For three successive years now, Formula One has served up incredibly dramatic title battles where the advantage swung wildly between the contenders and culminated in heart-stopping Interlagos deciders.
But not even 2006's often controversial Fernando Alonso versus Michael Schumacher contest or last year's fractious three-way shoot-out came close to the extraordinary and painfully tense finale that saw Lewis Hamilton become the 2008 F1 world champion and the series' youngest-ever title-winner.
This year had seen more than enough incident already, but the denouement in Brazil compressed a season's worth of twists and turns into an astonishing final four laps amid ever increasing rainfall.