The day ended early for BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica, who appeared to suffer an engine failure as he accelerated out of the hairpin at Turn Seven - sending thick white smoke into the Abu Dhabi night sky.

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The mob of young Chicanos outside had disappeared very suddenly, roaring off into the night in a brace of white pickup trucks.

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