Summary

  • World champion Max Verstappen claims 15th win of season at final race of 2022 in Abu Dhabi

  • Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel claims point for P10 in 299th and final race

  • Ferrari's Charles Leclerc finishes P2 to claim runners-up spot in championship

  • Lewis Hamilton retires after losing power on lap 56

  • Fernando Alonso retires from final race with Alpine

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  • Use audio icon at top of page to listen to BBC Radio 5 Sports commentary

Live Reporting

Lorraine McKenna

  1. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Sergio Perez now needs three of the best laps of his life. These have to be perfect laps.

  2. Lap 55/58

    Carlos Sainz goes through on Lewis Hamilton but this isn't due to a spectacular overtake, it looks like the Mercedes is struggling!

  3. Lap 55/58

    Red Bull have called it for Sergio Perez. "You're going to be on him on the last lap," says the pit wall." You got him."

  4. Team Radio - Hamilton

    We should have stopped man.

  5. Lap 54/58

    Five laps remaining and the gap to Leclerc and Perez is 4.288secs.

  6. Lap 53/58

    Max Verstappen has already told Red Bull to give Sergio Perez the pep talk that his tyres will be fine, so it doesn't look like the Dutchman will be jumping in on this fight in the remaining few laps.

  7. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live

    If Red Bull want to get first and second in the championship right now I think I would be getting Max Verstappen to slow down right now and get him involved.

  8. Team Radio - Perez

    Engineer: It's going to be tight, 7 laps to go. All out. All out.

  9. Lap 52/58

    The gap now is six seconds between Charles Leclerc in second and Sergio Perez in third. While Leclerc asked for silence on the radio. Perez's team are throwing out motivational quotes at every corner.

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    Bernard Starkey: This race is Vettel's career in microcosm. Great start and flaky end.

  11. Team Radio - Leclerc

    Engineer: Tyre saving on Turn Three.

    Leclerc: Ok, leave me alone please.

    Engineer: Copy.

  12. Lap 51/58

    Don't touch that comms button, Ferrari, Charles Leclerc doesn't want any chatter in his ear. for this final showdown with Sergio Perez.

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  14. Team Radio - Vettel

    Vettel: How did we get the strategy so wrong?

  15. Lap 49/58

    Sebastian Vettel has dropped out of the points and running in 11th place. The four-time world champion sounds crestfallen at how the strategy has played out for his final hurrah.

  16. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Max Verstappen could slow down to try to back Charles Leclerc up, but I don't see him doing that.

  17. Lap 49/58

    Race leader Max Verstappen, heading for his 15th win of the 2022 season, tells his engineer to tell Sergio Perez to give it everything. "His tyres will be fine," the two-time world champion adds.

  18. Jennie Gow
    BBC Radio 5 Live pit-lane reporter

    Is there anything Max Verstappen can do right now to try to help?

  19. 'Going down to the wire'

    Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live

    We have got 10 seconds between the two drivers going for second place in the championship. This is going down to the wire.

  20. Lap 47/58

    Right then. Charles Leclerc is second, Sergio Perez is in third...