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ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - ADIOS TO PROBABLY THE MOST CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER FORMULA ONE SEASON!!! FINIS!

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  With Sebastian Vettel, it is arguable that he has achieved his humanity before and since he has become a great formula 1 racing champion. I mean, the impression I have is that of me watching Hamilton and Vettel learning to appreciate, respect and forming a beautiful relationship with one another over the past several years.  I have watched them transforming themselves and their relationship from antagonistic and almost bitter competitors, seeing one or the other having been disrespectful or malicious, even when there has been no certain proof of such ill-will. Into becoming beautiful human beings.  Whether or not, and, if so, to what extent this beautiful transformation has been achieved partly because Seb has not for a long time been a big challenger to Hamilton for the championship, might indeed be a factor.  What is certain, however, is that Hamilton and Sebastian have recovered the genuine respect and friendship I gathered they had had in their pre-Formula 1 years.  They have mov

ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - ADIOS TO PROBABLY THE MOST CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER FORMULA ONE SEASON!!! PART 1.

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  Another Big Congratulations to Team Red Bull and Max Verstappen for adding Sunday's Abu Dhabi's 2022 Formula 1 Grand Prix to their season's tally, and to Sergio Perez for making it to P. 3, behind the Intrepid Charles Leclerc in his Team Ferrari machine.  A Big Congratulations to you, Charles and Team Ferrari, for making it to P.2, and winning the Drivers' World Championship Runner-up title. And so did we have a not unexpected end to the 2022 Ferrari Season, one which, I surmise, could not have come quickly enough for Team Mercedes and their never-giving-up races, Hamilton and Russell.  Yes, Hamilton was forced to DNF in the dying laps of the race, a race which began with a good promise of the Mercedes' racers completing it higher up the order than they had started, until things began to, not quite fall apart, but become ungainly and cause for some concern.  It began with Hamilton and Carlos Sainz coming together as they negotiate a bend in the second lap of the r