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  1. Norris passes Antonelli and Sainz

    Lap 18/58

    Lando Norris makes his first pass on the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli to take eighth place.

    Next up, old McLaren buddy Carlos Sainz. No danger for that overtake. The Spaniard doesn't fight it and Norris is now up to seventh after his pit stop.

  2. Team radio - Piastri

    Engineer: "Oscar, do you think we can do Plan A? Thoughts on Plan A?"

    Piastri: "I think it is doable"

  3. Norris comes in to pit

    Lap 17/58

    Championship leader Lando Norris is safely in and out on a set of the hard compound. The Briton is now in ninth place but a DRS train is choo-chooing just ahead of him. Charles Leclerc also pitted and is now with Norris in the long line of traffic.

  4. Rosanna Tennant
    5 Live F1 reporter in Abu Dhabi

    A very good pit stop for George Russell and the Mercedes pit crew. It has triggered a chain reaction, everybody else is diving into the pits.

    Isack Hadjar and Oliver Bearman are also in the pits, I wonder who else will come in soon.

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    Finlay in West Lothian: I have all my faith in Norris to pull it off, all he needs to do is just drive cleanly and not let the pressure get to him and that should be that.

    Chris in Liverpool: One mistake from Lando and the dream is over. Critical he keeps focused. He has it all to lose here

  6. Team radio - Norris

    Engineer: "Keep building this gap on Leclerc, it gives us choices."

  7. Lap 16/58

    Other teams are calling in drivers, including Racing Bulls, who tell rookie Isack Hadjar to himself in for a tyre change.

    Fernando Alonso is the latest man told to "box, box" - and so is Lando Norris...

  8. Russell pits

    Lap 15/58

    George Russell fancies an undercut on Charles Leclerc for that fourth spot. Mercedes bring in the Briton - it's a little bit of a slow stop - and he comes back out in 14th place, just ahead of his old Silver Arrows team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

    Russell now has rush hour traffic to contend with.

  9. 'Leclerc is pushing like crazy'

    Damon Hill
    1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live in Abu Dhabi

    Charles Leclerc's carGetty Images

    Someone who is not in tyre preservation mode is Charles Leclerc because he is pushing like crazy just to keep up with the McLarens.

    It does look like this time Lando Norris has shaken him off his tail and actually we're now going to see Charles dropping back.

  10. Top five

    Lap 14/58

    1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

    2. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

    3. Lando Norris (McLaren)

    4. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

    5. George Russell (Mercedes)

  11. Team radio - Norris

    "My graining is definitely picking up."

  12. Lap 13/58

    Norris in front of LeclercGetty Images

    Graining is the word being used on the team radio at the moment as we reach lap 13 of this season finale. Lando Norris, like race leader Max Verstappen, is starting to notice his tyres giving up the ghost slightly. Luckily for Norris, Charles Leclerc has dropped back a bit after his early push for a podium spot.

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    David in London: Can’t believe McLaren rather keep on playing by their rules than maximising their chances of securing both titles. Should have asked Oscar to stay in third and play defence for Norris. Oscar had his chance, he’s in no position to win the championship.

  14. Team radio - Norris

    Engineer: "We think Verstappen's tyres are graining. Yours are in good shape."

  15. Lap 12/58

    Piastri leading NorrisGetty Images

    Oscar Piastri needs a lot to happen in this race in order for him to swipe the trophy away from either Lando Norris and Max Verstappen but the Australian is in the podium places and can finish on a high.

    Oliver Bearman and Liam Lawson, meanwhile, have been noted by the stewards for driving erratically. Haas rookie Bearman is in 12th, Racing Bulls' Lawson is running in 11th.

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    Garry in Australia: Let's go Charles, get that third podium place

  17. Lap 11/58

    Lando Norris has received some good news from his engineer: his tyres are looking better than Max Verstappen's. Both are on the mediums, with Oscar Piastri, who passed Norris on the opening lap to take second, on a different route to glory on the hard compound.

  18. Damon Hill
    1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live in Abu Dhabi

    McLaren are asking Oscar Piastri to push because you don't need to be that far away to actually produce very bad aerodynamics on the car behind.

    Oscar needs to get more clean air on Lando Norris if he possibly can, that is why McLaren are asking Oscar to push.

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    Simon in Milton Keynes: Norris needs to keep his head in the game and not let Charles Leclerc bother him.

  20. 'Norris typically very good at managing tyres early on'

    Damon Hill
    1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live in Abu Dhabi

    Typically Lando Norris is very good at managing his tyres in the early part of the race to keep himself in a position where he can push later on.