That's that for the 2024 Formula 1 season and what a season it was, being just the campaign that the sport needed after back-to-back years of somewhat boring Max Verstappen dominance.
I'll talk more about the season as a whole in a later piece, but this column is mainly just going to focus on what went down at an Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that - as is usually the case - served as a fairly uneventful but emotional finale.
Here are my main takeaways from it.
Norris secures his status as one of McLaren's greats
When you think of McLaren legends, all-time greats Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Lewis Hamilton are probably the first names that spring to mind, but Lando Norris earned the right to be mentioned in the same breath as them in Abu Dhabi.
With Oscar Piastri falling to the back of the field at the start, McLaren's hopes of winning their first Constructors' Championship since 1998 rested entirely on Norris' shoulders and the Brit stepped up to the plate, claiming a flawless victory despite being under pressure from both Ferrari drivers throughout.
By doing so, he did what Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button couldn't in leading McLaren to the team title, and that achievement is made all the more special by the fact that he's been with them since the very start of his racing career and since the start of their journey to this triumph.
After an impressive first two seasons in the sport, he jumped at the chance to become the lead driver when Carlos Sainz left and hasn't looked back since, consistently producing excellent drives and establishing himself as one of the best in the sport.
As he's developed, the team have developed with him, to the point where neither party could have enjoyed what has been a hugely successful season without the other. The best may be yet to come with their sights very much set on the Drivers' Championship next year, but whether Norris can win that title as a McLaren man or not, he's already etched his name into their history books.
Ferrari and Hamilton are ready for their team-up
Ferrari missed out on a title in Abu Dhabi just as the man joining them next season did in 2021, but both the team and Lewis Hamilton showed in the race that they're ready to make their hotly anticipated partnership a successful one.
The Scuderia may have lost out to McLaren but that was through no fault of their own with the team getting their strategies spot on to keep Carlos Sainz comfortably ahead of everyone but Norris and get Charles Leclerc ahead of George Russell following the Monegasque's stunning start.
Under Fred Vasseur, they've really begun to shake off the unwanted reputation they had of being a dysfunctional team with a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot through questionable in-race decisions, and that will be music to the ears of Hamilton, who produced an equally as encouraging performance for them.
At times this season it's looked like his best days are behind him, but he's come alive again when presented with the chance of a win or a podium and that was the case again in Abu Dhabi, with the 39-year-old putting in arguably the drive of the day to fight his way from the back of the field to fourth thanks to some serious pace and a perfect overtake on Russell at the very end.
His ability to step up on such occasions suggests that his struggles in his final year at Mercedes have been caused by a lack of motivation rather than a lack of talent, and a lack of motivation certainly won't be a problem when he's driving for the team of his dreams fighting to finally win his eighth title and their first in almost two decades.
While there are question marks over how Ferrari will handle having two drivers used to being the main man for the first time in years, Hamilton still has the pace and they're starting to operate well enough to make the most of that pace. Bring it on.
A fitting finale to Red Bull's bittersweet year
To say that Red Bull have had a mixed bag of a season would be an understatement, and the bittersweet nature of it was summed up nicely in Abu Dhabi.
While they did get to celebrate ending the season with another Drivers' Championship in the bag, those celebrations were somewhat marred by the fact that Sergio Perez had crashed out at the start and Max Verstappen had thrown his toys out of the pram after being given a deserved penalty for a reckless move on Piastri.
Perez's poor performances and Verstappen's angst have both been problems that plagued Red Bull throughout the year, with the former causing them to fail to retain the Constructors' Championship and the latter only making an already toxic atmosphere - caused by the Christian Horner allegations and the civil war that followed - even worse.
Ultimately 2024 can still be considered a successful season thanks to the excellent start and Verstappen's abilities, but their success doesn't feel as sustainable anymore and they don't look well-placed to handle the challenges that McLaren and Ferrari are likely to give them in 2025.
One of their drivers is likely to have no experience of fighting at the front of the field with Liam Lawson reportedly coming in to replace Perez and the other has shown in Abu Dhabi and elsewhere that he can be extremely volatile on and off the track when he's not dominating, which he's unlikely to do next season.