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BMW will experience its last Grand Prix this weekend in Abu Dhabi before retiring from the F1 paddocks. If the team will be keen to finish the season well, sadness will also be in order.

Published on 28/10/2009 à 15:24

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If the paddock will celebrate a first this weekend with a Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, it will also be an opportunity for BMW to bid farewell to the Formula 1. So obviously, the whole team wants to finish on a positive note and confirm after Robert Kubica?s second place at Interlagos a fortnight ago.

« Thanks to the eight points we acquired in Brazil, we moved up one position in the Manufacturers' standings », notes Mario Theissen, team director. “ We will be just as motivated for the last race of the season where we can't wait to race. »

« There will of course be great sadness within the team, after all, it will be our 70th and last race », he adds before taking stock of these four years. “ Except for our fourth and unfortunately final season, I am more than satisfied with what we have achieved since 2006. The first three years, the team achieved all the objectives it had set for itself, it achieved them. even outdated »

Taken over by a Swiss foundation, the team will however continue next season with new faces. “ I wish my successors that they continue this victorious path in F1? concludes the German leader.