The Athletic.

We've reached the end of another series of Bring Back V10s, and to get us over the finish line,

we're tackling another top 10 debate.

This time, we're arguing over the top 10 title deciding races of the era.

So regardless of whether it is a final round decider in the truest sense of the word,

we've taken every race where the championship was sealed, no matter how early it was in the year,

and our panel have picked their own top tens from those 17 races.

We've then scored each individual top 10 using the current F1

point system. Unfortunately, the V10 one wouldn't work for us because it doesn't go down to 10,

added those scores together and created an overall top 10, which our guests haven't seen

yet, so they don't know the final result. So joining me, Glenn Freeman, to argue over the 10

best title-deciding races of the V10 era are Ed Straw, Matt Beer, and Ben Anderson. Naturally,

there's no traditional opening question with this format, so I'm going to ask you all something

a bit different, and I'll come to you first, Ben. Of the 17 races we all had to choose

from, tell us one that as soon as you saw the list, you knew that was never going to be in

a mix to make your top 10. There were several for me, but I'm going to go.

Ruthless. Yeah, there are several that easily made this category, but I'll go with France 2002. The reason being

that that championship was no contest. It was settled with six races to go. No memory of that being

at all exciting or intriguing. So that instantly was binned off along with several others.

I thought France O2 was a good race, actually.

You know, Kimmy Rikin are nearly winning and Schumacherone claiming the title

later on when Rikening goes off on oil.

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