2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Review, Kimi back winning

2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix review of round eighteen of the F1 season at Yas Marina Circuit outside of Abu Dhabi, and thoughts on the race as well. And the return of winning ways from Kimi Räikkonen and Lotus (well sort of for Lotus).

Good points

• Kimi Räikkonen (won the race, first race win for Räikkonen since Spa 2009)
• Fernando Alonso (finished 2nd)
• Sebastian Vettel (finishing 3rd, despite stating from the pit lane from having no fuel left at the end of qualifying, (similar to Hamilton at Spainish Grand Prix) )
• Williams (Pastor Maldonado finished 5th; Bruno Senna finished 8th)
• Kamui Kobayashi (finished 6th)
• Paul Di Resta (finished 9th)
• Daniel Ricciardo (finished 10th)
• Heikki Kovalainen (finished 13th, 48 seconds behind the leaders at the end)
• Timo Glock (finished 14th, under a minute behind the leaders at the end)

Bad points

• Mercedes AMG (Nico Rosberg DNF, collision with Narian Karthikeyan on the lap 8; Michael Schumacher finished 11th, puncture late in the race that cost him points)
• Narian Karthikeyan (DNF, collision with Nico Rosberg on the lap 8)
• Lewis Hamilton (DNF, fuel pressure)
• Nico Hülkenberg (DNF, collision with Bruno Senna at the start of the race)
• Sergio Perez (finished 15th, collision with Mark Webber and Romain Grosjean on lap 38)
• Mark Webber (DNF, collision with Sergio Perez and Romain Grosjean on lap 38)
• Romain Grosjean (DNF, collision with Mark Webber and Sergio Perez on lap 38)
• Charles Pic (DNF, Engine)

Possibly the same as the Singapore Grand Prix early on the season this was a race of two parts, the first part was a dominating race from Lewis Hamilton from starting in pole position to leading the race, until the start of lap 19 when his fuel pressure in his McLaren give him another DNF this season and possibly any change of a final win at McLaren. The second part after Hamilton DNF was Kimi Räikkonen took the lead to conclude with a race win on Sunday to give Räikkonen his first win of the season and his first since Spa 2009 in his Ferrari days.

A great win from Räikkonen, done a soild drive to win in my opinion, when there was chaos behind him he kept his head down and win. Also, a Lotus F1 win in name for the first time (if you want to classify this as a Lotus win, last time this team won a F1 race was with Fernando Alonso at Fuji 2008 as Renault) since Ayrton Senna at Detroit in 1987.

Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso finished in second place in his Ferrari, while championship leader Sebastian Vettel in his Red Bull finished third at the end of the race, despite stating from the pit lane from having no fuel left at the end of qualifying, he would have started from third place on the grid and would have won the race again if that didn't happen. Which, only gives Vettel a slim lead of the F1 driver championship from 13 points to 10 points ahead of Fernando Alonso with only two races to go.

While in the constructor's championship, Red Bull are still leading the standings from 91 points to 82 points ahead of Ferrari, who are still second in the constructors standings. Which means, Red Bull can win the F1 constructor's championship at Circuit of the Americas at the new place for the United States Grand Prix in two weeks time if Red Bull are 43 points ahead of second place in the standings with only two races to go.

End of blog for now, new post soon, bye.