McLaren v Ferrari, Max v George + Hamilton’s Mercedes goodbye – 2024 Abu Dhabi GP Preview with Pedro de la Rosa
F1 Nation
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Who will win the battle between McLaren and Ferrari to become World Champions? How is Lewis Hamilton feeling ahead of his final race with Mercedes? Is Pedro surprised by the war of words between Max Verstappen and George Russell? And will this be Sergio Perez’s final race for Red Bull?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Yasmarina Circuit for F1 Nation's preview of the season-ending |
| 0:09.2 | Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Tom Clarkson, I'm in this beautiful paddock overlooking the marina and I'm thinking |
| 0:15.4 | about the weekend ahead because there's so much on the line. |
| 0:19.4 | Will McLaren or Ferrari become world champions? Will Lando |
| 0:22.7 | Norris hold off Charle-Clair for P2 in the driver's standings? And how will the closest |
| 0:28.5 | title fight in Formula 2 history end? Joining me in the paddock is former McLaren and Ferrari |
| 0:35.3 | driver and now Aston Martin Ambassador Pedro de la Rosa. Pedro, |
| 0:40.0 | it is great to have you back on the show. How are you? Yeah, thank you very much. It's been a few |
| 0:45.1 | months now. I mean, the listeners are complaining that I was not there for long. I must apologize |
| 0:51.6 | as well. I was not feeling that well the last two months. So I'm back and fully recovered. So it's fantastic to be here, and it's fantastic to be in Abu Dhabi, |
| 0:59.4 | really. Firing on all cylinders, you are. A V10. I'm a V10. I'm not a V8 anymore. |
| 1:04.8 | Look, let's start the show by talking about the Constructors Championship battle. |
| 1:09.5 | McLaren versus Ferrari, the Papaya team, |
| 1:12.7 | 21 points ahead of the Red Team. Who is the track better suited to? Wow, difficult one, |
| 1:20.3 | actually, because if you listen to the teams, one characteristic that it's been the highlight of, |
| 1:26.7 | well, it's been common during the whole championship, |
| 1:30.5 | is that no team has really predicted very well the performance levels at each track we go. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, it's been quite random in a way. |
| 1:39.5 | And that's the beauty about the Formula One nowadays is that there's four teams that can win races and you |
| 1:45.8 | actually don't know if it will be a Ferrari or a McLaren here but it might be a Mercedes. |
| 1:49.7 | So it is difficult, difficult to predict really and theoretically Ferrari is quite good or better |
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