with one race to go. lewis hamilton has the titles and max verstappen had dutch support. he started on pole position but titles can come down to a tenth of a second. lights up and away we go. hamilton reacted quickest and took the lead. through the season, there have been flashpoints and more here were certain. here was hamilton, forced wide but improvising. with such a shortcut, he would often give back the lead but here, not so. radio: no investigation on the shortcut. - incredible. but this race would have a remarkable, breathtaking finish. when one of the field crashed, the safety car came out and bunched the rest and when the all clear was given, there was one lap to go. it is a late lunge by verstappen who takes the lead! in amazing drama, verstappen made his move, an overtake the sport will never forget. it is unbelievable, i mean, i tried the whole race, i kept fighting and then of course the opportunity in the last

lap, it's incredible. i'm still having a cramp. it's insane. big congratulations to max and his team. i think we did an amazing job this year. my team, everyone back at the factory, all the men and women we have, and here, have worked so hard this whole year. it has been the most difficult of seasons. i am so proud of them, so grateful to be a part of the journey with them and, yeah, we gave it everything, this last part of the season, we gave it absolutely everything and we never gave up, that's the most important thing. the teams and the drivers could barely believe it. a lifetime dream made in one lap. it was incredible but it was controversial. when the safety car came out, max verstappen was 12 seconds behind, and driver george russell said bunching the cars up was unacceptable. hamilton's mercedes team protested the result but late at night in abu

dhabi, it was confirmed. max verstappen�*s first world title, won in the most extraordinary way. so verstappen had to sweat on his maiden world title for a bit. and after race stewards dismissed those protests, mercedes have now appealed against that decision. it looks like it will run for a little while yet. inge stracke is a formula one journalist who's in abu dhabi. she told us about all the drama of this title—deciding grand prix. the final a at the rate of the season, the most convincing, the tightest season. they really wanted it to be a race in the last lap, for this season not to finish behind the safety car, which is understandable and it is for the fans but again, who would have predicted the crash a few laps before the end of the race that caused the safety car? it is a

really, really tough call. we were all on our toes. i really, really tough call. we were all on ourtoes. i mean, we really, really tough call. we were all on our toes. i mean, we were standing there screaming, all of us. we have seen so many races, so many seasons and title decider is, and this was just unbelievable. ijust wish for the fact that it would have been a clean victory without any discussions, without any protests and we could just all go and enjoy it and may be alljump into the harbour! to football now and crystal palace have overtaken everton in the table after beating them 3—1 at selhurst park. jim lumsden was watching. last week's victory over arsenal ended a run of eight games without a win for everton. not long ago, gritter palace had seen off manchester city but they had since been on the slide, losing the last three. everton today were sluggish, creating little, almost inviting palace to attack with an obvious

outcome, crystal palace but passes together and conor gallagher capitalised. after an hour, they had another, james tomkins stealing in behind the everton defender is, to make it 2—0. an early christmas present for some. no team in the league had won more points from losing positions than everton this season, and salomon rondon got them back into the match. but they were swiftly finished off by the goal of the game, a superb shot from conor gallagher. palace go up to 12th and everton slip to 14th. jimmy lumsden, bbc news. ~ .., . bbc news. when we conceded the goal, it was challenging _ bbc news. when we conceded the goal, it was challenging for _ bbc news. when we conceded the goal, it was challenging for us. _ bbc news. when we conceded the goal, it was challenging for us. i _ bbc news. when we conceded the goal, it was challenging for us. i was - it was challenging for us. i was really proud about the team, doing this difficult period, we stick together. we pulled our sleeves up and we accepted the fight and then we get awarded with the third goal, but i think through the game, we went through a lot and that game

will give us confidence for the rest of the season. three days after going out of the europa league, leicester showed why newcastle might struggle to stay in the premier league. they won 4—0 at the king power stadium. a youri tielemans penalty put leicester ahead — before patson daka made it 2—0. tielemans got his second of the afternoon in the closing stages to seal the win, but there was still time for one more. james maddison rounding off an emphatic victory to leave newcastle still second from bottom. it has been a challenging season for us with injuries and everything else. that sort of destabilised our collective in terms of our defending but yes, so pleased to come back from a tough week, european game, and to come here and keep the clean sheet, score four goals. i said before the game that our attacking play was actually good so that tells you the confidence of the team and the spirit of the team

