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Article: Button says the desert palace is just champion; FROM A BARE STRIP OF SAND, ABU DHABI BUILDS A [pounds sterling]23bn VISION IN STEEL AND GLAS; ROADWORKS AT DONINGTON.(Sport)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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Byline: JONATHAN McEVOY Motor Racing Correspondent reports from Abu Dhabi
AT 5.02pm yesterday Nico Rosberg's Williams hurtled under the spaceage glass bridge connecting one wing of the Yas hotel to the other and emerged around Turn 19 to be met by the setting sun.
As his car kissed the red-andwhite kerb on the exit of the corner, there it was melting above another of the cluster of hotels built as part of the most extravagant, vulgar and perfect motor racing track on the planet.
Nothing here, from the confection of glass, steel and concrete - the [pounds sterling]800million Yas Marina circuit - to the timing of the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand ...