2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

  2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Race details[1]
Race 17 of 19 in the 2013 Formula One season
Date	3 November 2013
Official name	2013 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Location	Yas Marina Circuit Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.554 km (3.451 mi)
Distance	55 laps, 305.355 km (189.739 mi)
Pole position
Driver	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault
Time	1:39.957
Fastest lap
Driver	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari
Time	1:43.434 on lap 55
Podium
First	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
Second	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault
Third	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (formally known as the 2013 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix)^[1] was a Formula One motor race that was held at the Yas Marina Circuit on 3 November 2013. The race was the seventeenth round of the 2013 season, and marked the 5th running of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The race, contested over 55 laps, was won by Sebastian Vettel, driving a Red Bull. Mark Webber finished second, and by Nico Rosberg driving a Mercedes was third. Vettel won the race 30.8s ahead of his Red Bull Team mate Mark Webber. Vettel's victory equalled Alberto Ascari and Michael Schumacher's record in 1953 and 2004 record for most consecutive wins in a season. This was Red Bull's 100th podium. Adrian Sutil scored his last ever World Championship points at this race, Paul di Resta also scored his final points.

Report

Background

Partial solar eclipse

During the race it was possible to observe a partial solar eclipse from 17:22 local time to 17:39 local time when the Sun set, and this was shown briefly during the race live broadcast.

Tyres

Like the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre.

Free Practice

Romain Grosjean and Lewis Hamilton were top in the first practice session.^[2]

Red Bull drivers were fastest in the second practice session with Vettel leading Webber by a tenth of a second.^[3]

During third practice Mercedes and Red Bull were close at the top and the session ended with Vettel two tenths of a second ahead of Webber who in turn was less than a hundredth of a second faster than Hamilton’s Mercedes^[4]

Qualifying

Webber qualified in pole position ahead of his Red Bull team mate Vettel who qualified in second. The Mercedes drivers of Hamilton and Rosberg qualified on the second row of the grid. Fernando Alonso was the highest placed driver in the World Championship standings who failed to qualify for the final round of qualifying.

Jules Bianchi was penalised before the start of qualifying five places on the grid for an unscheduled gearbox change.^[5]

Post-qualifying

Kimi Räikkönen was excluded from qualifying and was relegated to twenty-second place on the grid having originally qualified fifth place on the grid after his car failed a floor deflection test.^[6][7]

Race

The race began with Vettel in second on the grid overtaking Webber into the first corner and then leading until the chequered flag . Rosberg moved up to second position, while Kimi Räikkönen starting from the back of the grid broke his right-front suspension after contact with Giedo van der Garde, causing him to retire from the race. German Nico Hülkenberg, during his first pit-stop was deemed to have been unsafely released and was given a drive through penalty.^[8] Grosjean, advanced from sixth on the grid to fourth after the start. During the first half of the race, Felipe Massa led his team-mate Alonso, but was overtaken by Alonso in the latter stages of the race. After Alonso's second pit-stop, he came out of the pitlane and moved around backmarker Jean-Éric Vergne, going off the racetrack with all four wheels in a move that consequently caused Massa to run wide into turn five. ^[9] Vettel won the race by 30.8s over Webber.^[10]

Post race

During the cool down lap Vettel and Webber performed doughnuts. As Vettel had done one after the previous race in India, this time he incurred no penalty from the stewards.^[11][12]

Alonso was sent for precautionary medical checks after a kerb impact measured at 25g.^[13]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:41.568	1:40.575	1:39.957	1
2	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:41.683	1:40.781	1:40.075	2
3	9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:41.420	1:40.473	1:40.419	3
4	10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:40.693	1:40.477	1:40.501	4
DSQ	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	1:41.276	1:40.971	1:40.542	22^1
6	11	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	1:41.631	1:40.931	1:40.576	5
7	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:41.447	1:40.948	1:40.997	6
8	4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:41.254	1:40.989	1:41.015	7
9	6	Sergio Pérez	McLaren-Mercedes	1:41.687	1:40.812	1:41.068	8
10	19	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:41.884	1:40.852	1:41.111	9
11	3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:41.397	1:41.093		10
12	14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:41.676	1:41.133		11
13	5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:41.817	1:41.200		12
14	18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:41.692	1:41.279		13
15	16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:41.365	1:41.395		14
16	17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	1:41.862	1:41.447		15
17	12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:41.999			16
18	15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:42.051			17
19	21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	1:43.252			18
20	22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	1:43.398			21^2
21	20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	1:43.528			19
22	23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	1:44.198			20
107% time: 1:47.741
Source:[14]

Notes:
^1  - Kimi Räikkönen qualified fifth, but was disqualified from qualifying when his car failed a floor deflection test.^[14]
^2  - Jules Bianchi qualified twentieth, but penalised five grid places for an unscheduled gearbox change^[14] and started from twenty-first after Räikkönen was disqualified from qualifying.^[6]

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	55	1:38:06.106	2	25
2	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	55	+30.829	1	18
3	9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	55	+33.650	3	15
4	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	55	+34.802	6	12
5	3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	55	+1:07.181	10	10
6	14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	55	+1:18.174	11	8
7	10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	55	+1:19.267	4	6
8	4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	55	+1:22.886	7	4
9	6	Sergio Pérez	McLaren-Mercedes	55	+1:31.198	8	2
10	15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	55	+1:33.257	17	1
11	16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	55	+1:35.989	14
12	5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	55	+1:43.767	12
13	12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	55	+1:44.295	16
14	11	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	54	+1 Lap	5
15	17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	54	+1 Lap	15
16	19	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	54	+1 Lap	9
17	18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	54	+1 Lap	13
18	21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	54	+1 Lap	18
19	20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	54	+1 Lap	19
20	22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	53	+2 Laps	21
21	23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	53	+2 Laps	20
Ret	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	0	Collision\ Suspension	22
Source:[15]

Notes

• Last pole position: Mark Webber.
• 60th podium: Sebastian Vettel.
• Last points for Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil.

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Sebastian Vettel 347 2 Fernando Alonso 217 3 Kimi Räikkönen 183 4 Lewis Hamilton 175 5 Mark Webber 166

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Red Bull-Renault 513 2 Mercedes 334 3 Ferrari 323 4 Lotus-Renault 297 5 McLaren-Mercedes 95

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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