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Here’s our last F1 in pictures gallery for the year. It captures Jenson Button’s victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix and also Red Bull celebrating Sebastian Vettel’s third world championship.

It may be the last time we’ll see the likes of Kamui Kobayashi. Heikki Kovalainen, Vitaly Petrov and Bruno Senna in an F1 car for the forseeable future. Of course, we already know it is the last time we’ll see Michael Schumacher at the wheel of an F1 car. And there’s HRT’s uncertain future to ponder as well.

It’s been a great season and we trust you’ve enjoyed us bringing you these galleries throughout the year.

A farewell win with McLaren before his switch to Mercedes AMG has been on the cards for Lewis Hamilton for a few races now. He could, of course, win again in Brazil next Monday morning, but for now his entire collection of 21 grands prix victories have been with the Woking-based outfit.

At the moment there is shared love between Hamilton and McLaren. It will be interesting to see how the relationship continues beyond the final race of 2012.

In pondering Lewis Hamilton’s win at the United States Grand Prix, we must also reflect on the race itself. Held at a new venue, reportedly costing US$400 million, it seems as though the locals, and those nearby, loved having a race in Texas. The official race day attendance figure bandied about is 117,429; a very healthy show of support for F1’s return Stateside.

In keeping with that support, we’ve gathered over 100 of the best pics from the teams across the weekend and you can check them all out after the jump!

Kimi has done it! With his maiden comeback victory in Abu Dhabi the Iceman has entertained us all far more than he could ever imagine. The race itself was pretty ho hum for Raikkonen. There was plenty of action going on behind him, but after Hamilton retired Kimi simply had to keep his nose clean and the win would be his. And so it proved.

All we need now is for Kimi and Lotus to sign off on the T-shirt created by Retro Formula 1 and we’ll all be able to remember his radio skillz for ever more.

A gallery of 88 pics await after the break.

Sebastian Vettel’s seemingly unstoppable march to a record-breaking third world championship continued at the 2012 Indian Grand Prix. Reliving the young German’s latest step in pictorial form are these 103 photos we’ve gathered together for you.

You may recall that most of the field completed the race using a one-stop tyre strategy. Think back to some of our other F1 in pictures galleries and the rubber marbles you see scattered off the racing line. There was no such sight at the Buddh International Circuit on the weekend.

The image above perfectly captures the life of Mark Webber at Red Bull. So close, and yet so far. He’s had his moments of genuine brilliance, but too often he’s been overshadowed by that young punk from Heppenheim. Still, there’s no harm in being eclipsed by a triple world champion*, we suppose.

For more Korean Grand Prix photos make sure you take the jump. Force India’s media portal must have joined its owner in having an arrest warrant placed on it, either that or there’s some technical glitch that means we can’t bring you any of their pics from Yeongam.

*In the process of being confirmed. We expect to have word by 18 November.

Here’s your routine F1 picture fix, with over 90 images from the Japanese Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel was on top, cruising to an untroubled victory. The late afternoon sunlight was captured with great skill by some of the traveling F1 snappers. We trust, as always, that you will enjoy their work.

We’re back! After a month of no Formula 1 races we bring you over 100 pics from the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix to get you back into the swing of things. It’s a bit of a mixed up gallery this time, though, missing a McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus and Sauber after the first corner shenanigans.

As you’d expect many of the photos feature the famous Eau Rouge corner and we reckon the photographers have done well to find a few new angles this year. It’s an epic stretch of tarmac and like many tracks, until you’ve been there you don’t fully appreciate just how steep the drop down and rise up the hill really is.

We trust you’ll enjoy these pics and the best part is there’s only a short wait for the next update, which we’ll bring after this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

Here’s your pictorial update from the Hungarian Grand Prix. It’s the last recap you’ll get for over a month, so we hope you enjoy the 80+ photos on offer.

Thankfully for McLaren fans, given Hamilton’s win, they’re back in the game with high-res images; just click on the pic you like to load a 2000px super image.