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Sachin Tendulkar Congratulates Max Verstappen, Sympathises With Lewis Hamilton After Dramatic F1 World Championship Season Finale At Abu Dhabi GP

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Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton suffered a heartbreak on the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday as he missed out on a report eighth F1 world championship title after a dramatic end to the race. With Hamilton main comfortably within the closing few laps of the season-ending race, Nicholas Latifi of Williams crashed in direction of the tip. This noticed the protection automotive being introduced in, which allowed Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen to shut the hole on title rival Hamilton. The lapped automobiles have been then allowed to overhaul the protection automotive simply earlier than it was taken off, permitting Verstappen to begin the ultimate lap nearly alongside Hamilton.

Benefiting from his quicker tyres, Verstappen comfortably overtook Hamilton and sealed victory to pip Hamilton to the world championship title.

This was Verstappen’s maiden title. He additionally turned the primary ever Dutch driver to safe the world championship.

Reacting to the thrilling race, Indian cricket nice Sachin Tendulkar congratulated Verstappen and provided his sympathies to Hamilton.

“What a race! Congrats to Max for turning into the World Champion for the first time & there shall be many extra. Nevertheless, my coronary heart goes out to Lewis. What a season he is had too. If not for the protection automotive, the trophy would’ve been his. Sheer dangerous luck. All the most effective for the subsequent season,” Tendulkar wrote in a tweet on Sunday.

Earlier in Sunday’s race, Hamilton overtook Verstappen on the very starting and took a cushty lead.

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Nevertheless, having pitted early within the race, Hamilton’s tyres wore out in direction of the tip.

The British driver was nonetheless in a cushty place earlier than Latifi’s crash allowed Verstappen to shut in attributable to security automotive laws after which seal victory with a final-lap overtake.

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