You can summarize the Yas Marina Circuit in one word: spectacular. The architecture is straight, with imaginative details such as illuminated glass roof of the hotel and unusual pit lane, where the son of his way back to the trail through a tunnel. It is a very impressive race.
When Vodafone McLaren Mercedes has come here for the first time in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2009 were in a strong recovery in the form after clicking the MP4-24 development aggressively. Lewis Hamilton has scored more points than any other driver since the German Grand Prix in July, and was determined to sign the season with a victory in the race.
We gave away, with Heikki Kovalainen and the first and fastest on the second day of testing Lewis. But whenever the track conditions change over the weekend Grand Prix, especially in a new place, we could not stay calm.
Rating brought mixed fortunes as a malfunction caused Heikki box left in Q2, but Lewis was in the form of flight: half a second faster than anyone else in Q1 and Q2 0.3s. His first round was electrifying Q3, all the way to age 17. He had a fraction of excessive speed on the turn and pulled out.
Mentally logging the error, but do not be discouraged by this, Lewis had another chance and this time was perfect: fast smooth, clean and close to 0.7 s of its nearest rival.
Lewis converted pole position into race lead, and all was good until the search of the sensors, we see that his right-rear brake pads were wearing too quickly. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber was close behind, and it was clear that we could not afford to pursue risky Lewis leads the battle, if the device was close to a fault. Frustrating, radio, Lewis was to enter and withdraw from the race.
Abu Dhabi also completed the 2010 season, and this time Lewis had a mathematical shot at the drivers' title. It was a long shot - a 24-point deficit for a win Sebastian Vettel Vettel and Lewis score - but after the events of 2008 Lewis knew more than anyone that the battle for the championship is not over until the last lap.
Jenson Button, who had fallen out of contention for the title in the previous round, I knew it would be his last race with a number on your car (at least for 2011) and was determined to end the year with style. Both drivers were so highly motivated.
When the year in which the Red Bull team was on a regular basis was the strongest technical package, qualifying was a thing pass by. Lewis lost the pole three-hundredths of a second, but was not disappointed - in fact, she was ecstatic, because he believed were extracted from the full potential, "and more" self. "I have nothing to lose and everything to gain," he said.
Having a qualified second and fourth, the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver group quickly podium places, resist the temptation to make pit stops immediately after the safety car was sent to the second round. Vettel, Lewis was able to beat, but not close enough to move him, and after his Pitstop was detained in the back of the Renault, Robert Kubica, who has exhausted its ability to capture.
Jenson pitted later than the leading duo, and therefore led the race to make its own decision, eventually finishing third behind Vettel, the new world champion, and Lewis.
The team principal Martin Whitmarsh, summed up the sentiment: "Tonight on the podium was important from a historical perspective: the last three world champions standing shoulder to shoulder, and I am pleased to say that two of them were in the colors of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. "
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