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Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Formula 1 first came to Abu Dhabi in 2007 as the Formula One Festival. Announced in January 2007, the event, scheduled for February 3, 2007, was free and was the grand prix’s outstanding Formula One circus and Colorado’s largest jamboree. It was announced that Abu Dhabi had won the rights to host the Grand Prix from 2009 to 2016. Later that year, Etihad Airways signed a three-year Grand Prix deal with them.

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is ​​a Formula One motor racing event. The first race was held on 1 November 2009 at the Hermann Tilke-designed Yas Marina Circuit on Yas Island near Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The iconic W Abu Dhabi – Yas Island sits above the small strait between the 13th and 14th turns. It was announced at the Abu Dhabi F1 Festival in 2007. On 25 June 2008, the FIA ​​announced the provisional 2009 Formula One calendar with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as the 19th and final race of the season on 15 November.

However, on 5 November 2008, it was announced that the race would be held as the season finale on 1 November, two weeks earlier, on the 17th, and would be held as the final race. The event has been held every year since then and is scheduled to take place at the Yas Marina Circuit until at least 2030.

The inaugural race was Formula One’s first day-night race, starting at 17:00 local time. The floodlights used to illuminate the circuit were turned on at the start of the event to illuminate the circuit from daylight to darkness. After this, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is ​​also a day-night race.

The Yas Marina Circuit was designed by Herman Tilke and is located on Yas Island – a 2,550-hectare island off the east coast of Abu Dhabi. The 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was to be the first major event on the circuit.

In June 2021, Saif Al Noaimi, Acting CEO of Abu Dhabi Motorsports Management, announced that amendments to the track’s Grand Prix layout had been approved, and the amendments would be completed in time for the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The Turn 5–6 chicane and Turn 7 hairpin have been replaced by a single, wider hairpin, now at Turn 5; Triple chicane and 90-degree left-hander single on turns 11-14, Destination Bank has been replaced by Curve, which is now on at nine o’clock; And the trident of Turns 17-19 and the penultimate Turn 20 were eliminated so that the plasma passed through the third sector at higher speeds.