Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg will be duelling it out for the 2016 Drivers’ Championship under the setting Abu Dhabi sun this weekend, but it’s certainly not the first title fight to go down to the wire.
In fact, this weekend’s Grand Prix will mark the 29th time the championship fight has gone down to the very last race. Even the sport’s inaugural year witnessed a nail-biting final race showdown between eventual victor Nino Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio.
The smallest ever championship winning margin came in 1984, when Alain Prost was pipped at the post by McLaren teammate Niki Lauda who picked up his third championship, by just half a point.
From Senna and Prost colliding in successive years to the highly dramatic final lap of the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix, there have been so many highly dramatic championship deciders, but which is the greatest of them all?
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