Jenson Button had revealed in Monza that he wouldn't be getting in an F1 car in 2017 but that he had a contract for 2018 should McLaren want him, and should he want to do it at the age of 38. So it was with some relief that we had reached race 21!įor some though it was their final race ever. Not to mention the time away from home and the strains put on every relationship, be it family, friends or partners.

It is an incredibly glamorous existence on the surface but your body tells you it is an exhausting one underneath. It was hard to believe it was the last race already, this year seems to have gone quicker than any of the previous years despite being the longest. On Thursday evening we had one last team barbecue at our hotel, with our friends at Sky Germany and Sky Italy. Nico was guarded in his responses and didn't say anything we hadn't heard before but that is how he has been dealing with the situation and knowing what we do now, it obviously works for him. Nico kept to his one race at a time mantra while Lewis seemed relaxed.

As a result I interviewed Nico and Lewis before they went into the press conference instead of afterwards as I would normally do. The Thursday drivers' press conference had been split into two parts to allow those leaving the sport to have their time, and then those chasing the drivers title to have theirs. One with nothing to lose, and the other with everything to lose but a childhood dream to gain. I was doing a piece on how the two title-chasing drivers were feeling coming into the weekend. We had a full team for the last race and after our production meeting it was into the paddock to see what news there was and carry out any interviews for the weekend's pieces. We stay on Yas Island so it's a 15 minute walk around the perimeter of the circuit to make our way in through the security gates and under the paddock across to the TV compound. We arrived in Abu Dhabi in the early hours of Thursday morning from a late flight so it was straight into it later that day when we arrived at the track.

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