33 - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Prerace 2017
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🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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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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