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By Caroline Cheese
0940: Now then, it’s about time you did some work isn’t it Text 81111, tweet onTwitter](http://twitter.com/carolinecheese)or 606 on606.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A59040047s_fromedit=1&s_typedarticle=edit&s_type=15&s_sport=motorsport)0937: Had an email from a friend in Abu Dhabi this morning describing the new circuit as “like a video game on steroids”. Nice. Final practice - of the 2009 season in fact - is up in 23 minutes. Qualifying at 1300 GMT. Don’t go anywhere. Unless you’re working for the emergency services, in which case you are excused.
0930: Hello. Formula 1’s great and good will have woken up in the luxurious five-star Yas Hotel. They will have marvelled at the white leather headboards of the beds, designed to resemble the billowing sails of a tall ship. They will have customised their mood lighting and wandered into the all-glass bathroom - with rain shower. They will have breakfasted in one of the nine fine restaurants. But they’ve missed a gloriously drizzly morning in Shepherds Bush. Oh yes.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.