Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Formula One championship, denying Lewis Hamilton a record eighth title with a last-lap overtake to win the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix amid controversy and high drama on Sunday.
Hamilton’s Mercedes team took the constructors’ title for an unprecedented eighth year in a row, but its run of dual dominance was ended by the 24-year-old Verstappen, the first Dutch driver to win the crown.
Mercedes filed two protests after the race that might have changed the outcome, but both were rejected. The team, though, refused to drop the matter and said it had filed notice of intention to appeal.
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