2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix grid

22 comments on “2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix grid”

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   Lums (@lums)
   12th December 2020, 14:04

   MAX!!!
   What a driver. The future of F1 is looking promising.
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      anon
      12th December 2020, 14:06

      @lums considering the performance difference of the cars, I would have said that Norris’s lap is the stand out lap from Q3.
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         Jeffrey (@jeffreyj)
         12th December 2020, 14:12

         Yeah, by quite a margin I’d say. Lando out-qualified his teammate by over .3’s!! Of course VER did as well, but you know…. Albon.
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            anon
            12th December 2020, 14:23

            @jeffreyj and it’s not as if it was simply because Sainz made a mistake either, as Sainz’s time was a fairly solid lap in its own right too. Norris’s first lap was also a pretty decent one too, considering that he was fairly close to pole for somebody on a used set of tyres and a midfield car.
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         BasCB (@bascb)
         12th December 2020, 14:55

         Yeah, I just saw both Max’ lap (side to side with Bottas) and Landos laps and that lap in the McLaren really looks perfectly done.
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   sumedh
   12th December 2020, 14:12

   George could have put Merc on pole today.
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      Blazzz (@blazzz)
      12th December 2020, 14:13

      Well considering he couldn’t put it on pole last week, at a shorter track, he probably would have been further behind Bottas today.
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      DeanR (@deanr)
      12th December 2020, 14:19

      Hehehehe nope!
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      lexusreliabilty?
      12th December 2020, 14:19

      George could have put Merc on pole today.

      And Hamilton would have put it on pole and won the race last weekend?
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   Srdjan Mandic (@srga91)
   12th December 2020, 14:14

   Great laps from Max and Lando! But what was going on with Mercedes and also Charles?! Both Mercs and Leclerc were going slower and slower after Q1! Surely it can’t be down to wind speed or some dust/sand blowing onto the track?!
   Very strange to see, considering the Mercs have been going faster than last year at most tracks this season.
   And here they are all of a sudden 0.5 slower than last year. That’s quite a lot.
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      Blazzz (@blazzz)
      12th December 2020, 14:16

      @srga91

      Merc didn’t seem to make the gains that Red Bull were making when they switched to the softer rubber, even in practice. This track is a weird one and one of the longest though, maybe they were just overheating their tyres.
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         Srdjan Mandic (@srga91)
         12th December 2020, 14:26

         @blazzz
         That might be an explanation. It surely must’ve something to do with the tyres.
         I was having a look at last year’s best sector times to get a comparison and it was quite interesting:
         Mercedes were matching their best time in S1, lost out by 0.2 in S2 (could be down to engine mode) and lost even more, 0.3 in the final sector.
         RB lost 0.1 in S1, lost about 0.05 in S2 and again 0.1 in S3.
         Ferrari had the strangest differences in time, as you’d probably expect. They lost 0.4 in S1, also lost about 0.35 in S2, but strangely they improved by 0.4 in the final sector.
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            Blazzz (@blazzz)
            12th December 2020, 14:31

            +1
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   Blazzz (@blazzz)
   12th December 2020, 14:15

   What a lap by Verstappen! Way to close out qualifying, top 3 seperated by less than a tenth. Quite exciting and I think it sets up the race nicely. Bottas needed that I think. But for me- Norris had the lap of the day in that Mclaren. To be a couple of tenths off pole in a Mclaren is highly commendable.
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      Ju88sy (@)
      12th December 2020, 14:19

      @blazzz Yep great laps from Max and Lando, but especially Lando remarkably close to pole and finishes the season 9-8 in his quali head to head with Carlos.
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      DeanR (@deanr)
      12th December 2020, 14:24

      Yes fantastic lap by Max. Well done sir!
      Seems a bit odd that the mercs were so slow… slower than last year. Most strange. Still… great lap from max! Controlled and aggressive driving. Very un max like but Kudos to him. He is learning.
      Waiting to hear all the anti Lewis brigade with all the: George is faster, George is better. Let the entertainment begin😀
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   Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
   12th December 2020, 14:26

   Seems McLaren holds the advantage for the moment. If Racing Point had two cars in Q3, it would have been nice.
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   bosyber (@bosyber)
   12th December 2020, 15:41

   Norris really had a good lap too indeed, just saw that one, pretty special effort. Hope next year he can show more of that. Verstappen too, of course, but he’s been pretty consistent, just that today they actually had the pace (or Merc. lacked a bit, I think) so his good effort gave them pole. The AT also showing up well and that lap by Kvyat really was a good lap to say goodby to F1 qualifying too.

   Renault a bit disappointing maybe. Perez Q1 lap was great (would have been 8th had he driven it in Q3, w/o the track evolution, but probably using the Q3 mode one last time, right!), pity he has to start at the back so it didn’t matter much.
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   OOliver
   12th December 2020, 15:50

   I find it strange Kvyat’s car is suddenly working properly these last few races.
   I may be wrong, but I believed at the beginning of the season they had decided to get a Japanese driver into the car and Kvyat didn’t get as much support as Gasly being that he was going to be leaving anyway.
   Now the deed’s been done no need to hold back the drivers on their setup direction.
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   Patrick (@paeschli)
   12th December 2020, 16:45

   Maybe Kvyat doesn’t feel pressure anymore, knowing he’s gonna lose the seat anyway?
   Good couple of races from him.
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      David Edwards
      12th December 2020, 18:26

      He said post race the car has only been to his liking for the last 4 races. Now he can drive it properly…
9. 

   Davey
   13th December 2020, 9:55

   And there’s silence around Portugal.

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