If Hamilton finishes fourth or lower, Rosberg will win the title.If Rosberg finishes seventh or eighth, Hamilton must finish third or worse.If Rosberg finishes fourth, fifth or sixth, Hamilton must finish second or worse.If he finishes on the podium, he will win the title. The title battle was held, with Nico Rosberg twelve points ahead of Lewis Hamilton: Although Button has a contract available for 2018, he doubted that he would go back to Formula One, saying that the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix might be his final race. It was apparently the final race for Jenson Button before Stoffel Vandoorne races for McLaren in 2017. Vettel, Felipe Massa and McLaren all chose just one set of supersofts, along with five soft sets and seven ultrasoft sets. Hamilton and Rosberg took the same number of sets, being seven ultrasofts, two supersofts, and four softs. Like the previous year's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the drivers used soft and supersoft tyres, and this time also used ultrasofts. Force India opened their gap to Williams to twenty-seven points, after Williams failed to finish in the top ten in Brazil. Meanwhile, Red Bull secured second place with 446 points compared to Ferrari's 375. Mercedes were still the Constructors' Champion of 2016, having 722 points. Kimi Räikkönen's accident in the aforementioned race promoted Max Verstappen, who finished third, to fourth in the standings, five points behind Vettel. Daniel Ricciardo had already secured third place in the standings, but an eighth-place finish gave him four more points to be forty-nine points ahead of Sebastian Vettel, who finished fifth in Brazil. Rosberg was on 367 points, while Hamilton was on 355. At the last race in Brazil, Lewis Hamilton took his first Brazilian Grand Prix win, while Nico Rosberg took another second-place finish, moving Hamilton another seven points closer to Rosberg in the Drivers' Championship, putting the gap to twelve points.
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