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IndyCar: Ranking the Past 10 Series Championship Battles

By Asher Fair

Aug 30, 2015; Sonoma, CA, USA; 2nd place IndyCar Series driver Ryan Hunter-Reay, first place IndyCar Series driver Scott Dixon and 3rd place IndyCar Series driver Charlie Kimball raise their respective trophies after the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sonoma Raceway. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 30, 2015; Sonoma, CA, USA; 2nd place IndyCar Series driver Ryan Hunter-Reay, first place IndyCar Series driver Scott Dixon and 3rd place IndyCar Series driver Charlie Kimball raise their respective trophies after the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sonoma Raceway. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports /
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Sep 18, 2016; Sonoma, CA, USA; Hewlett Packard Enterprise driver Simon Pagenaud (left) celebrates his win and the title as Verizon Team Penske driver Juan Pablo Montoya puts champagne down his back after the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sonoma Raceway. Mandatory Credit: John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 18, 2016; Sonoma, CA, USA; Hewlett Packard Enterprise driver Simon Pagenaud (left) celebrates his win and the title as Verizon Team Penske driver Juan Pablo Montoya puts champagne down his back after the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma at Sonoma Raceway. Mandatory Credit: John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports /

This season’s IndyCar championship battle is extremely tight and many drivers still have a legitimate chance to win. Since 2007, which championship battles have been the most thrilling?

Plenty of races, marquee events, career-defining moments and much, much more have to happen for a good championship battle in the Verizon IndyCar Series. In the 10 full IndyCar seasons since 2007, which championship battles have been the best? Since that season, IndyCar has seen five different champions prevail in those 10 championship battles, and all 10 of those battles have been decided in the final race of the season.

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Despite all 10 of the championship battles coming down to the last race, they have all been won differently. This list takes into account things like final championship points lead, number of drivers in the championship hunt late in the season, and any other key things that happened at any point during the season to lead up to the championship battle to determine the order, 10th to 1st, of how great of a championship battle each of the past 10 seasons has had.

To clarify before we start off with 10th place, this list is about how good of a championship battle each of the past 10 seasons has had, not necessarily how great each of the past 10 champions have been in their championship seasons, which was the subject of an article yesterday. Without further ado, let’s get started.