhauling them as they were out-developed, yet of late Racing Point (well Perez) have been brilliant and more often than not the 4th fastest combination after the two Mercedes and Verstappen.

Still, I don't expect Aston to be as strong next year. Wind tunnel work on the 2022 cars can start in a couple of weeks and according to Racing Point themselves their whole reasoning behind copying the Mercedes was to allow them more time and freedom in developing that. Mind you, a similar philosophy bit BMW on the arse when they abandoned their chance of a 2008 title in favour of starting work early on their 2009 electrocuting failure.

As for Stroll, he was very good in races last season, often finding himself ahead of Perez despite his terrible qualifying efforts. He's had some bad luck this year and struggled particularly after his positive COVID-19 test (whether relevant or not), but largely as the team has moved up the grid Perez managed to get a good handle on it while Stroll was rather found out among stronger opposition.

A poor season, but the reset will help him. It will be interesting to see how he gets on with a hopefully more relaxed Vettel, who he'd do well to try to draw on the experience of if he's ever to earn decent respect at the sharper end of the grid.
 
Malevolence said:
What's the point of 'night races' if they just light the track up so it looks like the middle of the day? Lets get proper night races going with lights on the cars. Pretty sure the F! engineers can come up with a lightweight, standardised solution for lights that can be used across all teams.
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It's to do with making the live race at a time that European fans will watch it. Even less people are going to watch it if it happens in the dark and all you can see are lights rushing around.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
Albon’s toast, isn’t he? Too little too late. Fully expect Perez to get the RB second drive next year.
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If it hadn't been for that early safety car where everyone got a free pit stop, Red Bull would have likely lost that race (especially if Hamilton had been even vaguely fit enough to drive to the fullest of his ability). With Albon in the wind and unable to support Verstappen, Mercedes would have sent one car long in order to go for fresh rubber at the end, and pitted the other car early to undercut Verstappen during the pit stops, and one or other car would have had a good chance of getting the lead.

Albon just doesn't contribute anything to the team effort, and Red Bull don't seem to care because they are so focussed on Verstappen as their golden child. Verstappen got lucky at a track with no overtaking, against a sickly Hamilton, at the last race when Mercedes stopped car development half a season ago, with Albon just filling dead man's shoes. Overall, that was not an encouraging race win.
 
Mr Jack said:
I think he'll continue to disappoint. I expect Stroll to finish ahead of him. But I hope you're right and I'm wrong.
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One of us will be right I suppose. Wasn't a big Vettel fan but, think the man has class now.

Watch Aston Martin be a backmarker now we have said this!
 
So many emotions listening to that.

I'll miss Norris and Sainz, though Norris and Ricciardo ought to be something else! Obviously Andreas Seidl thought "I am an emotionless robot and I must stay that way".

However you rate him on the track, Seb is such a great guy off it. Aside from the radio above, there's the below which I haven't seen posted here yet:
 
Couldn’t watch the race, too much Christmas stuff going on. Doesn’t seem like I missed much.

Just wanted to say massive thanks to @Shimmy for all the threads again this season, great work as always.

Already looking forward to the next race.
 
EVH said:
0.01% of people have died from COVID.
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The population infection fatality rate is around 1%, much less for someone his age...

But in any event, is was a poor call to race. Would have been better for him, Russell and F1 in general if he'd taken another week's rest.
 
clv101 said:
But in any event, is was a poor call to race. Would have been better for him, Russell and F1 in general if he'd taken another week's rest.
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I've been thinking about Russell's race for Mercedes.. He proved he's got what it takes and probably would have won the race if the team didn't screw up,
but we must remember that it was a new circuit, and both Max and Charles crashed out on the first lap, also Perez had to pit putting him to the back of the grid,

If Russell had raced the following week he would have needed to win to improve his stock over what he did the week before,
there's a chance it could have backfired,
so although i'd love to have seen him give it another go, i think he came out of it just fine by only racing the once
 
Did I say that? No.

There have been a total of 78.7M confirmed cases and 1.73M deaths. That’s a rate of 0.02%.

Given that F1 drivers lose kilograms of weight per race due to dehydration, I’m sure his body was comfortably able to handle 4KG of weight (a shade over half a stone) and I’m doubly sure he’s going to be back to full health soon.

My original point being, there’s nothing “lucky” about it, he was at very little risk of death given his age and the number of deaths is quite honestly low, albeit tragic.

Make another comment like that about me personally and you won’t be posting in here anymore.
 
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