00:00The safety car is coming in at the end of this lap, so those back markers allowed to overtake the safety car and that has now left Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, it has left Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen side by side, Hamilton will be ahead, Verstappen is absolutely desperate to get on with this on that soft compound tyre, we're going to have one lap of racing to decide the championship in 2021,
00:27Hamilton has the advantage, Verstappen has the faster, fresher tyres and we have got 3.2 miles of racing action all the way to the chequered flag as the crowd roar the drivers on to the final lap of this race and Verstappen sets after Hamilton, is it going to be a first world championship for Verstappen, is it going to be an eighth world championship for Lewis Hamilton,
00:53where can Verstappen try and get past Hamilton, first overtaking zone is normally down into turn five, is Verstappen far enough back, he's going to make the lunge down the inside, Hamilton sees him coming, it's a late lunge by Verstappen who takes the lead of the race, Verstappen now snatches the championship trophy from Lewis Hamilton who's trying to fight back.
01:15No DRS for two laps, so Lewis Hamilton will not get the rear wing open, now he's going to go down the outside, if Verstappen keeps it tight and knee, but he hasn't, he's gone a little bit wide.
01:26This race that started with controversy is ending with controversy, here comes Lewis Hamilton though, down the back straight, he's got a slipstream, he almost touches Verstappen, they almost make contact into turn nine, Verstappen stays ahead of Lewis Hamilton,
01:44of all the drama, of all the controversy, of all the magic moments in Formula 1 in 2021, it comes down to this, and at this moment it looks like it's going to go the way of Max Verstappen, Mercedes not happy, Red Bull will be delighted,
02:01they have shared a brilliant championship battle, but the championship can only be won by one, and it's going Dutch in 2021, Max Verstappen, for the first time ever, is champion of the world, Lewis Hamilton finishes in second place after leading for so, so long,
02:22but these last moments are going to be talked about, and this might not be the end of the matter, because Mercedes are furious,
02:31Oh my lord Max, oh my lord, yes, yes, oh my god, yes, oh my god, yes, oh my god, yes, oh my god, yes, yes, oh my god, yes, oh my god, yes, oh my god, yes, oh my god, you couldn't make it up, could you, there's going to be so much Acrimony,
02:52going forward now about that procedure at the end. Red Bull played every car they could because
03:00they hadn't got enough speed, they hadn't got track position, they played it really smart.
03:04Mercedes played it cautious out front, but to release the lap cars and end the safety car
03:10and give us one racing lap. Wow, how quickly did that turn around? What was Christian Horner saying
03:16to us? The racing gods need to shine down on us, they certainly did. I need, we need a miracle,
03:25said Christian Horner. The miracle arrived, Nicholas Latifi crashed, the safety car came out,
03:32the lapped cars were allowed to get out of the way, Verstappen pitted for fresher tyres
03:38and in the course of one racing lap took the lead and kept it.
03:42Max Verstappen, you are the world champion, the world champion!
03:52Mate, you absolutely deserve it, you absolutely deserve it, you've had no luck, not the wrap of the green.
03:59Max, we are so proud of you. Oh my god guys, I love you so much.
04:07You have driven like a champion all year, you deserve that, we needed a bit of luck, you got it,
04:14you made it happen and we love you, we absolutely love you.
04:20I think a bit of luck, lifetime supply of luck might just have come Red Bull and Max Verstappen's way.
04:30Ted Kravitz down in the pit lane, well emotions after emotion after emotion.
04:35It's pandemonium, Christian Horner is crying his eyes out, Jos Verstappen is already wearing
04:40a Max Verstappen world champion t-shirt and at the Mercedes garage they are shell-shocked.
04:46Toto Wolff has just dropped his head, he can't believe it, he's talking to Susie Wolff, his wife.
04:52They're all asking each other what is going on, they're shaking their heads.
04:57It is unbelievable guys, can we do this for another 10, 50 years together?
05:03Right, honestly.
05:04They're in disbelief that Mercedes Horner has gone up to the Mercedes pit wall
05:11to shake hands with anyone he can find, he's getting a handshake but it's not very warm.
05:16Mercedes absolutely have no idea what has just gone on, they are befuddled,
05:23the most befuddlement you can ever see, whereas it is all going off, that is a release of emotion,
05:28a release of pressure. They can't believe, is it luck? Is it judgment? Is it getting the rub of the green?
05:34But they are absolutely shell-shocked at Mercedes and they are in pieces and tears of joy at Red Bull Racing.
05:42I might need to sit down for quite a while here Martin Brundle to just try and compute
05:46what has happened in the last five minutes and he might need to sit down for the whole
05:50winter because I'm not sure it's going to sink in for a while.
