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2009, a race oddity: Abu Dhabi GP

Abu Dhabi.  If we were to pool the combined knowledge of those occupying petrolheadblog.com Towers, we’d learn that Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, that it has the hot, arid climate typical of the Gulf region and that no matter how hard he tried, Garfield could never quite successfully mail Nermal, [...]

Weighing up: Abu Dhabi qualifying

This week, “Domination: the act of being in control.”

With refuelling banned for 2010, this is the last time we get to do this for at least a year.  A reminder, one final reminder, that qualifying is made up of 3 knockout sessions, with the fastest 10 drivers competing in Q3 with race fuel aboard while [...]

Leaving so soon? F1 2009 draws to a close in the desert

16 down, 1 to go.  Only the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix stands between the teams and a winter of working out what went wrong in 2009.

The Yas Marina circuit is a design by Hermann Tilke, Formula One’s track designer of choice.  From on-board a speeding car, it looks as though there might be the occasional [...]

Slight differences of opinion, part two

For those of you who like your sport to contain the odd bit of handbags at 10 paces, yesterday’s press conference exchange between Jarno Trulli and Adrian Sutil will make wonderful reading.

Jarno is still more than a little upset over their coming together in the Brazilian race a couple of weeks ago, in which Jarno [...]