Not one of the best races of the season, but it's a dominating race weekend for Mercedes, dominating in practice, dominating in qualifying, and most importantly dominating in the race for Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas. Bottas was on pole for Sunday's race. In the day to night Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Bottas took the advantage at the start and comfortably lead the race throughout to lead all the laps and the fastest lap of the race to conclude with Valtteri Bottas's third race win of the season.
While, Bottas's team-mate Current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton finished in second place in the other Mercedes to give the team its fourth one-two finish of the season, Bottas was fourt seconds behind Bottas at the end.
Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel finished in third place in the Ferrari to complete the podium, Vettel was nineteen seconds behind Bottas at the end of the fifty-five lap race.
Highlights of the race below, enjoy.
Rate the Teams and Drivers
Mercedes - 9
Lewis Hamilton - 8 (finished second)
Valtteri Bottas - 10 (pole, race win, and fastest lap)
Red Bull Racing - 7
Daniel Ricciardo - 8 (DNF, Hydraulics)
Max Verstappen - 7 (finished fifth)
Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 8 (finished third)
Kimi Räikkönen - 7 (finished fourth)
Force India - 6
Sergio Pérez - 7 (finished seventh)
Esteban Ocon - 6 (finished eighth)
Williams - 6
Felipe Massa - 8 (finished tenth, lap down)
Lance Stroll - 4 (finished eighteenth, lap down)
McLaren - 6
Fernando Alonso - 8 (finished ninth, lap down)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 5 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Toro Rosso - 4
Pierre Gasly - 4 (finished sixteenth, lap down)
Brendon Hartley - 4 (finished fifteenth, lap down)
Haas - 5
Romain Grosjean - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
Renault - 7
Nico Hülkenberg - 9 (finished sixth)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 6 (DNF, Wheel)
Sauber - 5
Marcus Ericsson - 4 (finished seventeenth, lap down)
Pascal Wehrlein - 7 (finished fourteenth, lap down)
Now bring on 2018, for another season of Formula 1. Only three and a half months to go.
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