Verstappen caps fine year with Abu Dhabi glory as Hamilton limps home

Max Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Image: Hussein Malla/AP MAX VERSTAPPEN COMPLETED his championship year by taking victory at Formula One’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – as Lewis

Carlos Sainz was fourth for Ferrari with Hamilton’s team-mate George Russell fifth leaving Mercedes behind the Italian team and third in the constructors’ championship. Hamilton left Abu Dhabi at the end of last season pondering if he would ever return, so aggrieved was he by Michael Masi’s officiating of the decider which cost him a record eighth crown.The seven-time world champion decided against retirement, but he will head into this season’s winter break having failed to register a single win – the first time that has happened in his career which began in 2007 – and reflecting on a DNF which summed up a sour campaign.

Hamilton hit the sausage kerb, launching him airborne, before landing back on all four wheels and rejoining ahead of Sainz. “We should have stopped, man”, said Hamilton with five laps to run, and then with three laps to go, the British driver’s gearbox gave up on him.

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