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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 Cloud

29°

Race Day Sun

28°

Year	Finish	Grid	Tyre Strategy
2016	None	None	Soft Laps 27 Super-soft Laps 7 Soft Laps 21
2015	None	None	Soft Laps 14 Super-soft Laps 11 Soft Laps 30
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

	Driver	Country	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton	Great Britain	345
2	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	302
3	Valtteri Bottas	Finland	280
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Australia	200
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Finland	193
6	Max Verstappen	Netherlands	158
7	Sergio Perez	Mexico	94
8	Esteban Ocon	France	83
9	Carlos Sainz	Spain	54
10	Felipe Massa	Brazil	42
11	Lance Stroll	Canada	40
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Germany	35
13	Romain Grosjean	France	28
14	Kevin Magnussen	Denmark	19
15	Fernano Alonso	Spain	15
16	Stoffel Vandoorne	Belgium	13
17	Jolyon Palmer	Great Britain	8
18	Daniil Kvyat	Russian	5
19	Pascal Wehrlein	Germany	5
20	Marcus Ericsson	Sweden	0
21	Antonio Giovinazzi	Italian	0

	Team	Points
1	Mercedes AMG Petronas	625
2	Ferrari	495
3	Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer	358
4	Force India Mercedes	177
5	Williams Mercedes	82
6	Toro Rosso	53
7	Renault	49
8	HAAS Ferrari	47
9	McLaren Honda	28
10	Sauber Ferrari	5