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Five great last-day dramas

ABU DHABI, Nov 20, 2014 (AFP/Tim Collings) - Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg will battle for the 2014 Formula One world championship in the season-ending race at Abu Dhabi on Sunday. AFP Sport looks at five memorable last-day dramas: 1976 Japanese Grand Prix - Hunt takes title after Lauda quits in downpour at Fuji A memorable season reached an unforgettable climax in 1976 when, after a roller-coaster duel that saw Niki Lauda survive after having the last rites read to him following a blazing crash at the Nurburgring, the British playboy James Hunt claimed the title in teeming rain at Fuji in Japan. Astonishingly, Austrian Lauda not only survived his...
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