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November 14, 2010
Vettel Becomes F1's Youngest Champ: Driver Sebastian Vettel clinched the Formula One title by winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Sunday, to become the youngest ever champion. Fernando Alonso could have won by finishing fourth, but he ended up seventh. "Weltmeister!" Vettel's team screamed over the radio in triumph, which is German for "world champion."
posted by rcade to auto racing at 02:36 PM - 3 comments
Bismarck: It was processional because the Yas Marina circuit is a fucking shithole that needs to be dug up and reclaimed by the water surrounding it.
I wanted Webber, Alonso, Hamilton or Vettel to win. In that order.
Of course Webber screwed the pooch and cracked under the pressure. Love the guy, but he failed. Alonso I've always liked, but he acted like a petulant wanker on the slow down lap to Petrov. You're a two time world champion fighting a guy who is fighting for his career. Don't be a douche, K? I don't LIKE Hamilton... (All he does is fucking whinge over the team radio.) In the end I figured out that my problem this year has been with Red Bull (what they did to Webber at Silverstone), not Vettel, and ultimately am happy he won it. He seems like a nice bloke, and he was clearly crying on the radio on the slow down. As German champions go, at least he's not a cheating asshole like the previous one.
Australia should be the last race BTW, as it always was before we lost the marvelous Adelaide and got the not quite so marvelous Melbourne. And ALL Tilke designed circuits needs to be destroyed and someone needs to lock Tilke away for the rest of his life for crimes against racing.
posted by Drood at 12:51 AM on November 15, 2010
Drood has offered a politer version of what I think about the majority of new F1 tracks, their designer, and the revised calendar that gives them a prominence they really don't deserve. In the absence of Adelaide, finish with Interlagos, and stick the bullshit Tilke-bahn GPs somewhere else in the calendar.
In a season where it felt like a Red Bull procession, then got a bit wonky, I suppose you have to tip the cap to Vettel. Five wins, nine poles.
posted by etagloh at 11:56 PM on November 15, 2010
Of the four possible outcomes before the race started this was probably number three for me, in terms of what I wanted to see, (in order : Webber... Hamilton... Vettel...
the heat death of the universeFerrari).Something was lacking in the race itself though. It was fairly processional and the Renaults got a lot of TV time by being parked in front of a couple of the major combatants.
I still think Brazil should be the last race.