He was on Rosberg’s tail from Lap 51 onwards, with Max Verstappen behind him. He had four laps to make a move. Had Vettel made his move, Rosberg would have needed to hold Verstappen behind him to remain on course for the title, but then Hamilton would have backed the pack up even more to give Verstappen the temptation to try it.

At every race weekend, Nico Rosberg not only has the arduous task of outperforming the Goliath that is Hamilton, but also has to navigate the mammoth psychological battleground that is the media circus. The task of having Lewis as a team-mate is an unenviable one. However, Nico Rosberg has dealt with this very well, and in their fourth year as the Silver Arrows partnership, his monumental efforts have come to fruition. One should not underestimate his successes.

Ultimately, the only stat that matters though is who comes out on top and who has the most points at the end of the season. When it came to the celebrations after the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi the stats may have been low key but the emotions were high

I know it’s all done and dusted now but Hamilton should have four titles to his name. His car had horrible reliability this season while Rosberg seemed to have a bulletproof W07. Rosberg finished five points ahead of Hamilton. There are three races I want to talk about in this post which, ultimately, cost Hamilton a fourth Championship. These are three races that were out of Hamilton’s hands, the numerous bad starts were down to him unfortunately.

Another Formula One season has passed us by, and the end result, if you hadn’t already seen, was that Nico Rosberg followed in his father Keke’s footsteps to become world champion. But we could have told you that weeks ago – what you really want to know is who won the lesser-known awards right? Well, here goes.

No driver worked harder than the champion in 2016, both with his team and with himself – changing his diet, his sleeping patterns, his gloves, turning his mobile phone off for two weeks and emptying his mind of all distractions. Daniel Ricciardo was also superb and consistent.

It is a story which began in Leatherhead in Surrey, where Herbie was born Michael Blash in 1948. When he was 17 he got a job as an apprentice in Rob Walker’s Pippbrook Garage in Dorking, a few miles from his home. He was soon roped in to helping with the RRC Walker Racing Formula 1 team, because there were not enough staff to do everything. His first race was at Goodwood, but he would soon be off to Syracuse in Sicily.

The McLaren driver initially elected to take a one-year sabbatical in 2017, but it now seems he is unlikely to return to the cockpit after posting on Instagram that he was going into the season finale "with the mindset that it's my last race in F1".

Another challenge for subtitlers is when the background noise of the engine from the cockpit is coupled with English not always being the primary spoken language for an engineer or driver. This sometimes makes it difficult to follow and can challenging to find something tangible to grab onto. Technical jargon can also be an issue if you are a layman and uninitiated the automotive dark arts.

First spotted by motor sports reporter Craig Scarborough, the camera used for testing was a 360fly, although the exact model is unknown. As seen in the image below, the camera was secured onto the upper nose area of the iconic red Ferrari, where it was presumably mounted in place using the 1/4-20 tripod mount integrated into the camera.

Formula 1 is evolving just like any other sport. While the goal is to make sure the drivers are safe, it shouldn’t be done at the expense of the race entertainment value. For example, the Grand Prix in Brazil this year was very exciting. Because of the rain, there was a lot of overtaking and there were some crashes. While crashes are part of racing, we were lucky that nothing major happened to drivers during that race.