00:00It is time to answer the final question of the season.
00:03Who will we call the champion constructor of the world?
00:07And the season finale is underway.
00:11Good launch off the line for the two McLarens.
00:13Karl Stolling on the grid, dropping down there.
00:15He's really...
00:16It's a nighter and a crash at turn one.
00:18Contact.
00:19Massive contact.
00:20Oscar Piastri making contact with the Red Bull as they flash through.
00:25It's Lando Norris with the lead.
00:26Then Carlos Sainz.
00:27Up to third goes Pierre Gasly.
00:28In fourth goes George Russell.
00:30But a dramatic moment as Piastri and Verstappen come together.
00:34Yeah, Max Verstappen.
00:35Brilliant getaway off the line.
00:37Made quick work of Carlos Sainz.
00:39And then rather than taking the cautious approach into turn one,
00:43he sent it.
00:44I don't think that Piastri knew he was coming.
00:47Not sure he did as we see a battle now.
00:48That's one of the Haas.
00:49That's Magnussen trying to go by Perez up the inside into six.
00:53And he gets the move done.
00:54Brave on the brakes in his final start in Formula One.
00:57And round he goes.
00:59Perez spins.
01:00A wild opening lap of the Grand Prix.
01:03Yeah, so Verstappen's made short work of Sainz.
01:05It's a bit tardy.
01:06And this is where the surprise comes.
01:08He sends it and realizes that Oscar has given him a bit of space.
01:12But just the momentum of that Red Bull was always going to drift wide.
01:16And the contact was definitely made Red Bull to McLaren.
01:18And we now know that Verstappen's given a 10-second penalty for this contact.
01:24This was on the first lap, super late-breaking move from Magnussen.
01:27And then the contact between Bottas and Perez is how Perez went round.
01:32Perez would then lose drive from the car and park up.
01:35Bottas has been penalized with a 10-second time penalty for that moment.
01:41Well, this is on board with Oscar Piastri as he tries to find his way past the Williams.
01:45Oh, big contact.
01:48And how did that not rip the front wing off?
01:51Penalty there for Piastri causing a collision.
01:53So his day going from bad to worse with that.
01:57That was a late send from Charles Leclerc.
02:00And Kevin Magnussen saw it coming.
02:02Opened up the steering.
02:03Got him back on the exit.
02:04But that Ferrari is roaring on by.
02:07And Charles Leclerc has gone from the back row of the grid up to 7th position
02:11as Ferrari continue to fight for this Constructors title.
02:16Leclerc will be believing he can quickly clear the Aston Martin.
02:20And Fernando Alonso is outside of DRS for Hülkenberg.
02:24It means he doesn't get it.
02:25But Charles Leclerc did.
02:27The Ferrari screams by.
02:29And Charles Leclerc has gone from 19th on the grid to 6th position in the Grand Prix.
02:35Lando Norris is being told and is managing his tyres at the moment as we see Max Verstappen getting to
02:41the inside.
02:43And it's the same order for the Haas and the Ferrari.
02:45But Verstappen gets past the green Aston Martin.
02:48And on the exit of the corner, the order changes up to 5th place.
02:52This is some attacking drive from Charles Leclerc as Hamilton gets past Lawson.
02:57And now three moves into that corner that could be defining for later on.
03:02This isn't really working out for Leclerc now, being stuck behind Gasly.
03:06We saw as he makes the move now down into turn 6, DRS.
03:10Nothing Gasly can do on those older tyres.
03:14The car dropped down, was sent, and the front left was not tight.
03:19Yeah, it didn't look right, certainly, when the car hit the ground.
03:21And that's kind of where the driver's looking.
03:23You're looking a little bit out to the left-hand side, out into the pit lane, into the fast lane
03:27there.
03:28So he would have noticed that right away.
03:29Had that been the right front, maybe not.
03:32I guess Gasly doesn't have DRS.
03:34So it's going to be a little bit easier than what we saw before.
03:36And yeah, he doesn't defend.
