ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2022

End of the 2022 season already! Being back here reminds me so strongly of the drama of last year when Max won his first world title!

Qualifying

• out in Q1: Kevin, Gasly, Bottas, Albon and Latifi

• Out in q2: Alonso, Tsunoda, Lil Schu, Stroll, Zhou

• So seb is in Q3 for his last qualifying!

• Max was supposed to be behind Perez on the track for slipstreaming but Max had a problem and couldn’t get out of the garage and it hurt them not getting on track

• Max on pole, Sergio second, Charles third, then Sainz, Hamilton, Russell

• Everyone is chanting "checo" during the post race interviews?

Race

• wait what the heck, it’s daytime for this race? It’s supposed to be night?

• Seb’s last race today and I am sad about it

• They changed the little title sequence for this one to feature Seb last

• Some more of the crowd changing "checo" today?

• Max keeps the lead

• Hamilton goes after Charles for third and then Sainz forces him off track to pass him and basically launches Hamilton in the air. They investigate, rule no further investigation, they just say they noted it

• They make hamilton give place back to Sainz but he takes it back right away and then Sainz does pass him fair and square again

• Hamilton has to give the position back

• 9/58 GEORGE Russell passes Hamilton for fifth fair and square

• Hamilton has a problem with his car and is dropping lap time

• Hamilton is also getting reprimanded for track limits lol

• George pits and then it was a messy one and looks like an unsafe release into Lando so

• Perez has a messy rejoin after his pit stop and gets stuck behind Seb

• George Russell has five second time penalty for unsafe release

• Vettel has a bad pit stop and has to slam the brakes on before the end of the pit lane so as to not speed and we think it will be his last one in f1 ever

• 28/58 Alonso retires the car for mechanical issues for his last race in Alpine

• 30/58 Sergio reports he’s being held up by max

• 39/57 LATIFI AND SCHUMACHER have a tangle and cause a yellow flag and lololol it’s Latifi again just like last year. Oh but it was caused by lil Schu

• Five second time penalty for lil Schu for causing a collision

• Incident investigated for Zhou and Stroll forcing a driver off track

• Hamilton gets black and white flag for track limits

• With 7 laps to go, Charles in second and Perez in third and Perez needs to catch him to win second in the world championship for Red Bull to get an 1-2

• 55/58 Hamilton has a hydraulic issue and is stuck in gear and is dropping places!! Had to let a lot of people go by

• Gasly got in the way of Perez as a back marker while Perez is chasing Charles and Perez shakes his fist at him

• YAY HAMILTON PITS AND RETIRES, first mechanical failure for Mercedes of this year!! WOOOOOO

• Lol Latifi also retires for his last race with Williams

• I think Charles is really going to keep second place in the championship, it all came down to the last laps do Sergio trying to catch him

• MAX WINS!! 15 race wins in a season which is the new record!!!

• Charles gets second place in the world championship, Sergio gets third!

• Seb gets tenth in his final race

BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

Brazil is ALWAYS full of drama, this time included.

- it’s an experimental weekend

Qualifying

- oh my gosh the put inters on Charles on a dry track and it ruined everything and he’s furious and we all are

- George Russell went off and beached it and caused a red flag when the rain was coming in so by the time for the restart it was too rainy to set a faster time SO KEVIN IS ON POLE

- Kevin Magnussen is having the best day ever and it warms the heart

Sprint

- Kevin did keep the lead for lap 1!! Yay!

- Oh my gosh Alonso and Ocon are having terrible exchanges, Ocon pushed Alonso off and broke off his front wing in a separate incident and the nose change cost him 30 seconds

- By lap 4, Kevin is in fourth with Max in first, then George, and Sainz

- They were so focused on Hamilton gaining a place the forgot to show how Max passed Kevin

- Alonso is roasting Ocon on the radio ahahhaah

- Lance Stroll pushed Seb into the grass on the straight and Martin straight called it dirty driving but then next time Seb gets past him

- George snuck up and is challenging Max for the lead

- I love the corner name Magoolio

- Yellow flag for Alex Albon who is out and it cuts off George from challenging Max but then it gets green again really fast

- Max says he hit debris and Martin says it’s from Alonso’s front wing from Ocon hitting him but Max says it’s okay

- 15/25 George gets past Max for the lead

- Potential start infringement for Zhou Ricciardo and Hamilton?

- 10 second penalty for Stroll for a DANGEROUS MANŒUVRE hahahaha YES

- Sainz destroys Max’s front wing end plate going past him and it falls off dramatically and then Lewis gets past Max too so now Max is in fourth

- Lance notes for DRIVING ERRATICALLY hahahahah

- They’re talking about putting Perez ahead of Max for the extra point to help in the drivers championship but ultimately they don’t

- Kevin finishes 8th and gets a point which is great!

- George wins the sprint!! It’s his first win, it’s not a full Grand Prix but it’s a sprint win which is something

- This was a VERY dramatic and stressful race

- Sainz in second and Hamilton in third, Max fourth and Perez fifth

Race

- the starting infringement stuff came to nothing

- George keeps the lead

- On lap 1, turn ten, Daniel hits Kevin and then Kevin spins and tags Daniel and they both go into the wall dramatically but they’re fine and safety car

- For some reason Daniel is back in the garage and Kevin is still out by the crash sooo can someone go get Kevin

- MAX AND HAMILTON hit right after the restart and there damage to max but he continues

- Then RIGHT AFTER Norris hits Charles and Charles goes into the wall fast BUT MANAGES TO KEEP GOING

- Lando now has strange feeling in steering

- Both incidents under investigation

- Somehow no safety car

- They’re never gonna rule against Hamilton here where they worship him

- YEP they gave Max a five second time penalty and Martin says that’s the exact opposite of what he thought, he agrees with us that Hamilton should have gotten the penalty

- Also Norris given a five second time penalty for hitting Charles but that was appropriate

- Carlos had to stop and his back right is smoking and fire because of a tear off stuck in it but he keeps going, I totally thought it was over for him

- Max serves his penalty and then they fumble his wheel so it ends up being a 10 second stop

- 52/71 Norris car dies and they can’t move it so it’s a full safety car so this means George is under threat from Hamilton behind him on restart

- Alpine tell Ocon not to fight Alpine but he FIGHTS BACK and he won’t listen

- Yuki only uncapped himself halfway by the time the restart comes? Uhhhh

- They let Max through past Perez to get the cars in front of him and then they are going to let Perez back in front if Maxy doesn’t get him

- They ask Max to let Perez back by but when they go over the line, Max is still ahead

- They say Max refused to let Sergio by because of Monaco! When Sergio didn’t let him back by or crashed and don’t let him by or something DRAMA

- GEORGE WINS and keeps Hamilton in second thank GOD

- George is just crying openly and it’s so emotional

- George wins, Hamilton, then Sainz

MEXICAN GRAND PRIX 2022

One of the most boring races ever.

- Maxy on pole again

- Bottas just making everyone else look slow and easily putting himself in the top ten

Race

- max keeps the lead

- Literally nothing happening

- Daniel got ambitious and drove into Yuki and got a penalty

- MAX WINSSSSSS

- Max just broke the record for most race wins in the season with 14