Lewis Hamilton left Mercedes with one last overtake and a heartfelt message to the team where he won the Formula 1 title six times. “We dreamed alone but together, we believed,” Hamilton told race engineer Peter Bonnington and team principal Toto Wolff over the radio.

Lewis Hamilton has turned the page on his time with Mercedes, bringing to an end the longest and most successful driver-team partnership in Formula 1's history.

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was Lewis Hamilton's last for the Mercedes team with whom he has won six of his seven Formula One world championships.