F1 Post Race Analysis: Abu Dhabi 2022 — #DankeSeb
Formula 1 arrived in Abu Dhabi for the final race of the 2022 season but also the final race for Sebastian Vettel. It was a fitting setting considering it was here under the floodlights that Vettel won his first championship. While the accomplishment was a result of the hard work over the course of the year, the anointment as a champion kickstarted a lustrous career filled with records and decorations. Although the nostalgia of success was strong, Vettel’s 2022 Abu Dhabi experience was unfortunately a far cry from the jubilation of 2010. Vettel had the pace, but he didn’t have the strategy. Where did it go wrong? Let’s jump straight into it.
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Chart 1 — Tyre Strategy Summary
In order to assess strategy, it’s only logical to first observe the tyre choices and stint lengths employed by the field as showcased in Chart 1 above. Outside of the top 2, it was only Daniel Ricciardo, Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas that opted for the one stop strategy. By all counts, the approach was not the popular one. That being said, the one-stop was still the favoured approach for the top two teams as Perez and Sainz landed on…
