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Formula One - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Preview

Published online on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009

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Date: Sunday, November 1st

Start Time: 8 a.m. (et)

Site: Yas Marina Circuit -- Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Track: 5.554 km (3.451 miles), 21-turn road course

Laps: 55

Miles: 189.805

Capacity: 50,000

Total purse:

Payouts:

Year: 1st

On TV: SpeedChannel

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Past winners

Last race

Race: Brazilian Grand Prix (October 18th)

Site: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace in Interlagos -- Sao Paulo, Brazil

Miles: 190.067

Laps: 71

Finish line order: Mark Webber, Robert Kubica, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button

Time of Race: 1 hour, 32 minutes, 23.081 seconds

Average speed: 198.697 k.p.h.

Margin of victory: 7.626 seconds

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Entry list

#1 Lewis Hamilton (Stevenage, England) Mercedes/McLaren Vodafone

#2 Heikki Kovalainen (Finland) Mercedes/McLaren Vodafone

#3 Giancarlo Fisichella (Rome, Italy) Ferrari/Marlboro

#4 Kimi Raikkonen (Espoo, Finland) Ferrari/Marlboro

#5 Robert Kubica (Krakow, Poland) BMW-Sauber

#6 Nick Heidfeld (Monchengladbach,Ger) BMW-Sauber

#7 Fernando Alonso (Oviedo, Spain) Renault/ING

#8 Romain Grosjean (Geneva, Switz.) Renault/ING

#9 Jarno Trulli (Pescara, Italy) Toyota/Panasonic

#10 Kamui Kobayashi (Amagasaki, Japan) Toyota/Panasonic

#11 Jaime Alguersuari (Barcelona,Spain) Ferrari/Red Bull/Toro Rosso

#12 Sebastien Buemi (Aigle,Switzerland) Ferrari/Red Bull/Toro Rosso

#14 Mark Webber (Queanbeyan, Australia) Renault/Red Bull

#15 Sebastien Vettel (Heppenheim, Germ) Renault/Red Bull

#16 Nico Rosberg (Wiesbaden, Germany) Toyota/AT&T

#17 Kazuki Nakajima (Aichi, Japan) Toyota/AT&T

#19 Adrian Sutil (Grafelfing, Germany) Mercedes/Force India

#20 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Italy) Mercedes/Force India

#21 Jenson Button (Frome, England) Mercedes/BrawnGP

#22 Rubens Barrichello (Sao Paulo, Brz) Mercedes/BrawnGP

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Notes

The last race of the 2009 Formula One season takes place this weekendwith the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.The final event will be anti-climatic as far as the points battle isconcerned. Jenson Button clinched the F1 world championship with a fifth-placefinish two weeks ago in Brazil. Button comes to Abu Dhabi with an impassable15-point lead over Sebastian Vettel and a 17-point advantage over RubensBarrichello. A driver can score a maximum of 10 points only in each grandprix.Button dominated the first half of the 2009 campaign, winning six of the firstseven grand prix. That's quite impressive for a driver who had just onevictory during his previous six F1 seasons.The Yas Marina Circuit, conceived by German architect and well-known trackdesigner Hermann Tilke, includes 21 turns over 3.4 miles. The circuit is oneof the few venues on the F1 calendar to run in an anti-clockwise direction.It's also part of Abu Dhabi's Yas Island development, which covers an area of25-square kilometers.The 2010 Formula One season begins March 14 in Sakhir, Bahrain. Button wonlast year's Bahrain Grand Prix.10/27 16:56:45 ET


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