Our resident grumpy old git - Eric Silbermann - is back for one more race preview this season and there is a much bigger issue behind his grumpiness this week... Where to begin? There’s so little to say about Abu Dhabi that I actually think the person who invented the expression, “it’s a bit meh” must have come from here. You could describe the place as vanilla, but nothing stays white here for long, coated as it is with a thin layer of beige sand. Apparently, some folk come here on holiday – “ooh we do like a bit of winter sun,” they say, picking it as the nearest destination to Europe that has guaranteed warm weather and isn’t a war zone, but is far cheaper than the...
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