PARIS, Dec 4 — The Formula One season comes to a gripping climax on Sunday with a three-way title fight in Abu Dhabi.

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will scrap it out for the 2025 world drivers’ crown in a fitting conclusion to F1’s 75th anniversary season.

AFP Sport sets the scene by taking a look at five previous memorable last race showdowns.Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton lined up for the season-closer in Abu Dhabi incredibly neck and neck on points. Late in the race Hamilton held the upper hand, with then Red Bull boss Christian Horner suggesting Verstappen needed “a miracle”. They got it when Nicholas Latifi crashed his Williams. Verstappen pitted for soft tyres under the safety car, denying Hamilton a record eighth world crown on a nerve-tingling last lap shoot-out. Mercedes mounted a furious appeal over the controversial handling of the restart but the result stood, with Hamilton boycotting the end-of-year awards ceremony in protest.