McLaren's Jenson Button (12th on the grid) has written on Instagram: "Looking forward to jumping in my girl today, it's been a pleasure to drive her this weekend."

He's hasn't said that all season...

David Coulthard
BBC F1 co-commentator

"I was at an event last night where Toto Wolff said if we let these guys do their own thing, they would lose all the time. I'm not sure about that.

"The championship is over. Let these guys race."

The Sunday Times story has a picture of Lewis Hamilton with the headline 'Second best... again'. 

They say that Hamilton 'may feign indifference, but he really does not to be heading into the off-season on the back of a run of success for team-mate Nico Rosberg'.

The report adds: 'That would leave him a whole three months to ponder upon how come the guy he had destroyed to take his third title had subsequently had the beating of him on a regular basis.' 

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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Yas Marina

“Ferrari made a right Horlicks of Sebastian Vettel’s qualifying session, miscalculating the time he would need to get through the first knock-out session, and he will start back in 15th place, one place ahead of old rival Fernando Alonso, following Lotus driver Romain Grosjean’s gearbox penalty. 

"The four-time champion was phlegmatic about it, though. ‘We thought the lap I had on the soft was good enough but in the end it turned out not to be,’ he said. His customary place in third in the grid was taken by team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, but only by the skin of his teeth, the Finn supplanting the impressive Sergio Perez’s Force India right at the death. 

"Raikkonen admitted he had not had the greatest of sessions, saying: ‘It was a long way from what this car can do but I did my best.’ Vettel added: ‘Kimi is still in there. Hopefully he can get P3 and then we see. It is possible to overtake here, we have the speed to make progress, how much we will see.’”

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One of the highlights of the year has to be the resurgence of Ferrari. 

They were winless in 2014 but, led by Sebastian Vettel, they became Mercedes' closest competitor this season, taking three race wins.

Vettel would need to produce one heck of a drive to win from 15th, but Kimi Raikkonen, who starts third, is in a great position to ensure give Ferrari the ideal sign off.

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Three drivers go into today's race slugging it out for 10th in the drivers' championship.

That position currently belongs to Nico Hulkenberg, who has 52 points, but just three points behind are Romain Grosjean and Max Verstappen.

There's been lots of love for Verstappen's exhilarating driving this season, and I sense we could be in for another stunning show from the 18-year-old today...

Also, this is well worth a watch if you find yourself at a loose end post race.

Final race of the season coverage klaxon! 

Suzi Perry and company are live now on BBC Two for one-hour of build up to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Watch on your tellybox and online at the top of this page, or via the live coverage tab if you are following on a mobile device.

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OK, it may not be something that has dominated the backpages in Finland over the last week, but there should be a tasty little battle between compatriots Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas today.

The two go into the race looking to snatch the points needed to finish fourth in the drivers' championship. Bottas currently holds that position with 136 points, with Raikkonen just one place and one point behind.

Tense.

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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Yas Marina

“It has been a strange season, 2015, in many ways. As Red Bull team principal Christian Horner put it on Saturday: ‘The action in the paddock has been more exciting than the racing.’ Will the season end that way, too? 

"Well, it has certainly been quite a weekend when it comes to paddock intrigue, with discussions over Fernando Alonso, Red Bull, Renault and all manner of other things bubbling away nicely. 

"But shortly there will be 90 minutes of racing in the spectacular setting of the Yas Marina circuit to bring a curtain down on the season. Can F1 surpass itself in the final act?”

A few changes to the grid positions after the seemingly inevitable addition of grid-place penalties. 

Romain Grosjean takes a five-place hit after a late change of the gearbox in his Lotus, while there's a pitlane start for Roberto Merhi after Manor made some suspension set-up changes.

Will Stevens' five-place penalty was confirmed on Saturday after an electronics unit change. 

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

11) Verstappen 12) Button 13) Maldonado 14) Nasr 15) Vettel 16) Alonso 17) Ericsson 18) Stevens 19) Grosjean 

Merhi starting from the pitlane.

Throughout the weekend we have been asking for your stars of the season. Who, or what, shone brightest for you in 2015?

Also, let us know what has been your highlight of the year?

Let us know via #starsoftheseason,, external text in on 81111 (UK only) and have your say on the BBC Sport Facebook page.

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Lewis Hamilton has the number 44 on his car. He is racing in Abu Dhabi, where the 44th UAE National Day is being celebrated, and he is also going for his 44th win.

I'm no believer in fate, but that is an impressive coincidence!

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Yas Marina

“The gap between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg was an unusually large 0.3secs in qualifying and Hamilton admits he is flummoxed. ‘I was just saying to my engineer we need to work out how to rectify it,’ he said in his post-qualifying news conference. ‘If you look at all the races before Singapore, it was in the region between 0.3-0.6 gap between me and Nico in qualifying. And then since a lot of time has been lost. while it looks like one side has gone a lot better, essentially from our point of view as a team, it’s quite the opposite, I’ve got worse.

“‘We have this great graph which shows you all the races and up is quicker and down is slower and all 12 apart from Barcelona the car was great and I looked at the on-board laps and the car was great and since then the on-board laps it was terrible balance, particularly today and we need to figure it out. There must be a way. Nico’s car looks like it is pretty much underneath him.’”

Lights will go out for the final race of the season at 13:00 GMT, with build up live on BBC Two and online from 12:00 GMT.

Plenty of big questions still to be answered. Will Nico Rosberg win a third race in a row? Will Lewis Hamilton end the season on a high? Can David Coulthard top yesterday's trousers choice?

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For the sixth consecutive race it is Nico Rosberg who starts on pole.

The German has been in fine form since Lewis Hamilton wrapped up the title, winning the last two races and beat his team-mate to pole by almost four tenths of a second on Saturday. 

What's changed from the man who just could not find an answer to Hamilton's dominance in the middle of the season?

"It’s not a revival, I haven’t reinvented anything," he said. "It’s just progress and that’s it. Before it was always very, very close but Lewis had that one-tenth edge and at the moment it’s me that has the one-tenth edge."

Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel's Q1 exit was the biggest surprise. The former world champion later confirmed that there were no problems with his Ferrari, just a wrong call made, having thought he'd done enough to get through to Q2.