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F1: Chequered Flag

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix preview

F1: Chequered Flag

BBC

Sports

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jennie Gow, Harry Benjamin and British racing driver Alice Powell look ahead to the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. We look back on Max Verstappen’s dominant season, hearing from the Dutchman, discuss Christian Horner and Lewis Hamilton, plus look at the things still to play for heading into this weekend.

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0:00.0

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0:44.8

A lot has happened since the first race of the season back in Bahrain on the 5th of March.

0:58.0

Max Verstappen and Red Bull have been in a league of their own.

1:01.0

We've welcome Vegas to the F F1 lineup and this weekend the sun sets on the

1:06.0

2023 season. I'm Denny Gao and this is 5-Life Formula One. As is now customary, Yasmarina hosts the final race of the season and Harry Benjamin

1:22.4

is not iconic but it's

1:24.4

predictable and after Vegas will take predictable.

1:28.3

Yeah I suppose we will it's we've become a custom to it over the years hosting the F1 finale Abidabi.

1:35.4

I was always a bit sentimental. I used to like Brazil being the final round. I know

1:39.8

there has been a little bit of favoring for that to return but Abu Dhabi has become the one to go to the end of the year

1:46.9

And it's an intriguing one as well because really only

1:50.8

FP2 quality Quali, is representative for the actual sessions we'll get for the race.

1:57.8

FP1 and FP3 are in the daytime and of course this is a twilight race back in 2009 this first came on.

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