Abu Dhabi 2014

The finale shouldn’t be in Abu Dhabi, and there shouldn’t be double points, but Lewis Hamilton doesn’t do dull and so his battle with his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg is one to savor. With 12 front-row lockouts — besting the legendary 1988 season of McLaren with Alain Prost and Aryton Senna — the duo are facing off in the desert for an already historic climax, but in a race cheapened by the silly charade of double points.

There is something essentially dramatic about Lewis Hamilton, a diva-like quality that embraces triumph and disaster but has little room for the mundane…. The 19th and final race of the season will be compelling and mostly because of Lewis. If he wins the title it is likely to be in heroic circumstances. If he does not it will be because he has had a brush with catastrophe; he does not do mere failure.

Lewis Hamilton’s dramatic duel with Nico Rosberg more than F1 deserves | Paul Weaver | The Guardian.