Valtteri Bottas held off Lewis Hamilton to claim a morale-boosting victory over 2017's world champion as Mercedes dominated F1's season finale in the Abu Dhabi GP. It was Bottas' third win of the year, but first since July, as the Finn made up for being beaten from pole in Brazil and denied his team-mate the perfect ending to his fourth title-winning campaign. Hamilton applied concerted pressure to Bottas after the one round of pit stops but was unable to get close enough to the back of the sister Mercedes to attempt an overtake and had to settle for second place, eventually backing off to five seconds behind. Ferrari have run Mercedes close for much of 2017 but were no match for the world...
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