Max Verstappen sealed Red Bull’s 17th win of the season in Abu Dhabi, to close out his and his team's championship-winning campaign.

It was a result and a season that had team boss Christian Horner heaping high praise on his squad for their “immense” hard work in what he called an “amazing” year.
 

“Well, what a year,” said Horner. “Unbelievable. To be sitting here having won 17 races, two Sprint races, five one-two finishes, drivers’ championship, constructors’ championship, we came close to getting first and second in the drivers’. It’s been an amazing year, amazing year for the team.
 

 “The hard work that goes in behind the scenes, all the people that you don’t get to see here that have put a Herculean effort into this championship. It’s been immense. We’ve had the odd lump and bump along the way, but when you look at the season, what we’ve actually managed to achieve this year has surpassed anything we could have ever believed or imagined, or anything we’ve ever achieved ourselves.”
 

Red Bull’s constructors’ title was the fifth in the team’s history but their first since 2013. And while Horner admits “heads dropped” at Red Bull during their winless streak, he says they never lost belief that they could make it back to the top.