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Shift+F1: A Formula 1 Podcast

33 - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Prerace 2017

Shift+F1: A Formula 1 Podcast

Shift+F1

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On this most important of American Holidays Danny gives thanks to F1 and gives you a whistle-stop pre-race podcast of what you need to know going into the final race of the 2017 F1 season. SHOW NOTES Williams confirm Kubica, Sirotkin and Stroll for test Bottas interview: Mercedes driver reflects on 'tough' season (The National) Williams deny Kubica deal is done Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Lea Saeeda, Saeida F1, it's time to say good night to the season. Almost, all. We've got one race left and one

0:25.7

podcast left after this one. I'm not sure if I'd qualify this one as a full

0:29.5

podcast. My good friend Drew Scanlon is a way enjoying Thanksgiving as I'm hoping that you are as well

0:35.4

with your family loved ones if you're in North America if you're in Europe or anywhere else in the world

0:39.4

This is just a regular ass weekend and I hope you have a wonderful one of those as well.

0:44.5

But there's going to be a pretty short little episode with just myself.

0:48.3

Giving you an update on the final race of the season. Of course we are heading to the United Arab Emirates to Yasma

0:55.3

Arena and the circuit that was we've had now for a good couple years it was

1:00.0

2009 is when we had the first race. Not many of the rate drivers from then are still here.

1:06.0

Actually, I guess there's actually quite a lot of them because Kimmy was around and Hamilton

1:10.0

would have still been around and Vettle was around and most of them were actually

1:14.4

fans of the circuit when it was when they first got a ride of it. Actually Kimmy

1:19.0

wasn't he famously said that the first couple of turns were pretty good, but the rest of it was rather shit,

1:24.0

which is a quote that gets attributed to him pretty often.

1:28.4

This is outside of Abu Dhabi, of course, in the United Arab Emirates, which is on eastern shores of Seth, Bahrain and on the

1:34.8

Arabian Peninsula. Very wealthy state, the Kilefa family, lots of sort of the

1:41.2

Emirates, lots of input or lots of sort of the Emirates, lots of input or lots of

1:44.9

infrastructure building there in the past 20 30 years as a result of all the

1:48.8

oil that was found and of course a couple of big cities there Dubai being one of them a couple hundred miles to the south of it

1:55.7

Nabwoodabi of course where this race circuit is I've actually been here myself it's also

2:00.0

where Ferrari world is which is a great place to lose your wallet on a roller coaster if you are Fernando

2:06.4

Alonso.

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