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Gary Rose
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Right, time for us to wrap things up here and, indeed, for the season.
It is time for everyone to take a well-earned rest - well not me I'll be back working on football stuff from tomorrow - but by the time the new season starts at the end of next February we will no doubt be ready to go again.
Until then, see you later!
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'My best season ever'
Fernando Alonso, speaking to Sky Sports: "Together with 2012, I consider this my best season ever. Better than 2005 and 2006 for sure.
"The level of performance, consistency, I was very happy with how I connected with the team and the car."
On finishing fourth: "It is a little bit unexpected, I would have not put money on myself finishing fourth. It is like a gift finishing ahead of the Ferraris and Lando Norris.
"I am excited [for next season]!"
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Here's how it finished in the drivers' standings with Max Verstappen taking a massive 575 of the points.
A word for Fernando Alonso, there. Finishing fourth in the championship at the age of 42.
Like a fine wine...
'Red Bull to win by 17 seconds definitely a concern'
It is now two seasons without a win for Lewis Hamilton, who must be wondering where his next victory will come from.
He looks very downbeat in his post-race interview, telling Sky Sports about what he will take from this season: "Not too much. It hasn't been a great year, there isn't a lot to take from it in general. The fact that I survived it is probably about it."
Confident will be closer next season? "At this moment I don't really know. For Red Bull to win by 17 seconds in the end and they haven't developed their car since August is definitely a concern.
"We have learned a lot about the car and it is down to the team now."
'Ultimately we just didn't have the pace today' - Piastri
McLarens Oscar Piastri finished in sixth and spoke to Sky Sports saying: "Just weren't as quick as we hoped, struggled a bit in the first couple of stints, maybe some things I could have done a bit better from a racing point of view but I think ultimately we just didn't have the pace today.
"Learning to manage the tyres properly, we didn't have any long-runs this weekend which never helps, not having raced an F1 car round here it obviously hurts a little bit."
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Verstappen wins season finale - report
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Red Bull's Max Verstappen ended the most dominant season in Formula 1 history with victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, his 19th win in 22 races.
The comfortable victory, after brushing off a brief challenge from Ferrari's Charles Leclerc on the opening lap, gives Verstappen an 86.4% win rate in 2023.
Red Bull's Sergio Perez took second on the road after Leclerc let him by on the penultimate lap in a vain attempt to secure second in the constructors' championship for Ferrari against Mercedes, but was demoted to fourth on the road by a five-second penalty.
That promoted George Russell to third for Mercedes and, with Lewis Hamilton securing two points for ninth place, that was enough to keep Mercedes in second place by three points.
Leclerc's strategy had been to let Perez by in the hope that Mexican, on fresher tyres, could build enough of a lead to negate his penalty, imposed for a collision with McLaren's Lando Norris.
But Perez did not quite make it, and he dropped down to be classified 1.1 seconds behind Russell.
The scant consolation for Leclerc was that he vaulted both Norris and his team-mate Carlos Sainz to take fifth in the drivers' championship behind Verstappen, Perez, Hamilton and Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.
Read the full report here.
'It was a racing incident'
Red Bull's Sergio Perez, who finished fourth: "Happy with the whole team. They have done a tremendous job. We deserved a lot more today."
On the clash with Lando Norris that led to a five-second time penalty: "We touched tyre to tyre. When you dive from behind and go to the brakes you are not in full control of the car. Lando knew I was there and decided to turn in. I just feel in my honest opinion it was a racing incident."
On next year: "We went through a bit of a rollercoaster this year. I felt I was not totally at one with this year's car. I hope next year we can be a bit better and a bit stronger. Credit to Max, he has done the best season in history. He has been outstanding."
'To finish like this feels a good step for next year' - Vasseur
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur told Sky Sports after finishing P3 behind Mercedes in the constructors' battle: "It was Charles could of been a bit more aggressive and to try and slow down Russell. For the team it was also important to finish on a positive, to put Charles P2 in the race and to finish like this feels a good step for next year and it was a good choice."