and the attitude but we just needed to tighten up and refocus mentally in our defending and we had to do that today against top players that can give you a problem. a really harsh scoreline for us, i think. if you look at the scoreline alone, you probably get one thought of the game but the reality of the game i think was very different. i think we were ok for long periods of the match without probably really clicking in the final third. i thought for all of the ball we had around their box, we never really opened then up like we would have wanted to and then defensively for the goals, obviously, big moments in the match and we did not deal with_ those situations well enough. it also finished goalless between west ham and burnley. there have been a number of positive coronavirus cases in the manchester united squad — putting their premier league match at brentford on tuesday in some doubt. it is understood that all players tested negative before the norwich game. but the positive results came before training this morning.

those individuals were then sent home. this afternoon's brighton v tottenham game was postponed after an outbreak in the spurs squad. aston villa also had one player test positive today, forcing the club to cancel an recovery session. celtic maintained a four—point gap behind scottish premiership leaders rangers, as tom rogic�*s strike earned them a narrow 1—0 home win over motherwell. that's after rangers beat hearts 2—0 at tynecastle. alfredo morelos giving his side an early lead. and they doubled it moments later. joe aribo with a superb finish. hearts did have a man sent off late on, but it didn't affect the result. six straight league wins for rangers. manchester united returned to winning ways in the women's super league by beating brighton 2—0 at crawley. wales international hayley ladd opened the scoring just before half time. then norway midfielder vilde boe risa completed the victory as united ended a four—match winless run

in the wsl. in the day's other fixtures, ellen white rescued a late win for manchester city against birmingham. they were down twice and equalised twice and she got the winner in the 89th minute. toni duggan secured a point for everton as they drew 1—1 with west ham. rachel williams has put tottenham 2—1 up against aston villa. and in the late game, wsl leaders arsenal are 2—0 up against leicester. jordan nobbs and vivianne miedema with the goals — leicester also down to 10 — a straigh red forjemma purfield. in rugby union's european champions cup, harlequins have got off to a winning start after an impressive win in france. they beat castres 20—18. quins were losing 11—7 at half time, but this try from alex dombrant helped them to a six point lead. england fly—half marcus smith proved key for the away side, kicking 10 points, and this penalty was vital. martin laveau went over

for castres late on to ensure a nervy finish — but quins hung on — as castres lost at home for the first time in almost a year. sale sharks got their campaign off to a winning start by beating ospreys 21—13. jean—luc du preez scored their third try of the first half which was enough to secure the victory in swansea. losing captain brad shields for this tackle on dave kilcoyne in the 25th minute left wasps exposed against munster. they were thrashed 35—14 at home. both teams were without several players due to covid. but munster�*s academy players stepped up. 19—year—old patrick campbell shone on his senior debut with this try. there was defeat too for glasgow warriors. they did earn a losing bonus point though as they were beaten 20—13 by last season's runners—up la rochelle in france. in the day's other match, connacht beat stade francais. and in the women's premier 15s, harlequins got an impressive win against saracens. a frantic final try from player

of the match jade konkel secured the 36—17 win, to end saracens' unbeaten home run. much more on the developing story in abu dhabi throughout the evening but for now, that's it. we will see you soon. goodbye.

we're counting down to an announcement from no.10 from the prime minister, outlining proposals for the covid booster programme. this in the light of the dramatic rise in infections, due to the omicron variant. our health correspondent, jim reed is with me. we are not expecting an announcement of any new restrictions in england but we expect an update to the booster programme and in england and scotland from tomorrow that was being widened anyway to include anyone in their �*30s who has had a job or a second job at least three months ago before that moment it was people in their �*aos and over, but the question is could the government in england go further and expand the booster out further to more adults

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