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Max Verstappen closes F1 season with Abu Dhabi Grand Prix victory as Mercedes pip Ferrari to second in constructors championship

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Mercedes clung on to second place in the constructors' championship by the skin of their teeth - and an €11.5m cash boost - as Max Verstappen ended the most dominant season in Formula One history with another victory at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.Verstappen failed to triumph at just three of the 22 rounds staged, and his latest win takes him to 54 for his career, leaving only Lewis Hamilton (103 wins) and Michael Schumacher (91) ahead of him.The Dutchman finished 17 seconds clear of team-mate Sergio Perez but the Red Bull driver was demoted to fourth following a five-second penalty for a collision with Lando Norris.Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was promoted to second with Mercedes' George Russell third.

Lewis Hamilton finished ninth in the other black-liveried machine with Mercedes three points clear of Ferrari in the standings to land a €120.8m reward, rather than €109.3m.However, it marked a second straight season without a victory for Hamilton - a losing streak of 45 races - and Mercedes' first winless campaign in a dozen years.Norris finished fifth for McLaren, one place ahead of team-mate Oscar Piastri.Verstappen has been in a class of one this season and Sunday's 58-lap race round the Yas Marina Circuit never looked anything other than a Red Bull triumph - the team's 21st of their all-conquering year - after he resisted a first-lap attack from Leclerc.Leclerc tried and failed on three occasions to fight his way past Verstappen only for the triple world champion to keep him at bay on each occasion.Behind, and Norris was on the move, making his way up to third ahead of Piastri and Russell.Further back and Hamilton, who started 11th, was up two places to ninth, but by the end of the third lap he was in 10th as Perez swept

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