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00:00For one more time in 2024, it's lights out and away we go, and a very good start at the back from Lance Stroll.

00:08The McLarens, 1st and 2nd going into the 1st quarter, but McLaren under pressure from Verstappen,

00:13and there's contact between Piastri and Verstappen, and Piastri facing the wrong way.

00:18Verstappen spinning around 360 degrees, he's managed to keep going.

00:22Lando Norris leads this race, but the 2nd McLaren of Piastri, that's the worst possible start.

00:28There goes Kevin Magnussen trying to make a move on Valtteri Bottas, Pierre Gasly's up to 3rd.

00:32What a move down the inside from the Haas, getting past Sergio Perez.

00:35Charles Leclerc is getting involved, and Sergio Perez is now spun around.

00:39The two Red Bulls having a right old kerfuffle on this 1st lap.

00:43And that is Sergio Perez, and as we were saying, this could be his final race for the Red Bull team,

00:51and it has ended before the end of the 1st lap.

00:54He was hit by Valtteri Bottas, and we have a virtual safety car.

00:59With a virtual safety car deployed, that's why Max Verstappen has just let Liam Lawson get past him again,

01:04because that move was not going to be allowed.

01:06The race now neutralized, and the drivers driving at 40% of their normal race speed.

01:11Gasly putting him under pressure into the chicane.

01:13Now we can get some overtaking done, and Russell's going to pick up a lovely slipstream here behind the Alpine.

01:19Norris leads, Sainz 2nd, and then comes George Russell,

01:22making a move with DRS on Pierre Gasly, who's also got DRS to try and defend.

01:27Is the Mercedes through? No, the pink Alpine squeezes through on the inside.

01:31Let's just have a little look at the restart from the virtual safety car.

01:35He's right behind the Williams, as you can see.

01:38Is there a chance of... Oh, and he touches, he makes contact there with Franco Colapinto.

01:43Yeah, has he damaged the wing?

01:45But he'll certainly have some tires that resemble a 50 pence piece, if you know the UK coinage.

01:53He has got past Colapinto, who has got a puncture.

01:5610-second penalty for Verstappen for this first corner incident.

02:01I'm not surprised, because I think he was just a bit too late onto the scene,

02:06and he was the one that made contact with Piastri.

02:09And I think the stewards there say, Martin,

02:11that he could have actually been a little bit more to the inside and avoided that.

02:14He could have been... Piastri could have given him a touch more space,

02:17but would he even know he was there? Because it's a late lunge.

02:20And Max really didn't need to do that.

02:31When he says he was all the way up, he wasn't.

02:34His front wing was just behind the front axle of that McLaren.

02:39This is what it all looked like from Carlos Sainz's vantage points.

02:43He's got a gap to drive into, but where is that gap? There.

02:46And, of course, on such a tight line, Verstappen also understeered then.

02:52The front slid across the road.

02:55And this is Oskar Piastri. There was space.

02:58Yep, overall champion.

03:03I mean, Piastri did open up some space.

03:06He opened the space up on the way in.

03:10And that was the reaction at the McLaren Technology Centre.

03:13We can just see a little bit further on on that opening lap.

03:17And this is where Valtteri Bottas hits Sergio Perez,

03:20sends him spinning around,

03:21caused by Kevin Magnussen steaming down the inside.

03:24Maybe he took them both by surprise.

03:25I don't think Bottas could have done anything about that, to be honest.

03:27There's just no space, was there?

03:29And there was obviously space for Charles Leclerc,

03:32because whilst they were squabbling around on the inside,

03:34he danced around the outside.

03:38He rather liked that, didn't he?

03:40Charles Leclerc from 19th on the grid up into 8th place.

03:43Let's go to the McLaren pit wall, shall we?

03:46Zac Brown, first and foremost,

03:48your thoughts on that opening corner, Zac?

03:52I think the penalty was appropriate.

03:54He wasn't pulling up alongside them.

03:56Six different constructors in the top six.

03:59Not sure how much longer that's going to be like that, though,

04:02because there might be another Ferrari joining the top six any minute now.

04:05He's got DRS, 17 kilometers an hour of extra pace.

04:08It's Charles Leclerc.

04:10There he goes, past Fernando Alonso and up into the top six.

04:14Charles Leclerc is already on his third strike.

04:16He's been warned about Turn 1,

04:17and he's already pressuring Hulkenberg.

04:19So he's got to watch out while he battles him for track limits here.

04:22And he goes wheel to wheel out of Turn 9,

04:25and as they exit that Turn 9,

04:28Charles Leclerc is up once again, making a place,

04:32and now up into 5th place,

04:34which is very good news for Ferrari,

04:36not brilliant for Haas.

