This morning we asked for your stars of the season. Max Verstappen was by far and away the most popular option, but we'd love to read a few more. 

Who, or what, has stood out for you in 2015? The groundhog in Canada?

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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Yas Marina

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“There’s not much up for grabs championship-wise at this final race of the season, with the drivers’ top three sewn up and the constructors’ top five as well. But nestling below Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel is an interesting little vignette - Williams driver Valtteri Bottas is after Brazil one point ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen in fourth place. There is a bit of needle between the two Finns - albeit in a low-key, characteristically Nordic fashion - after their collisions in Russia and Mexico, both of which most in F1 feel were Raikkonen’s fault.

“Raikkonen has said that, while he will try for the best result, ‘it's not going to change our world’ whether he is fourth or fifth. But here in Abu Dhabi Bottas could not resist a bit of a dig: ‘It doesn’t matter if it’s Kimi or anyone else,’ he said, ‘but it would be nice to be ahead of one quicker car in the championship.’”

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Speaking of Lewis Hamilton, he's penned his latest column and in it he describes this year as the best of his career.

"It's the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi this weekend and, even after 18 races at the end of a long season, I feel fresh and excited about a special few days.

"My target is to win here, as it is at every race, and that's all I'm thinking about as the weekend starts.

"This has been without any doubt the best year of my career in terms of my driving and overall performance."

Read more here.

It was first blood to Lewis Hamilton in first practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as he finished fastest ahead of Nico Rosberg.

The session was largely uneventful but we should see things hot up in second practice, which gets under way at 13:00 GMT, as teams get properly stuck into setting up for the weekend.

Live coverage of that will be online and on BBC Red Button just before. In the meantime, you can watch FP1 highlights here.

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Looming over the circuit in Abu Dhabi this week is a giant 44.

There's similar scenes throughout Abu Dhabi, but that's not in recognition of Lewis Hamilton, who's car number is 44, but rather United Arab Emirates' upcoming 44th National Day.

Amazingly, Hamilton is also going for his 44th grand prix win this weekend. Coincidence? Likely, but just maybe a Hamilton win is written in the stars...

Familiar stuff at the top of the timesheet then as Lewis Hamilton leads from Nico Rosberg. 

FP1 is deceptive, though, with work done in it more with an eye on 2016 rather than this weekend.

Second practice, however, should give us more of an idea. We'll be back at 12:30 GMT. I'll leave you with Andrew Benson's report from Abu Dhabi and see you in a little under two hours.

Keep you stars of the season coming to #bbcf1

1) Hamilton 2) Rosberg 3) Raikkonen 4) Kvyat 5) Vettel 6) Hulkenberg 7) Ricciardo 8) Perez 9) Maldonado 10) Massa 

11) Bottas 12) Verstappen 13) Button 14) Alonso 15) Nasr 16) Sainz 17) Ericsson 18) Palmer 19) Stevens 20) Merhi

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Fernando Alonso needs the crew from Star Trek.

"I have no power," he reports over team radio.

Sadly, there is no Scotty to come to Alonso's aid and instead he has to complete the all too familiar limp back to the pits.

One minute left.

"The car's not feeling good," says the man who currently tops of the timesheet - Lewis Hamilton.

He's not been completely happy throughout, having complained of his seat position early on.

Jolyon Palmer is keen to rack up the laps, perhaps a little too keen as he spins at Turn 18. He swiftly swings himself back round the right way and gets going again.

He has clocked a timed lap, a 1:47.552, the 18th fastest of the day.

Nico Rosberg has been the busiest driver of the session with 29 laps under the belt, but he might well be done for the day now.

"Box, box, box we have low left rear pressure," he is told. 

Five minutes left.

...he's checking it twice.

No time to remove the helmet for Sebastian Vettel, who scribbles down a few notes before heading back out.

A very studious driver. He's currently eighth fastest with 1:45.076.

Slightly different Williams livery to what we've seen this season, with Martini branding removed. No alcohol sponsorship allowed to be on show in Abu Dhabi.

Meanwhile, we were told earlier than Jolyon Palmer won't be getting back out in this session. Well, he is. Lotus have patched up that water leak and he's got 10 minutes to get a few laps under his belt.

Someone got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!

Nico Rosberg's race engineer relays a bit of technical info over the radio to the German.

"Not a great place to tell me," Rosberg snaps back.

"Ok copy, copy," is the quick, slightly embarrassed reply.

Rosberg is still second fastest, a tenth of a second down on Lewis Hamilton.