Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

Kimi Räikkönen & Sebastian Vettel

sunnuntai 3. marraskuuta 2013

Abu Dhabi GP: "Yea, yea, yea, I know what I´m doing!"

Yesterday I had been so delighted because of Kimi´s 5th grid slot. Late in the evening everything, however, turned upside down. Kimi´s car failed the floor deflection test after the qualifying and Kimi was excluded from the qualifying. Suddenly P5 had turned into P22 on the grid! However, I didn´t let that setback depress me as I knew Kimi was the man who could be capable of making miracles. Also Sebastian started to the Abu Dhabi GP from the pit lane last year and the German managed to make it on the podium! I trusted Kimi could turn the setback into success.

Unfortunately the race proved otherwise. Once again Webber didn´t manage to take a good start and his team-mate Sebastian stormed to the lead. Also Rosberg in his Mercedes managed to overtake the Australian, who lost two positions right at the very start. Kimi´s race was over before it even started: the Iceman collided with Caterham´s Van Der Garde and although their cars touched pretty gently the contact broke the steering of Kimi´s car. What a huge disappointment! I had been so prepared to see an astonishing amount of classy overtaking by the Iceman so it was appalling to see the Finn retire already in turn 2.

Right from the very first laps there was absolutely no doubt of the fastest man on the track. There was no way that Rosberg could match Sebastian´s pace and Sebastian was increasing the gap about a second per lap. By lap 15 when Sebastian pitted for the first time the gap between him and Massa (who was 2nd at that point) was about 24 seconds, which meant that after the pit stop Sebastian rejoined the track in the lead!

On lap 30 Sebastian already had a 30-second gap over his closest rival Mark Webber! Rosberg was about 3 seconds behind Webber. On lap 45 Alonso came in for his second pit stop. The Spaniard was about to crash to Vergne in his Toro Rosso when overtaking him. Alonso left the track to avoid hitting Vergne and his Ferrari made a couple of nasty-looking jumps. The situation was under the investigation by the stewards but Alonso didn´t get penalised because according to the stewards there was no place to go for Alonso.

Sebastian drove to the chequered flag in world champion style: the unstoppable German won Abu Dhabi GP with a 30-second gap over his team-mate! This was already 7th consecutive win for Sebastian and the 11th win of the season! The man is so much better than any words can tell, what a superior drive from the four-time world champion! Webber made it a 1-2 for Red Bull. Rosberg finished "best of the rest" completing the podium. Grosjean was 4th, Alonso 5th, Di Resta 6th, Hamilton 7th, Massa 8th, Perez 9th and Sutil 10th.

Sebastian definitely knows how to have fun and how to entertain his fans! In spite of the personal reprimand and the 25 000-euro fine handed for the team due to making doughnuts in India the German decided to do that again in Abu Dhabi! This time he was told on the team radio to bring the car immediately back to parc ferme. Team principal Horner also said on the team radio that this time Sebastian would have to pay the fine himself. Sebastian responded to that by saying: "Let me quote yea, yea, yea I know what I´m doing!" So Sebastian quoted the legendary sentence by Kimi in last year´s Abu Dhabi GP :D I love Sebastian´s sense of humour and the way he behaves in a naughty way in this regard! He definitely knows how to celebrate his flawless victories in style!

I was a bit concerned before the race. The world championship had been secured by Sebastian only a week earlier so I was uncertain if this race could "feel the same" anymore. I was sooo wrong! This has been a truly emotional day once again. I´ve been feeling a bit down this weekend but it´s utterly incredible how this one exceptional driver can always make my day. It´s incomprehensible how this man makes me feel just by driving his car in an incredible way. There´s no words to describe that. Sometimes I wonder how this is even possible. The man whom I don´t know makes me feel these amazing things just by driving a car... Wow to that! This is one of the unique experiences in life :D



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