‘Greatest honour of my life’: Lewis Hamilton bids farewell to Mercedes

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Lewis Hamilton described his time with Mercedes as the greatest honour of his life after the seven-time champion bowed out with his final race for the team at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After a superlative drive at the Yas Marina circuit, Hamilton also admitted that, after a difficult year, it was good to bid farewell on a high.

Hamilton drove from 16th to fourth in Abu Dhabi, another mighty performance to sit alongside what has been an unmatched partnership of success with Mercedes since he joined the team in 2013. He has taken six titles with them and 84 wins over those 12 seasons and at his last race before he joins Ferrari next year, he took a moment to contemplate it all at the close when he was given a special place to park on the start-finish straight alongside the top three, where he knelt beside his car.

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Championship: Sheffield United back on top but West Brom’s Fellows denies win

Sheffield United returned to the top of the Championship but had to settle for a point as Tom Fellows’s second-half equaliser secured West Brom a 2-2 draw at The Hawthorns.

United moved a point ahead of Leeds as they extended their unbeaten run to eight matches, while the home side drew for the 10th time in 11 games. Torbjørn Heggem nodded in his first goal of the season to give West Brom a deserved lead, but the visitors turned the game around with two goals inside 98 seconds courtesy of Callum O’Hare and Tyrese Campbell to take a half-time lead.

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