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Recapping all of the additional news and notes from the Yas Marina Circuit following Saturday's final practice and qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.  

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Recapping all of the additional news and notes from the Yas Marina Circuit following Friday's practice running ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.  

“You guys like the drama, don’t you? Like two weeks after…” Max Verstappen’s opening comment in Thursday’s FIA press conference was really a rhetorical question. Yes, we like drama. We like rivalries. We like spats. Even a fortnight later, we’re all still talking about it.

This weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will act as Fernando Alonso’s Formula 1 send-off as he calls time on his tenure in the sport. With two world championship titles and 32 Grand Prix victories to his name, the 37-year-old Spaniard is considered one of greatest drivers of all time.

Recapping all of the additional news and notes from the Yas Marina Circuit following Thursday’s media activities ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

Following Sunday’s riveting Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith runs through the field with his driver ratings. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes – 9

Amid all of the commotion in the wake of Max Verstappen’s altercation with Esteban Ocon following the Brazilian Grand Prix, a crucial fact was almost lost: there had in fact been an excellent Formula 1 race taking place at Interlagos on Sunday!

With a final recap from Interlagos following a dramatic day of action in the Brazilian Grand Prix, here's our F1 notebook.

- In a typical day in Interlagos, where four seasons were felt in the space of three hours and a tense qualifying took place, he did it again. Lewis Hamilton got his 82nd pole position, but this time he wasn’t really sure he had done enough when he crossed the line. “I

The hours that followed qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix were among the most frantic of the 2018 Formula 1 season to date.

Three or four years ago, if you’d told me the future of the Brazilian Grand Prix was under threat, I would have been more than a little upset.

Rounding up all of Friday's news and notes from the Interlagos paddock, here is our daily notebook.

Recapping all of the news and notes from the Interlagos paddock on Thursday, here is our paddock notebook.

Formula 1 has a number of young stars coming through its ranks at the moment. The likes of Charles Leclerc, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon and George Russell are all products of teams’ junior programmes, put in place to nurture upcoming talent and allow them to reach their full potential.

As we enter the final few races of Fernando Alonso’s Formula 1 career, there is a strange mix of emotions throughout the paddock when it comes to his pending departure.

Formula 1 ventures to Brazil for the penultimate round of the 2018 season fresh from toasting five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton last time out in Mexico.

Lewis Hamilton may have already wrapped up the 2018 drivers’ world championship but there is still plenty to play for in the all-important constructors’, which determines the amount of prize money that each team receives from the distributed pool.

As the embers begin to die down in the Formula 1 driver silly season for 2019, one of the main points of focus is the remaining Toro Rosso seat.

Few would have thought after the opening rounds that the 2018 Formula 1 title fight would be done and dusted with two races to spare, but a supreme run in the second half of the campaign enabled Lewis Hamilton to seal his fifth world championship crown.

November 1 marks 20 years since Mika Hakkinen clinched his first Formula 1 world championship with victory for McLaren at the Japanese Grand Prix, cementing his place in the sport’s history books.

Moments after Lewis Hamilton crossed the line to clinch his fifth Formula 1 world championship in Mexico on Sunday, my phone buzzed with a message from a close friend from outside of the sport. “Oh for God’s sake. He’ll be even more arrogant now.”

The development race for this season is all but over. While there is still some performance to be found through car setup and further understanding of the packages the teams already have, only a few new items have trickled onto the grid over the past few races.

Running through the Formula 1 field following a thrilling Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his driver ratings. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - 7