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00:00We've been waiting for this all season long.

00:03The finale, the title decider, under the lights here in Abu Dhabi.

00:07It's lights out, away we go and Hamilton gets a decent start

00:10and he's already ahead of Max Verstappen.

00:12There's a bit of jockeying going on between Sonoda and Ricciardo.

00:15Hamilton leads into the first corner, Norris goes wide.

00:18Sergio Perez slips through into third place.

00:20There comes Carlos Sainz, but it's Hamilton out in front.

00:23The medium tyres working well for him is his teammate Valtteri.

00:26Bottas challenges the Ferrari.

00:28Into the hairpin we go now.

00:30Hamilton leads Bottas, leads Perez, then leads Norris,

00:33then the two Ferraris of Sainz and Leclerc.

00:35It is a dream start for Lewis Hamilton.

00:38Yes, the only good news there for Red Bull is at least Perez is up there,

00:42but for the second consecutive weekend,

00:44the Red Bull did not get off the line very well.

00:47This three of Brest going into the turn nine hairpin.

00:50Oh, and there, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton almost coming together.

00:54Hamilton has to go off the track.

00:56The Dutch fans roaring in the background.

00:58In the background, Lewis Hamilton in the lead,

01:00but will he have to give out the place?

01:02Yes, of course he will, but the problem he's got is,

01:04is Perez is right on Verstappen's tail.

01:07Yes, he gave that back.

01:09No investigation necessary, say the stewards.

01:13The door's open, he's gone through it, he's kept completely within the white lines,

01:18and a car that was side by side with him is heading off down the road.

01:22I'll stand by that, but that's not what the stewards think.

01:26Max Verstappen about to make what should be his one and only pit stop of this race.

01:31So Sergio Perez will stay out and will go on to take the lead of this race.

01:36Neat stop by the Mercedes crew.

01:40Okay, we'll be looking to hold up Lewis.

01:42I think we're supposed to do that.

01:43Lewis will be nervous at the back of the Red Bull and Perez will have a lunge up the inside.

01:48Inevitably, Lewis cuts back underneath him and that's exactly what we expected to happen.

01:55He will now drive past him, give him a cheery little wave, and that was about all Perez could do, or was it?

02:02Perez with DRS is coming back into turn nine.

02:05Can Perez make it into turn nine?

02:07He's saved up a bit of energy from that battery store,

02:10and with a bit of DRS possibly as well has blasted past Lewis Hamilton,

02:15so he is going to hold him up just that little extra bit.

02:18This is a very, very good tussle here.

02:20Perez is absolutely on the limit and as fair as he can be.

02:24Okay, back him up, back him up.

02:27As they make their way around the final two turns,

02:29Hamilton's going to try and get Perez into turn one,

02:32and have to go the long way around the outside to do it, and can't quite do it.

02:35Perez playing the ultimate team game here for Max Verstappen,

02:39and this is really frustrating Lewis Hamilton.

02:41It's going to be hurting his tyres a little bit as well.

02:47Perez and Hamilton in the 134s and the 133s.

02:51The gap now coming down between Verstappen and Hamilton.

02:55You can see him right in the background.

02:57Hamilton needs to get past Perez here.

02:59He does get past Perez.

03:01He moves towards the inside.

03:02He's going to force Perez the long way round,

03:04if Perez is going to try and retake that lead of the race.

03:08But on lap 21, Hamilton does get past Perez,

03:12but Perez has played the ultimate team game,

03:15and he's really brought his teammate back into play.

03:17And he can give his teammate a bit of DRS for good measure,

03:20so great team play.

03:21That's the team play we talked about earlier on.

03:23Now he gets clean out of the way.

03:25Oh, check it as a legend.

03:27Absolute animal.

03:30Oh no, Nicholas Latifi has crashed,

03:33and I think that is at turn 14.

03:36That will be a safety car coming into the pits.

03:40Max Verstappen.

03:41Hamilton stays out.

03:43Verstappen coming into the pits,

03:44and I would imagine there's a set of soft tyres

03:47waiting for him to go onto that Red Bull car.

03:50Yes, it is.

03:52Will we get any more racing laps or not?

