As Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes bask in the glory of a sixth world championship, Sportsmail looks at the good and the bad and hands out its post-season awards for 2019.

Lewis Hamilton fired a warning shot to his rivals, saying he is feeling 'on another level physically and mentally' ahead of the Formula One season. 

McLaren have unveiled the car they hope will take them another step forward on their journey back to the front of the Formula One grid.

Sebastian Vettel has fallen ill on the opening day of Formula One testing after posing for group pictures on the starting grid with the other drivers. The four-time champion was due to test Ferrari's new SF1000.

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Lewis Hamilton's decision to get out of the car saw a red flag deployed on the session so that the car and the British driver could be retrieved and taken back to the Mercedes garage before action resumed.

On Wednesday, seven of Formula One's 10 teams published a joint statement expressing surprise and shock at the FIA's confidential agreement with Ferrari.

Mercedes have reinvented the wheel - for now. Their new DAS system took onlookers by surprise when cockpit cameras showed Lewis Hamilton tugging on his steering wheel.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN MELBOURNE: Lando Norris lef for Melbourne without a care, other than to avoid company. Nothing to do with coronavirus, it is just that he insists on isolating himself.

Here are all the major changes that have happened over the winter ahead of the 2020 Formula One campaign which begins on Sunday with the Australian Grand Prix.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN MELBOURNE: The season-opening race has been abandoned here in the early hours of Friday morning after a McLaren mechanic was diagnosed with coronavirus.

Formula One bosses on Wednesday took the first step to save the sport from financial meltdown by bringing forward the summer break from August to now.

Max Verstappen admitted he is focused on winning the Formula One Championship this year with Red Bull and believes he now has the experience to do so. 

Eight rounds have been postponed, and more look likely to follow with countries in lockdown, but F1 bosses have said they hope to get back on track some time in the European summer.

So far nine Formula One Grand Prix meetings have been postponed or cancelled with the French GP likely to follow. F1 bosses however hope to start the season in Austria in July.

Nine races have already been called off and with the British GP due to be on July 19, more could follow - but Pringle says Silverstone could host two successive races without any spectators.

The decision to cancel the French GP on June 28 seemed unavoidable after French president Emmanuel Macron placed a ban on mass gatherings in the country until at least mid-July.

She found fame on reality show Making The Band emerging as the show’s breakout star before landing her own reality TV show. But Aubrey O’Day is facing her biggest television challenge yet - battling it out against 17 other familiar faces on Celebrity Apprentice.

'We wouldn’t have done the "All-Star" concept unless we were able to get the right contestants back,' said Trump, the boardroom boss who will make and break these youngsters' dreams.

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Drama reaches boiling point

According to RadarOnline, the 41-year-old is 'furious' that ex-husband Eddie Cibrian and new wife LeAnn celebrated her son Jake's seventh birthday while she is in New York working on Celebrity Apprentice.

The basketball legend is worth an estimated $500million and is chairman and CEO of the billion-dollar Magic Johnson Enterprises.

The rocker, 54, is the first to commit to the show that will air in September.

The singer seems to be getting ready to re-enter the limelight as she has been making several posts on Instagram. On Sunday the 47-year-old star went for shock value as she went makeup free.

Hotel manager Dane Bouris, 34, was pictured this weekend, barefoot and covered in blood, walking down New South Head Road in Double Bay in Sydney's east.

Former Wake Up host James Mathison spent some quality time with his daughter Luca on Sydney's Bronte Beach on Wednesday.

Former Danity Kane singer, Aubrey O'Day, may have written a song about Donald Trump Jr in 2013. The song DJT was released in 2013, a year after they reportedly ended their alleged affair.

The Brazilian midfielder left the field in tears after reacting to the abuse in Sunday's game by showing an obscene gesture and kicking the ball in the direction of Dynamo's fans.

The Dutch captain played 90 minutes against Northern Ireland on Saturday as Holland qualified for Euro 2020, but has withdrawn from their final game due to 'personal circumstances.'

Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Taison has been handed a one-match ban for reacting to racist abuse in his side's 1-0 win over Dinamo Kiev earlier this month.

JAN MOIR: Wilfred, Winston, Oliver, Pericles, Diggory, Kevin, Josh? Whatever they decide to call him, what kind of a world will Boris's baby son inherit?

JAN MOIR: We are supposed to be sophisticated people, living in a time of enlightenment. Look at us. We paint pictures, play the piano and ice our cakes with star-shaped nozzles.

Police says they want to question Chris Brown and his entourage after a woman filed a third-degree assault charge, saying she was tossed off his tour bus during filming of a new music video at a strip club.

The Body On Me hit-maker transformed from pent-up stage star to the perfect family man as he took his one-year-old girl to Tyga's son's star-studded birthday party in California on Friday.

A woman who hit the headlines in August when she claimed Chris Brown pulled a gun on her was left red-faced at a beauty pageant after the DJ put on one of the star's songs as she hit the runway.

The 30-year-old singer took to Instagram to reveal the name of the newborn baby boy he welcomed with ex-girlfriend Ammika Harris by sharing a photo of himself.

Chris Brown celebrated the arrival of a new child via his Instagram on Wednesday, sharing a photo of himself holding the little boy's foot.

On Wednesday, he shared the first photo of son Aeko Catori Brown.But on Friday, Chris Brown shared the first snap of his son's face, followed by photos that allowed fans to see his softer side.

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Woakes was picked up by Delhi Capitals for £160,000 at the tournament draft in December but has opted to pull out in a bid to keep himself fresh for the international summer.

PAUL NEWMAN IN KATUNAYAKE, SRI LANKA: England were only facing an inexperienced Sri Lanka Cricket XI but Parkinson bowled with accuracy and varied his pace intelligently.

Northamptonshire's decision to travel to Singapore on Monday for a 12-day warm weather trip led Nottinghamshire to scrub it, fearful that facing such opponents invited unnecessary risk.

Nottinghamshire continued pre-season preparations unabated, as Alex Hales self-isolates since returning from the Pakistan Super League.

Not only is the 37-year-old fully fit after the broken rib that curtailed his tour of South Africa but he wants to ensure he makes the very most of what remains of his record-breaking career.

RICHARD GIBSON: The 31-year-old represents another arrival straight from his country's Test team, having featured in their most recent match, England's series-clinching victory in Johannesburg.

EXCLUSIVE BY PAUL NEWMAN: Cricket's biggest counties are most in danger of collapsing under the financial pressure of the coronavirus pandemic, claims Richard Thompson.

The ECB had initially announced that no cricket would be played in the UK until May 28 at the earliest, but - as expected - the pandemic has caused a further delay.

The ECB have delayed the 2020 season until at least July 1, leaving just three months to complete the remaining nine County Championship rounds, the Twenty20 Blast and the new Hundred competition.

English cricket supremo Tom Harrison has warned of dire financial consequences for the sport amid fears that the new season will not take place at all because of the coronavirus.