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'Two great teams, two great friends who fought till the end' - Wolff
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff spoke to Sky Sports on coming second in the constructors' championship, he said: "It was a great end to fight for P2, I think George's driving was exceptional and also Charles at the end it was sportsmanlike behaviour not trying to slow down, two great teams, two great friends who fought till the end.
"I was not stressed, I was stressed once in my life in Formula 1 and that was here a few years ago, but that was a fight for P2 in a way super positive for us as a team and a reward for the employees."
Celebrating in style
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'It will be very hard to have another season like this' - Verstappen
Max Verstappen wins his 19th race of the 2023season in the Red Bull, he said: “It's been an incredible season, it was a bit emotional on the in lap, it was the last time sitting in the car which has of course given me a lot. Very proud to win here in the last race and I have to say a big thank you to everyone at Red Bull, it's been an incredible year, it will be hard to do something similar again."
"It will be very hard to have another season like this, we know that. Of course, you always want to do better but sometimes doing better is not only race wins and potentially winning the championship, we will see, we are working hard for next year to have again a very competitive car."
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'That’s all that mattered to me' - Leclerc
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc who finished second at the AbuDhabi Grand Prix, after Red Bull’s Sergio Perez gets a five second penalty: "It was all in the last few minutes [Letting Perez overtake him] because Perez had a five second penalty, we had to help him in a way for him to finish in front of Georgewith the five seconds so I tried to give him DRS and a slipstream but thatunfortunately wasn’t enough.
"On the one hand I was happy because on a weekend like this honestlythere wasn’t one thing we could have done better as a team it definitely wasn’ta given that we were in the second fastest car this weekend. But we did an incredible job in doing everything right, strategy,qualifying.
"Its just a shame we finished third in constructors, that’s allthat mattered to me, we didn’t achieve that but I want to thank the team for doing such an incredible work and forworking incredibly hard since the first race
"We knew it was going to be an uphill season because welacked performance compared to where we wanted but the team did an incredible job pushingto the last race.
On his race start: "I obviously wanted to try and get that first place butwe know in the race we lacked some pace compared to them if I passed Max, I would’vegot overtaken again, at the end my own was to beat the Mercedes I didn’t want to losetoo much tyre juice and also time with Max but it was fun."
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Final constructors' standings
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'I’m pleased to have brought it across the line today' - Russell
More from George Russell: “Itmeans a huge amount, there’s so many people back at the factory who have workedso hard to achieve this, it’s been a really challenging season, I’ve let theside down a couple of times this year so I’m pleased to have brought it acrossthe line today.
“It was tight with Checo at the end I thought Charles wasgoing to back me up but respect to him for keeping it clean.”
On the battle with Ferrari and Perez receiving a five-secondpenalty, he added: “I mean I came out of the pits on a second set of hards so Iwas managing a bit but then Checo just came from nowhere, they had great pace, it was really tense at the end the tyres were dropping off, but just really pleased to of helped secure P2 for the team and I'm sure everyone will have a few drinks tonight."
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'Tense at the end'
George Russell, who finished third for his second podium of the year: "It was really tense at the end, the tyres were dropping off.
"Massive relief to have brought the car home P3. I can't believe it's only the second podium of the year!"
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George Russell's place on the podium means Mercedes have secured second in the drivers' championship ahead of McLaren.
That was quite a tense battle in the end.
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Max Verstappen over team radio: "Thank you to everyone and thank you to Franz Tost, he had lots of us under his wings and it's his last race so thank you."
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Fireworks light up the sky as Max Verstappen leaps out of his victorious Red Bull.
Over 1,000 laps led this season as he won 19 of the 22 races. Pure dominance.
