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Rosberg crowned F1 champion

Nico Rosberg has been crowned F1 world champion after a tense and controversial season finale at Abu Dhabi. Requiring a podium finish to secure his first F1 drivers' title, Rosberg finished Sunday's race in second place to clinch the crown ahead of Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton, the race victor, by five points. Hamilton ignored a series of messages from his Mercedes team after apparently deliberately backing up Rosberg into the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in a desperate bid to engineer a result which would have seen him retain his crown. "I am losing the world championship, I don't care if l lose the race," said Hamilton. There are likely to...
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