Nico Rosberg has announced his retirement from Formula One less than one week after sealing his first world championship for Mercedes.

With Dieter Rencken. We eulogise Lewis Hamilton’s excruciatingly slow loss of his world championship, Peter McGinley attempts to make his own sound effects, and Dieter Renckens he has the flu.

Nico Rosberg is the 2016 Formula One world champion with a five-point margin after finishing second in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton will start the 2016 championship-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from pole after leading his teammate and title leader Nico Rosberg throughout qualifying.