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