Lewis Hamilton appeared to be on course to claim both the win and world championship in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix until a late safety car turned the race on its head and opened🌼 the door for Verstappen to snatch the title. 

The safety car was deployed after Latifi crashed at Turn 14 with six laps to go. At that stage Verstappen had sat 12 seconds behind Hamilton, but Red Bull gambled to pit the Dutchman for fresh soft tyres whil♕e the race was neutralised. 

Verstappen used his 👍fa♋ster rubber to pass Hamilton in a controversial last-lap sprint to the flag to prevent his rival from making F1 history by winning an unprecedented eighth world title. 

Speaking in an interview with Channel 4, Horner, who had admitted that Red Bull was in need of a ‘miracle’ to win the title in the closing stages of the race, 🐟quipped: "He'll be getting a lifetime supp🐎ly of Red Bull for sure.” 

“We needed something from the racing gods in the last 10 la✃ps,” Horner added to Sky Sports. 

"Thank you Nicholas Latifi for thaꦦt safety car. I have to say with the stewards... they did great to ge🐼t the race going again.” 

Latifi apologised for the crash and stressed it was never his intention to influence the out🧸come o𝐆f the world championship. 

“It was never my intention and I can only apologise for influencing and creating an opportunity," Latifꦜi✅ said. "I made a mistake.

"We were just really struggling for grip through the next sequence of corners, and espe🌸cially where I ended up going off.

“It's been a tricky corner all weekend for me, so dirty tyres, dirty air and I made a mistakꦑe.

"I wasn't awꦑare of the situation of the race up until then. Obviously it was neveꦍr my intention to inadvertently influence that, but I made a mistake and ruined my own race.”