2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 18 of 19 in the 2011 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 13 November 2011 | ||
| Official name | 2011 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | ||
| Course | Yas Marina Circuit | ||
| Course length | 5.554 km (3.451 mi) | ||
| Distance | 55 laps, 305.470 km (189.805 mi) | ||
| Weather |
Fine and Dry Air Temp 25 °C (77 °F) |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:38.481 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Mark Webber
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Red Bull-Renault | |
| Time | 1:42.612 on lap 51 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
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Fine and Dry
The 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (formally the Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was the eighteenth and penultimate round of the 2011 Formula One season. It was held on 13 November 2011 at the Yas Marina Circuit on Yas Island, a man-made island on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It was the third running of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. As is customary with the race, it was the only twilight Grand Prix of the 2011 Formula One season, with a start time of 17:00 local time.
The race was won by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. Second was Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, with Jenson Button coming third in the other McLaren.
Sebastian Vettel, having won both of the previous iterations of the race for Red Bull-Renault, had been in pole position, but retired after a puncture in the first lap, near the second corner, which was his first retirement since the 2010 Korean Grand Prix, where he encountered a problem with his engine. As a result, this prevented him from equalling Michael Schumacher's record of 13 wins in one season, but Vettel did equal Nigel Mansell's 1992 record of 14 pole positions in one season. This was also the only race of 2011 in which neither Red Bull finished on the podium, as Vettel's teammate Mark Webber finished fourth.
Vitantonio Liuzzi returned to Hispania for the race, having been replaced by Narain Karthikeyan for the Indian Grand Prix to make way for him to drive in front of his home crowd.
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