Alfa Romeo back in Formula 1 with Sauber after more than 30 years
November 29, 2017 19:39 ISTNext year's Sauber car will bear the Alfa Romeo logo and will be equipped with Ferrari power units.
Next year's Sauber car will bear the Alfa Romeo logo and will be equipped with Ferrari power units.
The four-time world champ spent much of his time in the Grand Prix chasing his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas around the 21-corner track before finishing second in the season's final race.
Hamilton's winning margin of 46 points over Vettel does not reflect an often tense title battle, one in which Ferrari had a genuine chance of breaking Mercedes' stranglehold until Vettel's alarming dip.
Ferrari finished second in the constructor standings with 522 points below Mercedes-AMG (668) who topped the chart in the 2017 season.
Hamilton, who won nine races in the 2017 season to secure the title, failed to clinch the top podium finish in the Brazilian and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
It was a frustrating finale to a topsy-turvy year that saw Ricciardo finish fifth in the Formula One standings.
Ferrari are the only team to have competed in the Formula One World Championship continuously since its inception in 1950.
With 10 points from today's race, six for Perez and four for Ocon, Force India collected 187 points from the 20 races this Formula One Championships season.
The Finnish driver comfortably secured the third win of his F1 career, all coming this season since joining from Williams.
Hamilton, who secured his fourth world title two races ago, led on the first two split times but lost time on the final sector.
The Briton raced to the top of the leaderboard late in the sun-drenched afternoon session, placing 0.273 seconds ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas.
Raikkonen currently sits fifth in the driver's standings heading into this weekend's season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Vettel was .149 seconds behind Hamilton, and Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo was .303 back in third.
Vettel won the last race in Brazil, but Hamilton clinched his fourth Formula One title — and third with Mercedes — the race before and faces no pressure in the season finale.
With Hamilton wrapping up this year's title two races ago, the pressure is off this week at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The New F1 chief executive Chase Carey said the changes were planned in order to make the sport exciting and to engage fans.
The former team-mates were good friends in their early racing day, but fierce inter-team competition at Mercedes resulted in their fallout.
Brazilian GP organizer Tamas Rohonyi said other venues could replace Interlagos in case the new owners fail to extend the contract with F1.
Massa announced his retirement before the Brazil race in 2016, but was eventually invited back to F1. This time he says his decision to leave is final.
Vettel started second on the grid, but overtook pole sitter Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes on the first lap and then led most of the way.
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