- F1 2012 ABU DHABI HIGHLIGHTS DRIVERS
- F1 2012 ABU DHABI HIGHLIGHTS DRIVER
- F1 2012 ABU DHABI HIGHLIGHTS SERIES
It set up a thrilling climax to the race. Two laps later, an incident between Sauber's Sergio Perez, Lotus's Romain Grosjean and Red Bull's Mark Webber brought out the safety car again and wiped out Vettel's deficit. Instead, Vettel pitted again on lap 37 for another set of tyres, rejoining fourth about 15 seconds behind the lead group of Raikkonen, Alonso and McLaren's Jenson Button. Those stops promoted Vettel to second place behind Raikkonen and Lotus believed Red Bull might be trying to get to the end of the race without stopping again.
F1 2012 ABU DHABI HIGHLIGHTS DRIVERS
He made superb use of these in the next few laps, climbing through the field, making passes and benefiting from some lurid incidents between other drivers in front of him to climb up to seventh place by the time the leaders started to make their pit stops for fresh tyres. The impact wrecked his front wing but actually worked to his advantage, as it forced the German into the pits for a new wing and he put on a new set of fresh tyres. Nico Rosberg flies over Narain Karthikeyan in Abu Dhabi In the queue behind the safety car, Vettel misjudged the pace of Daniel Ricciardo's Toro Rosso in front of him, had to take avoiding action and smashed into a trackside marker board. However, the safety car was then deployed following a frightening crash in which Nico Rosberg's Mercedes was launched over the back of Narain Karthikeyan's HRT. The German damaged his front wing in a collision with Williams's Bruno Senna but that barely impeded his progress through the backmarkers. Meanwhile, Vettel had been working his way through the field after starting from the pit lane following his disqualification from qualifying for not having enough fuel in his car to provide a sample. "I hope this can turn around the tables and give us many more wins if not this year then next year." "For sure we have a good party today and after a long night we will remember why we feel like that. "I'm happy but nothing to jump around about," said Raikkonen. That left Raikkonen in the lead, and he appeared in control, edging away from Alonso, who had passed Williams's Pastor Maldonado to take second place on the lap Hamilton retired. The problem was later found to be a fuel-pump failure, continuing a dismal run of reliability from McLaren in recent races. Hamilton was in the region of half a second a lap quicker than Raikkonen behind him when his car ground to a halt on lap 20 of 55.
F1 2012 ABU DHABI HIGHLIGHTS DRIVER
The McLaren driver led away from pole and, apart from a brief scare when he made a mistake while struggling to warm up his tyres in the early laps and had to fight off an attack from Raikkonen, appeared in control.
F1 2012 ABU DHABI HIGHLIGHTS SERIES
Pirelli say the 'soft' tyre, the other choice, should be about 0.5secs a lap faster but as on Friday Hamilton found it difficult to improve, and went only 0.018secs quicker on it.īutton improved a little more to close the gap to his team-mate to 0.290secs.Īlonso, despite his Ferrari carrying a series of aerodynamic upgrades, has looked off the pace on one-off laps all weekend.In a thrilling, nail-biting, incident-packed race that belied the Yas Marina track's reputation, Hamilton initially looked set to take a dominant win. Hamilton looked immensely strong on the harder 'medium' tyre in the first part of the session - he was fastest by 0.348secs from Button - and more than a second clear of the next car, Grosjean. He abandoned his first attempt at a flying lap but on his second was impressively just 0.484secs slower than Hamilton, and in the middle sector of the lap he was faster than anyone. Vettel, who heads into the race 13 points clear of Alonso in the championship, suffered a set-back when a brake problem left him stranded in the garage for 55 minutes of the hour-long session. Qualifying is going to be a real thriller." Their own title chances are pretty remote but they could certainly spoil someone else's. Behind Alonso, Grosjean's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was ninth ahead of Force India's Paul di Resta.īBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson said: "McLaren look like they could be a bit of a spoiler in here. Lotus driver Romain Grosjean was sixth, ahead of Williams's Pastor Maldonado. Red Bull's Mark Webber was fourth ahead of Force India's Nico Hulkenberg.
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