03:55What jeopardy at the end of this Grand Prix,

03:58the end of this World Championship.

03:59Will there be any more racing laps?

04:02If there are, then Verstappen has got the tyres

04:07to really do something with them.

04:10And lapped cars will not be allowed to overtake.

04:14It's not mandatory in the regulations,

04:16which leaves Verstappen with a lot of work to do then.

04:21Lapped cars will not be allowed to overtake.

04:23Yeah, of course.

04:24Typical decision.

04:25It's classic.

04:27Oh, that's the price.

04:28Why aren't we getting these lapped cars out of the way?

04:33Just give me...

04:34Because Christian, just give me a second.

04:36Okay, my big one is to get this incident clear.

04:41Is the safety car coming in this lap?

04:42We think it should do, could do.

04:45Lapped cars to overtake the safety car.

04:49So Norris and Alonso and Ocon and Leclerc and Vettel to overtake it.

04:54And it's ending.

04:55Wow.

04:56So there's confusion, but the safety car is coming in at the end of this lap.

05:01So those back markers allowed to overtake the safety car.

05:06Michael, this isn't right.

05:09It has left Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen side by side.

05:13Hamilton will be ahead.

05:14Verstappen is absolutely desperate to get on with this on that soft compound tyre.

05:19We're going to have one lap of racing to decide the championship in 2021.

05:25Hamilton has the advantage.

05:27Verstappen has the faster, fresher tyres.

05:31And we have got 3.2 miles of racing action all the way to the chequered flag.

05:38As the crowd roar the drivers on to the final lap of this race.

05:42And Verstappen sets after Hamilton.

05:44Is it going to be a first world championship for Verstappen?

05:48Is it going to be an eighth world championship for Lewis Hamilton?

05:51Where can Verstappen try and get past Hamilton?

05:54First overtaking zone is normally down into turn five.

05:57Is Verstappen far enough back?

05:59He's going to make the lunge down the inside.

06:01Hamilton sees it coming.

06:02It's a late lunge by Verstappen, who takes the lead of the race.

06:06Verstappen now snatches the championship trophy from Lewis Hamilton,

06:11who's trying to fight back.

06:13No DRS for two laps.

06:14So Lewis Hamilton will not get the rear wing open.

06:17Now he's going to go down the outside.

06:19If Verstappen keeps it tight and knee, but he hasn't, he's gone a little bit wide.

06:24This race that started with controversy has ended with controversy.

06:27No, no, Mikey. No, no, Mikey. That was so not right.

06:30Here comes Lewis Hamilton though, down the back straight.

06:33He's got a slipstream.

06:34He almost touches Verstappen.

06:36They almost make contact into turn nine.

06:38Verstappen stays ahead of Lewis Hamilton, of all the drama, of all the controversy,

06:44of all the magic moments in Formula One in 2021.

06:48It comes down to this.

06:50And at this moment, it looks like it's going to go the way of Max Verstappen.

06:55Mercedes not happy.

06:57Red Bull will be delighted.

06:59They have shared a brilliant championship battle,

07:02but the championship can only be one by one.

07:05And it's going Dutch in 2021.

07:08Max Verstappen for the first time ever is champion of the world.

07:14Lewis Hamilton finishes in second place after leading for so, so long.

07:20Oh my Lord, Max!

07:22Oh my God!

07:24Yes! Yes!

07:26Oh my God!

07:26The bubbles and the sparkly stuff to celebrate as a Formula One World Championship for the first time.

07:38And the chapter has ended.

07:40I hope you stayed right until the end.

07:42And if it was worthwhile, well, don't forget the sequels coming our way in 2022 in 98 days time.

07:50Just enough time for Verstappen and Red Bull to celebrate a championship under the lights in Abu Dhabi.

07:57Oh my God!

07:58Do you know what it is?

08:00You know how close it is.

08:01We will see you going to the next day.

08:03Let's do something else.

08:05We will see you.

08:07Thanks, David.

08:08We'll see you next time as we go.

08:10On camera.

08:11I'm coming through the next day!

08:13What's up?

08:14We'll see you next time!

08:14Well, when we bring the back to the next day.

08:17We'll see you next time!

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