03:37After how many laps he had to try it around the outside and look at the back of that Alpine.
03:40And I was surprised he didn't just go for it, but obviously it worked out there.
03:45And hearing that we're cutting to Kevin Magnussen, Debrey on the circuit.
03:49So there's a spin for Kevin Magnussen that we caught late, and a part of his car has gone.
03:54And there's a puncher for Valtteri Bottas in what could be his final Grand Prix in Formula 1.
03:59Lock-up for Valtteri Bottas.
04:00Oh, my word.
04:02Huge lock-up and contact between the Sauber and the Haas.
04:06Yeah, on the inside.
04:07Yeah, just no front grip.
04:08We heard early in the Grand Prix, I think it was Lewis Hamilton talking, or was it Max Verstappen saying,
04:13just couldn't break into the corners.
04:15As you get those front tires not quite working.
04:18Oh, isn't that just great.
04:21Two drivers looking at their last Grand Prix start to have it end like that is really unfortunate for both.
04:28Ferrari making progress from where they were last year, where Mercedes beat them to the punch.
04:33Mercedes was second last year, Ferrari were third.
04:35Looks like they're going to upgrade, but not to the position they want to be.
04:38Talking of upgrades, Max Verstappen easily by.
04:40Fernando Alonso now finds himself recovering up to eighth.
04:47Laid on the brakes for Lewis Hamilton.
04:49He'll be enjoying this feeling.
04:51He fights it, getting the power on as he gets past, and he moves up to sixth position.
04:55Past Nico Hülkenberg.
04:58Black 46 of 58, we're coming to the end of an extraordinary season with seven different winners.
05:03As the Red Bull easily slides past the Alpine there, up into the sixth position.
05:10Might have to wait until he gets to a...
05:11Whoa!
05:12He lost the air on the front wing, and Piastri gathered it together, getting too close to the back of
05:19the V car.
05:20Well, every day is a school day, and he'll just have learnt that and banked it away for the future.
05:27And let's see, with the help of DRS, whether he can reverse what happened to him one lap ago.
05:32No, he can't go for the overall speed, but he feels he's got the confidence to run to the outside.
05:37Better grip, does he have the room?
05:39That's a great way to fire yourself by, up into 11th place.
05:44And this is an easy pass to break Williams' hearts.
05:49Piastri recovers to the points, and Albon's chance of that first point score since Baku disappears.
05:57As Norris pushes on through turn 13 and 14, Hamilton will take the battle.
06:02to turn number nine on the last lap.
06:05But this is the moment that McLaren dreamed of.
06:08Lando Norris wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
06:12McLaren are world champions of 2024.
06:16They win the Constructors' title for the first time since 1998.
06:21Around the outside goes Lewis Hamilton in the left-hand side, he'll scream, and he's roared around the outside to
06:28take fourth away from George Russell.
06:31What a move!
06:32In his last drive for Mercedes, he was never going to accept finishing behind his teammate.
06:39Carlos Sainz has come home in second.
06:41Completing the podium and climbing 16 places will be Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.
06:48Up 12, completes his attacking stint with Mercedes after a decade in the doldrums, a season to remember for one
06:57of Formula One's most famous Constructors.
07:00We did it, mate.
07:01We did it.
07:02World champions.
07:03Well done.
07:03Wow!
07:07Papaio on top!
07:08Ah, incredible.
07:10Well done, everyone.
07:11So proud of you all.
07:12Thank you so much.
07:12It's been a special year.
07:14Next year's going to be my year, too.
07:1684 wins, 78 pole positions, and 153 podiums.
07:22A standout stint in Formula One like no other.
07:25Hamilton and Mercedes sign off in style.
07:28and the top two teams in the world championship it's like times of old ferrari and mclaren
07:36another title for the famous team restored to the top of the formula one world championship
07:43and mclaren the top team in the world for the first time since 1998 the first time in 26 years
07:50and the party as told by our winner today will go long long long into the night
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