Summary

  • Rosberg wins, Hamilton 2nd, Raikkonen 3rd

  • Vettel 4th, Perez 5th, Ricciardo 6th

  • Hamilton tried to attack Rosberg in remaining laps

  • Champion questioned strategy call by team

  • Bottas collides with Button in pits

  • Contact between Alonso and Maldonado on lap 1

  • Maldonado out

  • Get involved: Your #starsoftheseason

Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. Andrew Benson
    Chief F1 writer at Yas Marina

    "After Lewis Hamilton romped to 11 poles and seven victories in the first 12 races of the season, to put a stranglehold on the championship, who would have bet that he would not start at the front of the grid again for the rest of the year. That, though, is what has happened. 

    “Hamilton mentioned in a Brazil a change in the car since Mercedes’ struggles in Hungary that had made him feel less comfortable and he has expanded on what he meant this weekend. ‘Part of our suspension, which is worth just over a tenth, a tenth and a half, I was thinking it wasn’t really working for me and I took it off,’ the world champion said. ‘I have used it for the last six races. So I tried to work around it and get back to where we were. I was thinking I would try something different but it didn't work.’”

  2. Aiming to end on a high

    Here we are then.

    From Lewis Hamilton's first victory of 2015 in Australia back in March...

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    ...to the Briton winning a third world championship in America...

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    ...we are just hours away from the curtain coming down on the 2015 season.

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    It has largely been a year of dominance for Hamilton, but things haven't quite gone his way in the last couple of races.

    Will he ensure he finishes on a high with victory in Abu Dhabi today?