Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

sunnuntai 13. marraskuuta 2011

Abu Dhabi GP: first DNF of a season for Sebastian!

I have to admit I had such huge expectations for the race right before the start. The race, however, got a very unpredicted turn right after the lights had gone off. Sebastian on pole got a fantastic start and was in lead going to turn 1... Then he suddenly spun off the track with a puncture of his right rear tyre! So the race was over for him before it even got started... Very very disappointing to see Sebastian limping back to the pit lane and facing retirement due to the damage in the rear suspension. Sebastian himself looked very disappointed. I´m sure he had expected Abu Dhabi GP to be another success story for him. It doesn´t comfort a lot but nobody can have success all the time. Setbacks are part of motorsports...

So because Vettel was out of the race, the lead was all Hamilton´s. Alonso took a brilliant start from P5 and managed to overtake both Webber and Button. At first the race seemed a bit boring because Alonso couldn´t quite catch Hamilton to challenge him. Luckily we did see some entertaining battle between Webber and Alonso for example. Webber could possibly have reached the podium today without the delayed first pit stop that he had... I don´t know what exactly went wrong but the pit stop lasted at least 5 seconds longer than it should have! Even Massa got ahead of Webber so they had an intense battle with each other aswell...!

Button in his McLaren had some problems during the race and his pace was about a second slower than his team-mate´s. After the race Button told that he had issues with the KERS system. But in spite of the difficulties Button finished the race third. Tyres played a significant role today aswell. In the second pit stops all other top drivers put the prime tyres on except for Webber who continued the race with option tyres and pitted on the final lap to fullfil the tyre regulation! Hard to say but it could have been the right call if there hadn´t been any problems in the first pit stop... I was kind of sad for Mark really. I would have liked to see him on the podium after a difficult season.

People have naturally different opinions but I was glad to see Hamilton winning the race instead of Alonso. Hamilton desperately needed this win! After all the difficulties and setbacks that the man has faced during this season, both professional and personal, it was gratifying to see Hamilton win today. Hopefully his battered self-esteem gets better after this impressive victory. Me being a person with very low self-esteem I can understand how much this win must mean to Hamilton. Button´s 3rd place with all the KERS issues was impressive aswell.

Just wondering if Vettel got the photo with Paul McCartney which he so much hoped for... It´s somehow a bit contradictory to think that even a sports star like Sebastian Vettel admires somebody and is a fan of some other celebrity... That´s one charasteristic that makes the F1 drivers humans. I would imagine Mr McCartney would have made Sebastian´s wish come true.. I would imagine that if double F1 world champion says he has a wish like that it will very easily be fullfilled. I can´t even imagine how many million people in the world would like to have a photo taken with the double world champion (including myself!). But the truth is that you have to be "somebody" with a capital S that a wish like that could come true...! But of course, one should always have dreams. I was once said wise words: "If you don´t have dreams, what is possible? If you have dreams, what´s impossible?"

P.S. Congratulations to Sebastien Loeb for winning the 8th consecutive title in WRC!! This achievement makes the Frenchman even greater than motorsport legends Michael Schumacher and Valentino Rossi. In my opinion the right man won the championship. I have nothing against Mikko Hirvonen but this certainly hasn´t been too magical a season for the Finn :/ It would have been such an irony if Hirvonen had secured the title due to Loeb´s  head-on collision on his way to the stage 19. Well done Loeb :D:D

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