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Formula 1 Abu Dhabi GP

F1 Abu Dhabi GP Live Updates - race day

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Verstappen already has the hammer down, opening up a 1.8s gap over Bottas.
Strong start from Magnussen to go from last place to 17th - the biggest climber on the first lap - with the Ferrari drivers and Alfa Romeo drivers swapping places in the running order. Ocon has also jumped up to ninth ahead of Gasly.
Verstappen sweeps across and keeps the lead, as Bottas keeps second! Albon is having a go at Norris - and it's been a clean start for everyone.
Lights green
And for the final time this year, we're away!
Green flag
Formation lap hath beginneth.
Sun
There's a track temperature of 30 degrees C, air temp at 23.4 degrees and falling - as day becomes night.
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Tyre news: Norris, Albon, Kvyat, Stroll and Gasly on softs. Ricciardo, Vettel, Perez and Magnussen on hards. Everyone else on mediums.
Unless you have it on your Spotify playlists, here's the last rendition of F1's theme song for this year.
So, Verstappen on pole. Can he hold off the Mercedes pair? Will Bottas and Hamilton charge forward? And can Norris play some part in the frontguard action? We can but wait.
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Just 10 minutes until lights out.
You know what's going to be weird? When we're looking at highlights packages of this year in, let's say, 20 years from now, and immediately remember "the bad place" when we see bemasked drivers and empty stands...
Just the small matter of an F1 race before we can all sign off for the year, hibernate and ponder the bigger questions, such as: will Albon stay at Red Bull? Will Tsunoda get the AlphaTauri drive? And what on earth do I get my dad for Christmas?
A lot of finality around this last round of the season. Plenty of drivers are due to move teams over the off-season, and other movements due between 2020 and 2021. But we promise we won't get too soppy about it.
The cancelled race in Australia seems like a lifetime ago, and it seemed like a lifetime between that and the eventual Red Bull Ring season opener. It's been a long ol' year.
In the space of five-and-a-half months, F1 has run 16 races in a much-interrupted 2020 calendar. Now, in just 30 minutes' time, we'll have the 17th and last race of the season. Hello everyone, and welcome to the last Autosport Live of the season.

By: Jake Boxall-Legge

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