The "97.8 Billion Barrels of Oil" Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi 2019

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Bottom post of the previous page:

Brian Redman: "Mr. Fangio, how do you come so fast?" "More throttle, less brakes...."
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Watched the first 18 laps now - which was good - and then turned off.

So it turns out that the cars can pass without DRS. And yet the damn system will stay with the new regs in 2021.
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erwin greven wrote: 4 years ago Leclerc disqualified.
Fake news. F1.com still showing Leclerc 3rd and just read a report confirming no dsq

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Yep, just a 50 grand fine for Ferrari
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The stewards decided against issuing a sporting sanction to the team despite finding that Leclerc’s car contained almost 5kg more fuel than Ferrari declared. The team has been fined $50,000 for the infringement.
Stewards’ verdict on Ferrari

The stewards heard from the team representative, FIA technical delegate and the FIA head of single seater technical matters.

[Technical directive]/014-19 required teams to declare the amount of fuel that they intended to put in the car for the laps to the grid, the formation lap, the race, the in-lap and any fire-ups that would be needed. The Technical Delegate was able to confirm the fuel mass put in the tank by checking in accordance with the procedure specified in TD/014-19.

There was a difference of 4.88kgs between the team’s declaration for car 16 and the technical delegate’s measured fuel mass.

The team’s declaration was therefore inaccurate and constituted a breach of the technical directive. This in turn constitutes an infringement of Article 12.1.1.i of the International Sporting Code.

Accordingly, the stewards determined that the team should be fined €50,000 for its inaccurate declaration.
https://www.racefans.net/2019/12/01/lec ... stigation/


Also now confirmed on F1.com

Leclerc keeps podium as Ferrari handed big fine for fuel discrepancy

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... qoS0G.html

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Confirmed results for Abu Dhabi:

Pos N° Driver Chassis Engine Lap Pts
1 44 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes Mercedes 55 1h 34m 05.715s ( 194.710 km/h ) 26
2 33 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Honda 55 1h 34m 22.487s ( +16.772s ) 18
3 16 Charles LECLERC Ferrari Ferrari 55 1h 34m 49.150s ( +43.435s ) 15
4 77 Valtteri BOTTAS Mercedes Mercedes 55 1h 34m 50.094s ( +44.379s ) 12
5 5 Sebastian VETTEL Ferrari Ferrari 55 1h 35m 10.072s ( +1m 04.357s ) 10
6 23 Alexander ALBON Red Bull Honda 55 1h 35m 14.920s ( +1m 09.205s ) 8
7 11 Sergio PEREZ Racing Point BWT Mercedes 54 6
8 4 Lando NORRIS McLaren Renault 54 4
9 26 Daniil KVYAT Toro Rosso Honda 54 2
10 55 Carlos SAINZ McLaren Renault 54 1
11 3 Daniel RICCIARDO Renault Renault 54
12 27 Nico HULKENBERG Renault Renault 54
13 7 Kimi RAIKKONEN Alfa Romeo Ferrari 54
14 20 Kevin MAGNUSSEN Haas Ferrari 54
15 8 Romain GROSJEAN Haas Ferrari 54
16 99 Antonio GIOVINAZZI Alfa Romeo Ferrari 54
17 63 George RUSSELL Williams Mercedes 54
18 10 Pierre GASLY Toro Rosso Honda 53
19 88 Robert KUBICA Williams Mercedes 53
ab 18 Lance STROLL Racing Point BWT Mercedes 45 Brakes



So the final 2019 championship positions are:


Drivers Title

1. Lewis HAMILTON 413
2. Valtteri BOTTAS 326
3. Max VERSTAPPEN 278
4. Charles LECLERC 264
5. Sebastian VETTEL 240
6. Carlos SAINZ 96
7. Pierre GASLY 95
8. Alexander ALBON 92
9. Daniel RICCIARDO 54
10. Sergio PEREZ 52
11. Lando NORRIS 49
12. Kimi RAIKKONEN 43
13= Daniil KVYAT 37
13= Nico HULKENBERG 37
15. Lance STROLL 21
16. Kevin MAGNUSSEN 20
17. Antonio GIOVINAZZI 14
18. Romain GROSJEAN 8
19. Robert KUBICA 1



Constructors Championship

Constructor Points
1. Mercedes 739
2. Ferrari 504
3. Red Bull Honda 417
4. McLaren Renault 145
5. Renault 91
6. Toro Rosso Honda 85
7. Racing Point BWT Mercedes 73
8. Alfa Romeo Ferrari 57
9. Haas Ferrari 28
10. Williams Mercedes 1

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kals wrote: 4 years ago Image
Considering the amounts of time that cockwomble was lapped in 2013, I'm going to state fake news.

Edit: That comment section. Oh lord. He actually has fans.
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Shenanigans! He was at least -2 laps for every race he competed in. Therefore he did not finish every lap of every race.
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There were some interesting end of term radio stuff.... loved the bit with Lando and his race engineer on the slow down lap. And the Carlos bit.

That and some of the other funny bits in this: (ignoring the Lewis 'that was for the fans' crap)

(Oh you will have to follow the link in the clip to watch on youtube)



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Is the season finally over? I caught up at last. Not a great way to finish but at least Ferrari and Max got the better of Mercedes a fair bit of the time this year. It's more disappointing that they couldn't be as consistent or make as few a mistakes as the Silver Arrows.
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