Lewis Hamilton capped off his title-winning campaign with victory in Abu Dhabi, just four seconds clear of Sebastian Vettel.
Polesitter Hamilton got a good start to lead into the first turn ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas and Vettel.
A safety car was deployed as a result of a frightening crash involving Nico Hulkenberg and Romain Grosjean.
Hulkenberg was challenging the Frenchman for seventh heading into Turn 6/7 chicane, but turned in too early heading into the second part of the complex and clipped the front-left wheel of the Haas.
The resulting contact sent the Renault into a series of barrel rolls, eventually coming to rest against the wall on the outside of Turn 7 on its back. The German was safely evacuated soon after and walked away.
Hamilton led the field on the restart, although green flag running was short-lived as just a lap later Kimi Raikkonen ground to a halt on the start/finish straight, bringing an early end to his last race for Ferrari.
Hamilton swiftly took advantage of the resulting virtual safety car period to make his only stop onto the supersoft rubber, the world champion re-joining the race in fifth.
He then looked after his tyres throughout the remainder of the race as his rivals pitted ahead for their own stops, re-taking the lead after Daniel Ricciardo made his stop with just 20 laps to go.
Hamilton came under pressure in the closing stages from chief rival Vettel, following the German’s move on Bottas to snatch second following a mistake from the Finn.
Hamitlon had saved his tyres well, however, and was able to manage his gap to the Ferrari to secure victory.
Max Verstappen rounded out the podium positions for Red Bull, just ahead of the charging Ricciardo in his last race for Red Bull.
Bottas could only manage fifth after slipping behind both Red Bulls, and was forced to make an extra pitstop after contact with Ricciardo.
Carlos Sainz Jr put in a strong drive to take sixth from 11th on the grid following a mammoth stint on his ultra-soft tyres, the Spaniard doing enough to leap-frog both Sergio Perez and the early stopping Charles Leclerc after his own.
Leclerc, like Hamilton and Romain Grosjean, stopped under the early VSC for his one and only stop onto the supersoft tyre managed to take seventh in his last race for Sauber, just ahead of a charging Sergio Perez.
Esteban Ocon looked set for ninth in his final Grand Prix for the foreseeable future, but suffered an engine-related failure in the closing laps, eventually coming to a halt in pitlane.
The Frenchman’s retirement promoted Romain Grosjean to ninth, while tenth placed Pierre Gasly also suffered an engine failure just a lap after Ocon to allow Kevin Magnussen into the final points scoring position.
Fernando Alonso ended his last Grand Prix agonisingly just over a second behind Magnussen on track. He did, however, pick up penalties late on for cutting the Turn 8/9 chicane on multiple occasions when hunting down the Haas.
