When has the F1 drivers' championship been decided on the final day?

The 2025 Formula 1 championship title fight will be the 32nd time it has gone down to the final race in the sport's 75- year history.

McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will be fighting for their maiden victory, while Red Bull's Max Verstappen will be searching for his fifth consecutive title.

Ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, here are 10 of the best final race title deciders.

It was an all-British title fight in 1964 between John Surtees, Jim Clark and Graham Hill in Mexico.

Hill led the drivers' standings heading into the final race, Surtees was trailing by four points, with Clark in third in the old points system.

Clark was leading the race and looked set to win the championship, but was forced to retire in the last lap with a car issue.

The title would have gone to Hill, had he not been delayed by a collision with Ferrari's Lorenzo Bandini, Surtees' team-mate.

Ferrari ordered Bandini to let Surtees pass into second, giving him the title by one point.

Niki Lauda and James Hunt's on-track battles are considered one of F1's greatest rivalries, and the 1976 clash was immortalised in the 2013 film, Rush.

Austrian Lauda had a near-fatal crash that season in Germany. However, he made a remarkable recovery from his severe burns and headed into the final race three points clear of Britain's Hunt.

The final race took place in rain-filled Fuji, Japan, and after the second lap, Lauda deemed the conditions unsafe and retired his Ferrari.

This left Hunt needing to finish at least fourth to clinch the title, but he suffered a puncture and was forced into a late pit-stop.

Hunt then climbed back up to finish third, beating Lauda to the title by just a point.

In 1986, it was another three-way title fight which looked to be sealed by British driver Nigel Mansell in Australia, who only needed a podium finish to win the title.

However, the Williams driver's title dreams came to an end after his left rear tyre exploded with 19 laps to go.

Williams brought in Nelson Piquet for a pit-stop, in hope of having one of their drivers win the title in Adelaide.

But it was reigning champion Alain Prost who claimed the title after winning the race in his McLaren.

The 1994 championship battle between Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill headed into the last race in Adelaide, Australia - with Schumacher a point ahead of Briton Hill in the championship.

Germany's Schumacher built an early lead, but in lap 36 his Benetton ran wide and hit the wall. However, he managed to rejoin the race.

In the next corner, the pair collided as Hill tried to overtake Schumacher.

Schumacher's car hit the barriers and had to retire. Hill returned to the pits but also retired with damage.

That meant Schumacher claimed his maiden title, a point ahead of Hill in the championship standings.

The title race between Ferrari's Michael Schumacher and Williams' Jacques Villeneuve went down to the final race in Jerez, Spain, where the German was one point ahead in the standings.

Villeneuve took pole position, but was overtaken by Schumacher in the first corner in what would be an intense title-fight race.

The Frenchman made a move to overtake Schumacher in lap 48, who then tried to take out the Canadian driver.

Villeneuve's car survived the collision but Schumacher's car spun off the track and ended his race.

That resulted in Villeneuve finishing the race in third spot and claiming the title. Schumacher was disqualified from the drivers' championship because of his actions.

Three drivers were fighting for the 2007 title - Kimi Raikkonen and rookie Lewis Hamilton for their first title wins, and Fernando Alonso for his third consecutive victory.

Britain's Hamilton went into the final race in Brazil leading the drivers' standings, four points ahead of McLaren team-mate Alonso and seven points clear of Raikkonen.

Hamilton was set to claim his maiden title as he started the race in second, but lost places following a gearbox issue.

He fought back to seventh, but would have needed a top five finish at Interlagos to claim the title. Spaniard Alonso could not match the pace of Raikkonen's Ferrari, who won the final race.

Finn Raikkonen cinched the championship title by one point. Hamilton and Alonso were level on 109 points, with Hamilton classified in second on results countback.

Lewis Hamilton headed to another final race title fight in Brazil, this time with Ferrari's Felipe Massa, who was trailing by seven points.

The 2008 title fight came down to the last moments of the race, with Massa winning the race at Interlagos, and what he thought was the championship.

Ferrari were already celebrating in the garage, but it was far from over. Hamilton, in sixth, needed a fifth place finish to secure his maiden title.

In wet weather, out of the last corner Hamilton's McLaren passed Toyota's Timo Glock and moved up to fifth spot, winning the title by a point.

The 2008 season was the first championship under the new points system.

For the first time in F1 history, four drivers went into the final race in Abu Dhabi, with a chance of winning the championship.

Fernando Alonso led the standings, with Australian Mark Webber trailing by eight points - though mathematically possible, it would be harder for Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton to win the title.

Alonso pit early to cover Webber, but both drivers ended up in traffic, behind Vitaly Petrov's Renault, and they were unable to overtake at Yas Marina.

Vettel converted pole position to a race win, while also snatching his first title to become the youngest F1 champion at 23 years and 133 days.

It was another dramatic final race at Interlagos, Brazil in 2012 as Fernando Alonso trailed 13 points behind Sebastian Vettel.

Vettel spun on the first lap, after he was hit by Bruno Senna's Williams, picking up damage and tumbling down to the back of the grid.

The German driver then fought his way to a sixth-place finish in the rain. Alonso finished in second but Vettel had done enough to take his third consecutive title.

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Max Verstappen had an intense battle in 2021 and were level on points, as the title race went down to a winner-takes-all finale in Abu Dhabi.

The intense last lap in Abu Dhabi would become one of the sport's most controversial moments as race director Michael Masi incorrectly applied the rules in a late safety-car period.

Hamilton looked on course to win his eighth title, but Masi went against protocol regarding lapped cars before the final-lap restart.

This allowed Verstappen to pass Hamilton in Turn Five to claim his first title.

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