The Formula 1 season will come to an end tomorrow with the last Grand Prix to be held in Abu Dhabi.

It had been a long time since the sport gave its millions of fans so much excitement. Having four drivers still in the title run before the start of the last race adds to the anticipation and interest in the competition. Alonso, Webber, Vettel and Hamilton are all still in with a chance, although the Briton needs a miracle to claim the title.

It is clear that the changes made to the points system has had a beneficial effect, as the leader of the drivers’ championship competition has changed a number of times this season.

It has not been a season without controversies. For one thing, Ferrari were fined for ordering Massa to allow Alonso to overtake him in one of the races as the Spaniard had a better chance for the title, but the Italian scuderia did not lose any points, and those extra points gained by Alonso in that race have enabled him to enter the final race with a solid advantage.

Red Bull have worked in a different way, allowing both their drivers to compete against each other. They have already won the constructors’ championship, last week in Brazil, but this openness could them to lose the drivers’ title. One has to wait and see what will happen tomorrow to make a final judgment.

This is because, were the Abu Dhabi race to finish in the same way the Brazilian GP did last Sunday – Vettel first, followed by Webber and Alonso – it would be Alonso who would be crowned champion. If on the other hand, the two Red Bull drivers switch places, the Australian would win the race and the championship.

Will Red Bull order Vettel to allow Webber to overtake him if the situation is the same? Or will they be sport enough to have Vettel win the race but lose the championship to Alonso and Ferrari?

We will have the verdict tomorrow.

What is sure is that the interest in Formula 1 has increased tremendously these past few seasons, ever since other teams invested heavily to compete with Ferrari, which had dominated the early part of this decade and turned races into boring processions with easy victories.

What needs to be done now is to see whether the smaller teams would be in a position to improve. Frankly speaking, the question that needs to be asked is whether Formula 1 will insist on having 12 teams when the last two or three are in a different league.