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ROUND 24:ย ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช United Arab Emirates


FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2025


Circuit stats


  • Circuit name: Yas Marina Circuit
  • First Grand Prix: 2009
  • Number of laps: 58
  • Circuit Length: 5.281 km
  • Race Distance: 306.183 km
  • Lap record: 1:25.637 Max Verstappen (2021)
  • 2024 winner: Lando Norris

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[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Felt like the perfect final race to represent the season, in many ways. It was tense, but also kinda boring. It was uncertain but also anticlimactic.

Congratulations to Norris. He was good enough to capitalise when he was in a car good enough to be champion. I have a hard time getting excited for the win when Max is showing there are levels to this, and honestly I don't think Norris is even the second best driver on the grid. But F1 history is full of champions like that. Hell, the very first champion in F1 - Farina - won his title despite never finishing in front of his teammate in any race they both finished. And recently we've had the likes of Button and Rosberg.

I'm happy we got an actual title fight, and I'm happy we got to have some tension over the past few months. Incredible comeback from Red Bull, and absolutely insane driving by Max to make it this close.

It's been a crazy year with how tight the field has been in laptimes, which hasn't really meant too much great racing but qualy has been a consistent banger. And how fitting it was that the last qualy of the season was one of the tightest all season. Now with the new regs it will probably be a good long while until the field converges again. Get ready for some 2-4 second gaps again across the field.

That being said, I'm incredibly hyped for next season. I hope I'm not disappointed!

[โ€“] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just as crazy as the drivers, is Merc taking second in the constructors too. Just so many top 5 finishes racking up a steady haul of points.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago

George has been crazy consistent all year. Well, the past few years actually. He's a very, very good driver. And Kimi showed enough promise too, despite ending on a bit of a low (too bad titanium dioxide is banned in Abu Dhabi!).

[โ€“] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it is really incredible that after 24 races, the fights was at the end. I hope you continue your write up next year ! Really liked that!

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks! I know I've trailed off a little in the quality of the writeups over the past months, but I'll try to pick up again last year and do better. I do enjoy writing to collect my thoughts after a race but I'm glad someone likes reading them too!

[โ€“] Microw@piefed.zip 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] Microw@piefed.zip 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yuki: "I just wanna go home, sit on the sofa and eat something good. We've been away since Las Vegas. For next year I'll get into shape again, get a sixpack and then we'll see."

[โ€“] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hasnโ€™t properly sunk in then. Poor guy.

[โ€“] kikutwo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe he meant six pack of beer lmao ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[โ€“] Microw@piefed.zip 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wtf who just played with Lando's hair from off-camera? ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Jozav@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago

Eugh, you can see noris hugging everyone before being weighed, but tried to slide under MBS's out stretched arm and got pulled back in for a hug

[โ€“] Bademantel@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

This was so weird. Cooldown room delivered again.

[โ€“] Olap@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fairly uneventful in the end. Norris doing what he and McLaren should have done 2 races ago and played it safe. Great to see, and he's a fantastic new winner

[โ€“] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I said somewhere around lap 7 that that was going to be the way the race would end. It wasn't far off although if they'd showed us the action outside the points it would've been a cool race

[โ€“] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] ZeldaFreak@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marko probably maybe hinted towards Sky Germany, that he might not be around next year. They ended the interview with Marko wishing him everything well and that they see each other next year but Marko answered vaguely, hinting that they don't see each other next year.

[โ€“] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago

Racist sexist grandpa has left the building

[โ€“] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

who was the guy in the cooldown room ?

[โ€“] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Yas Marina sucks. It's a boring race overall.

Congrats Lando. ๐Ÿ™Žโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] Microw@piefed.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marko is just telling Austrian TV he is sceptical whether Red Bull will be near the top next year, given that they're developing their own engine for the first time

[โ€“] Etnaphele@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

And anyone should be skeptical of anything coming out of Markoโ€™s mouth

[โ€“] wes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] wes@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago
[โ€“] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Congrats Lando. He can basically thank Kimi for the championship. If Kimi didn't crash into Max in Austria, Max would have surely won it. Max had despite the shitbox in the first half of the season a pretty clean season, while McLaren had two crashes with no one else to blame but themselves.

Edit: forgot this one, Kimi cutting off Piastri in Brazil. Kimi is truly the Goat

[โ€“] zout@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

If Kimi didn't crash into Max in Austria, Max would have surely won it.

And if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bicycle. Some other ifs would have led to Norris being champion weeks ago.

[โ€“] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 months ago

Max himself admitted that "everything went red" when he crashed into George out of frustration in Spain. By that logic he cost himself the championship.