Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in Pictures

"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
11/03/2013 at 15:28 • Filed to: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Formula 1, F1, Pictures, Photography, F1 Fanatic, OppositeLock

You may not like the track for its race evolution, but you can't argue about the mass of great pictures that the track's lights and layout help produce.

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DISCUSSION (15)

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 15:41

Kinja'd!!!

That pic... is stunning. Love the crowd framing Lewis and making the pic alive, the light is perfect too.

360ad > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 15:44

Race? what race? yet another boring parade.

stephen mcknight 2011@ hotmail.co.uk > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 15:49

Alonso save this grand prix, with his excellent recovery drive. otherwise this was a, bore fest on a truly epic scale.

could be worse boys, this race could have been at Valencia. BBC f1 Gary Anderson is right, this is a mickey mouse track. only there because the oil guys, have the money to pay for the race.

best race was the feature, Sky Sport F1 did with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. they raced both Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill, over two laps in sand buggy and the pair had a great time.

must better than the main race.

IknowBetterCuz_I_isNotFatLikeU > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 15:49

Good race , apart from Red Bull cheating as always. Vettel driving 2 secs faster per lap than anybody else in the first few laps? Hello? Not possible. Webber once again having some unexplainable problems at the start while challenging Vettel? Not agin please.

I wonder who is not being paid by Red Bull in F1.

Read http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmi… for some hints.

BAC Tetra Sedan > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 15:59

Kimi leaving race on Toyota Prado (?) was epic. Just like office worker, left building in corporate clothes, sitted in Toyota SUV and went home.

TamerlaneBlog > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 16:30

Mark Webber, please write a tell-all book next year!

Frankenchokey > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 17:22

At this point they might as well just not even let anyone else race. Just have every Gran Prix from here on out be Vettel trying to break all the track records at whatever circuit he is on that week.

wacopalypsenow > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/03/2013 at 19:05

Thanks a lot for the spoiler..I would have never guessed that Vettel took first!!

[lol..I've put money on Vettel all year, the bookie keeps making the payout smaller yet it be guaranteed $$$]

kniga > IknowBetterCuz_I_isNotFatLikeU
11/04/2013 at 00:35

Oh please! Which "RedBull always cheating" nonsense are you are talking about? So far, there is not an evidence that RedBull cheated even once. RB9 still is and the previous RedBull cars before it always were some of the most scrutinized cars on the grid. The FIA officials stated that RB9 was legal before and after the Singapore race. Which part of that did you not understand?

As for favoring Vettel over Webber, there is no need to cry a river over that. Vettel did to RedBull in the last 5 years what Schumy did to the chaotic and inept Ferrari of the 1990s. Vettel delivered to RedBull its first win ever. First he did it in their "B team" car Toro Rosso (for the first and last time in the history of STR), then he did it again in a RedBull. Webber always was just a follower, and never really as good as Vettel. Why should the team favor Webber, who has already signed with Porsche, and also lost every single race start of the last few years to competitors? I don't know. You tell me. I respect Webber for not accepting the "number 2" label. He would rather quit the team. But this doesn't change the fact that he is slower. As for his car breaking more often, perhaps it's his own fault because of his driving style maybe?

Me thinks that you're reading too much into British and Italian yellow press. Do you want to know why RedBull is so much faster than the competitors? It's not only because RBR is one of the best teams in history F1. It's also because their competition has completely dropped the ball this year. Most of the other teams stopped the 2013 car development months ago while RedBull still keeps improving the 2013 car even now. As a racing fan, I really applaud RedBull to keep the car development until now in the same way I applaud the cars that always truly race instead of going slow to save tires, fuel stops, etc. RedBull is the only front running team that actually does the flat out racing. Vettel is the only guy who insists on setting the best lap in the final stages of race even though he is half minute ahead of the following car and his gear box and alternator are about to fail. The engineer has to beg him to go slower. This is what I call real racing.

Speaking of specific teams, the McLaren was laughable from day one of 2013, and they still are. What a joke. Next, Ferrari made the announcement that they stop the 2013 car development after Spa. That was months ago. The Mercedes car was extremely fast early on, but it couldn't maintain this pace without destroying its tires in 2-3 laps. Of all teams on the grid, it is the Mercedes who attempted to cheat this year by staging a secret tire test with Pirelli. Only the underfunded Lotus team is still trying to take the fight to RedBull IMO. It's quite sad really. They all deserve to trail Vettel by at least a half minute.

kniga > wacopalypsenow
11/04/2013 at 00:43

If you don't want to see the spoilers, then go watch the race instead of hanging out on the automotive forums and clicking on the F1 related links.

kniga > stephen mcknight 2011@ hotmail.co.uk
11/04/2013 at 00:50

I must concede that Abu Dhabi GP was not as good as Korea, Japan, and India. When I saw that Vettel has something like a 20-30 second lead over the next car by the lap 9-10, my jaw dropped. At this point, Vettel could change the tires and still remain in the lead. It was over. It was pretty gracious for second place Webber to basically admit on the podium that Vettel was racing on a different planet. All in all, the race was still worth watching for me. The race in the midpack was pretty good as usual this year. It was good honest racing, and not much different from what you had in the previous decades. McLaren utterly dominated in the 80s, Williams in the 90s, and Ferrari in the last decade. Now RedBull. That's how F1 works. We're simply witnessing a new history being made.

FlyingGoose > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/04/2013 at 06:14

Yeah, it does seem like it would be difficult to take a bad pic on a track with graphics and lighting like this one.

wacopalypsenow > kniga
11/04/2013 at 07:21

Ummm..I was being sarcastic, of course Vettel won

wacopalypsenow > kniga
11/04/2013 at 07:22

Umm I was being sarcastic...of course Vettel won

LegsMalone > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/04/2013 at 13:53

I really like this track. Where are the haters coming from?