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The rest
11) Ricciardo
12) Ocon
13) Gasly
14) Albon
15) Hulkenberg
16) Sargeant
17) Zhou
18) Sainz
19) Bottas
20) Magnussen
Top 10
1) Verstappen
2) Leclerc
3) Russell
4) Perez
5) Norris
6) Piastri
7) Alonso
8) Tsunoda
9) Hamilton
10) Stroll
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Race
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, 26 November 2023= Fastest Lap
| Rank | Driver | Number | Team | Grid | Pits | Fastest Lap | Race Time | PointsPts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 |  Max VerstappenVER | 11 | Red Bull | 11 | 22 | fastest overall lap 1:26.9931:26.993 | 1:27:02.6241:27:02.624 | 2626 | |||
| 22 |  Charles LeclercLEC | 1616 | Ferrari | 22 | 22 | 1:28.1991:28.199 | 17.993 behind+17.993 | 1818 | |||
| 33 |  George RussellRUS | 6363 | Mercedes | 44 | 22 | 1:28.1871:28.187 | 20.328 behind+20.328 | 1515 | |||
| 44 |  Sergio PerezPER | 1111 | Red Bull | 99 | 22 | 1:27.4931:27.493 | 21.453 behind+21.453 | 1212 | |||
| 55 | Lando NorrisNOR | 44 | McLaren | 55 | 22 | 1:28.1641:28.164 | 24.284 behind+24.284 | 1010 | |||
| 66 |  Oscar PiastriPIA | 8181 | McLaren | 33 | 22 | 1:28.1381:28.138 | 31.487 behind+31.487 | 88 | |||
| 77 |  Fernando AlonsoALO | 1414 | Aston Martin | 77 | 22 | 1:28.2561:28.256 | 39.512 behind+39.512 | 66 | |||
| 88 |  Yuki TsunodaTSU | 2222 | AlphaTauri | 66 | 11 | 1:29.2561:29.256 | 43.088 behind+43.088 | 44 | |||
| 99 | Lewis HamiltonHAM | 4444 | Mercedes | 1111 | 22 | 1:28.3721:28.372 | 44.424 behind+44.424 | 22 | |||
| 1010 |  Lance StrollSTR | 1818 | Aston Martin | 1313 | 22 | 1:28.0501:28.050 | 55.632 behind+55.632 | 11 | |||
| 1111 | Daniel RicciardoRIC | 33 | AlphaTauri | 1515 | 22 | 1:28.5711:28.571 | 56.229 behind+56.229 | 00 | |||
| 1212 |  Esteban OconOCO | 3131 | Alpine | 1212 | 11 | 1:30.0331:30.033 | 1:06.373 behind+1:06.373 | 00 | |||
| 1313 | Pierre GaslyGAS | 1010 | Alpine | 1010 | 22 | 1:29.0161:29.016 | 1:10.360 behind+1:10.360 | 00 | |||
| 1414 |  Alexander AlbonALB | 2323 | Williams | 1414 | 22 | 1:27.8451:27.845 | 1:13.184 behind+1:13.184 | 00 | |||
| 1515 |  Nico HulkenbergHUL | 2727 | Haas | 88 | 22 | 1:29.2171:29.217 | 1:23.696 behind+1:23.696 | 00 | |||
| 1616 |  Logan SargeantSAR | 22 | Williams | 2020 | 22 | 1:28.5801:28.580 | 1:27.791 behind+1:27.791 | 00 | |||
| 1717 |  Zhou GuanyuZHO | 2424 | Alfa Romeo | 1919 | 22 | 1:28.7461:28.746 | 1:29.422 behind+1:29.422 | 00 | |||
| 1818 | Carlos Sainz JnrSAI | 5555 | Ferrari | 1616 | 22 | 1:29.4521:29.452 | did not finish completed 57 lapsDNF (57) | 00 | |||
| 1919 |  Valtteri BottasBOT | 7777 | Alfa Romeo | 1818 | 11 | 1:29.8631:29.863 | 1 lap behind+1 lap | 00 | |||
| 2020 |  Kevin MagnussenMAG | 2020 | Haas | 1717 | 22 | 1:29.9341:29.934 | 1 lap behind+1 lap | 00 | |||
| Last updated 26th November 2023 at 17:58 | |||||||||||
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