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Formula 1 first came to Abu Dhabi in
2007 in the guise of the first ever
Formula One Festival. Announced in
January 2007, the event which took
place on 3 February 2007 was free,
and the largest gathering of current
Formula One cars and drivers outside
of a Grand Prix. At the festival it
was announced that Abu Dhabi had won
the rights to host a Grand Prix from
2009 until 2016. Later that year,
Etihad Airways negotiated a
three-year deal for them to become
sponsors of the Grand Prix.
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the 2009 Formula One season, the Abu
Dhabi Grand Prix was added to the
schedule. It was provisionally
announced as being held on 15
November 2009, as the 19th and final
Grand Prix of the season. Both the
Canadian Grand Prix and French Grand
Prix were later removed from the
provisional schedule, and as a
result the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was
moved to 1 November 2009 where it
would become the last of 17
meetings. In August 2009, it was
announced that the start time would
be 1700 local time (1300 UTC), and
that the race would be floodlit. The
inaugural race was won by Sebastian
Vettel for Red Bull Racing.
The
Yas Marina Circuit is located on Yas
Island - a 2,550 hectares (25.5 km2)
island on the east coast of Abu
Dhabi - and the 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand
Prix was the first major event to
take place on the circuit
Etihad
Airways is the current major sponsor
of Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Abu
Dhabi Grand Prix was announced in
early 2007 at the Abu Dhabi F1
Festival in the United Arab
Emirates. The first race took place
on November 1 2009, held at the
Hermann Tilke designed Yas Marina
Circuit
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