F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix post-match stats and record updates:
1. Verstappen became the first F1 world champion in the Netherlands.
2. Verstappen became the first non-Mercedes world champion in the hybrid era.
3. In the past 10 years, only two times in the last lap to determine the champion: the other time was the 2016 Austrian Grand Prix, Hamilton surpassed teammate Rothberg in the last lap.
4. Honda's last race as an engine manufacturer, Verstappen gave them their first driver's world championship since Elton Senna in 1991.
5. Verstappen scored a "hat-trick" for the third time in his career: pole position, victory and fastest lap.
6. The Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship were won by different teams for the first time since 2008 (Drivers' Championship Hamilton, Constructors' Overall Ferrari).
7. Mercedes has won the constructors' championship for 8 consecutive years.
8. Verstappen broke the record for the most podiums in a single season, 18 times, and all of them were non-champions.
9 Hamilton led 51 of the 58 laps but failed to win.
10. Sainz P3, 15 consecutive games to finish the points, the fourth podium of the 2021 season.
11. The Spaniards also reached the P5 of the drivers' standings in one fell swoop, the best place in their careers.
12 For the first time since 1992-1993, Ferrari has not won for two consecutive seasons.
13. Yuki Kakuda P4, career best, 12 points more than the previous 13 games combined.
14, teammate Gasley P5, Little Red Bull Racing achieved the highest score of the year 22 points.
15 Bottas' final battle at Mercedes ended with P6.
16. Alonso P8, the best result at the Yas Marina circuit since 2013.
17. Williams' second twin-car DNF of the season since Imola.
18. Alfa Romeo's first two-car DNF since the 2018 British Grand Prix (then Sauber).
19. It means that Giovinaz failed to achieve the record of all the finishes of the 2021 season in his last F1 match.
(Data source official website, picture source network)