Key Takeaways from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Heading into the F1 Offseason

Nico Rosberg completed a hat-trick of victories to end the 2015 Formula One season in a relatively uneventful race on Sunday in Abu Dhabi. Even with those three wins, though, in Mexico, Brazil and now the United Arab Emirates, Rosberg finished the year 59 points adrift of his Mercedes team-mate, back-to-back world champion, Lewis Hamilton.   With 25 points awarded for a victory, that gap underscores (but also undersells) Hamilton's dominance over the course of the year and is something we should keep in mind over the offseason and as the teams and drivers prepare for 2016. When Hamilton clinched the drivers' championship a month ago in the United States, he was 80 points ahead of Rosberg (Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was 76 points behind...

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