Max Verstappen has won a drama-packed Abu Dhabi Grand Prix successful a arguable final-lap shootout to assertion his archetypal Formula One satellite title up of rival Lewis Hamilton.
Hamilton started down the Red Bull operator but passed him disconnected the commencement enactment and led done astir of the season's last race, with the objection of a little dual with Verstappen's teammate, Sergio Perez, and the last lap.
Verstappen didn't look to person the gait to drawback the Mercedes operator — Red Bull main Christian Horner astatine 1 signifier adjacent admitted "we request a miracle" — until Williams' Nicholas Latifi crashed successful the last fewer laps.
The ensuing information car allowed the Red Bull operator to alteration to faster brushed tyres and drawback Hamilton earlier a single-lap contention to the finish, wherever Verstappen proved victorious.
The hard-fought rivals had travel into the last contention of the play tied connected points aft the closest title successful decades.
Hamilton had been warring for what would person been a grounds eighth championship.
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