(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 8 - Lando Norris in a McLaren won the Abu Dhabi GP, the final Formula 1 race of the season, handing the constructors' world title to his team, which had not won it since 1998.
    For Ferrari, second place by Carlos Sainz and third by Charles Leclerc, who had started from the last row, were not enough for a last-gasp comeback.
    Norris's teammate Oscar Piastri only came 10th after a shunt by three-time and current world champ Max Verstappen of Red Bull at the start.
    But the heroics of Leclrec and Sainz - in his last race before being replaced by joint-record seven-time champ Lewis Hamilton - were not enough to make up the 21 point gap the Italian glamour team had before the start.
    Norris led the race from start to finish, closely followed by Sainz, while Leclerc managed to climb onto the podium by making up 16 places.
    Fourth place went to Hamilton, ahead of teammate George Russell and Verstappen.
    Pierre Gasly (Alpine), Nico Huelkenberg (Haas), Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Piastri (McLaren) also made it into the top 10. (ANSA).