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On this day: Schumacher's Adelaide title, Hamilton's rain win

On 13 November, a collision decided the 1994 F1 title in Adelaide, Vettel's run ended in Abu Dhabi in 2011 and Hamilton won a soaked Interlagos race.

A silver and teal Mercedes Formula 1 car with the number 44 driving on a wet track, throwing up spray
Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in the wet at the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix, six months before his rain-soaked win at Interlagos. Photo: Andrew Locking, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A title settled by a crash, a champion's rare off day and a race that lasted more than three hours: here is what happened in F1 on 13 November.

1994: A collision settles the title in Adelaide

Michael Schumacher arrived at the Australian Grand Prix one point ahead of Damon Hill, 92 to 91, with only the final race left.

Schumacher led from the start. On lap 36 his Benetton touched the wall, and when Hill tried to pass at the next corner, the two collided. Schumacher was out on the spot, and Hill retired with broken suspension.

Neither scored, so Schumacher became champion at 25, the first German to win the title. The stewards called it a racing incident.

Nigel Mansell won the race for Williams, the 31st and last win of his career. Aged over 40, he was the first driver of that age to win a Grand Prix since Jack Brabham in 1970.

2011: Vettel's first retirement of the year

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel took pole at Yas Marina for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, equalling Nigel Mansell's 1992 record of 14 poles in a season.

His race lasted less than a lap. A right rear puncture spun him off at Turn 2, his first retirement of the year.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won the twilight race, ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Hamilton's team-mate Jenson Button.

2016: Hamilton wins a three-hour race in the rain

Hamilton won the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos from pole, ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg. The result took the title fight to the last race in Abu Dhabi.

The race started behind the safety car on a soaked track and was stopped twice with red flags. It lasted a little over three hours, the longest Brazilian Grand Prix ever.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen dropped to 16th after a pit stop with 16 laps to go, then charged back to finish third.

Race it on Late Brake

Adelaide and Yas Marina aren't in Late Brake, but Interlagos is one of its six real circuits. Switch to the cockpit camera, take on AI rivals or race other players online, and see how many places you can make up in one lap.

Sources: 1994 Australian Grand Prix, 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix

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