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Mexico and the crowning of British Formula One champions

The odds are that Lewis Hamilton will become world champion for the second successive year in Mexico. Despite this country's comparatively brief appearances on the F1 schedule, a British driver winning the title in Mexico City is nothing new.

Graham Hill did it 40 years ago - and that was almost a win double in Mexico for the Englishman following a massively dramatic final lap four years before. Brazil 2008 may have had its nail-biting finish for Hamilton's first world championship, but Mexico 1964 was its equal.

This was not only a three-way fight in the final round on October 25, but all three drivers were British: Hill, Jim Clark and John Surtees.