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It's 21 years since Damon Hill delivered if not the finest win of his career then certainly the most dominant. 

The Williams driver had endured a torrid 1995 season - crashing into title rival Michael Schumacher on more than one occasion as he finished a distant second to the Benetton driver in the title race.

But at the last race of the season on a sunny day in November, the final Australian Grand Prix to be held in Adelaide emphatically went in Hill's favour. 

Schumacher retired after a clash with Ferrari's Jean Alesi, Hill's team-mate David Coulthard went out from the lead after sailing into a wall on his way into the pits, and a host of other disasters befell the usual front runners. 

Wafting through it all came Hill - one of just eight cars running at the chequered flag - as he won by two laps from the Ligier of Olivier Panis, with the Footwork of Gianni Morbidelli a surprise third.

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Ferrari have lodged an intention to appeal against a decision not to overturn a penalty given to Sebastian Vettel at the Mexican Grand Prix, Andrew Benson writes.

Governing body the FIA rejected on Friday Ferrari's claim that they had new evidence to present that was pertinent to the case.

Ferrari now have four days to decide whether to formally take the case to the FIA court of appeal in Paris.

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We're just under 60 minutes away from qualifying for the penultimate race of the 2016 season, after which we might - might - have a better idea of which way the cards are going to fall tomorrow.

For championship leader Nico Rosberg, leading the way by 19 points, the maths are simple - win on Sunday and he wins the title. There's nothing nearest challenger Lewis Hamilton can do about it.

Rosberg is showing the form he needs to get the job done this weekend, having finished ahead of Hamilton by 0.093secs in FP3.

Can he maintain that advantage and take pole this afternoon? We'll know soon enough. 

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We'll be back with you at 15:00 GMT with all the build up to qualifying, so we're going to take the chance now to put our feet up for 50 minutes.

11. Hulkenberg; 12. Perez; 13. Magnussen; 14. Sainz; 15. Grosjean; 16. Gutierrez; 17. Kvyat; 18. Button; 19. Wehrlein; 20. Nasr; 21. Ocon; 22. Ericsson

1. Rosberg; 2. Hamilton; 3. Vettel; 4. Raikkonen; 5. Verstappen; 6. Ricciardo; 7. Bottas; 8. Palmer; 9. Massa; 10. Alonso 

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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Sao Paulo

It has emerged - through Red Bull team boss Christian Horner - that Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff phoned Max Verstappen’s father Jos before this race to talk to him about Max being careful around title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg on track. Jos Verstappen confirmed this to BBC Sport, but played it down, saying he and Wolff talk a lot, that Wolff is a fan of Max, and that Max was always aware of the situation and would not do anything stupid. Wolff was not exactly saying that Verstappen should stay out of the way and not race them, just that “it would be bad for Max if he was remembered for deciding the world championship through a reckless move against one of our drivers”. Both Verstappen and team-mate Daniel Ricciardo made it clear here on Thursday that they would race hard as normal - but with “respect” for the Mercedes drivers.

Ricciardo put it nicely: “Every race is like it’s the start of the season: in Melbourne, you race hard and now it’s the end of the season so I think the championship will work out how it should work out. I don’t think we should, if you like, assist in the outcome if that makes sense. Just because they are fighting doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still try and make an overtake if there’s a door open. I’ll always race with respect but, sure, I’ll race hard and if there’s an opportunity... Normally if we are fighting with them it means we’ve got a chance to probably win a race. If there’s an opportunity to win, for sure I’ll go for it. I just feel that the championship will end as it probably should. The winner will be the winner and we shouldn’t affect it by staying out of the fight, if you know what I mean.”

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Should you have been in a cave on Mars with your fingers in your ears for the last few weeks, you probably need to be made aware that Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States. 

You then need to be informed that Nico Rosberg can win the world title this weekend if he beats Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton on Sunday.

He certainly looks like he's got the pace to do that, with his quickest time of 1:11.740 so far proving beyond Hamilton, who slots into second place 0.093secs back.

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"Jenson, stop normally, stop normally"

Jenson Button has just had this instruction from his McLaren team and it looks like his session is over.

There's a "hole in the data" apparently. Which is a new one on me.

P16 at present for the Briton.

Right, some meaty lap times are being put on the board now. 

We'd just seen Max Verstappen displace Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo at the top of the order, but within moments the Mercedes of championship leader Nico Rosberg came barrelling through - elbows flailing - to set a 1.11.787 - the quickest time of the weekend.

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Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo is the new name at the top of the order. 

The perennially-grinning Aussie has done a 1:12.287 and is 0.243 ahead of Raikkonen in second place.

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