The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix finished the Formula 1 season with a yowl as opposed to a blast, and maybe that was suitable for a year that for quite a while was incorporating with a work of art, just to fail out when it made a difference. Big step taken by Lewis Hamilton did not have sufficiently very to pass his Mercedes colleague Valtteri Bottas, on a track where hustling has dependably been famously troublesome, and needed to make due with second behind the Finn, as the title holders fixed an outcome that was about as ideal for the group as it could have been.
Enduring to go ahead to the platform thereafter, Hamilton communicated what everybody had been considering: “Difficult to go here, man,” he said to Bottas and third-put Sebastian Vettel. “I resembled, ‘Where are all the mother truckin’ back markers?’ I think they must change this track.”
Hamilton was to some degree befuddled in the matter of how he turned out behind after his pit stop on lap 24, having been told he was 1.7secs up before it, yet the way to that was Bottas setting another speediest lap, completely 0.8secs quicker than he had been on the past visit.
From that point onward, the challenges made by a track that has two long straights to encourage surpassing, yet wrecks it by then having a twisty last area that highlights corner after corner that complements the major defects of the current F1 cars.
It was a fabulous prix that indeed underlined the imperfections in holding the last race of the season at a place that has a considerable measure pulling out all the stops as a charming goal where everything works and the climate is solid, and very little as a setting for an incredible engine race. However, it – and the end of the week when all is said in done – additionally featured a portion of the issues confronting the game in general. “To get as close as I was showed I had good pace,” Hamilton said, “but when you get to within 1.1-1.2secs the car just loses grip. I did a lot of rallying today.”
