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For the final time this season, and hopefully ever, the race fuel qualifying phenomenon has seen the starting fuels of the grid released, and they show that Lewis Hamilton will not quite have things all his own way tomorrow.

Hamilton was the fourth lightest car in Q3 when he stormed to pole position, but he has 2-3 laps less fuel than Sebastian Vettel, who starts alongside him in the Red Bull, and a lap less than Mark Webber, who starts third in the second Red Bull, meaning he will need to build up a lead at the start to take the win.

The Brawn GP pair are also disadvantaged on fuel compared to the Red Bulls, who seem to be the handiest-placed of the cars after qualifying, with both Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button lighter than their former title rivals.

Robert Kubica was easily the lightest car, and will stop for fuel on around lap 3 or so, while Nico Rosberg was the heaviest Q3 runner, and will try and negotiate his way up into the points from 9th place.

Further back down the order, both Ferraris start with pretty much the same fuel levels, despite being seperated by 9 places on the grid, while Heikki Kovalainen will start his comeback driver from down in 13th with a very heavy car.

Finally, the Renault team have decided to give their refuelling crew the day off, and both cars are fuelled until lap 397.

	Abu Dhabi GP Fuel
	Driver	Weight	Grid Pos
1	Robert Kubica	654.5kg	7
2	Rubens Barrichello	655.0kg	4
3	Jenson Button	657.0kg	5
4	Lewis Hamilton	658.5kg	1
5	Mark Webber	660.0kg	3
6	Jarno Trulli	661.0kg	6
7	Sebastien Buemi	661.5kg	10
8	Sebastian Vettel	663.0kg	2
9	Nico Heidfeld	664.0kg	8
10	Nico Rosberg	665.0kg	9
11	Kimi Raikkonen	692.0kg	11
12	Giancarlo Fisichella	692.5kg	20
13	Kamui Kobayashi	694.3kg	12
14	Vitantonio Liuzzi	695.0kg	17
15	Adrian Sutil	696.0kg	18
16	Jamie Alguersuari	696.5kg	15
17	Heikki Kovalainen	697.0kg	13
18	Kazuki Nakajima	704.0kg	14
19	Fernando Alonso	708.3kg	16
20	Romain Grosjean	710.8kg	19

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