The 2021 Formula 1 world driver's championship battle between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen has been enthralling but also controversial.

Nico Rosberg finally won the Formula 1 world driver's championship on this day in 2016, before later announcing his shock retirement.

Lewis Hamilton won his second Formula 1 driver's championship - and first with Mercedes - on this day with a victory in the Abu Dhabi GP.

Jenson Button, who won the 2009 Formula 1 world driver's championship against all odds with Brawn GP, left the team to join McLaren for 2010.

On this day in 1997, Michael Schumacher was disqualified from the F1 world championship for his actions in the season-ending European GP.

The 2019 Mexican GP was won by Lewis Hamilton, but the Mercedes driver needed plenty of good strategy to register a win at Mexico City.

Lewis Hamilton won the first of seven world championships on this day in 2008 in a race so dramatic it's hard to believe even today.

Ayrton Senna won the 1988 Japanese Grand Prix to win his first of three world driver's championships in Formula 1 on this day 33 years ago.

The 1986 Formula 1 season went down to the final day with Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost all vying for the world championship.

English Formula 1 driver James Hunt secured his one and only world championship on this day in 1976, capping a chaotic season in memorable fashion.