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No easing up from Max Verstappen despite wrapping up the drivers' title in Las Vegas.

The curtain will come down on the longest F1 season next weekend with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where one of McLaren or Ferrari will celebrate winning the constructors' championship.

That's all from us, goodbye!

McLaren's Lando Norris, speaking to Sky Sports about the penalty he received: "Honestly I don't know what I did wrong.

"Apparently I didn't slow under the yellow, I am not an idiot if I saw a yellow I would have slowed down. The rule is you have to slow down under the yellow, so it is a fair penalty.

"An opportunity missed."

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent

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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won a dramatic Qatar Grand Prix that was brought to life by two mid-race safety cars and a penalty for McLaren’s Lando Norris.

Verstappen was in a tight fight with Norris throughout the race until the Briton was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty for failing to slow for yellow flags.

Verstappen himself was instrumental in getting Norris the penalty after pointing the incident out to his team.

Meanwhile, there will be questions about the management of the race by governing body the FIA, after Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz both suffered punctures, apparently from debris on track.

The debris was from a wing mirror that had been lying on the pit straight for a number of laps before it was smashed by one of the cars. The FIA has not responded to questions as to why the mirror was not cleared up earlier.

The punctures happened shortly after the mirror was hit, and the safety car was called to allow marshals to clear the shattered carbon-fibre and glass.

Although Norris challenged Verstappen at the restart, and the Dutchman defended his position robustly, their tussle was academic, because of Norris’ penalty.

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Max Verstappen wins the Qatar Grand Prix for the second year running in the Red Bull, he said: “It was a very good race, yesterday in qualifying the car was a lot better and today, that first stint was very, very fast, Lando [Norris] and I doing 1.8seconds of each other the whole time and pushing each other, it was honestly a lot of fun out there.

“This track has a lot of grip and this year the tyres were really holding on so that was a lot of fun to really be pushing the tyre and we went really long in that first stint, after that there were a lot of safety car moments that you had to take car.

“I’m very happy it’s been a long while in the drive and to be this competitive and I’m very proud of everyone in the team to turn it around within a day so they definitely deserve this victory.”

On the safety cars: “On the hard tyres there’s very little grip, you just come out of the box and it was already called and immediately we had the safety car and behind the safety car you can’t warm them up.

“I tried something different out of the last corner where I had no rear grip basically so I just struggled for traction out of the corner and it got a bit spicy into Turn One, but I think that’s great to see and after that we drove it until the end with good pace, so I’m happy to win here.”

On the potential performance of the last race: “It’s difficult to say, the last three years we’ve always been quite competitive there [Abu Dhabi] so I hope we can be competitive there again but we will pay attention to detail to try and optimise the car and hopefully we can fight for a win there again.”

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who finished second in Qatar: "I'm really happy, I mean honestly I would have signed a paper that told me that we will finish second after a weekend like this. Especially on a track like this because our car characteristics is not fitting very well with this track and we knew it was going to be a difficult weekend compared to McLaren but in the end we managed to take some points from them so yeah the fight will be all the way to the last race in Abu Dhabi next week."

On the debris on track: "Honestly, I don't know if it was the debris or the way the kerbs are. I just ignored it because I knew that there was too much performance in it and I was just hoping to not have a puncture myself as well. For the debris, I was staying left on the straights, hoping it wouldn't bite me and it didn't. It's a shame for Carlos, obviously as a team it would have been great to be further up with Carlos but yeah it's the way it goes and it's still a positive weekend for the team."

On where he sees the Ferrari performance in Abu Dhabi: "It's difficult to know. I think we are all close, so I think it's going to be very tight but it's exciting. 21 points is still a lot and everything is possible, we will give it our all."

And of course there's another investigation - Sergio Perez called to the stewards to explain 'dangerous driving' at Turn 14.

Oscar Piastri in the McLaren finishes in third, he said: “It was a tricky race, the cars at the front seemed to have similar pace to each other. It was really tough to make inroads to get to DRS and then fire in to the DRS overtakes, a couple of good moments with Charles [Leclerc] out there and nice to end up on the podium, but not quite the result we were looking for.”

On the constructors’ battle: “I’m not sure what Lando’s [Norris] penalty was for but obviously quite a big one so yeah it’s going to be an exciting end to the year I think hopefully we can be strong but it’s going to take everything we’ve got to seal the deal.”

On the race itself: “I think with the temperature, the track was a lot faster this year so it should be tougher [compared to last year] but the fact that it’s not a sauna in the car this year has made life a bit easily. A fun race, a mega track, it’s probably the most fun of the whole year round here. I enjoyed the race but just not quite the result.”

Here's how it looks in the constructors' championship. McLaren still in the driving seat with a 21-point lead but Ferrari are very much still in it.

Red Bull, however, are now out of the fight.

Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Max Verstappen is proving yet again why he is a four-time world champion, he didn't look that great in the sprint race but they made some changes and he's come alive in qualifying and in the race today.

Fireworks are exploding above the circuit as Max Verstappen celebrates his ninth win of the season.

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Harry Benjamin
BBC F1 Commentator

George Russell is given a penalty for five seconds at the flag but it shouldn't affect his finishing position, he will hold on to fourth.

George Russell is given a five second penalty for a safety car infringement, but it won't be enough to cause him to lose fourth place.

Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Hats off to Zhou Guanyu, what a drive!

Celebrations at Red Bull and celebrations at Sauber too - what a result for Zhou Guanyu as he finishes eighth.

Charles Leclerc takes second with Oscar Piastri third.

The battle for the constructors' championship goes to the final race of the season.

Max Verstappen is six seconds clear here and cruising to victory.

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Harry Benjamin
BBC F1 Commentator

It looks like this constructors' battle will go down to the wire.

Lewis Hamilton, still out on the track, overtakes Yuki Tsunoda and he is up to 12th as we begin the final lap.

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