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Rounding up all of Friday's news and notes from the Interlagos paddock, here is our daily notebook.

Recapping all of the news and notes from the Interlagos paddock on Thursday, here is our paddock notebook.

Formula 1 has a number of young stars coming through its ranks at the moment. The likes of Charles Leclerc, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon and George Russell are all products of teams’ junior programmes, put in place to nurture upcoming talent and allow them to reach their full potential.

As we enter the final few races of Fernando Alonso’s Formula 1 career, there is a strange mix of emotions throughout the paddock when it comes to his pending departure.

Formula 1 ventures to Brazil for the penultimate round of the 2018 season fresh from toasting five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton last time out in Mexico.

Lewis Hamilton may have already wrapped up the 2018 drivers’ world championship but there is still plenty to play for in the all-important constructors’, which determines the amount of prize money that each team receives from the distributed pool.

As the embers begin to die down in the Formula 1 driver silly season for 2019, one of the main points of focus is the remaining Toro Rosso seat.

Few would have thought after the opening rounds that the 2018 Formula 1 title fight would be done and dusted with two races to spare, but a supreme run in the second half of the campaign enabled Lewis Hamilton to seal his fifth world championship crown.

November 1 marks 20 years since Mika Hakkinen clinched his first Formula 1 world championship with victory for McLaren at the Japanese Grand Prix, cementing his place in the sport’s history books.

Moments after Lewis Hamilton crossed the line to clinch his fifth Formula 1 world championship in Mexico on Sunday, my phone buzzed with a message from a close friend from outside of the sport. “Oh for God’s sake. He’ll be even more arrogant now.”

The development race for this season is all but over. While there is still some performance to be found through car setup and further understanding of the packages the teams already have, only a few new items have trickled onto the grid over the past few races.

Running through the Formula 1 field following a thrilling Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his driver ratings. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - 7

With a final round-up from the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez following Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.  

The coronation of only the third five-time champion in Formula 1 history may be the major news following Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix, yet it was secured in anything but the fashion Lewis Hamilton would have liked it to have been.

One of my favourite souvenirs acquired over my years in Formula 1 is a jacket given to me by the organisers of the Mexican Grand Prix a couple of years ago - that iconic black bomber with ‘Mexico is the shit’ written on the back.

With all of the news and notes from the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez following qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix on Saturday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

When Max Verstappen burst onto the scene in Formula 1 at the tender age of 17 back in 2015, he looked poised to tear up the record books and set new benchmarks within the sport’s history.

Recapping all of the news and notes following a busy Friday in Mexico, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his paddock notebook.

Free Practice 2 rarely offers much in the way of excitement in Formula 1, such is the nature of teams’ programmes to set things up for the rest of the weekend, but Friday’s session ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix offered signs of potential for an unpredictable weekend ahead.

The Formula 1 fiesta began at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on Thursday as media duties got underway ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix. Recap all of the latest news and updates in Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith’s paddock notebook.

Formula 1 heads to Mexico City for this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix, an event which could mark a championship coronation for the second successive year.

Lewis Hamilton will be crowned the 2018 Formula 1 world champion if he finishes inside the top seven at this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix.

2018 has been Williams’ annus horribilis in Formula 1. After being a consistent force in the upper-midfield through the V6 turbo era, the team’s fortunes took a significant dip this year, leaving it rooted to the foot of the constructors’ championship table.

Running through the Formula 1 field after a thrilling United States Grand Prix on Sunday, Crash.net F1 Digital Editor Luke Smith brings you his driver ratings. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - 8