04:39As I said before, Charles Leclerc has only scored points once,

04:43when he started 19th.

04:46That's a deeply Sonoda start.

04:48That didn't get going very quickly, did it?

04:50I lost the class, man.

04:51I don't think I did anything wrong, to be honest.

04:56So Leclerc's sort of in the 29s, going through the traffic,

04:59and again, Leclerc and Ferrari with sight.

05:02Look at this one, a double DRS train there,

05:05and he'll get a run up the inside.

05:07Can he stay there?

05:09He's got enough grip in the Ferrari to easily stay there.

05:12We're doing this one, aren't we?

05:15Oh, no.

05:15Give a tenth or two away,

05:18and make sure the front left's not ready, and...

05:22Did that front left ever get tightened up at all?

05:25No, it's amazing it's still on there, isn't it?

05:29Whatever was holding it in place did a very good job.

05:34Maybe it got a half rotation.

05:35There was a green light on the back of the gantry there, wasn't there, to go.

05:39It looked like the...

05:40This is where Liam Lawson first felt the problem.

05:44Is the wheel...

05:46Yeah, you can see the wheel's loose, because it's...

05:48So now we've got Slippery Stuff, the reasonably firm...

05:51We're going to assume it's another car.

05:54So now we've got Slippery Stuff.

05:56Oh, it's Kevin Magnussen who's just come out of the pits.

05:59Magnussen gets past, Bottas locks up.

06:03And there was a car locking up there,

06:05heading straight to the scene of a passing Haas.

06:08Yeah.

06:10Oh.

06:13Both those drivers out of Grand Prix racing for now, tonight, unfortunately.

06:19And that was a big old hit.

06:21Oh, isn't that just great?

06:25It is.

06:26No, it's not, I'm afraid.

06:27That's unfortunate for Kevin Magnussen,

06:29and unfortunate for Valtteri Bottas as well,

06:31as we watch the battle between Lance Stroll and Oscar Piastri,

06:35who has got DRS.

06:37So, can Lance Stroll keep Oscar Piastri at bay into this chicane?

06:42He's going to go down the inside, is Oscar Piastri.

06:45And he does make a very clean pass.

06:47Lance Stroll saw that one coming.

06:50Like this, we lose the constructors, or not?

06:53Like this, yes, but it's not finished.

06:55Keep pushing.

06:59Getting very tucked up behind the RB and just lost the aero, didn't he?

07:04You wonder if it's worth McLaren.

07:06He did.

07:08Well held.

07:09Well held.

07:11And that's purely instinctive.

07:13OK, let's get back into the rhythm.

07:15I don't know what you call the rhythm, but this is the rhythm.

07:22Carlos is 7.5 seconds from Landa.

07:31Damn, says Charles Leclerc.

07:33In the Mercedes is teammate Lewis Hamilton.

07:36Now looming large in his wing mirrors.

07:39And it's through these final corners where Lewis will be really gaining,

07:42because that's where you need good traction.

07:44And George Russell's had those tyres off for eight laps.

07:46Charles Leclerc will just keep it super clean with Lewis.

07:52On this, the final lap of the race,

07:54and a race that McLaren went into,

07:57wanting to win a constructors championship.

07:59And for the first time since 1998,

08:02McLaren are constructors champions,

08:05because Lando Norris takes the chequered flag

08:08and wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

08:11It was all McLaren needed to get their car home in front.

08:16McLaren gave them a great challenge.

08:18Ferrari gave them a great challenge.

08:20Second and third is all they could muster.

08:22Lewis Hamilton is now ahead of George Russell.

08:25And he has got him from 16th on the grid.

08:28Hamilton in his final race for Mercedes.

08:31The race, they say, that every dream needs a team.

08:34Well, every team needs a dream.

08:36And the dream tonight was for Lewis Hamilton

08:39to charge through the field.

08:41And that is what he's done.

08:42It's another brilliant drive from Lewis Hamilton to take fourth.

08:47He misses out on the podium.

08:49But what a race he has given.

08:51What a race Charles Leclerc has given

08:53from 19th on the grid as well.

08:55Those two both deserve driver of the day.

08:58McLaren, for their efforts this year,

09:00deserve that constructors championship.

09:03We did it, mate.

09:03We did it.

09:04World champions.

09:06Well done.

09:11Papaya run, Tom.

09:13Congratulations, everyone.

09:15Incredible.

09:16Well done, everyone.

09:17So proud of you all.

09:19You all deserve this.

09:21Thank you so much.

09:22It's been a special year.

09:24Next year is going to be my year too.

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