F1 abu dhabi.....SPOILER!!!!! Don't even click if you haven't seen the race......

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Congrats to vettel for an outstanding drive and clinching the drivers world championship!
And what a drive from petrov holding off alonso......
Too bad for webber but that's racing, he seemed to be of pace since qualifying.

[DUK]

Vettel ist Weltmeister

[imcarthur]

Yes, congrats to Vettel. He did the job this year. Alonso just gave up behind Petrov.

The luckiest driver was MS. That crash could have been grim if he had been hit a bit closer to the middle of the car.

Ian

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Oh yea....lucky for ms......he spun on his own too, which would be worse? Getting pelted in the helmet by a sticky tire or slashed by carbon fiber suspension bits? He's lucky the tire deflected up after it separated, that'd be like getting smacking in the head with a 2000lb mallet and would've certainly been bad....

[widgeon13]

Great race! No champagne on the podium.

[Henry Schmidt]

Vettel #1, oh how sweet it is.

For all you Alonso fans, nurny, nurny, nuuuurny..........

I can't wait to hear/read (no one would dare put a microphone in his face) Fred's excuses and inevitable whining.

Good job to McLaren !

[Oh Haha]

I thought Alonso was going to cry when his assistants were consoling him.

MS sure was in good spirits after the accident.

Sebastian did a great job.

[Noah930]

Congrats to Vettel (& RBR). What a great way to win a championship.

edit: heh heh. I just took a look over on F-chat. The thread was started today and is already 22 pages long.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

I thought Alonso was going to cry when his assistants were consoling him.

Seb did enough crying for both of them!

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yea....but i'll take tears of joy over tears of disappointment any day LOL

[Oh Haha]

Originally Posted by bell

yea....but i'll take tears of joy over tears of disappointment any day LOL

+1

Alonso just seems like such a whiney-backside.

I thought it was cool that Button and Hammy gave praise for SV for his accomplishment in the press conference.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by imcarthur

Alonso just gave up behind Petrov.

Ian

Did you even watch the race? Doesn't sound like it.
Alonso drove his tires off the car trying to pass. Every time he got close enough in a corner to get a run on the straight he lost down force on the car and ended up going off track.

Once again, stupidity in the ferrari camp cost them a race and a championship. Who's idea was it to pit for tires so early and give up 10 positions, mostly to back markers?

Idjuts. if they would have waited 5 or 10 more laps before getting tires, Alonso would be world champion.

If they would have started on primes and waited until lap 35 or 40 to change, Alonso would be world champion.

Vettel didn't win it, he received it as a gift. Hope he said thanks.

Lots of folks here letting their emotional side do their thinking for them instead of using logic.
Lots of anti-ferrari BS spreading as if this were a hen party and you were gossiping about the hussy down the street. Do any of you squat to pee too?

[kanadary]

in the end i guess it wasn't such a bad idea in the rb camp to let the two drivers race in brazil. there was so much negative comments during the end of the brazil race to not try and fake team orders..

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by widgeon13

Great race! No champagne on the podium.

They do not use champagne at Bahrain or Abu Dhabi- any of the Muslim countries- since alcohol is prohibited. They use some sweet "rose water" instead, which is clearly not carbonated very much.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

I thought Alonso was going to cry when his assistants were consoling him.

MS sure was in good spirits after the accident.

Sebastian did a great job.

Feel the same way. Wished that Hamilton would have one but anyone but Alonso was fine for me!

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Saying vettel received the championship as a gift is a pretty silly statement.......
It's a team effort, from what tires to use, wing settings, and pit strategies.....vettel got pole, and drove away from the field, and a brilliant pit stop kept him in the position to win......alonso lost a position at the start, and got stuck behind petrov after the pit who did very very well in the situation (he's made numerous rookie mistakes).....
I think it's the mclarens performance which cost alonso the championship as both lewis and jensen were very quick, and who would've thought that both renaults would hold him off.....
Even if alonso and vettel tied it would've been vettels championship as they were both matched on finishing spots through 4th place throught the year....to which vettel suceeded.
And throw in the whole "blatant" team orders to which alonso received more points when ferrari made massa let him pass and it's even more evident.

Sebastien Vettel IS the 2010 driver champion and EARNED every bit of what it took to accomplish the task.

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Did you even watch the race? Doesn't sound like it.
Alonso drove his tires off the car trying to pass. Every time he got close enough in a corner to get a run on the straight he lost down force on the car and ended up going off track.

I only remember seeing one real attempt to pass. In 1/2 a race. Yes, the track is difficult but only 1 attempt?

Ian

[DaveE]

Being a Ferrari fan I was obviously hoping Alonso would pull it out but I couldn't be happier for Vettel. He definitely deserved it for the season he had. Once again Ferrari strategy killed them.

[ted]

Seb won fair and square.
Renault acted as if under Red Bull team orders slowing up Alonso and Hammy.
Painful the lack of Red Bull cooperation watching Weber use up 3 laps on his tires timing a pass around an entry level Red Bull driver.
No team orders and all Red Bull drivers trying to pull each other down.

So is it true since Red Bull sells sodas not cars so they don't care as much as other teams about the Driver's championship?
Sounds like BS for not helping Weber while at the same time next year Seb will clearly be treated as Red Bull #1 driver.
Red Bull gave the advantage to Alonso going in to the last race, but Seb saved the day.
After Brazil Alonso might have been the one most impressed with the Red Bull driver championship strategy.

[emcon5]

Originally Posted by ted

Renault acted as if under Red Bull team orders slowing up Alonso and Hammy.

Well, they were racing for position. Petrov even said post race he would have given Alonso room if he made a move, but he never did.

Frankly I blame Hermann Tilke for what was probably the least entertaining race of the season. If it wasn't for the championship fight, I probably would have fast forwarded through a lot of it.