a great big yeeeehaaaaaaaa from Texas

what a race, what a result!!!

the luck was certainly with Lewis today and I would have loved to see if he could have caught and overtaken Rosberg without that safety car coming out and without Rosberg's mistake

but hey-ho, he has had his own fair share of bad luck over previous seasons so that's the way it goes i guess

Lewis certainly deserved to win the championship, he was the most consistent throughout and well done him

Let's hope for some good wheel-to-wheel scraps in the last 3(?) races

Yes, not very good by the BBC when we can see the footage for ourselves.

I must say that Nico has had a miserable visage throughout this season. He seemed less than gracious in defeat when on the podium. Nico needs to fake it out (watch the Oscars). If Lewis starts next season well I can see Nico imploding.

he's an ar$e... 

I was talking to a colleague abiut the race today and he said that Nico is a complete @rse, he did say also that he thought that Lewis could be a bit of a Richard-head on occasion, but Nico is a massive one. 

Got to agree with your colleague on the whole. Lewis can showboat too much very often but Nico never seems as pleased even if he wins!  He has made too much of Lewis envy and forgotten to fake gladness on behalf of the team. 

Come on! Come on! There's still lots to play for.

do you think this is a team thing to make sure the ar$e finishes second? 

But I am keeping an eye on the stats and Lewis is starting to creep up a lot of them.

Strangely I have been looking at things like most km's led, most career points, stuff like that.

be interesting tomorrow...i will watch qualifying live 

Now in media lockdown mode.

No surprise to me that Lewis did not make pole. Something to work on for next year.

I do hope that the team have not decided to 'manage' Nico into second place in the championship at the expense of a fair fight between Lewis and Nico. I'm sure it will tell on track, but not the conclusion to the season I would welcome.

 Bottas on Kimi

That accident was always going to happen.

That was a funny interaction between Nico and engineer.

"Lewis is... don't tell me"  

or some such response.

The engineer shut up quite meekly.

What has Lewis done?

This is strange

"I want those tyres checking"

Lewis - cool as a cucumber.

Safety car - Yes

Race on between Lewis and Nico

Can't wait.

Yeah, well that did not turn out how I wanted it.

No on track scrap. 

Not as good as the US race.

I think we are going to have to wait until next year for a battle.

Those hats 

Back live on the BBC 

2moro at noon  

I thought that was a funny conversation between Christian Horner and the commentary team about how Red Bull are used to working to tight schedules probably in relation to their 2016 engine.

I would have asked him when they had time last year but failed to produce a consistently competitive car this year.

This is one of the reasons why I hate Furrari, during a discussion about engines in 2016 the phrase "Furrari veto" was used.

A latin word for "I Forbid" 

"Raindrops keep falling on my head"

It's at this point you are going to lose my commentary while I go take a bath.

Have you noticed the sponsor "Petrobras"?

Is it short for Petrol Bras?

Just watching the race from Spa which featured that 12 car pile up involving Coulthard and Schumacher and Damon Hill in the Jordan.

As long as no one is hurt I kinda like the excitement of these big crashes.

Really enjoyed that move as Mika and Michael went either side of Zonta and Mika's straight line speed advantage just gave him enough of a lead to pass Michael.

Lee McKenzie pronounces Lotus as 'Lot' 'us' as in 'bus'.

But I will let her off as she is hot.

I see Mercedes are taking a different approach considering qualy tyre in Q1.

OH Dear, McLaren! What is wrong boys?

Alonso has to park the car! ...again

The Macs again 

I tell you what Sprout, given how bad things have been this year, I don't foresee them being much better next year. It seems they have massive amounts of work to do. I could understand if it was just a reliability issue, but they also have on track performance problems too.

I fear we may have to reconvene in 2017 to cheer along a McLaren.

Maybe the reliability probs will be sorted for the new season which also gives them time to work on the speed. I think they're doing more on next year's car rather than this one. I'm not giving up hope yet.

Nasir's gonna get wrong for that

Could have been nasty if Massa had not take evasive action.

Yep 

Brilliant picture of Alonso catching a few 'rays'

Couldn't do much else 

Massa was on a hot lap, Nasr's team should have alerted him to that fact.