Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder 'prime' tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound as the softer 'option' compound, as opposed to the previous year where Bridgestone brought the red-banded super-soft compound as the option.

In the week before the race, it was announced that the teams would trial several new compounds of tyre rubber in Friday practice, to offer tyre supplier Pirelli more feedback on their planned 2012 tyre compounds. Drivers are entitled to use up to eight engines over the course of the season without penalty, but Maldonado's eighth and final engine was damaged beyond repair when he retired from the Indian Grand Prix. Williams driver Pastor Maldonado took a ten-place grid penalty for exceeding his engine quota for the season. Vitantonio Liuzzi returned to Hispania for the race, having been replaced by Narain Karthikeyan for the Indian Grand Prix to make way for him to drive in front of his home crowd. This was also the only race of 2011 in which neither Red Bull finished on the podium, as Vettel's teammate Mark Webber finished fourth. As a result, this prevented him from equalling Michael Schumacher's record of 13 wins in one season, but Vettel did equal Nigel Mansell's 1992 record of 14 pole positions in one season. Sebastian Vettel, having won both of the previous iterations of the race for Red Bull Racing- Renault, had been in pole position, but retired after a puncture in the first lap, near the second corner, which was his first retirement since the 2010 Korean Grand Prix, where he encountered a problem with his engine. Second was Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, with Jenson Button coming third in the other McLaren. The race was won by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. As is customary with the race, it was the only twilight Grand Prix of the 2011 Formula One season, with a start time of 17:00 local time. It was the third running of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It was held on 13 November 2011 at the Yas Marina Circuit on Yas Island, a man-made island on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (formally the 2011 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) was the eighteenth and penultimate round of the 2011 Formula One season.

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