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"A great track, one that I really enjoy driving at every year. It’s definitely the best track in terms of quality over facilities and the place is just incredible.

You’ve got the desert, you’ve got the sea; it’s just a great place, nice people that are very welcoming and we get a lot of British fans that go there so it is a good place to go in my opinion. It's usually around my mums birthday so it’s a good one she always comes to.

We do the testing in the daytime and at sundown there are a couple of corners where the sun is right in your face and it's very difficult to see where you are going. You have to decide which visor you choose through those sessions, personally I use a light smoke, and then a tinted.

As a driver it's very physical there generally, it's quite warm and you are constantly moving the car from the straights".

— Lewis Hamilton

Practice Sun

29°

Qualifying Sun

28°

Race Day Sun

28°

Year	Finish	Grid	Tyre Strategy
2015	None	None	Super-soft Laps 11 Soft Laps 30 Soft Laps 14
2014	1st	2	Super-soft Laps 10 Soft Laps 21 Soft Laps 24
2013	7th	4	Soft Laps 7 Medium Laps 22 Medium Laps 26
2012	None	1	Soft Laps 19
2011	1st	2	Soft Laps 16 Soft Laps 24 Medium Laps 15
2010	2nd	2	Soft Hard

	Driver	Country	Points
1	Nico Rosberg	Germany	367
2	Lewis Hamilton	Great Britain	355
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Australia	246
4	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	197
5	Max Verstappen	Netherlands	192
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Finland	178
7	Sergio Perez	Mexico	97
8	Valtteri Bottas	Finland	85
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Germany	66
10	Fernando Alonso	Spain	53
11	Felipe Massa	Brazil	51
12	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Spain	46
13	Romain Grosjean	France	29
14	Daniil Kvyat	Russian	25
15	Jenson Button	Great Britain	21
16	Kevin Magnussen	Denmark	7
17	Felipe Nasr	Brazil	2
18	Stoffel Vandoorne	Belgium	1
19	Jolyon Palmer	Great Britain	1
20	Pascal Wehrlein	Germany	1
21	Rio Haryanto	Indonesia	0
22	Esteban Gutierrez	Mexico	0
23	Esteban Ocon	France	0
24	Marcus Ericsson	Sweden	0

	Team	Points
1	Mercedes	722
2	Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer	446
3	Ferrari	375
4	Force India Mercedes	163
5	Williams Mercedes	136
6	McLaren Honda	75
7	Toro Rosso Ferrari	63
8	Haas Ferrari	29
9	Renault	8
10	Sauber Ferrari	2
11	MRT Mercedes	1