Lewis Hamilton has won the 2017 Formula One Drivers World Championship despite a chaotic first lap dropping him and title contender Sebastian Vettel to last.

Sebastian Vettel scored an electric pole position to keep his faint title hopes on life support at the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix.

We revive the mythical Bathurst Man after Formula One’s dalliance with pre-race driver introductions, and Peter’s McGinley’s union steps in to curtail this week’s recording after a number of Ferrari-esque technical failures.

Daniel Ricciardo has been considered a champion in waiting since his giant-slaying Red Bull Racing debut in 2014.

“Fairly quickly we realised we couldn’t go at his pace today,” Vettel said dejectedly despite finishing second to Lewis Hamilton at the United States Grand Prix.